Review of Peter Loptson, Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics
... of the concept of identity imply that between the so-called "two" things there is a relation that might be called identity. Let us consider some cases so simple that if such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am hold ...
... of the concept of identity imply that between the so-called "two" things there is a relation that might be called identity. Let us consider some cases so simple that if such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am hold ...
THE UNTRUTH AND THE TRUTH OF SKEPTICISM
... on this controversy. It suffices for my present purposes that there has been such a controversy. How is this to be explained? Surely not by saying that one of the parties in the controversy was fortunate enough to see a relation of identity between, e.g., the page I hold now and the page I held earl ...
... on this controversy. It suffices for my present purposes that there has been such a controversy. How is this to be explained? Surely not by saying that one of the parties in the controversy was fortunate enough to see a relation of identity between, e.g., the page I hold now and the page I held earl ...
Ontological Justification: From Appearance to Reality
... are cannot be decided with recourse only to logical analysis. To hold that formal and substantial atomicity come apart is to hold that logical and ontological form come apart, and hence to reject the mirror thesis. I take it that in order to be able to justify our ontological conclusions we must rej ...
... are cannot be decided with recourse only to logical analysis. To hold that formal and substantial atomicity come apart is to hold that logical and ontological form come apart, and hence to reject the mirror thesis. I take it that in order to be able to justify our ontological conclusions we must rej ...
What is Hindu Spirituality
... The cumulative insight of the Vedantic tradition leads it to describe Brahman, or the ultimate reality, as saccidānanda. This word is a compound of three words: sat, which means reality; cit, which means consciousness; and ānanda, which means bliss. Inherent in this description are profound claims a ...
... The cumulative insight of the Vedantic tradition leads it to describe Brahman, or the ultimate reality, as saccidānanda. This word is a compound of three words: sat, which means reality; cit, which means consciousness; and ānanda, which means bliss. Inherent in this description are profound claims a ...
Cognitum hypothesis and cognitum consciousness
... (Organon) and Beckon (New organon) by this expressing his claim to be some manifestant of all ideas of idealistic philosophy. Due to fact that Ouspensky himself did not recognize physics as being possible to solve main mysteries of human existence, he is generally considered as mystic, but here we a ...
... (Organon) and Beckon (New organon) by this expressing his claim to be some manifestant of all ideas of idealistic philosophy. Due to fact that Ouspensky himself did not recognize physics as being possible to solve main mysteries of human existence, he is generally considered as mystic, but here we a ...
Here
... science tells us that there is a significant gap between the physical nature of the world and how our consciousness perceives it: our sense of sight, for example, which informs us about our environment more than any other sense, presents to us an illuminated and colorful world. But light is nothing ...
... science tells us that there is a significant gap between the physical nature of the world and how our consciousness perceives it: our sense of sight, for example, which informs us about our environment more than any other sense, presents to us an illuminated and colorful world. But light is nothing ...
REVIEW David Couzens Hoy, The Time of Our Lives: A Critical
... The present is here for one moment and gone the next. The Now hardly exists as a phenomenon. It can only be experienced in hindsight. As I understand Hoy, he is skeptical about the present as a separate mode of temporality. The present needs to be understood in relation to other modes of temporality ...
... The present is here for one moment and gone the next. The Now hardly exists as a phenomenon. It can only be experienced in hindsight. As I understand Hoy, he is skeptical about the present as a separate mode of temporality. The present needs to be understood in relation to other modes of temporality ...
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
... of the experience of a person deaf and blind from birth is not accessible to me, for example, nor presumably is mine to him. This does not prevent us each from believing that the other's experience has such a subjective character.) If anyone is inclined to deny that we can believe in the existence o ...
... of the experience of a person deaf and blind from birth is not accessible to me, for example, nor presumably is mine to him. This does not prevent us each from believing that the other's experience has such a subjective character.) If anyone is inclined to deny that we can believe in the existence o ...
Sometimes I despair of my philosophical colleagues
... amount to nothing but fossilized old theories. Some philosophers dislike the idea that they are in the same business as science. They think that this demeans their discipline, denying it any special subject matter or method. But the view that philosophical theories are eventually answerable to empir ...
... amount to nothing but fossilized old theories. Some philosophers dislike the idea that they are in the same business as science. They think that this demeans their discipline, denying it any special subject matter or method. But the view that philosophical theories are eventually answerable to empir ...
Pragmatism and Humanism: Bergson as a reader of - PUC-SP
... fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns towards concretenesss and adequacy, towards facts, towards action and towards power. That means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely given up. It means the open air and possibilities of natu ...
... fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns towards concretenesss and adequacy, towards facts, towards action and towards power. That means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely given up. It means the open air and possibilities of natu ...
Conscious Experience
... This brings us back to our starting point: what is the real problem of consciousness? Can it be approached by means of the natural sciences at all? What exactly do we wart to know? These questions — especially the last one, the setting of the epistemic goal — are typical philosophical questions. As ...
... This brings us back to our starting point: what is the real problem of consciousness? Can it be approached by means of the natural sciences at all? What exactly do we wart to know? These questions — especially the last one, the setting of the epistemic goal — are typical philosophical questions. As ...
On the symbolic structure of modern
... In discussing modern physics in the perspective of critical philosophy we first ask what does physical understanding involve, and then how the structural scheme offered by the transcendental philosophy can be used in this discussion, both concerning the development and the interpretation of physical ...
... In discussing modern physics in the perspective of critical philosophy we first ask what does physical understanding involve, and then how the structural scheme offered by the transcendental philosophy can be used in this discussion, both concerning the development and the interpretation of physical ...
