Introduction to Philosophy
... P Kant, following Hume, urged that a priori arguments which purport to conclude that something exists are inappropriate. P Logic, which procedes apriori, should make no existence assertions according to Hume and Kant P We generally construct logic to tell us about the relations among statements, not ...
... P Kant, following Hume, urged that a priori arguments which purport to conclude that something exists are inappropriate. P Logic, which procedes apriori, should make no existence assertions according to Hume and Kant P We generally construct logic to tell us about the relations among statements, not ...
`I` am a Fiction: An Analysis of the No-Person Theories
... unity ‘feigned’ or constructed by our imagination? Hume questions the philosophers who claim that they are intimately conscious of what is called the ‘self’ – do they really constantly perceive their ‘self’, and if they do, then Hume ridicules them as being of a different constitution then his kind. ...
... unity ‘feigned’ or constructed by our imagination? Hume questions the philosophers who claim that they are intimately conscious of what is called the ‘self’ – do they really constantly perceive their ‘self’, and if they do, then Hume ridicules them as being of a different constitution then his kind. ...
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY LECTURE THALES, HERACLITUS
... the weather gets colder, and so on. The Presocratics didn’t know astronomy well enough to know this about the weather, but this style of explanation is exactly what they were looking for, and it is the kind of explanations they attempted to give that set the foundation for modern science and philoso ...
... the weather gets colder, and so on. The Presocratics didn’t know astronomy well enough to know this about the weather, but this style of explanation is exactly what they were looking for, and it is the kind of explanations they attempted to give that set the foundation for modern science and philoso ...
-BECOMING X1 - artykuły innych autorów
... itself†and Ground, correspondingly, is the totality of possibility which is, indeed, the very ground of Mind or Thought, ad opposita or not determinatum ad unum or determined to one thing, as is the case with or in Nature. Nature, thus, is the Idea, this Idea, in an alienated state. There, in nat ...
... itself†and Ground, correspondingly, is the totality of possibility which is, indeed, the very ground of Mind or Thought, ad opposita or not determinatum ad unum or determined to one thing, as is the case with or in Nature. Nature, thus, is the Idea, this Idea, in an alienated state. There, in nat ...
Philosophy 35
... and Leyden. Descartes later claimed that his formal education provided little of substance, and that only mathematics provided any real knowledge. Descartes published his major philosophical work, "A Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy" in 1641, the year before Galileo died and Isaa ...
... and Leyden. Descartes later claimed that his formal education provided little of substance, and that only mathematics provided any real knowledge. Descartes published his major philosophical work, "A Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy" in 1641, the year before Galileo died and Isaa ...
Plato and the Presocratics
... story. On Plato’s view, the thesis of universal change holds true for things located in the physical realm, including human beings (cf. Symposium 207d). Although Eryximachus claims that ‘disharmony in harmony’ can only mean the alternative presence of opposing states, the Stranger at Sophist 242d ha ...
... story. On Plato’s view, the thesis of universal change holds true for things located in the physical realm, including human beings (cf. Symposium 207d). Although Eryximachus claims that ‘disharmony in harmony’ can only mean the alternative presence of opposing states, the Stranger at Sophist 242d ha ...
Hinduism
... appears to be two because it can be approached by looking for the ground of things, or looking for the ground of the Self. Seeking to understand the ultimate nature of the world and the Self, it had been discovered that the same Self exists within all beings. Each person shares his or her deepest be ...
... appears to be two because it can be approached by looking for the ground of things, or looking for the ground of the Self. Seeking to understand the ultimate nature of the world and the Self, it had been discovered that the same Self exists within all beings. Each person shares his or her deepest be ...
Hinduism
... appears to be two because it can be approached by looking for the ground of things, or looking for the ground of the Self. Seeking to understand the ultimate nature of the world and the Self, it had been discovered that the same Self exists within all beings. Each person shares his or her deepest be ...
