OBJECTIONS TO REALISM Introduction: There are a bewildering
... "Seeing as" is a kind of hybrid between seeing and seeing that. Like seeing that, seeing as clearly involves something judgment-like. But one can see a drawing as a picture of Lincoln without believing that it is a picture of Lincoln. The classic example discussed to illustrate this notion of seeing ...
... "Seeing as" is a kind of hybrid between seeing and seeing that. Like seeing that, seeing as clearly involves something judgment-like. But one can see a drawing as a picture of Lincoln without believing that it is a picture of Lincoln. The classic example discussed to illustrate this notion of seeing ...
PDF - Jeffrey C. King
... Frege and Russell. On that view, propositions are these sui generis entities that somehow manage to have truth conditions and so represent the world by their very natures and independently of minds and languages. That sounds very mysterious. No one has ever been able to explain how some sui generis ...
... Frege and Russell. On that view, propositions are these sui generis entities that somehow manage to have truth conditions and so represent the world by their very natures and independently of minds and languages. That sounds very mysterious. No one has ever been able to explain how some sui generis ...
Microsoft Word - AC, Introduction, Cogprints
... homogeneous monograph subdivided into a series of consecutive ‘chapters’, but a mere collection of ‘essays’ concerning related problems. This is to say, inter alia, that the single essays are as self-sufficient as possible, from which it follows that a small handful of passages will have to be repea ...
... homogeneous monograph subdivided into a series of consecutive ‘chapters’, but a mere collection of ‘essays’ concerning related problems. This is to say, inter alia, that the single essays are as self-sufficient as possible, from which it follows that a small handful of passages will have to be repea ...
Ontological Materialism and the Problem of Politics
... materialism. Appeals to transcendence are nothing but vestiges of theological reasoning. I will refer to this fonTI of philosophy, guided by the principle of 'parallelism", as ontological materialism. This thought does not stand outside classical ontology but is an offshoot of the ontological tradit ...
... materialism. Appeals to transcendence are nothing but vestiges of theological reasoning. I will refer to this fonTI of philosophy, guided by the principle of 'parallelism", as ontological materialism. This thought does not stand outside classical ontology but is an offshoot of the ontological tradit ...
B.A. PHILOSOPHY PR OGRAMME UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT (CUCBCSS -2014 admn.) (I SEMESTER)
... The word Philosophy is etymologically derived from the two Greek words philein means ‘to love’ sophia means ‘wisdom’. Thus, philosophy literally means ‘love of wisdom’. Philosophy stands for knowledge in general about man and the universe. It is the pursuit of wisdom about what it means to be a huma ...
... The word Philosophy is etymologically derived from the two Greek words philein means ‘to love’ sophia means ‘wisdom’. Thus, philosophy literally means ‘love of wisdom’. Philosophy stands for knowledge in general about man and the universe. It is the pursuit of wisdom about what it means to be a huma ...
Divisibility
... direct ‘contact’ with it, so to speak: the relation between the perceiver and perceived is a part of them both and they are thus parts of one another in some sense (it is an ‘active’ relation, in our above terminology). Such perception does not mean that one thing simply causes another thing, the p ...
... direct ‘contact’ with it, so to speak: the relation between the perceiver and perceived is a part of them both and they are thus parts of one another in some sense (it is an ‘active’ relation, in our above terminology). Such perception does not mean that one thing simply causes another thing, the p ...
Ethics without Ontology
... impiety] is brought against me. It is because, whenever people tell such stories about the gods, I am prone to take it ill, and so they will maintain that I am sinful. Well now, if you who are so well versed in matters of the sort entertain the same beliefs, then necessarily, it would seem, I must g ...
... impiety] is brought against me. It is because, whenever people tell such stories about the gods, I am prone to take it ill, and so they will maintain that I am sinful. Well now, if you who are so well versed in matters of the sort entertain the same beliefs, then necessarily, it would seem, I must g ...
Descartes` Epistemology
... – “Archimedes, in order that he might draw the terrestrial globe out of its place, and transport it elsewhere, demanded only that one point should be fixed and immoveable; in the same way, I shall have the right to have high hopes, if I am happy enough to discover one thing only which is certain an ...
