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... general) non-human things, which we then in this normative sense count as talking or thinking about. One would look to see whether this normative social structure of practices, once identified, can be seen to be optional, in the sense that it has alternatives that are at least intelligible. And one ...
... general) non-human things, which we then in this normative sense count as talking or thinking about. One would look to see whether this normative social structure of practices, once identified, can be seen to be optional, in the sense that it has alternatives that are at least intelligible. And one ...
Greater Reality Achieved Through Consciousness
... By means of this second move, from simple “infinity” to true infinity, Hegel overcomes the otherwise strong tendency of broadly Platonic thinking to lead its followers into unreconciled dualisms, such as we see (for example) in Gnosticism, in Descartes, and in Kant. Perhaps it was a perception of th ...
... By means of this second move, from simple “infinity” to true infinity, Hegel overcomes the otherwise strong tendency of broadly Platonic thinking to lead its followers into unreconciled dualisms, such as we see (for example) in Gnosticism, in Descartes, and in Kant. Perhaps it was a perception of th ...
Hirsch`s Attack on Ontologese
... Hirsch is certainly right that one can’t speak a foreign language—Sumerian, say—simply by announcing that one intends to do so. But Ontologese is supposed to be just like English except for the semantics of quantifiers. Thus its grammar and lexicon are already mastered by the would-be speaker (unlik ...
... Hirsch is certainly right that one can’t speak a foreign language—Sumerian, say—simply by announcing that one intends to do so. But Ontologese is supposed to be just like English except for the semantics of quantifiers. Thus its grammar and lexicon are already mastered by the would-be speaker (unlik ...
Metaphysics as the First Philosophy
... or how they are. Ontologically independent, fundamental entities are (primary) substances – of which forms are the key example. Here, we once again encounter essences, for Aristotle says that “By form I mean the essence of each thing and its primary substance” (1032b1–2).6 On a related note, Tierney ...
... or how they are. Ontologically independent, fundamental entities are (primary) substances – of which forms are the key example. Here, we once again encounter essences, for Aristotle says that “By form I mean the essence of each thing and its primary substance” (1032b1–2).6 On a related note, Tierney ...
Logos and Forms in Phaedo 96a-102a
... Socrates is not concerned with the first sense of death, even though this is the death he currently faces himself. It is precisely the first sense, however, about which his interlocutors are anxious. Their attitude differs from that of the »lamenting« Xanthippe (60b) only in the degree of forcefulness ...
... Socrates is not concerned with the first sense of death, even though this is the death he currently faces himself. It is precisely the first sense, however, about which his interlocutors are anxious. Their attitude differs from that of the »lamenting« Xanthippe (60b) only in the degree of forcefulness ...
The Problem of Substance in Metaphysics
... not name, except for what he calls the eternal boundless. The third and last of the Milesian philosophers was Anaximenes (528-526 BC). He argued that the primary stuff of which all things are made is air, not water or the eternal boundless. While for Heraclitus (500 BC), the fundamental nature of su ...
... not name, except for what he calls the eternal boundless. The third and last of the Milesian philosophers was Anaximenes (528-526 BC). He argued that the primary stuff of which all things are made is air, not water or the eternal boundless. While for Heraclitus (500 BC), the fundamental nature of su ...
read - daniel tarr
... give an account of his absolute 'given', 'simple', 'first', 'individual', 'essence', 'self', and so on, that is, element constitutive of reality, self-evident, irreducible, and indispensable to the coherence of his world. The egocentrist is indeed so strongly attached to his groundedness on this su ...
... give an account of his absolute 'given', 'simple', 'first', 'individual', 'essence', 'self', and so on, that is, element constitutive of reality, self-evident, irreducible, and indispensable to the coherence of his world. The egocentrist is indeed so strongly attached to his groundedness on this su ...
penultimate draft - U
... Since you are not an ontological pluralist, you will think that the only way to make these distinctions is to say that things are some way or another — to hang different rubber bands on the pegs, as it were. But as an ontological pluralist, I hold that thinking of reality as having a single ontologi ...
... Since you are not an ontological pluralist, you will think that the only way to make these distinctions is to say that things are some way or another — to hang different rubber bands on the pegs, as it were. But as an ontological pluralist, I hold that thinking of reality as having a single ontologi ...
