Interpreting Quantum Mechanics
... we make a second slit in the board, something entirely different happens. In our classical understanding of electrons (the particles being fired from the gun), we would imagine that if we made a second slit there would be a second stripe on the back wall. This is because scientists thought electrons ...
... we make a second slit in the board, something entirely different happens. In our classical understanding of electrons (the particles being fired from the gun), we would imagine that if we made a second slit there would be a second stripe on the back wall. This is because scientists thought electrons ...
9. Indispensability arguments in the philosophy of mathematics
... (mathematical) truth is the same as provability by human beings, then she must construe this statement as implying that it is possible to calculate the solution to the equations in question for the specified value of t, and the solution will be found to lie in the interval between r1 and r2. But, g ...
... (mathematical) truth is the same as provability by human beings, then she must construe this statement as implying that it is possible to calculate the solution to the equations in question for the specified value of t, and the solution will be found to lie in the interval between r1 and r2. But, g ...
Greater Reality Achieved Through Consciousness
... postulation of “innerness” or mentality in everything has the air of an arbitrary assertion, motivated by theoretical needs rather than by what we observe in less complex entities like atoms and rocks. And the second weakness (Skrbina calls it the “combination” problem) is that panpsychism has troub ...
... postulation of “innerness” or mentality in everything has the air of an arbitrary assertion, motivated by theoretical needs rather than by what we observe in less complex entities like atoms and rocks. And the second weakness (Skrbina calls it the “combination” problem) is that panpsychism has troub ...
Reality and Appearance
... does not mean that the mythic way of thinking is less accurate than a purely metaphysical way of regarding reality, because the myths convey something of the emanation of intelligence throughout reality in a way that the more abstract thought of metaphysics does not. Nevertheless, the creation myth ...
... does not mean that the mythic way of thinking is less accurate than a purely metaphysical way of regarding reality, because the myths convey something of the emanation of intelligence throughout reality in a way that the more abstract thought of metaphysics does not. Nevertheless, the creation myth ...
"Everything Flows": The Poetics of Transformation
... reality is disclosed. In its most crude expression, we will be concerned with art as a mode of existence. So conceived, art is a metaphysical activity essential to human understanding. It is constructive first to consider primitive art and the primitive artist as a responding to a raw experience of ...
... reality is disclosed. In its most crude expression, we will be concerned with art as a mode of existence. So conceived, art is a metaphysical activity essential to human understanding. It is constructive first to consider primitive art and the primitive artist as a responding to a raw experience of ...
docx version - Ferment Magazine
... Page 247 :"Yet, remarkably, according to the highly successful physical theories of the 20th century, all physical interactions (including gravity) act in accordance with an idea which, strictly speaking, depends crucially upon certain physical structures possessing a symmetry that, at a fundamental ...
... Page 247 :"Yet, remarkably, according to the highly successful physical theories of the 20th century, all physical interactions (including gravity) act in accordance with an idea which, strictly speaking, depends crucially upon certain physical structures possessing a symmetry that, at a fundamental ...
The Environment and Its Ontological Status
... given that we also conceive of them as corresponding to reality. Thus, truth has an adaptive role (cf. Wuketitis 1999). We consider our truths to be the most reliable instrument for orienting ourselves (practically and theoretically) in a world that we cannot completely keep under control and that s ...
... given that we also conceive of them as corresponding to reality. Thus, truth has an adaptive role (cf. Wuketitis 1999). We consider our truths to be the most reliable instrument for orienting ourselves (practically and theoretically) in a world that we cannot completely keep under control and that s ...
THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS AND SOCRATES
... First, Thales must have been thinking of reality as composed of only one thing, with all the many different sorts of things that we experience being nothing but various forms of this one thing. The task of metaphysics is to identify this One and to equate it with reality. Second, since what we perc ...