... – “Archimedes, in order that he might draw the terrestrial globe out of its place, and transport it elsewhere, demanded only that one point should be fixed and immoveable; in the same way, I shall have the right to have high hopes, if I am happy enough to discover one thing only which is certain an ...
Taking Social Constructionism Seriously
... anymore than the movements of a dance do. Indeed, “[t]he terms by which we understand our world and our self are neither required nor demanded by “what there is”” (ISC:47). Instead, all description is poetic and rhetorical, and we can never really refer to anything outside our language. As I argued ...
... anymore than the movements of a dance do. Indeed, “[t]he terms by which we understand our world and our self are neither required nor demanded by “what there is”” (ISC:47). Instead, all description is poetic and rhetorical, and we can never really refer to anything outside our language. As I argued ...
Metaphysics of Motion
... categories of being—substance, quality, quantity, relation, position, and so on—are used to distinguish different kinds of change and to prevent confusion between them: ruling out the possibility of transition from nothing to something in the category of substance (so that the cosmos as a whole cann ...
... categories of being—substance, quality, quantity, relation, position, and so on—are used to distinguish different kinds of change and to prevent confusion between them: ruling out the possibility of transition from nothing to something in the category of substance (so that the cosmos as a whole cann ...
glossary of philosophical terms
... universal succession is sometimes called customary or constant conjunction.) At first this doesn’t seem very plausible. After all, many blowouts don’t lead to accidents. It seems more plausible if we assume that Hume is thinking of the total cause, the blowout plus all the other relevant factors tha ...
... universal succession is sometimes called customary or constant conjunction.) At first this doesn’t seem very plausible. After all, many blowouts don’t lead to accidents. It seems more plausible if we assume that Hume is thinking of the total cause, the blowout plus all the other relevant factors tha ...
Ontological Argument
... Ontological arguments claim that if you understand what the word God means, then you know that he exists, because existence is part of the definition of God. The proposition “God exists” is therefore analytic and is necessarily true. ...
... Ontological arguments claim that if you understand what the word God means, then you know that he exists, because existence is part of the definition of God. The proposition “God exists” is therefore analytic and is necessarily true. ...
Karin Dahlberg
... being, the flesh of the world, which underlies and sustains the differences represented by individual beings, is as a background very much present in what is and what happens, but at the same time it is “silent” and “invisible”. These ontological insights cannot be neglected if we want to understand ...
... being, the flesh of the world, which underlies and sustains the differences represented by individual beings, is as a background very much present in what is and what happens, but at the same time it is “silent” and “invisible”. These ontological insights cannot be neglected if we want to understand ...
On the Logic of the Ontological Argument
... eliminable in terms of, any other formulas. In what follows, we use ‘τ ’ to range over all terms: constants, variables, and descriptions. We use ‘ϕτx ’ to designate the result of substituting term τ for each free occurrence of the variable x in formula ϕ. The models of this simple language are stand ...
... eliminable in terms of, any other formulas. In what follows, we use ‘τ ’ to range over all terms: constants, variables, and descriptions. We use ‘ϕτx ’ to designate the result of substituting term τ for each free occurrence of the variable x in formula ϕ. The models of this simple language are stand ...
Ethan Frome - Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
... Platonic, Aristotelian, Lockean, or Cartesian—based as it is on the law of non-contradiction and the subject/object distinction, is the enemy to be overcome. This is not yet to introduce Heidegger’s strong social and political collectivism, which is also part of his inheritance from the main lines o ...
... Platonic, Aristotelian, Lockean, or Cartesian—based as it is on the law of non-contradiction and the subject/object distinction, is the enemy to be overcome. This is not yet to introduce Heidegger’s strong social and political collectivism, which is also part of his inheritance from the main lines o ...
Aristotle on What It Means To Be Happy
... It may be unlikely that Cameron knew that in highlighting the importance of wellbeing, he is echoing the words of Aristotle over two thousand years ago. In fact, 'wellbeing' is not a bad translation of what Aristotle called eudaimonia. Other suitable modern translations use such terms as ‘flourishin ...
... It may be unlikely that Cameron knew that in highlighting the importance of wellbeing, he is echoing the words of Aristotle over two thousand years ago. In fact, 'wellbeing' is not a bad translation of what Aristotle called eudaimonia. Other suitable modern translations use such terms as ‘flourishin ...