LECTURE 24
... MANY PHILOSOPHERS HAVE HAD DIFFICULTY SEEING HOW IT IS POSSIBLE FOR A NONPHYSICAL THING TO CAUSALLY INTERACT WITH A PHYSICAL THING (HOW CAN I, IF I AM A NON-PHYSICAL THING, CAUSE PHYSICAL CHANGES IN MY BODY?) ...
... MANY PHILOSOPHERS HAVE HAD DIFFICULTY SEEING HOW IT IS POSSIBLE FOR A NONPHYSICAL THING TO CAUSALLY INTERACT WITH A PHYSICAL THING (HOW CAN I, IF I AM A NON-PHYSICAL THING, CAUSE PHYSICAL CHANGES IN MY BODY?) ...
introduction: the task of thinking reality
... The careful and even reverential attentiveness to things gives rise to contemplation and thought itself. Schmitz elucidates the origins of the contemplative insight into things that lies at the heart of metaphysics. The Greeks called this approach to things theoria, which comes from the word theoros ...
... The careful and even reverential attentiveness to things gives rise to contemplation and thought itself. Schmitz elucidates the origins of the contemplative insight into things that lies at the heart of metaphysics. The Greeks called this approach to things theoria, which comes from the word theoros ...
Plato and Vedanta
... and detailed processes of Self-realisation handed down orally generation after generation from teacher to disciple. The same processes have been fo/lowed even to the present day. All aspirants after spiritual awakening must practice them if they would want to acquire personal experience of the trut ...
... and detailed processes of Self-realisation handed down orally generation after generation from teacher to disciple. The same processes have been fo/lowed even to the present day. All aspirants after spiritual awakening must practice them if they would want to acquire personal experience of the trut ...
Two Senses of Common Sense
... philosophical problems and, therefore, the average speaker’s answers are to provide us with the correct understanding on empirical knowledge, free will or the legitimacy of philosophical query in general. The ordinary man is faced with questions that do not normally arise in everyday life and which ...
... philosophical problems and, therefore, the average speaker’s answers are to provide us with the correct understanding on empirical knowledge, free will or the legitimacy of philosophical query in general. The ordinary man is faced with questions that do not normally arise in everyday life and which ...
A Realist Theory of Science
... empirical realism, and thus to the concept of the ‘empirical world’. For the transcendental realist this concept embodies a sequence of related philosophical mistakes. The first consists in the use of the category of experience to define the world. This involves giving what is in effect a particul ...
... empirical realism, and thus to the concept of the ‘empirical world’. For the transcendental realist this concept embodies a sequence of related philosophical mistakes. The first consists in the use of the category of experience to define the world. This involves giving what is in effect a particul ...
connectedness
... Kumarajiva/Nagarjuna presents these four extreme views of reality in a scheme that is called in Sanskrit: ‘catuskoti’, the equivalent of the Ancient Greek ‘tetralemma’, as follows: things have no substance: 1. neither out of themselves, 2. nor out of something else, 3. nor out of both, 4. nor withou ...
... Kumarajiva/Nagarjuna presents these four extreme views of reality in a scheme that is called in Sanskrit: ‘catuskoti’, the equivalent of the Ancient Greek ‘tetralemma’, as follows: things have no substance: 1. neither out of themselves, 2. nor out of something else, 3. nor out of both, 4. nor withou ...
Neo-Fregeanism and Quantifier Variance
... way. First, the issues at stake in the about whether ‘the number of Fs’ is a singular term will simply reappear in debate about whether the left-hand side of instances of the biconditional satisfy semantic compositionality and penetrability by quantifiers. For neo-Fregeans, all it takes for somethin ...
... way. First, the issues at stake in the about whether ‘the number of Fs’ is a singular term will simply reappear in debate about whether the left-hand side of instances of the biconditional satisfy semantic compositionality and penetrability by quantifiers. For neo-Fregeans, all it takes for somethin ...
Concepts and Objects
... scientific knowledge (‘knowing-that’) to practical know-how: ‘There is no such thing as knowledge—what would it be? There is only know-how. In other words, there are crafts and trades. Despite all claims to the contrary, crafts hold the key to all knowledge. They make it possible to ‘return’ science ...
... scientific knowledge (‘knowing-that’) to practical know-how: ‘There is no such thing as knowledge—what would it be? There is only know-how. In other words, there are crafts and trades. Despite all claims to the contrary, crafts hold the key to all knowledge. They make it possible to ‘return’ science ...
