The Importance of Being Earnest: Scepticism and the Limits of
... unlike the unsampled part of the collection. We cannot pretend to be even approximately exact; because the sample consists of but a finite number of instances and only admits special values of the proportion sought. Finally, even if we could ascertain with absolute certainty and exactness that the r ...
... unlike the unsampled part of the collection. We cannot pretend to be even approximately exact; because the sample consists of but a finite number of instances and only admits special values of the proportion sought. Finally, even if we could ascertain with absolute certainty and exactness that the r ...
Intersubjectivity, Subjectivism, Social Sciences
... of economic activity cannot be defined in objective terms but only with reference to a human purpose goes without saying. Neither a commodity nor an economic good, nor food or money can be defined in physical terms but only in terms of views people hold about things.”5 To our mind, what Hayek was do ...
... of economic activity cannot be defined in objective terms but only with reference to a human purpose goes without saying. Neither a commodity nor an economic good, nor food or money can be defined in physical terms but only in terms of views people hold about things.”5 To our mind, what Hayek was do ...
Ideology Beyond Belief
... Why might this matter? I grant that social movements need to refute false beliefs or challenge the inferences, reasons, etc. that people offer for their unjust behavior or policies. However, another crucial dimension of ideology critique is a disruption of the very terms and concepts we use to under ...
... Why might this matter? I grant that social movements need to refute false beliefs or challenge the inferences, reasons, etc. that people offer for their unjust behavior or policies. However, another crucial dimension of ideology critique is a disruption of the very terms and concepts we use to under ...
Shankara
... animals. (2) Originally, there was nothing but Brahman. If the material from which the world is made is other than Brahman, then that material must emerge from Brahman. (3) In fact, the whole world is intelligent (or a manifestation of intelligence). ...
... animals. (2) Originally, there was nothing but Brahman. If the material from which the world is made is other than Brahman, then that material must emerge from Brahman. (3) In fact, the whole world is intelligent (or a manifestation of intelligence). ...
THE CONCEPT OF VERBUM IN THE WRITINGS OF ST. THOMAS
... a view of all reality that human intellect naturally aspires. The specific drive of our nature is to understand,22 and indeed to understand everything, neither confusing the trees with the forest nor content to contemplate the forest without seeing all the trees. For the spirit of inquiry within us ...
... a view of all reality that human intellect naturally aspires. The specific drive of our nature is to understand,22 and indeed to understand everything, neither confusing the trees with the forest nor content to contemplate the forest without seeing all the trees. For the spirit of inquiry within us ...
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 ...
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 ...
- UTK-EECS
... Another aspect of Neoplatonic philosophy that influenced the new science was the idea that there are hidden causes behind the phenomena of the sensible world. That is, all change in the phenomenal world is an effect of an eternal structure of abstract ideas. Thus the reality we ordinarily experience ...
... Another aspect of Neoplatonic philosophy that influenced the new science was the idea that there are hidden causes behind the phenomena of the sensible world. That is, all change in the phenomenal world is an effect of an eternal structure of abstract ideas. Thus the reality we ordinarily experience ...
Choosing from a Moral Point of View
... Tversky, 1994; but also see Sen, 1977 and Margolis, 1982 who were early dissenters from the classic economic point of view). Indeed, Betsy’s response indicates that the (offending) choice was made on the basis of a ‘perspective’ or ‘point of view’ which led her to the wrong decision. The implication ...
... Tversky, 1994; but also see Sen, 1977 and Margolis, 1982 who were early dissenters from the classic economic point of view). Indeed, Betsy’s response indicates that the (offending) choice was made on the basis of a ‘perspective’ or ‘point of view’ which led her to the wrong decision. The implication ...
1 What is Scientific Progress? Lessons from Scientific Practice Moti
... the receiver of a blood transfusion has antibodies against the donor blood cells. He grouped blood types into three groups, which he designated as A, B, and C (which later became O and the AB blood group was subsequently added by others). Thanks to Landsteiner’s work, the first successful blood tran ...
