Many-Valued Logic
... Trans-valued logic is introduced by trying to provide a compatibilist answer to the issue of freedom and determinism. The issue of freedom and determinism is introduced by the many-valued logic. The problem wasn’t there for the two-valued logic. But it is opened by larger environment of possible wor ...
... Trans-valued logic is introduced by trying to provide a compatibilist answer to the issue of freedom and determinism. The issue of freedom and determinism is introduced by the many-valued logic. The problem wasn’t there for the two-valued logic. But it is opened by larger environment of possible wor ...
It`s complicated
... 4 Chomsky is often credited as being the first to formulate (a version of) the poverty of the stimulus argument. Chomsky’s argument (see Chomsky 1957, 1959) did not concern morals, but was directed against empiricist accounts of language acquisition such as B.F. Skinner’s. Moral nativists such as Su ...
... 4 Chomsky is often credited as being the first to formulate (a version of) the poverty of the stimulus argument. Chomsky’s argument (see Chomsky 1957, 1959) did not concern morals, but was directed against empiricist accounts of language acquisition such as B.F. Skinner’s. Moral nativists such as Su ...
Two Interpretations of Two Stoic Conditionals
... identification, as it would be unfortunate for a number of reasons. Firstly, ...
... identification, as it would be unfortunate for a number of reasons. Firstly, ...
Details - Indian Council of Philosophical Research
... The Heideggerian theme of onto-theological bias of Western metaphysics has been reframed by the Postmodernists with fresh verve and renewed thoroughness. Derrida takes up this problem to the ancient Greek philosophy which offered the first formulation of logocentrism in Philosophy. Now, let us pass ...
... The Heideggerian theme of onto-theological bias of Western metaphysics has been reframed by the Postmodernists with fresh verve and renewed thoroughness. Derrida takes up this problem to the ancient Greek philosophy which offered the first formulation of logocentrism in Philosophy. Now, let us pass ...
Peter Ramus - ENGL 4103 - Rhetoric and Persuasion
... Quintilian’s error was in assuming rhetoric has something to say about all areas of knowledge. According to Ramus, rhetoric serves no epistemic function. Associating moral philosophy with rhetoric is at the root of Quintilian’s errors. ...
... Quintilian’s error was in assuming rhetoric has something to say about all areas of knowledge. According to Ramus, rhetoric serves no epistemic function. Associating moral philosophy with rhetoric is at the root of Quintilian’s errors. ...
fiBeauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
... images that he makes real. At this juncture you would be correct in thinking of the philosophy of Plato, which has been influencing the philosophical thinking of the Occident for centuries. Plato’s central idea was that we only perceive a shadowy reality with our physical eyes. We can only see the t ...
... images that he makes real. At this juncture you would be correct in thinking of the philosophy of Plato, which has been influencing the philosophical thinking of the Occident for centuries. Plato’s central idea was that we only perceive a shadowy reality with our physical eyes. We can only see the t ...
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 ...
Foundationalism
... Third, Epistemic Nihilism threatens. The two main premises entail that your belief is justified only if you justifiedly believe the premises of a good argument for it. Since this entailment is perfectly general and reiterative, you cannot justifiedly believe anything unless you justifiedly believe ...
... Third, Epistemic Nihilism threatens. The two main premises entail that your belief is justified only if you justifiedly believe the premises of a good argument for it. Since this entailment is perfectly general and reiterative, you cannot justifiedly believe anything unless you justifiedly believe ...
Buddhism and Death: The Brain-Centered Criteria Journal of Buddhist Ethics John-Anderson L. Meyer
... The importance Keown sees in these passages is in the fact that there does not seem to be any particular preference of importance to any of these three factors for distinguishing between life and death. Given these passages, as Keown has translated them, it seems that to put undue weight on any one ...
