Dear Steve - ANU School of Philosophy
... Carnap, and it has proved to be influential on a number of Australian authors. Stove insists, for example, that the premise ‘x % of F’s are G’s’ bestows logical probability x% on the conclusion ‘a randomly chosen F is a G’. He has also argued that the problem of induction can be solved by a combina ...
... Carnap, and it has proved to be influential on a number of Australian authors. Stove insists, for example, that the premise ‘x % of F’s are G’s’ bestows logical probability x% on the conclusion ‘a randomly chosen F is a G’. He has also argued that the problem of induction can be solved by a combina ...
65 Lecture 4 The Character of the Confucian System In our last
... problem, although its effects are felt every day. To solve specific problems, one must still have other kinds of knowledge. All three schools of thought, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism, are great doctrines that can determine a person’s basic direction. But none of them can necessarily solve a s ...
... problem, although its effects are felt every day. To solve specific problems, one must still have other kinds of knowledge. All three schools of thought, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism, are great doctrines that can determine a person’s basic direction. But none of them can necessarily solve a s ...
docx - Ahmet Çevik
... two sets and if there is a one to one and onto mapping between them, then we can say that their cardinalities are equal. The sets of those having cardinality less than or equal to the cardinality of the set of natural numbers are called countable sets. Cantor called the least infinite cardinal as ℵ ...
... two sets and if there is a one to one and onto mapping between them, then we can say that their cardinalities are equal. The sets of those having cardinality less than or equal to the cardinality of the set of natural numbers are called countable sets. Cantor called the least infinite cardinal as ℵ ...
Gandhi, the Philosopher - Centre for the Study of Culture and Society
... for thinking that our present opinions might be wrong. And the conclusion is that we should therefore be tolerant of dissent from current opinion. But the fact is that when past opinions are said to be wrong, that is a judgment made from the present point of view, and we cannot make that judgment un ...
... for thinking that our present opinions might be wrong. And the conclusion is that we should therefore be tolerant of dissent from current opinion. But the fact is that when past opinions are said to be wrong, that is a judgment made from the present point of view, and we cannot make that judgment un ...
Actionable Knowledge
... which we give a measure of stability by imprinting them on the wax tablets of our minds. The final conclusion seems to be that we cannot define knowledge precicely. But this does not mean that we have not learned anything about what knowledge is like. As Theaetetus admits at the end of his conversat ...
... which we give a measure of stability by imprinting them on the wax tablets of our minds. The final conclusion seems to be that we cannot define knowledge precicely. But this does not mean that we have not learned anything about what knowledge is like. As Theaetetus admits at the end of his conversat ...
A Philosophical Examination of Proofs in Mathematics
... proof is revealing, but I argue that its real function is to help us construct a more abstract symbolic or analytic proof. The latter conveys what is really important about the class of polyhedra. This example shown in Proofs and Refutations illustrates more than the way in which new formal theories ...
... proof is revealing, but I argue that its real function is to help us construct a more abstract symbolic or analytic proof. The latter conveys what is really important about the class of polyhedra. This example shown in Proofs and Refutations illustrates more than the way in which new formal theories ...
Confusion about Speciesism And Moral Status - e
... reproductively isolated from its ancestors." 7 Or, as Hennig and Wiley add: "as events in which an ancestral population gives rise to two descendant populations which are reproductively isolated from one another." 8 The view of van Valen with regard to speciation is that it is: "a process in which d ...
... reproductively isolated from its ancestors." 7 Or, as Hennig and Wiley add: "as events in which an ancestral population gives rise to two descendant populations which are reproductively isolated from one another." 8 The view of van Valen with regard to speciation is that it is: "a process in which d ...
Psychopaths’ Morality Ethicocentrism, Free Will, and the Fear of Decriminalization
... Co-evolution, and the Fear of Decriminalization Present-day legal judgments of psychopathological criminals strongly avoid the exploitation of “moral” considerations and also tend to disregard the possible “moral” aspects of criminal conduct. Currently, the attribution of responsibility to criminals ...
... Co-evolution, and the Fear of Decriminalization Present-day legal judgments of psychopathological criminals strongly avoid the exploitation of “moral” considerations and also tend to disregard the possible “moral” aspects of criminal conduct. Currently, the attribution of responsibility to criminals ...
LECTURE 24
... ORDINARY INDIVIDUAL THINGS ARE MADE UP OF PHYSICAL PARTS. A PHYSICAL PART OF SOMETHING IS AN INDIVIDUAL THING OF THE SORT STUDIED BY PHYSICS. AT PRESENT (ACCORDING TO VAN INWAGEN) THE MOST BASIC SORTS OF PHYSICAL THINGS ARE THOUGHT TO BE QUARKS AND ELECTRONS (AND CERTAIN OTHER PARTICLES). ...
... ORDINARY INDIVIDUAL THINGS ARE MADE UP OF PHYSICAL PARTS. A PHYSICAL PART OF SOMETHING IS AN INDIVIDUAL THING OF THE SORT STUDIED BY PHYSICS. AT PRESENT (ACCORDING TO VAN INWAGEN) THE MOST BASIC SORTS OF PHYSICAL THINGS ARE THOUGHT TO BE QUARKS AND ELECTRONS (AND CERTAIN OTHER PARTICLES). ...
THE MORAL SANCTION THE idea of a moral sanction has given
... completely representati\le üf all the facts, and so convinced argues from this assumption. A Christian philosophy, on the other hand, protests against such an attitude for it regards human ;destiny as something both wider and loftier than the pagan makes it out to be, and by consequence the Christia ...