... the receiver of a blood transfusion has antibodies against the donor blood cells. He grouped blood types into three groups, which he designated as A, B, and C (which later became O and the AB blood group was subsequently added by others). Thanks to Landsteiner’s work, the first successful blood tran ...
RETRANSMITTABILITY AND EMPIRICAL PROPOSITIONS
... sense experience and a proposition which is to count as genuine knowledge must be derivable from basic or atomic propositions whose truth is guaranteed by sense experience. Anti-justificationists, by contrast, do not attempt to give a precise and exact definition of knowledge. Unlike justificationis ...
... sense experience and a proposition which is to count as genuine knowledge must be derivable from basic or atomic propositions whose truth is guaranteed by sense experience. Anti-justificationists, by contrast, do not attempt to give a precise and exact definition of knowledge. Unlike justificationis ...
KEN 10.4 london
... mitments that grow out of the way people respond to certain situations in light of their particular emotional and affective dispositions–their particular psychological economy. They are also the sort of commitments one can have before one is capable of offering a justification for them. Nevertheless ...
... mitments that grow out of the way people respond to certain situations in light of their particular emotional and affective dispositions–their particular psychological economy. They are also the sort of commitments one can have before one is capable of offering a justification for them. Nevertheless ...
Paradox, Irony, Nemesis: The Passage to Understand Life and
... ("the whole") flows like a clear stream. The whole, which is a reality, gives the power of positive thinking and the confidence to face life. Great players usually play to their power and potentials. At times of expectations and hope, they may knock the spectators back. Ordinary players play to thei ...
... ("the whole") flows like a clear stream. The whole, which is a reality, gives the power of positive thinking and the confidence to face life. Great players usually play to their power and potentials. At times of expectations and hope, they may knock the spectators back. Ordinary players play to thei ...
Walden: Philosophy and Knowledge of Humankind
... Correcter prognoses will generally issue from the judgement of those with better knowledge of humankind. Can one learn this knowledge? Yes; some can. Not, however, by taking a course in it, but through 'experience'. - Can someone else be a man's teacher in this? Certainly. From time to time he gives ...
... Correcter prognoses will generally issue from the judgement of those with better knowledge of humankind. Can one learn this knowledge? Yes; some can. Not, however, by taking a course in it, but through 'experience'. - Can someone else be a man's teacher in this? Certainly. From time to time he gives ...
mal e / femal e (227)
... of form and if he’s got sufficient to think that he knows what he’s talking about, if he’s not careful he will think that he knows it all and his mind will then become opaque and he will be inaccessible to further statements. I think most people have met the kind of man that we’re talking about, wh ...
... of form and if he’s got sufficient to think that he knows what he’s talking about, if he’s not careful he will think that he knows it all and his mind will then become opaque and he will be inaccessible to further statements. I think most people have met the kind of man that we’re talking about, wh ...
Chinese_Room - Lund University Publications
... The Philosophy of Mind, which pertains to the study of mental properties and physical properties in relation to the world, has been around since the 4th century with philosophers like Socrates and Plato. The Mind and Matter Problem, also known as the Body and Soul Problem, deals with the issues of i ...
... The Philosophy of Mind, which pertains to the study of mental properties and physical properties in relation to the world, has been around since the 4th century with philosophers like Socrates and Plato. The Mind and Matter Problem, also known as the Body and Soul Problem, deals with the issues of i ...
What is a logic? Towards axiomatic emptiness
... much to the development of modern logic working for example in many-valued logic. But the real revolution of modern logic was not the contribution of one or two people; it was the rise of a new way of thinking which can be called “structuralism”, which emerged in linguistics, mathematics, art and ph ...
... much to the development of modern logic working for example in many-valued logic. But the real revolution of modern logic was not the contribution of one or two people; it was the rise of a new way of thinking which can be called “structuralism”, which emerged in linguistics, mathematics, art and ph ...