End, An - and a New Beginning (David Harriman, 2010)
... Descartes, he denied that such ideas correspond to reality; he insisted that they are merely subjective constructs, inapplicable to “things-in-themselves.” Hence his theory synthesized the worst errors of his predecessors: He combined the arbitrary method of the rationalists with the skeptical conte ...
... Descartes, he denied that such ideas correspond to reality; he insisted that they are merely subjective constructs, inapplicable to “things-in-themselves.” Hence his theory synthesized the worst errors of his predecessors: He combined the arbitrary method of the rationalists with the skeptical conte ...
In Defence of the Thin Red Line
... not seem to be very natural [. . . ] if in this method the role of primitive concepts —thus of concepts whose meaning should appear evident— is played by concepts which have led to various misunderstanding in the past” (Tarski, 1983, pag. 405-406). So, no axioms, but rather a logical ontology provid ...
... not seem to be very natural [. . . ] if in this method the role of primitive concepts —thus of concepts whose meaning should appear evident— is played by concepts which have led to various misunderstanding in the past” (Tarski, 1983, pag. 405-406). So, no axioms, but rather a logical ontology provid ...
x - unbc
... other possibilities are that everything that exists belongs to a universal consciousness, or that everything exists as part of a computer program; these theories are analogous to Berkeley’s ...
... other possibilities are that everything that exists belongs to a universal consciousness, or that everything exists as part of a computer program; these theories are analogous to Berkeley’s ...
Anthropic Principle File
... is its conformity to formula, to simple, formutable, scientific laws. The orderliness of the universe in this respect is a very striking fact about it. The universe might so naturally have been chaotic, but it is not-it is very orderly. ...
... is its conformity to formula, to simple, formutable, scientific laws. The orderliness of the universe in this respect is a very striking fact about it. The universe might so naturally have been chaotic, but it is not-it is very orderly. ...
consciousness on slides - Faculty Web Sites at the
... • “My father never, ever said anything to me about his theories. I was in the same house with him for at least 18 years but he was a total stranger to me. He was in his own parallel universe. He was a physical presence, like the furniture, sitting there jotting down crazy notations at the dining roo ...
... • “My father never, ever said anything to me about his theories. I was in the same house with him for at least 18 years but he was a total stranger to me. He was in his own parallel universe. He was a physical presence, like the furniture, sitting there jotting down crazy notations at the dining roo ...
HERE - BasicIncome.com
... Experience comes before thought and if you can’t trust any of your experience then you can’t trust any of your thought. Experience may not be the highest authority, but it is the first. It’s also the bedrock of authority, the thing that should support all other forms of authority. ...
... Experience comes before thought and if you can’t trust any of your experience then you can’t trust any of your thought. Experience may not be the highest authority, but it is the first. It’s also the bedrock of authority, the thing that should support all other forms of authority. ...
Personal Identity
... remember … You can’t know whether someone genuinely remembers a past experience without already knowing whether he is the one who had it. We should have to know who was who before applying the theory that is supposed to tell us who is who.” ii. PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTINUITY: a person, S, who exists at t ...
... remember … You can’t know whether someone genuinely remembers a past experience without already knowing whether he is the one who had it. We should have to know who was who before applying the theory that is supposed to tell us who is who.” ii. PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTINUITY: a person, S, who exists at t ...
Thomas Hippler
... (p. 6). He then goes on by comparison with other source material and historical studies about the social history of suicide, murder and accidental death in Paris at that time, thus giving background information of what we can presumingly know beyond the limits of the Dossier. In the second part of t ...
... (p. 6). He then goes on by comparison with other source material and historical studies about the social history of suicide, murder and accidental death in Paris at that time, thus giving background information of what we can presumingly know beyond the limits of the Dossier. In the second part of t ...
Waking Life
... values: truth, loyalty, justice, freedom. Here the individual becomes more valuable in its own right. Healy seems to be somewhat optimistic about futuristic human-robot life forms. Is there some grounds for his optimism? ...
... values: truth, loyalty, justice, freedom. Here the individual becomes more valuable in its own right. Healy seems to be somewhat optimistic about futuristic human-robot life forms. Is there some grounds for his optimism? ...
Chris Krause
... traveling at all (in the classical sense), more like tampering with matter states. This being said, time does not exist in a calm state but is constantly developing at the now. This is where quantum physics suggests that every new variable in existence ever effective creates a parallel universe. Pag ...
... traveling at all (in the classical sense), more like tampering with matter states. This being said, time does not exist in a calm state but is constantly developing at the now. This is where quantum physics suggests that every new variable in existence ever effective creates a parallel universe. Pag ...
Chapter 3: Emptiness, Relativity and Quantum Physics
... of contradiction and the law of the excluded middle, appear to break down. In normal experience, we would expect that what is a wave cannot be a particle, yet at the quantum level, light appears to be a contradiction because it behaves as both. Similarly, in the double-slit experiment, it appears th ...
... of contradiction and the law of the excluded middle, appear to break down. In normal experience, we would expect that what is a wave cannot be a particle, yet at the quantum level, light appears to be a contradiction because it behaves as both. Similarly, in the double-slit experiment, it appears th ...
a PDF Version - Interreligious Insight
... two” which is so characteristic of human thought. This school, viewed by many as the sublime achievement of Buddhist philosophy, insists that reality is single and that conceptual thought inevitably fragments the totality. Concepts are superimposed on otherwise unbroken experience, with the result t ...
... two” which is so characteristic of human thought. This school, viewed by many as the sublime achievement of Buddhist philosophy, insists that reality is single and that conceptual thought inevitably fragments the totality. Concepts are superimposed on otherwise unbroken experience, with the result t ...