Getting Priority Straight
... that the existence and features of all macroscopic concreta are fully explicable solely by reference to the existence and features of other things.6 Those other things are in this sense prior to the familiar macroscopic individuals. Ultimately, the explanation bottoms out in a relatively sparse inve ...
... that the existence and features of all macroscopic concreta are fully explicable solely by reference to the existence and features of other things.6 Those other things are in this sense prior to the familiar macroscopic individuals. Ultimately, the explanation bottoms out in a relatively sparse inve ...
Previous Final Examination Questions
... 1. What are the characteristics of Plato’s forms? 2. What, according to Aristotle, is primary substance, and how is it distinguished from secondary substance and non-substance? 3. Why did Anselm claim that one cannot consistently deny the existence of God? 4. Sketch one of Aquinas’s five ways of ar ...
... 1. What are the characteristics of Plato’s forms? 2. What, according to Aristotle, is primary substance, and how is it distinguished from secondary substance and non-substance? 3. Why did Anselm claim that one cannot consistently deny the existence of God? 4. Sketch one of Aquinas’s five ways of ar ...
contents
... Europe was of great importance for the development of philosophy. Historical documents in which the rudiments of spontaneous materialist views are recorded date back to the end of the third and beginning of the second millenium B.C. That was the period that the first slave societies, namely Egypt an ...
... Europe was of great importance for the development of philosophy. Historical documents in which the rudiments of spontaneous materialist views are recorded date back to the end of the third and beginning of the second millenium B.C. That was the period that the first slave societies, namely Egypt an ...
Doctrine of Forms
... idea or form. This is the universal, the common nature or quality, which is grasped in the concept (ex: beauty). There are many beautiful things, but we form one universal concept of beauty itself: and Plato assumed that these universal concepts are not merely subjective concepts, but that in them w ...
... idea or form. This is the universal, the common nature or quality, which is grasped in the concept (ex: beauty). There are many beautiful things, but we form one universal concept of beauty itself: and Plato assumed that these universal concepts are not merely subjective concepts, but that in them w ...
Dummett`s Truth Matjaž Potrč Dummett`s approach to truth will be
... suggestion that may help Dummett to steer his course between the Scylla of the existence of two platonic objects Truth and Falsity determining the truth conditions, and between the Charybdis of all the way down epistemic proof and warrant endorsing denial of importance ascribed to ontology. Perhaps ...
... suggestion that may help Dummett to steer his course between the Scylla of the existence of two platonic objects Truth and Falsity determining the truth conditions, and between the Charybdis of all the way down epistemic proof and warrant endorsing denial of importance ascribed to ontology. Perhaps ...
File
... Many felt that his philosophies had led the youth to become disrespectful to their elders (always asking questions, etc.), of the gods, and encouraged them to be selfish and power hungry. Mostly this was because of several of his students who ended up doing some dishonorable things, like Alcibiade ...
... Many felt that his philosophies had led the youth to become disrespectful to their elders (always asking questions, etc.), of the gods, and encouraged them to be selfish and power hungry. Mostly this was because of several of his students who ended up doing some dishonorable things, like Alcibiade ...
"Everything Flows": The Poetics of Transformation
... Plato famously dismissed art as thrice removed from reality, holding that mimesis is a copy of a copy, a distraction from the more serious affairs of truth. Two millennia have done little to remove this stigma of dissembling deceit leveled at art. Metamorphosis provides an alternative view of realit ...
... Plato famously dismissed art as thrice removed from reality, holding that mimesis is a copy of a copy, a distraction from the more serious affairs of truth. Two millennia have done little to remove this stigma of dissembling deceit leveled at art. Metamorphosis provides an alternative view of realit ...
War and/as Play - Inter
... Apostolova, War and/as Play calls the ‘stepping out of common reality into a higher order’. This characteristic of play is what makes it essential for our individual, as well as, group development. It is through play that a child develops his or her ability to identify, distinguish, and symbolize – ...
... Apostolova, War and/as Play calls the ‘stepping out of common reality into a higher order’. This characteristic of play is what makes it essential for our individual, as well as, group development. It is through play that a child develops his or her ability to identify, distinguish, and symbolize – ...
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.