... First, Thales must have been thinking of reality as composed of only one thing, with all the many different sorts of things that we experience being nothing but various forms of this one thing. The task of metaphysics is to identify this One and to equate it with reality. Second, since what we perc ...
Objectivity of Oughts Matjaž Potrč, University of Ljubljana The
... desire is then passive in respect to the active belief related to it. This however is not an is-belief, as it happens on the side of cognitive experiences. It is an ought-belief, a seemingly objective and active complex experience involving desires as its basis. Veber's insight that there are ought- ...
... desire is then passive in respect to the active belief related to it. This however is not an is-belief, as it happens on the side of cognitive experiences. It is an ought-belief, a seemingly objective and active complex experience involving desires as its basis. Veber's insight that there are ought- ...
Asouzu`s Critique of Philosophy of Essence and Its Implication for
... (1). Quidity: Essence is what a thing is in itself, its thingness. It answers to the question: Quid (i.e, what)? It is what defines a thing in itself and makes it distinct from all other things. (2). Nature: The essence of the thing is the peculiar character, structure, and nature of that thing, as ...
... (1). Quidity: Essence is what a thing is in itself, its thingness. It answers to the question: Quid (i.e, what)? It is what defines a thing in itself and makes it distinct from all other things. (2). Nature: The essence of the thing is the peculiar character, structure, and nature of that thing, as ...
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... resemble their mental representations. But this is only an assumption, based on the fact that these are simple and basic features. Since in principle there is no way we can compare between our mental representations of spatial and temporal features (i.e. distance and duration) to their external coun ...
... resemble their mental representations. But this is only an assumption, based on the fact that these are simple and basic features. Since in principle there is no way we can compare between our mental representations of spatial and temporal features (i.e. distance and duration) to their external coun ...
Early Greek Thought and Perspectives for the - Philsci
... the principle of coincidence of opposites, rather points in the direction of a permanent and momentaneous re-instantiation of things in the world in a web of totally interconnected events. Reality is One. This does not imply the “unreality” of the things we experience, it states our absolute interc ...
... the principle of coincidence of opposites, rather points in the direction of a permanent and momentaneous re-instantiation of things in the world in a web of totally interconnected events. Reality is One. This does not imply the “unreality” of the things we experience, it states our absolute interc ...
Realism, Antirealism and Naturalism AND Evolution
... tables and chairs, have an existence independent of their being perceived. It is contrary to the idealism of philosophers such as George Berkeley or Immanuel Kant. In its extreme form, also called as full-blown and naïve realism, the things perceived by the senses are believed to be exactly what the ...
... tables and chairs, have an existence independent of their being perceived. It is contrary to the idealism of philosophers such as George Berkeley or Immanuel Kant. In its extreme form, also called as full-blown and naïve realism, the things perceived by the senses are believed to be exactly what the ...
Pragmatism and Humanism: Bergson as a reader of - PUC-SP
... sense that it is the satisfaction of the necessities of life. The structure of reality is, therefore, patterned after utilitarian criterions, forasmuch the assuring of the means of survival is its first function. Thenceforth the parallelism with the instinct, that does not have, however, the flexibi ...
... sense that it is the satisfaction of the necessities of life. The structure of reality is, therefore, patterned after utilitarian criterions, forasmuch the assuring of the means of survival is its first function. Thenceforth the parallelism with the instinct, that does not have, however, the flexibi ...
consciousness on slides - Faculty Web Sites at the
... and if we refer to it by name, it is nothing but a concept. (A name may be simply a pronoun, like “you”, “me, “him”, “her”, “this”, “that”, “they”, “it”). • All objects are separate from each other. We (as objects with names) give them names in order to communicate with others (as objects with ...
... and if we refer to it by name, it is nothing but a concept. (A name may be simply a pronoun, like “you”, “me, “him”, “her”, “this”, “that”, “they”, “it”). • All objects are separate from each other. We (as objects with names) give them names in order to communicate with others (as objects with ...
