Plato and Aristotle
... • Virtue, he argues, is the harmony of the individual soul as well as the harmony of the individual within the society • Since we have nothing from Socrates himself, it is difficult to know how much is original Plato and how much is transcribed Socrates • Predicate: that which is asserted or denied ...
... • Virtue, he argues, is the harmony of the individual soul as well as the harmony of the individual within the society • Since we have nothing from Socrates himself, it is difficult to know how much is original Plato and how much is transcribed Socrates • Predicate: that which is asserted or denied ...
The Ontological Meta-Argument
... way of thinking, there’s just one actual world.) However, if we allow that actual worlds are still going to be few and far between among the possibilia or fictions, then the likelihood that one’s own world is actual, in the absence of some argument to the contrary, ought to be very low indeed, low e ...
... way of thinking, there’s just one actual world.) However, if we allow that actual worlds are still going to be few and far between among the possibilia or fictions, then the likelihood that one’s own world is actual, in the absence of some argument to the contrary, ought to be very low indeed, low e ...
Heidegger - tools analysis
... so that it is never appropriate to call something 'an equipment'. Instead, its use often reflects it to mean a tool, or as an "in-order-to" for Dasein. Tools, in this collective sense, and in being ready-to-hand, always exist in a network of other tools and organizations, e.g., the paper is on a des ...
... so that it is never appropriate to call something 'an equipment'. Instead, its use often reflects it to mean a tool, or as an "in-order-to" for Dasein. Tools, in this collective sense, and in being ready-to-hand, always exist in a network of other tools and organizations, e.g., the paper is on a des ...
Universals - The Metaphysicist
... By contrast, we humans invent abstract concepts like redness. We know that these cultural constructs exist nowhere in nature as physical structures. We create them. Cultural knowledge is relative to and dependent on the society that creates it. However, some of our invented abstract concepts seem to ...
... By contrast, we humans invent abstract concepts like redness. We know that these cultural constructs exist nowhere in nature as physical structures. We create them. Cultural knowledge is relative to and dependent on the society that creates it. However, some of our invented abstract concepts seem to ...
Comment: Parmenides
... Assess the following essay as a one-page response to the first topic (Parmenedes) on a first paper assignment. Make your comments fall clearly under one of the following three headings: clarity of expression; understanding of material; quality of argumentation. Avoid one-word comments (if you think ...
... Assess the following essay as a one-page response to the first topic (Parmenedes) on a first paper assignment. Make your comments fall clearly under one of the following three headings: clarity of expression; understanding of material; quality of argumentation. Avoid one-word comments (if you think ...
Materializing the Immaterial: The Ontological Orientations and
... wrote little directly about his Black Forest Hut, though his reflections on Black Forest farmhouses and the essay “Why Do I Stay in the Provinces?” illustrate many of his goals in constructing his rural retreat. Both Thoreau and Heidegger present the potency of their retreats to authentically engage ...
... wrote little directly about his Black Forest Hut, though his reflections on Black Forest farmhouses and the essay “Why Do I Stay in the Provinces?” illustrate many of his goals in constructing his rural retreat. Both Thoreau and Heidegger present the potency of their retreats to authentically engage ...
Classical Chinese Philosophies - Fort Thomas Independent Schools
... Criticisms of Heraclitus: If all of existence is made from one substance, then the concept of change is false. Change is an illusion. How can change exist? How can something that is not become something that is? Something either is or is not. Only one path is available for us to speak of “The ...
... Criticisms of Heraclitus: If all of existence is made from one substance, then the concept of change is false. Change is an illusion. How can change exist? How can something that is not become something that is? Something either is or is not. Only one path is available for us to speak of “The ...
Kinds of Things—Towards a Bestiary of the
... there sakes, as suggested by such familiar idioms as ‘for Pete’s sake’ and ‘for the sake of –– ’? What are the identity conditions for sakes? How many sakes might there be? How do they come into existence? Can one still do something for FDR’s sake, or did it expire with him decades ago? Art for art’ ...
... there sakes, as suggested by such familiar idioms as ‘for Pete’s sake’ and ‘for the sake of –– ’? What are the identity conditions for sakes? How many sakes might there be? How do they come into existence? Can one still do something for FDR’s sake, or did it expire with him decades ago? Art for art’ ...
Ontological Justification: From Appearance to Reality
... independently of how it seems to us. But then, asked the critic, what is your evidence? Consider now the distinction between “revisionary” and “descriptive” metaphysics, first introduced by Strawson (1959). According to Strawson, the descriptive metaphysician is one that is content to “describe the ...
... independently of how it seems to us. But then, asked the critic, what is your evidence? Consider now the distinction between “revisionary” and “descriptive” metaphysics, first introduced by Strawson (1959). According to Strawson, the descriptive metaphysician is one that is content to “describe the ...
Metaphysics
... “What are the basic constituents (building blocks) of reality? How many building blocks are there? One or many? What are they made of? Are they material or ...
... “What are the basic constituents (building blocks) of reality? How many building blocks are there? One or many? What are they made of? Are they material or ...
Pleonastic Possible Worlds References
... The standard semantics for the modal fragment of natural languages can only be correct if there is more than one possible world. The nature and existence of possible worlds is thus of fundamental importance for such a semantics. The paper develops an account of possible worlds in the spirit of the p ...
... The standard semantics for the modal fragment of natural languages can only be correct if there is more than one possible world. The nature and existence of possible worlds is thus of fundamental importance for such a semantics. The paper develops an account of possible worlds in the spirit of the p ...
Some basic terminology
... One thing I would stress about these two schools of thought concerns what it means to say that knowledge does (or doesn’t) “come from” sense experience. The question here concerns where knowledge comes from, not where beliefs come from. Empiricism and rationalism are not psychological theories about ...