... appears to be two because it can be approached by looking for the ground of things, or looking for the ground of the Self. Seeking to understand the ultimate nature of the world and the Self, it had been discovered that the same Self exists within all beings. Each person shares his or her deepest be ...
The Concept Of Soul Or Self In Vedanta
... Right understanding about our life is the most valuable wisdom for the right way of living. This was hinted at by Jesus Christ who said, "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" The soul is the datum of all experience and wisdom. The proper understanding ...
... Right understanding about our life is the most valuable wisdom for the right way of living. This was hinted at by Jesus Christ who said, "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" The soul is the datum of all experience and wisdom. The proper understanding ...
FORMAL METHODS AND SCIENCE IN PHILOSOPHY
... This is connected with the so called negative theology which allows only negative statements about God (where the negation can be taken as sentence-negation or as using a type of negative properties). For example: immutable, not in time, not material, not composed . . . etc. Its also connected with ...
... This is connected with the so called negative theology which allows only negative statements about God (where the negation can be taken as sentence-negation or as using a type of negative properties). For example: immutable, not in time, not material, not composed . . . etc. Its also connected with ...
THE UNTRUTH AND THE TRUTH OF SKEPTICISM
... 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 holding now in my hands the same as the page I held a few moments ago? Of course. I have no doubt that it is. But is my confidence based on my discerning a relation of ident ...
... 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 holding now in my hands the same as the page I held a few moments ago? Of course. I have no doubt that it is. But is my confidence based on my discerning a relation of ident ...
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 Self
... order to see the bare reality itself.” This clearly is neither Sellars’ nor Quine’s conception of philosophy, and you can see why. They understand philosophy to be governed by the same rules as science. There is no method available to do the reality stripping Duhem attributes to philosophical aims. ...
... order to see the bare reality itself.” This clearly is neither Sellars’ nor Quine’s conception of philosophy, and you can see why. They understand philosophy to be governed by the same rules as science. There is no method available to do the reality stripping Duhem attributes to philosophical aims. ...
Monism and Dualism
... belong to another world. SPIRITUALISM The name Spiritualism is sometimes given to the doctrine that there is no existence which we may not properly call mind or spirit. It errs in the one direction as materialism errs in the other. One must not confound with this doctrine that very different one, Sp ...
... belong to another world. SPIRITUALISM The name Spiritualism is sometimes given to the doctrine that there is no existence which we may not properly call mind or spirit. It errs in the one direction as materialism errs in the other. One must not confound with this doctrine that very different one, Sp ...
Here
... It is plain that if we are to know anything about the table, it must be by means of the sense-data -- brown colour, oblong shape, smoothness, etc. -- which we associate with the table; but, for the reasons which have been given, we cannot say that the table is the sense-data, or even that the sense- ...
... It is plain that if we are to know anything about the table, it must be by means of the sense-data -- brown colour, oblong shape, smoothness, etc. -- which we associate with the table; but, for the reasons which have been given, we cannot say that the table is the sense-data, or even that the sense- ...
ganz – some notes concerning aristotle
... religion not because they are any good at what those roles require, but because their top-level role will finally secure for them a continuous flow of praise and flattery). The deviant form of this is the lowest form of polity (in both Plato and Aristotle),8 democracy (rule by the mob; rule by those ...
... religion not because they are any good at what those roles require, but because their top-level role will finally secure for them a continuous flow of praise and flattery). The deviant form of this is the lowest form of polity (in both Plato and Aristotle),8 democracy (rule by the mob; rule by those ...
RealistsvsNominalists
... the scale of experience, universals comprehend the whole range of apprehension and reflection. b. An inquiry into the nature of universals will embrace the problem of substance, the unity of attributes in things, and even the validity of science. It is an inquiry into the veracity of human thinking. ...
... the scale of experience, universals comprehend the whole range of apprehension and reflection. b. An inquiry into the nature of universals will embrace the problem of substance, the unity of attributes in things, and even the validity of science. It is an inquiry into the veracity of human thinking. ...
