IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... of an end. Many actions we perform are not products of our own deliberation and voluntary judgment. Yet Aquinas points out that acts of this sort are not properly human acts ―since they do not proceed from the deliberation of the reason‖13. In order for an act to count as a human act, it must be a p ...
... of an end. Many actions we perform are not products of our own deliberation and voluntary judgment. Yet Aquinas points out that acts of this sort are not properly human acts ―since they do not proceed from the deliberation of the reason‖13. In order for an act to count as a human act, it must be a p ...
Logical Fallacies (Adopted from Steve Richardson, George Mason
... – "A classic example is this statement by Senator Joseph McCarthy, when asked to back up his accusation that a certain person was a communist: 'I do not have much information on this except the general statement of the agency that there is nothing in the files to disprove his Communist connections." ...
... – "A classic example is this statement by Senator Joseph McCarthy, when asked to back up his accusation that a certain person was a communist: 'I do not have much information on this except the general statement of the agency that there is nothing in the files to disprove his Communist connections." ...
Religious values. Relation between intrinsic and extrinsic values
... concrete in contemporary western philosophy22. But paradoxical as it may seem, the search for values by most of our philosophers has been a quest in terms of formal essences or abstract criteria. It may be observed that this is due to the fact that western philosophy is usually rooted in the formal ...
... concrete in contemporary western philosophy22. But paradoxical as it may seem, the search for values by most of our philosophers has been a quest in terms of formal essences or abstract criteria. It may be observed that this is due to the fact that western philosophy is usually rooted in the formal ...
I, Sim - Simulation Argument
... simulation hypothesis, which says that I am now living in a computer simulation. To make this distinction clearer the simulation argument will be referred to by its full name and the simulation hypothesis will be called SIM. SIM, on the other hand, should not be confused with ‘Sim’. A Sim is a simul ...
... simulation hypothesis, which says that I am now living in a computer simulation. To make this distinction clearer the simulation argument will be referred to by its full name and the simulation hypothesis will be called SIM. SIM, on the other hand, should not be confused with ‘Sim’. A Sim is a simul ...
`Against Hirose`s Argument for Saving the Greater Number`
... and Z are equally good, let alone which one of them, if either, is better than the other. For they are different in respect to factors other than the identities of the people involved, i.e., the number of those who survive and those who do not. Therefore, X and Y, and Y and Z are incomparable. A dir ...
... and Z are equally good, let alone which one of them, if either, is better than the other. For they are different in respect to factors other than the identities of the people involved, i.e., the number of those who survive and those who do not. Therefore, X and Y, and Y and Z are incomparable. A dir ...
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO LOCKE`S ACCOUNT OF
... signification of the eight parts of speech that is found in an unpublished commentary Super Priscianum maiorem, writte n b y Robert Kilwardby about 1250, and in many other manuscripts fro m the middle of the thirteenth century. According to that conception, a part of speech signifies either a mentis ...
... signification of the eight parts of speech that is found in an unpublished commentary Super Priscianum maiorem, writte n b y Robert Kilwardby about 1250, and in many other manuscripts fro m the middle of the thirteenth century. According to that conception, a part of speech signifies either a mentis ...
islamic view of omniscience and human freedom
... in the form of antinomies. Among these he also very clearly identifies the problems that arise for human free will from different interpretations of the concept of Omniscience, however, it fails to attract his philosophical acumen which he demonstrates in the analysis of other problems. He states th ...
... in the form of antinomies. Among these he also very clearly identifies the problems that arise for human free will from different interpretations of the concept of Omniscience, however, it fails to attract his philosophical acumen which he demonstrates in the analysis of other problems. He states th ...
LANGUAGE AND TRUTH: A STUDY OF NIETZSCHE`S THEORY OF
... Nietzsche contrasts the survival will with another will which he termed as the will to truth. According to the belief of metaphysicians, an experience and the concepts resulting from that experience can represent the thing itself or being, in case the experience is carried out under the will to trut ...
... Nietzsche contrasts the survival will with another will which he termed as the will to truth. According to the belief of metaphysicians, an experience and the concepts resulting from that experience can represent the thing itself or being, in case the experience is carried out under the will to trut ...