MTO 0.11: Covach, Destructuring Cartesian Dualism
... broader concerns Heidegger addresses in Being and Time. [5] One of the central arguments Heidegger makes in Being and Time is that the Western philosophical tradition has “forgotten” the question of being. (7) Philosophers have tended to think of being as if it were a substance; we ask the question ...
... broader concerns Heidegger addresses in Being and Time. [5] One of the central arguments Heidegger makes in Being and Time is that the Western philosophical tradition has “forgotten” the question of being. (7) Philosophers have tended to think of being as if it were a substance; we ask the question ...
Real, invented or applied? Some reflections on scientific objectivity
... degrees, what does it mean for social scientific objects to be ‘more or less real’, if there is no reality-check point for these objects? Do they exist at all before science makes them ‘emerge’? In other words, we are left with the question of how objects which lack quotidian prehistory (colloquial ...
... degrees, what does it mean for social scientific objects to be ‘more or less real’, if there is no reality-check point for these objects? Do they exist at all before science makes them ‘emerge’? In other words, we are left with the question of how objects which lack quotidian prehistory (colloquial ...
Aristotle: The first encyclopedist
... he reached the mature status of professor and independent research philosopher. Although many of his ideas were opposed to those of Plato, he was considered as one of the possible successors by Plato himself. • In 347 BC, when Plato died, Aristotle could not stay as head of the Academy since Plato’s ...
... he reached the mature status of professor and independent research philosopher. Although many of his ideas were opposed to those of Plato, he was considered as one of the possible successors by Plato himself. • In 347 BC, when Plato died, Aristotle could not stay as head of the Academy since Plato’s ...
Handout
... to God’s moral law. If our wills correspond to the moral law, we have a clear, or good, conscience; if our wills fail to correspond to the moral law, we have a bad conscience, and feel a sense of guilt. AD. Descartes applies the medieval Christian concept of moral conscience is applied exclusively t ...
... to God’s moral law. If our wills correspond to the moral law, we have a clear, or good, conscience; if our wills fail to correspond to the moral law, we have a bad conscience, and feel a sense of guilt. AD. Descartes applies the medieval Christian concept of moral conscience is applied exclusively t ...
Commonsense concepts of phenomenal consciousness: Does
... robots as having some agency but little experience. These data seem to sit well with a view that claims that phenomenal states must be realized neurally while non-phenomenal states need not be so understood. After all, God doesn’t have a body (I assume) and an ordinary robot has the wrong sort of bo ...
... robots as having some agency but little experience. These data seem to sit well with a view that claims that phenomenal states must be realized neurally while non-phenomenal states need not be so understood. After all, God doesn’t have a body (I assume) and an ordinary robot has the wrong sort of bo ...
The Relevance of Kant's Objection to Anselm's Ontological Argument
... well – the object simply fails to exist there. So the object would have no greatness there either. Then (2) could be true without it being possible that an object has some properties (such as omniscience and omnipotence) while lacking existence. I want instead to focus on (1), the assumption that Go ...
... well – the object simply fails to exist there. So the object would have no greatness there either. Then (2) could be true without it being possible that an object has some properties (such as omniscience and omnipotence) while lacking existence. I want instead to focus on (1), the assumption that Go ...
Ionian Philosophers
... to a step in the series of which our understanding is not sufficiently well able to have an intuitive cognition, we must stop short there.” 5. Descartes’ method was Rationalistic basing its knowledge on the processes of the mind apart from the senses (Empiricism), which he believed could only confus ...
... to a step in the series of which our understanding is not sufficiently well able to have an intuitive cognition, we must stop short there.” 5. Descartes’ method was Rationalistic basing its knowledge on the processes of the mind apart from the senses (Empiricism), which he believed could only confus ...
The Environment and Its Ontological Status
... This explains that constructivism could and should be balanced with realism: we can construct our concepts, but not the properties they are supposed to refer to; we can construct descriptions but not ‘things’ or facts. Is that true? There are different degrees of constructivism: according to the mos ...
... This explains that constructivism could and should be balanced with realism: we can construct our concepts, but not the properties they are supposed to refer to; we can construct descriptions but not ‘things’ or facts. Is that true? There are different degrees of constructivism: according to the mos ...
Contingency of Language
... The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. The realization that the world does not tell us what language games to play should ...
... The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. The realization that the world does not tell us what language games to play should ...
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.