maimon and deleuze: the viewpoint of internal genesis and the
... Maimon’s rejoinder is very complex. He pursues several lines of attack. In a first approach he doubts that the Kantian categories can be applied to empirical intuition, that is, to something given to the senses. Derived from mere logical principles, categories can hold only for thought objects or ‘o ...
... Maimon’s rejoinder is very complex. He pursues several lines of attack. In a first approach he doubts that the Kantian categories can be applied to empirical intuition, that is, to something given to the senses. Derived from mere logical principles, categories can hold only for thought objects or ‘o ...
Consciousness, Self and World: Husserl and the Phenomenological
... irremediably compromised by two problematic, and related, methodological commitments: (1) a form of ‘Cartesian’ content internalism, according to which a subject can have thoughts about itself and the world without having any warranted beliefs about a world of real external (spatial) objects; (2) th ...
... irremediably compromised by two problematic, and related, methodological commitments: (1) a form of ‘Cartesian’ content internalism, according to which a subject can have thoughts about itself and the world without having any warranted beliefs about a world of real external (spatial) objects; (2) th ...
Wittgenstein`s Tractatus Logico
... one; it is also not obvious that there is anything more problematic here than in the supposition that all objects are complex itself. The argument from understanding. A slightly different form of argument can also be given for the conclusion here, by employing a thought Wittgenstein expresses later ...
... one; it is also not obvious that there is anything more problematic here than in the supposition that all objects are complex itself. The argument from understanding. A slightly different form of argument can also be given for the conclusion here, by employing a thought Wittgenstein expresses later ...
Norms, Selves, and Concepts
... reanimate some of those ideas, breathing new life into them by exhibiting a new perspective from which they show up as worthy of our interest and attention today. I do that by retrospectively rationally reconstructing a coherent, cumulative trajectory of thought, carving it out of the context in whi ...
... reanimate some of those ideas, breathing new life into them by exhibiting a new perspective from which they show up as worthy of our interest and attention today. I do that by retrospectively rationally reconstructing a coherent, cumulative trajectory of thought, carving it out of the context in whi ...
A Theory of Properties
... which platonism is deducible. Thus, if a theory T entails platonism, that is a good reason not to accept that theory. (This bald statement requires qualification, however. If T is a very attractive theory, the fact that T entails platonism might be a good reason for accepting platonism. Its existenc ...
... which platonism is deducible. Thus, if a theory T entails platonism, that is a good reason not to accept that theory. (This bald statement requires qualification, however. If T is a very attractive theory, the fact that T entails platonism might be a good reason for accepting platonism. Its existenc ...
actions-products
... conception is associated with notorious problems in that it identifies propositions that are necessarily true or necessarily false.3 The second conception avoids such problems by reflecting (to an extent) in the meaning of the sentence itself the syntactic structure of the sentence as well as the wa ...
... conception is associated with notorious problems in that it identifies propositions that are necessarily true or necessarily false.3 The second conception avoids such problems by reflecting (to an extent) in the meaning of the sentence itself the syntactic structure of the sentence as well as the wa ...
Neo-Fregeanism and Quantifier Variance
... Hale and Wright are rather sanguine about Duds: Why, after all, shouldn’t Fregean abstracts be just as ‘proliferated’ as sets? This not to deny that if any well-defined first-order equivalence relation is allowed to sustain an abstraction, then some of the resulting abstracts—like Duds—will rightly ...
... Hale and Wright are rather sanguine about Duds: Why, after all, shouldn’t Fregean abstracts be just as ‘proliferated’ as sets? This not to deny that if any well-defined first-order equivalence relation is allowed to sustain an abstraction, then some of the resulting abstracts—like Duds—will rightly ...
SI L56 (upload) - Amitabha Buddhist Centre
... consciousness to which the reflection of a face within the mirror appears to be a face; a sound in an empty cave acts as the cause of a mistaken sense consciousness to which an echo appears to be an expressive sound; the contact of summer sunlight and the pale yellow sand acts as the cause of a ...
... consciousness to which the reflection of a face within the mirror appears to be a face; a sound in an empty cave acts as the cause of a mistaken sense consciousness to which an echo appears to be an expressive sound; the contact of summer sunlight and the pale yellow sand acts as the cause of a ...