Against the Idols of the Age
... everyone is as bad as himself, or to belittle the human species in general. (Darwinians call the latter ‘bridging the gap between man and the animals.’) In commenting on other philosophers, he is similarly acidic: Nozick prefers those philosophical questions which ‘make us tremble.’ Well, he should ...
... everyone is as bad as himself, or to belittle the human species in general. (Darwinians call the latter ‘bridging the gap between man and the animals.’) In commenting on other philosophers, he is similarly acidic: Nozick prefers those philosophical questions which ‘make us tremble.’ Well, he should ...
Is Mathematics Problem Solving or Theorem Proving? Carlo Cellucci
... uniform way of approaching them” (ibid., 242.19–20). On the other hand, the reason why philosophers generally endorsed the view that the method of mathematics is the axiomatic method, is that they were primarily interested in showing that mathematical knowledge is firmly grounded, and thought that t ...
... uniform way of approaching them” (ibid., 242.19–20). On the other hand, the reason why philosophers generally endorsed the view that the method of mathematics is the axiomatic method, is that they were primarily interested in showing that mathematical knowledge is firmly grounded, and thought that t ...
Libertarianism and Skepticism about Free Will
... demanding theory to turn out to be false. This is not to say that we want theories that cannot be falsified, or that we want theories that make minimal commitments. On the contrary, the scramble toward probable truths is impossible without increasingly refined and ontologically specific theories. R ...
... demanding theory to turn out to be false. This is not to say that we want theories that cannot be falsified, or that we want theories that make minimal commitments. On the contrary, the scramble toward probable truths is impossible without increasingly refined and ontologically specific theories. R ...
Phenomenal Concepts and the Private Language
... knows of all the 117 children in Bristol Primary School in 1910—including Archie Leach. The she learns, on reading Movie Magazine, that Cary Grant was also at the school in 1910. In a sense, she has learned something new. But this doesn't mean that there was an extra child in the school, in addition ...
... knows of all the 117 children in Bristol Primary School in 1910—including Archie Leach. The she learns, on reading Movie Magazine, that Cary Grant was also at the school in 1910. In a sense, she has learned something new. But this doesn't mean that there was an extra child in the school, in addition ...
sadwcn_adwy - Square
... values secured are recognized the more easily for having been first enjoyed when other people furnished the means to them; while the maintenance of these values is facilitated by an external tradition (1052) …’ Santayana reveals how the reality of imagination can transcend mere sense through intuiti ...
... values secured are recognized the more easily for having been first enjoyed when other people furnished the means to them; while the maintenance of these values is facilitated by an external tradition (1052) …’ Santayana reveals how the reality of imagination can transcend mere sense through intuiti ...
Logic and Categories As Tools For Building Theories
... does indeed form a natural numbers object. But we are not committed to any particular settheoretic representation of N: whether as von Neumann ordinals, Zermelo numerals [10] or anything else. Indeed, any countable set X with a particular element x picked out by a map z, and a unary operation s : X ...
... does indeed form a natural numbers object. But we are not committed to any particular settheoretic representation of N: whether as von Neumann ordinals, Zermelo numerals [10] or anything else. Indeed, any countable set X with a particular element x picked out by a map z, and a unary operation s : X ...
Dialectic and Dialogue in Plato: Revisiting the Image of "Socrates
... creation of new ideas and processes. If one accepts the concept of absolute ideas, it is not possible to beyond these ideas without questioning and doubting their absoluteness” (39). ...
... creation of new ideas and processes. If one accepts the concept of absolute ideas, it is not possible to beyond these ideas without questioning and doubting their absoluteness” (39). ...
Constructivism in Ethics and Metaethics
... idealized process of rational deliberation, choice, or agreement. As a “first-order moral account”--an account of which moral principles are correct--constructivism is the view that the moral principles we ought to accept or follow are the ones that agents would agree to or endorse were they to enga ...
... idealized process of rational deliberation, choice, or agreement. As a “first-order moral account”--an account of which moral principles are correct--constructivism is the view that the moral principles we ought to accept or follow are the ones that agents would agree to or endorse were they to enga ...