Knowing justice and acting justly What is the source of virtue in
... So Plato’s argument that philosophers should be rulers depends on his arguments about how knowledge and virtue are linked. In the handout on ‘Philosophers, knowledge, and virtue’, we raised the objection that it is not certain that studying philosophy and the Forms will make someone virtuous. A seco ...
... So Plato’s argument that philosophers should be rulers depends on his arguments about how knowledge and virtue are linked. In the handout on ‘Philosophers, knowledge, and virtue’, we raised the objection that it is not certain that studying philosophy and the Forms will make someone virtuous. A seco ...
Chapter 2 Metaphysics, Fideism, Speculation
... necessarily. The critique of ideologies, which ultimately always consists in demonstrating that a social situation which is presented as inevitable is actually contingent, is essentially indissociable from the critique of metaphysics, the latter being understood as the illusory manufacturing of nece ...
... necessarily. The critique of ideologies, which ultimately always consists in demonstrating that a social situation which is presented as inevitable is actually contingent, is essentially indissociable from the critique of metaphysics, the latter being understood as the illusory manufacturing of nece ...
The lives of Plato and Socrates - School of Practical Philosophy
... When Socrates was thirty-five a friend of his asked the prophetess who was the wisest Athenian. Her answer was that ‘no one was wiser than Socrates’. Socrates was completely astounded by this response, but took it as a message from God sending him on a lifelong mission to discover the truth. Fully b ...
... When Socrates was thirty-five a friend of his asked the prophetess who was the wisest Athenian. Her answer was that ‘no one was wiser than Socrates’. Socrates was completely astounded by this response, but took it as a message from God sending him on a lifelong mission to discover the truth. Fully b ...
Kant`s Pre-Critical Proof for God`s Existence
... two-sided triangles, things that are red and green all over at the same time or taller or older than themselves are impossible beings, because they are inconceivable, not just for us, but in and of themselves.2 It is therefore natural to assume that anything that is conceivable without contradiction ...
... two-sided triangles, things that are red and green all over at the same time or taller or older than themselves are impossible beings, because they are inconceivable, not just for us, but in and of themselves.2 It is therefore natural to assume that anything that is conceivable without contradiction ...
From Aristotle`s Ousia to Ibn Sina`s Jawhar
... and (2) agent according to naturalists or the natural philosophers. The first group, by whom he means philosophers such as Aristotle and himself, believe that the agent is not only the source and origin of change and movement but also the origin of existence and the bestower of it by way of bringing ...
... and (2) agent according to naturalists or the natural philosophers. The first group, by whom he means philosophers such as Aristotle and himself, believe that the agent is not only the source and origin of change and movement but also the origin of existence and the bestower of it by way of bringing ...
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 ...
Infallibilism and Human Kinds
... contingent fact, for the possession of C is itself a matter of fact to be established empirically. Infallibilists rather claim that the proposition “X is K if it has properties C” is true a priori. That a piece of paper counts as genuine money in virtue of the fact that it has been issued by the Ban ...
... contingent fact, for the possession of C is itself a matter of fact to be established empirically. Infallibilists rather claim that the proposition “X is K if it has properties C” is true a priori. That a piece of paper counts as genuine money in virtue of the fact that it has been issued by the Ban ...
9. Indispensability arguments in the philosophy of mathematics
... from belief, through tolerance, to outright rejection. But this does not invalidate my “indispensability arguments,” because they were never offered as an account of which “ontological commitments” are “confirmed.”xxii For my purposes, it suffices to point out that there is no serious quantum field ...
... from belief, through tolerance, to outright rejection. But this does not invalidate my “indispensability arguments,” because they were never offered as an account of which “ontological commitments” are “confirmed.”xxii For my purposes, it suffices to point out that there is no serious quantum field ...
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.