Afterword: Being, Thinking, Acting, or, Untimely Meditations on the
... longer exists a necessary linkage that would set the paradigm for practical forms of acting. Instead, it is to the very delinking or unbinding of the social that a leftist ontology would have to attune itself. Whence also the stubborn not to say hackneyed insistence on motifs—here we can forego the ...
... longer exists a necessary linkage that would set the paradigm for practical forms of acting. Instead, it is to the very delinking or unbinding of the social that a leftist ontology would have to attune itself. Whence also the stubborn not to say hackneyed insistence on motifs—here we can forego the ...
Attitudinal Objects and the Distinction between Actions and Products
... attitudes are relations to propositions. On the present view, attitudes are not relations to a propositional content, but rather are nonrelational (even if perhaps directed toward objects in the world). Propositional attitudes consist in mental acts or states which have products, and it is those pro ...
... attitudes are relations to propositions. On the present view, attitudes are not relations to a propositional content, but rather are nonrelational (even if perhaps directed toward objects in the world). Propositional attitudes consist in mental acts or states which have products, and it is those pro ...
SOME MAIN PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY
... lectures philosophy is done with a directness and honesty and inciciveness which at once gives hope that we may, working with Moore, soon cut a way out of the jungle into the light. It is the same hope we felt when we read what we still read Moore's Principia Ethica and his Philosophical Studies. Th ...
... lectures philosophy is done with a directness and honesty and inciciveness which at once gives hope that we may, working with Moore, soon cut a way out of the jungle into the light. It is the same hope we felt when we read what we still read Moore's Principia Ethica and his Philosophical Studies. Th ...
The Hollow of Being. What can we learn from Maurice Merleau
... Agreeing with him that in order to account for subjectivity it is necessary to expand the ontology of the natural sciences, we argue that it is not sufficient to just add conscious experience to the list of fundamental features of the world. Instead, we turn to phenomenology as the philosophy of consc ...
... Agreeing with him that in order to account for subjectivity it is necessary to expand the ontology of the natural sciences, we argue that it is not sufficient to just add conscious experience to the list of fundamental features of the world. Instead, we turn to phenomenology as the philosophy of consc ...
Reasons and Beliefs
... Is OO compelling? Premises 2 and 3 appear to be convincing, and the same can be said with respect to premise 8 - at least for the sake of the present discussion.7 Therefore, it seems that OO can only be avoided by Dancy by giving up either his practical realism by, e.g., dropping statism (premise 5 ...
... Is OO compelling? Premises 2 and 3 appear to be convincing, and the same can be said with respect to premise 8 - at least for the sake of the present discussion.7 Therefore, it seems that OO can only be avoided by Dancy by giving up either his practical realism by, e.g., dropping statism (premise 5 ...
nothingness.plato.stanford.edu
... all cast a suspicious eye on ‘Why there is something rather than nothing?’ ...
... all cast a suspicious eye on ‘Why there is something rather than nothing?’ ...
saying and showing the good
... essential to the latter, but it is a consequence of the thesis that we cannot attribute formal properties. Whether the world is the totality of facts, as Wittgenstein held, or of objects, as one is more likely to think, we cannot genuinely speak about it. The totality of facts is the totality determ ...
... essential to the latter, but it is a consequence of the thesis that we cannot attribute formal properties. Whether the world is the totality of facts, as Wittgenstein held, or of objects, as one is more likely to think, we cannot genuinely speak about it. The totality of facts is the totality determ ...
Copyright notice: this is a non-finalised version of a chapter
... elements is bound to either remain a mystery or be explained in terms of interactions (rather than internal relations) between discrete elements. One noteworthy consequence of the ontological principles of discreteness and additivity is that the identity of any entity is independent of the relations ...
... elements is bound to either remain a mystery or be explained in terms of interactions (rather than internal relations) between discrete elements. One noteworthy consequence of the ontological principles of discreteness and additivity is that the identity of any entity is independent of the relations ...
Social-ecological systems as epistemic objects
... objects, as ‘things,’ that humans can and want to know about. The transformation of boundary objects into epistemic objects is analyzed. In transdisciplinary research, SES represent real objects in abstract system models, constructed as SES-networks for dealing with problems and phenomena in various ...