... The importance Keown sees in these passages is in the fact that there does not seem to be any particular preference of importance to any of these three factors for distinguishing between life and death. Given these passages, as Keown has translated them, it seems that to put undue weight on any one ...
locke
... and all ideas come from experience. The term ‘idea,’ Locke tells us "...stands for whatsoever is the Object of the Understanding, when a man thinks." (Essay I, 1, 8, p. 47) Experience is of two kinds, sensation and reflection. One of these -sensation -- tells us about things and processes in the ...
... and all ideas come from experience. The term ‘idea,’ Locke tells us "...stands for whatsoever is the Object of the Understanding, when a man thinks." (Essay I, 1, 8, p. 47) Experience is of two kinds, sensation and reflection. One of these -sensation -- tells us about things and processes in the ...
philbasisdialethism
... conventions at the outset. “P is verifiable” means it is possible that P be verified. What is the strength of this possibility? In a sense, it is clearly possible to verify “Cows fly,” because we would be able to recognize flying cows as verifiers for the sentence. However, in another sense, it is n ...
... conventions at the outset. “P is verifiable” means it is possible that P be verified. What is the strength of this possibility? In a sense, it is clearly possible to verify “Cows fly,” because we would be able to recognize flying cows as verifiers for the sentence. However, in another sense, it is n ...
The nature of moral judgments and the extent of the moral domain
... indicate whether causing the described harm was OK or not, and also to rate the badness of the harmful behaviour. Kelly et al. report a significant difference in the number of subjects who judged whipping to be OK in the past and the number of subjects who judged whipping to be OK now: “many subject ...
... indicate whether causing the described harm was OK or not, and also to rate the badness of the harmful behaviour. Kelly et al. report a significant difference in the number of subjects who judged whipping to be OK in the past and the number of subjects who judged whipping to be OK now: “many subject ...
modern western philosophy BA PHILOSOPHY VI SEMESTER
... According to Descartes, it is through intuition i.e. the natural light of reason, that we come to know the existence of the self or mental substance and then we gradually deduce the existence of God and the external material world. Descartes accepts the existence of all these three substances-mind, ...
... According to Descartes, it is through intuition i.e. the natural light of reason, that we come to know the existence of the self or mental substance and then we gradually deduce the existence of God and the external material world. Descartes accepts the existence of all these three substances-mind, ...
Review: The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
... who is a professor of “Hindu” Studies at Britain’s Oxford University, spares us the fetters of Orientalism, the bane of Cambridge School scholarship on South Asian history. This translation, which he calls “New,” is really not that new. There are innumerable translations of this well-known Brahmanic ...
... who is a professor of “Hindu” Studies at Britain’s Oxford University, spares us the fetters of Orientalism, the bane of Cambridge School scholarship on South Asian history. This translation, which he calls “New,” is really not that new. There are innumerable translations of this well-known Brahmanic ...
Plato`s Republic PowerPoint
... individuals in them perform their due functions in the proper way. To prove that justice can exist, Socrates created a state in which justice can be harvested. In this state, every man must have the fundamental basic needs of life, including food, shelter, and clothing to a reasonable degree. All me ...
... individuals in them perform their due functions in the proper way. To prove that justice can exist, Socrates created a state in which justice can be harvested. In this state, every man must have the fundamental basic needs of life, including food, shelter, and clothing to a reasonable degree. All me ...
Efforts to Explain all Existence
... existence or for its non-existence',1 he uses this in a curious proof of God. 'A thing necessarily exists,' he says, 'if no cause be granted I ...
... existence or for its non-existence',1 he uses this in a curious proof of God. 'A thing necessarily exists,' he says, 'if no cause be granted I ...
Occasion-Sensitivity
... being either true or false fall into the first of these categories. As with properties like being purple, they are properties of instances of sentences which are not inherited from the sentences instanced. So OS is not just the view that the ‘Travis case’ phenomenon afflicts every closed sentence of ...
... being either true or false fall into the first of these categories. As with properties like being purple, they are properties of instances of sentences which are not inherited from the sentences instanced. So OS is not just the view that the ‘Travis case’ phenomenon afflicts every closed sentence of ...
pages 22-48
... This description seems consistent with certain things that Polanyi himself said about his intentions. In Personal Knowledge, for example, he wrote that his opposition to the “universal mechanical interpretation of things” had as its “ground” his conviction that such an interpretation “impairs man’s ...