Confucian Ethics in the Analects as Virtue Ethics
... Confucius refers to this type of figure as junzi (4.10). In the most advanced cases we see an authoritative figure who stands well above others, leading an entire civilization by example. These are the shengren, the sages (6.30, 7.26, 16.8, 19.12). Furthermore, the authoritative person understands ...
... Confucius refers to this type of figure as junzi (4.10). In the most advanced cases we see an authoritative figure who stands well above others, leading an entire civilization by example. These are the shengren, the sages (6.30, 7.26, 16.8, 19.12). Furthermore, the authoritative person understands ...
Annas, Aristotle Kant and the Stoics
... wealth, which we generally have reason to go for, are preferred indifferents, while their opposites are dispreferred. 14 The corollary of this for practical reasoning is drastic: only virtue is cho sen, while the preferred indifferents are selected. This is an artificial distinc tion which the Sto ...
... wealth, which we generally have reason to go for, are preferred indifferents, while their opposites are dispreferred. 14 The corollary of this for practical reasoning is drastic: only virtue is cho sen, while the preferred indifferents are selected. This is an artificial distinc tion which the Sto ...
Morality for Humans Or Is Mark Johnson A Closeted Care Ethicist
... who have begun to devote serious attention to developing care theory in new ways and applying it to fresh arenas in order to challenge the presumptions of liberal ethics. Although different versions exist, care ethics is an approach to ethics that favors context and relationships rather than rubrics ...
... who have begun to devote serious attention to developing care theory in new ways and applying it to fresh arenas in order to challenge the presumptions of liberal ethics. Although different versions exist, care ethics is an approach to ethics that favors context and relationships rather than rubrics ...
Character, Virtue and Self-Interest in the Ethics
... many philosophers thereafter, that acting to benefit others contributes to happiness and therefore is in one's own self-interest."l But this is a weak argument because Aristotle also asserts that the truly virtuous person ought to practice altruism for its own sake." In his interesting analysis of t ...
... many philosophers thereafter, that acting to benefit others contributes to happiness and therefore is in one's own self-interest."l But this is a weak argument because Aristotle also asserts that the truly virtuous person ought to practice altruism for its own sake." In his interesting analysis of t ...
(1) Lidt om bogen `Naming and Necessity` som helhed
... and of the relation between names and descriptions, as well as a highly influential criticism of traditional views of the matter. In this connection, Kripke was influential in making a number of issues central topics of debate in the following years. Including: the social character of lanugage (’the ...
... and of the relation between names and descriptions, as well as a highly influential criticism of traditional views of the matter. In this connection, Kripke was influential in making a number of issues central topics of debate in the following years. Including: the social character of lanugage (’the ...
Anzai Masahiro
... What are the oppositions that cause the disease of modern civilization？For example， global destruction of nature are caused by the opposition between human being and nature．The most serious opposition is a kind of division．global endless civil wars are caused by the gap between rich and poor people ...
... What are the oppositions that cause the disease of modern civilization？For example， global destruction of nature are caused by the opposition between human being and nature．The most serious opposition is a kind of division．global endless civil wars are caused by the gap between rich and poor people ...
The Argument from Moral Experience
... experience thereby supports moral realism. On their views, certain moral judgments are practically correct even though moral properties are not real and the objective correctness of moral judgments does not consist in correspondence between our statements and the world.12 Even those in the broadly n ...
... experience thereby supports moral realism. On their views, certain moral judgments are practically correct even though moral properties are not real and the objective correctness of moral judgments does not consist in correspondence between our statements and the world.12 Even those in the broadly n ...
06_chapter 2
... connection as implicit in a particular case. Thus from the fact that this particular thing is red , and hence coloured, we can make the generalisation that "All coloured things are extended ". This is a universal proposition because there is a necessary connection between being coloured and being ex ...
... connection as implicit in a particular case. Thus from the fact that this particular thing is red , and hence coloured, we can make the generalisation that "All coloured things are extended ". This is a universal proposition because there is a necessary connection between being coloured and being ex ...