... One thing I would stress about these two schools of thought concerns what it means to say that knowledge does (or doesn’t) “come from” sense experience. The question here concerns where knowledge comes from, not where beliefs come from. Empiricism and rationalism are not psychological theories about ...
Lec 9 - Ursula Stange
... The world is thought of as breathing or inhaling air from the boundless mass outside it. This boundless air can be spoken of as a 'god' -------------------------Aristotle in his Metaphysics writes that… …Most of the first philosophers thought that principles in the form of matter were the only p ...
... The world is thought of as breathing or inhaling air from the boundless mass outside it. This boundless air can be spoken of as a 'god' -------------------------Aristotle in his Metaphysics writes that… …Most of the first philosophers thought that principles in the form of matter were the only p ...
Intro to Metaphysics
... Metaphysics Ontology: "of being" is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality in general, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions conc ...
... Metaphysics Ontology: "of being" is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality in general, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions conc ...
plato n aristotle
... cannot see through language using Myths of the Sun and the Cave. Aristotle has no problem expressing himself through language, however. He believes language is capable of expressing the truth of things, since that truth concerns the sensible world, and our view of it (the world) begins with our sens ...
... cannot see through language using Myths of the Sun and the Cave. Aristotle has no problem expressing himself through language, however. He believes language is capable of expressing the truth of things, since that truth concerns the sensible world, and our view of it (the world) begins with our sens ...
Early Greek Thought and Perspectives for the - Philsci
... does not imply the “unreality” of the things we experience, it states our absolute interconnectedness with the world we experience. Tradition transmitted as its counterpart the Eleatic school, named after its inspirator Parmenides of Elea. Of him more extant textfragments are known, although there r ...
... does not imply the “unreality” of the things we experience, it states our absolute interconnectedness with the world we experience. Tradition transmitted as its counterpart the Eleatic school, named after its inspirator Parmenides of Elea. Of him more extant textfragments are known, although there r ...
manuel delanda in conversation with christoph cox – pdf
... the image of human beings, projecting “life” and perhaps even “thought” (or, as Deleuze puts it, “contemplation”) onto inanimate nature. Is Deleuze (and are you) a vitalist? And, if so, why isn’t this vitalism problematic? I do not believe that Deleuze espoused any kind of vitalism, at least not if ...
... the image of human beings, projecting “life” and perhaps even “thought” (or, as Deleuze puts it, “contemplation”) onto inanimate nature. Is Deleuze (and are you) a vitalist? And, if so, why isn’t this vitalism problematic? I do not believe that Deleuze espoused any kind of vitalism, at least not if ...
Chapter 6 Introducing Metaphysics
... to Laozi “being” was the Tao and behind all existence and thus cannot be described ...
... to Laozi “being” was the Tao and behind all existence and thus cannot be described ...
NAME: ENANG-EZEH FUNYI ADIAH DEPARTMENT: COMPUTER
... Every academic discipline truly has its purpose for existence as each of these professions help to solve man's numerous problems one way or the other. Philosophy is therefore no exception as it has been used for as long as the beginning of man to rectify issues that we come across daily. As complex ...
... Every academic discipline truly has its purpose for existence as each of these professions help to solve man's numerous problems one way or the other. Philosophy is therefore no exception as it has been used for as long as the beginning of man to rectify issues that we come across daily. As complex ...
Marco Trivellato - Professor Dugan - PHI 101 ISL - Due date 05
... philosophers of this era was Plato, with his idea about forms. For him, in order to understand the truth, you need to understand forms; they are objectively real, eternal, abstract entities that serve as models or universals of higher knowledge. Idealism is the perfect world. Everyday I wake up drea ...
... philosophers of this era was Plato, with his idea about forms. For him, in order to understand the truth, you need to understand forms; they are objectively real, eternal, abstract entities that serve as models or universals of higher knowledge. Idealism is the perfect world. Everyday I wake up drea ...
A Critical overview on the Ontological Argument
... greater can be conceived." Yet, if we conceive such a being as existing only in the understanding, a greater being could be conceived, namely, one that also exists in reality. Anselm's strategy, then is to move from the admission that we have a concept of "a being than which none greater can be conc ...
... greater can be conceived." Yet, if we conceive such a being as existing only in the understanding, a greater being could be conceived, namely, one that also exists in reality. Anselm's strategy, then is to move from the admission that we have a concept of "a being than which none greater can be conc ...
Name: PHI ISL – Introduction to Philosophy Ancient Philosophy
... Plato, the character Socrates presents the view that each soul existed before birth with the Form of the Good and a perfect knowledge of Ideas. Thus, the theory of recollection holds that when an Idea is "learned" it is actually just "recalled." ...
... Plato, the character Socrates presents the view that each soul existed before birth with the Form of the Good and a perfect knowledge of Ideas. Thus, the theory of recollection holds that when an Idea is "learned" it is actually just "recalled." ...
Ontology 101 - Centre for Logic and Information
... Physics’), a term used by early students of Aristotle to refer to what Aristotle himself called ‘first philosophy’. Sometimes ‘ontology’ is used in a broader sense, to refer to the study of what might exist; ‘metaphysics’ is then used for the study of which of the various alternative possible ontolo ...
... Physics’), a term used by early students of Aristotle to refer to what Aristotle himself called ‘first philosophy’. Sometimes ‘ontology’ is used in a broader sense, to refer to the study of what might exist; ‘metaphysics’ is then used for the study of which of the various alternative possible ontolo ...
Ontology
Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or may be said to exist, and how such entities may be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences. Although ontology as a philosophical enterprise is highly theoretical, it also has practical application in information science and technology, such as ontology engineering.