What is Hindu Spirituality
... The second approach is usually described by the word dualism, because, according to it, both matter and consciousness (or spirit) are equally real, and neither may be reduced to the other. This approach is not very popular these days but had many takers at one time, at least in ancient India. Thus J ...
... The second approach is usually described by the word dualism, because, according to it, both matter and consciousness (or spirit) are equally real, and neither may be reduced to the other. This approach is not very popular these days but had many takers at one time, at least in ancient India. Thus J ...
manuel delanda in conversation with christoph cox – pdf
... Deleuze was close to Foucault and Lyotard, but not to Derrida, and certainly not to Irigaray and her goofy notion of a “masculinist epistemology.” He wrote his very first book on Hume, on the empiricist model of subjectivity, and with this announced to everyone that he was not a Kantian, that he did ...
... Deleuze was close to Foucault and Lyotard, but not to Derrida, and certainly not to Irigaray and her goofy notion of a “masculinist epistemology.” He wrote his very first book on Hume, on the empiricist model of subjectivity, and with this announced to everyone that he was not a Kantian, that he did ...
18 Classical Indian Metaphysics
... • Buddhism and the most popular school of Hinduism, Advaita Vedanta, are thoroughly idealist • They insist that everything is minddependent ...
... • Buddhism and the most popular school of Hinduism, Advaita Vedanta, are thoroughly idealist • They insist that everything is minddependent ...
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 ...
Ontological Justification: From Appearance to Reality
... The distinguishing mark of twentieth-century analytic philosophy was its turn from traditional metaphysics, and towards linguistically and conceptually oriented philosophical research. The turn was not surprising. In the wake of the kind of critique of the metaphysical enterprise offered by Kant, th ...
... The distinguishing mark of twentieth-century analytic philosophy was its turn from traditional metaphysics, and towards linguistically and conceptually oriented philosophical research. The turn was not surprising. In the wake of the kind of critique of the metaphysical enterprise offered by Kant, th ...
Christian Thomas KOHL
... something that, as an existing thing, is not dependent on anything else (Descartes), existing by itself, subsisting through itself (More), which is completely unlimited by others and free from any kind of foreign command (Spinoza), and exists of itself without anything else (Schelling). In tradition ...
... something that, as an existing thing, is not dependent on anything else (Descartes), existing by itself, subsisting through itself (More), which is completely unlimited by others and free from any kind of foreign command (Spinoza), and exists of itself without anything else (Schelling). In tradition ...
Phil Rees: Scientific Anti
... concerned with explanation, and he believed that theories that refer to unobservable entities - including atomic theory – may actually impede inquiry. They should be eliminated where possible in favour of theories involving ‘direct descriptions’ of phenomena. Mach claimed to be a scientist, not a ph ...
... concerned with explanation, and he believed that theories that refer to unobservable entities - including atomic theory – may actually impede inquiry. They should be eliminated where possible in favour of theories involving ‘direct descriptions’ of phenomena. Mach claimed to be a scientist, not a ph ...
Nagarjuna and Buddhist Emptiness Teaching∗ M
... independently) existing entities. But this conceptual-‐ or mind-‐framework can never grasp reality as it is, which is emptiness. “Emptiness” is a way of talking about referring words in ...
... independently) existing entities. But this conceptual-‐ or mind-‐framework can never grasp reality as it is, which is emptiness. “Emptiness” is a way of talking about referring words in ...
as pdf - Free Buddhist Audio
... twain shall meet.” In my paper I show that Kipling was not completely right. I try to show the common ground between buddhist philosophy and quantum physics. There is a surprising parallelism between the philosophical concept of reality articulated by Nagarjuna and the physical concept of reality im ...
... twain shall meet.” In my paper I show that Kipling was not completely right. I try to show the common ground between buddhist philosophy and quantum physics. There is a surprising parallelism between the philosophical concept of reality articulated by Nagarjuna and the physical concept of reality im ...