Text - UT College of Liberal Arts - The University of Texas at Austin
... Demonstrativa, first printed in 16921. This is a marvellous book that seems to have exerted absolutely no influence until it was rediscovered early in this century. Saccheri points out that the proofs of the statements of non-implication customary in the traditional, Aristotelian logic, presuppose t ...
... Demonstrativa, first printed in 16921. This is a marvellous book that seems to have exerted absolutely no influence until it was rediscovered early in this century. Saccheri points out that the proofs of the statements of non-implication customary in the traditional, Aristotelian logic, presuppose t ...
On the first episode of a television parody of the dominant style of
... We Whiteheadians, however, hear irony rather than pomp in his capitalized Truth and Beauty, Appearance and Reality: what he calls the “truth-relation” lies “below the stale presupposition of verbal thought.”12 After all, he has already dissolved the substantial subjects and objects between which the ...
... We Whiteheadians, however, hear irony rather than pomp in his capitalized Truth and Beauty, Appearance and Reality: what he calls the “truth-relation” lies “below the stale presupposition of verbal thought.”12 After all, he has already dissolved the substantial subjects and objects between which the ...
Semantic Paradoxes and Abductive Methodology The Relevance of the Liar University Press)
... L let Γv = {αv: α Γ}. Some of the new variables will be of higher type, for instance those replacing atomic predicates and sentences, and will need to be assigned values appropriate to their type. If the context restricted the values of the variables to a contextually relevant domain, the assignme ...
... L let Γv = {αv: α Γ}. Some of the new variables will be of higher type, for instance those replacing atomic predicates and sentences, and will need to be assigned values appropriate to their type. If the context restricted the values of the variables to a contextually relevant domain, the assignme ...
What Normative Terms Mean and Why It Matters for Ethical Theory.
... these speci c linguistic and ethical issues can be seen as case studies illustrating the fruitfulness of utilizing resources from philosophy of language and linguistics in ethical theorizing. Of course, one could acknowledge a role for linguistic inquiry in ethics but reject my speci c claims about ...
... these speci c linguistic and ethical issues can be seen as case studies illustrating the fruitfulness of utilizing resources from philosophy of language and linguistics in ethical theorizing. Of course, one could acknowledge a role for linguistic inquiry in ethics but reject my speci c claims about ...
Conscience-Egoism-Kant
... The awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one's conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wrong. A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct. The part of the superego in psychoanalysis that judges the ethical nature of one's ac ...
... The awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one's conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wrong. A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct. The part of the superego in psychoanalysis that judges the ethical nature of one's ac ...
The Ontological Meta-Argument
... argument that works is better than an argument that doesn’t. So an ontological argument that does not work is not the best conceivable; the greatest conceivable ontological argument does work. Second, what does that argument prove? If we allow that arguments can be assessed not merely formally (for ...
... argument that works is better than an argument that doesn’t. So an ontological argument that does not work is not the best conceivable; the greatest conceivable ontological argument does work. Second, what does that argument prove? If we allow that arguments can be assessed not merely formally (for ...
Subjects, Objects, Data and Values
... everyday life in which the experiments are performed. If that connection were not made there would be no way to run an experiment that would prove whether a quantum prediction was true or not. Quantum theory must be verified by classical concepts that refer to observable properties of nature. Heisen ...
... everyday life in which the experiments are performed. If that connection were not made there would be no way to run an experiment that would prove whether a quantum prediction was true or not. Quantum theory must be verified by classical concepts that refer to observable properties of nature. Heisen ...
three logicians: aristotle, saccheri, frege
... Demonstrativa, first printed in 16921. This is a marvellous book that seems to have exerted absolutely no influence until it was rediscovered early in this century. Saccheri points out that the proofs of the statements of non-implication customary in the traditional, Aristotelian logic, presuppose t ...
... Demonstrativa, first printed in 16921. This is a marvellous book that seems to have exerted absolutely no influence until it was rediscovered early in this century. Saccheri points out that the proofs of the statements of non-implication customary in the traditional, Aristotelian logic, presuppose t ...