... objects, as ‘things,’ that humans can and want to know about. The transformation of boundary objects into epistemic objects is analyzed. In transdisciplinary research, SES represent real objects in abstract system models, constructed as SES-networks for dealing with problems and phenomena in various ...
The Notion of Formal Logic
... tions. Since second intentions are relations, and since relations are diver sified according to their foundations, we must search for differences in their foundations. We follow this same procedure when we divide Logic on the basis of the three acts of the intellect. The first intentions which are ...
... tions. Since second intentions are relations, and since relations are diver sified according to their foundations, we must search for differences in their foundations. We follow this same procedure when we divide Logic on the basis of the three acts of the intellect. The first intentions which are ...
Ontology 101 - Centre for Logic and Information
... • More ambitiously: an ontology is a formal theory within which not only definitions but also a supporting framework of axioms is included (perhaps the axioms themselves provide implicit definitions of the terms involved) ...
... • More ambitiously: an ontology is a formal theory within which not only definitions but also a supporting framework of axioms is included (perhaps the axioms themselves provide implicit definitions of the terms involved) ...
Full article
... develop our thinking about what kinds of objects figure on this market, and how their peculiar forms of production and reconfiguration draw on circulatory practices. Arjun Appadurai and Igor Kopytoff were the first to break away from the previous focus on the actual exchanges to study objects not as ...
... develop our thinking about what kinds of objects figure on this market, and how their peculiar forms of production and reconfiguration draw on circulatory practices. Arjun Appadurai and Igor Kopytoff were the first to break away from the previous focus on the actual exchanges to study objects not as ...
THE UNTRUTH AND THE TRUTH OF SKEPTICISM
... But however attractive these accounts of existence may be, they are not enough. Modal notions, such as Mill's "possibility," cry out for explanation; subjunctive conditionals, essential to any officially phenomenalist account, are probably the most unclear kind of statement; the Fregean notion of a ...
... But however attractive these accounts of existence may be, they are not enough. Modal notions, such as Mill's "possibility," cry out for explanation; subjunctive conditionals, essential to any officially phenomenalist account, are probably the most unclear kind of statement; the Fregean notion of a ...
Review of Peter Loptson, Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics
... that the page I hold now and the page I held a few moments ago are not two momentary objects but rather are literally identical, one and the same object, which merely happens to exist now as well as to have existed a few moments ago, though presumably undergoing some alteration. I am not interested ...
... that the page I hold now and the page I held a few moments ago are not two momentary objects but rather are literally identical, one and the same object, which merely happens to exist now as well as to have existed a few moments ago, though presumably undergoing some alteration. I am not interested ...
Handout
... (empirical) idealism (= the view that all objects that we can encounter are really just mental ideas). This is because both positions presuppose that the “subject”, or “consciousness”, is first given as an objectively present substance, and that the question of the reality of external objects can th ...
... (empirical) idealism (= the view that all objects that we can encounter are really just mental ideas). This is because both positions presuppose that the “subject”, or “consciousness”, is first given as an objectively present substance, and that the question of the reality of external objects can th ...
Number and Size Matter: Discrete versus continuous
... Critically, the switch from selecting shape matches to material matches occurred between two and four, suggesting that rejection of the shape match was not simply a matter of rejecting all sets that contained more than one object; rather, there may be something defining in discrete and continuous ma ...
... Critically, the switch from selecting shape matches to material matches occurred between two and four, suggesting that rejection of the shape match was not simply a matter of rejecting all sets that contained more than one object; rather, there may be something defining in discrete and continuous ma ...
Problem of Non-existence
... there was something out there, and they wanted to find out what it really is. It isn’t like this with non-existence: it’s not as if we think there are all these non-existent things ‘out there’ and we want to find out what they ‘really are’. They really are nothing; but people nonetheless think and t ...
... there was something out there, and they wanted to find out what it really is. It isn’t like this with non-existence: it’s not as if we think there are all these non-existent things ‘out there’ and we want to find out what they ‘really are’. They really are nothing; but people nonetheless think and t ...