... This description seems consistent with certain things that Polanyi himself said about his intentions. In Personal Knowledge, for example, he wrote that his opposition to the “universal mechanical interpretation of things” had as its “ground” his conviction that such an interpretation “impairs man’s ...
Reply to Holland … The Meaning of Life and Darwinism
... years, of countless tiny genetic variations which were passed on because they conferred an advantage in the struggle for survival. As a philosopher who is strongly sympathetic to a theistic worldview,1 I have no quarrel whatever with this Darwinian theory. Indeed, if random mutation and natural sele ...
... years, of countless tiny genetic variations which were passed on because they conferred an advantage in the struggle for survival. As a philosopher who is strongly sympathetic to a theistic worldview,1 I have no quarrel whatever with this Darwinian theory. Indeed, if random mutation and natural sele ...
Invalidity in Validity
... attribute must be quantitative. However, on the contrary, an ordinal attribute is not quantitative if the differences between its degrees are not additively structured and it has long been recognised (by non-testers) that this must be the case, for example, if the differences between the degrees of ...
... attribute must be quantitative. However, on the contrary, an ordinal attribute is not quantitative if the differences between its degrees are not additively structured and it has long been recognised (by non-testers) that this must be the case, for example, if the differences between the degrees of ...
War and/as Play - Inter
... number of games simultaneously, which might also lead to certain games being merged or modified. If one is to follow Wittgenstein’s interpretation of language games and the definition of meaning as use, one will realize that it fits perfectly what was said earlier about play as ‘making sense of’. Ma ...
... number of games simultaneously, which might also lead to certain games being merged or modified. If one is to follow Wittgenstein’s interpretation of language games and the definition of meaning as use, one will realize that it fits perfectly what was said earlier about play as ‘making sense of’. Ma ...
Thomas Reid on personal identity
... “How do you know — what evidence have you — that there is such a permanent self which has a claim to all the thoughts, actions, and feelings which you call yours? To this I answer, that the proper evidence I have of all this is remembrance, I remember that twenty years ago I conversed with such a pe ...
... “How do you know — what evidence have you — that there is such a permanent self which has a claim to all the thoughts, actions, and feelings which you call yours? To this I answer, that the proper evidence I have of all this is remembrance, I remember that twenty years ago I conversed with such a pe ...
- Philsci
... attempting to answer them, despite a history of introspection, despite – maybe – years of psychotherapy or meditation or self-reflection. You can’t answer these questions one-two-three with the same easy confidence that you can answer similarly basic structural questions about cars – how many wheels ...
... attempting to answer them, despite a history of introspection, despite – maybe – years of psychotherapy or meditation or self-reflection. You can’t answer these questions one-two-three with the same easy confidence that you can answer similarly basic structural questions about cars – how many wheels ...
Philosophy 110W - That Marcus Family Home
... Further, even if such a world were possible, an action will be immoral if we can not consistently will such a world. Consequentialist considerations of whether we would like to live in such a world are irrelevant. A maxim fails the first version of the categorical imperative if it leads to a contrad ...
... Further, even if such a world were possible, an action will be immoral if we can not consistently will such a world. Consequentialist considerations of whether we would like to live in such a world are irrelevant. A maxim fails the first version of the categorical imperative if it leads to a contrad ...
Epistemic Reasons II: Basing
... are the relevant causal factors. This picture is attractive in some cases. “John believes it rained because the streets are wet” sounds like it could be literally true. Life is harder, however, due to the possibility of reasoning in the light (or darkness?) of false beliefs. Here we cannot straightf ...
... are the relevant causal factors. This picture is attractive in some cases. “John believes it rained because the streets are wet” sounds like it could be literally true. Life is harder, however, due to the possibility of reasoning in the light (or darkness?) of false beliefs. Here we cannot straightf ...