... completely representati\le üf all the facts, and so convinced argues from this assumption. A Christian philosophy, on the other hand, protests against such an attitude for it regards human ;destiny as something both wider and loftier than the pagan makes it out to be, and by consequence the Christia ...
John Locke and the Changing Ideal of Scientific Knowledge
... There are two main reasons why Boyle thought that our knowledge of the physical world is always subject to error and consequently lacks even the moral certainty we have in the case of theology. First, scientific theories are ultimately based on fundamental principles, such as "ex nihilo nihil fit," ...
... There are two main reasons why Boyle thought that our knowledge of the physical world is always subject to error and consequently lacks even the moral certainty we have in the case of theology. First, scientific theories are ultimately based on fundamental principles, such as "ex nihilo nihil fit," ...
The Implications for the Principle of Bivalence of Accepting Truth as
... lost this objective of truth being established by way of verification- or knowability. It is, of course, true that philosophy does its work differently to science, and it may therefore be argued that metaphysics should not be subject to the same constraints as placed on science, but surely forwardin ...
... lost this objective of truth being established by way of verification- or knowability. It is, of course, true that philosophy does its work differently to science, and it may therefore be argued that metaphysics should not be subject to the same constraints as placed on science, but surely forwardin ...
8ss4LessonCheck - Rocky View Schools
... Students study one-on-one with assigned tutors rather than in a classroom. Teachers educate the ‘whole child’ rather than focusing only on the traditional subjects. Literacy was not encouraged because there were not enough textbooks for all the students. Most young people trained to become part of b ...
... Students study one-on-one with assigned tutors rather than in a classroom. Teachers educate the ‘whole child’ rather than focusing only on the traditional subjects. Literacy was not encouraged because there were not enough textbooks for all the students. Most young people trained to become part of b ...
Classical Chinese Philosophies - Fort Thomas Independent Schools
... Criticisms of Heraclitus: If all of existence is made from one substance, then the concept of change is false. Change is an illusion. How can change exist? How can something that is not become something that is? Something either is or is not. Only one path is available for us to speak of “The ...
... Criticisms of Heraclitus: If all of existence is made from one substance, then the concept of change is false. Change is an illusion. How can change exist? How can something that is not become something that is? Something either is or is not. Only one path is available for us to speak of “The ...
Ought and Reality - Scandinavian Studies in Law
... © Stockholm Institute for Scandianvian Law 1957-2009 ...
... © Stockholm Institute for Scandianvian Law 1957-2009 ...
Protagoras
... saying that ethical judgments are relative (individualistic): “For I hold that whatever practices seem right and laudable to any particular State are so for that State, so long as it holds by them.” Yet, in Protagoras it is stated that he held that certain ethical tendencies were given to all men ...
... saying that ethical judgments are relative (individualistic): “For I hold that whatever practices seem right and laudable to any particular State are so for that State, so long as it holds by them.” Yet, in Protagoras it is stated that he held that certain ethical tendencies were given to all men ...
HERMENEUTICAL PARADOXES IN THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES A. Ladikos
... deduction from consistent premises. This definition allows us to exclude immediately all those forms of "false" paradoxes that are based on a concealed error in reasoning or some fallacy deliberately built into the argument. Paradoxes are members of a large family of logical phenomena that go by dif ...
... deduction from consistent premises. This definition allows us to exclude immediately all those forms of "false" paradoxes that are based on a concealed error in reasoning or some fallacy deliberately built into the argument. Paradoxes are members of a large family of logical phenomena that go by dif ...
Philosophy 515 Frege
... b’ is true. A difference can arise only if the difference between the signs corresponds to a difference in the mode of presentation of that which is designated.” (7) ...
... b’ is true. A difference can arise only if the difference between the signs corresponds to a difference in the mode of presentation of that which is designated.” (7) ...
Fundamentalism versus Irony
... Kant was continuing an Augustinian and Platonic tradition which emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as people began to look towards a personal “inner light” for their understanding and source of values. Kant sought to bridge his first and second critiques on Reason and Understanding w ...
... Kant was continuing an Augustinian and Platonic tradition which emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as people began to look towards a personal “inner light” for their understanding and source of values. Kant sought to bridge his first and second critiques on Reason and Understanding w ...
May – What is the Nature of `Self`
... Today we have a whole industry devoted to self-improvement and self-construction. But what is the ‘self’? Does it change over time? What does this mean for personal responsibility and indeed our own happiness and contentment? The Abrahamic superstitions are very clear that the ‘self’ or ‘soul’ retai ...
... Today we have a whole industry devoted to self-improvement and self-construction. But what is the ‘self’? Does it change over time? What does this mean for personal responsibility and indeed our own happiness and contentment? The Abrahamic superstitions are very clear that the ‘self’ or ‘soul’ retai ...
IS THERE ANY REAL RIGHT OR WRONG
... that there is no objective moral truth regarding action A. It may very well be that culture X is correct and culture Y is wrong about action A, or vice versa. Relativity in moral belief does not entail relativity in moral truth.iii Belief doesn't change truth. Not believing in gravity does not chang ...
... that there is no objective moral truth regarding action A. It may very well be that culture X is correct and culture Y is wrong about action A, or vice versa. Relativity in moral belief does not entail relativity in moral truth.iii Belief doesn't change truth. Not believing in gravity does not chang ...
SPECIAL NOTES: This is a comparison/contrast paper
... himself from allowing others from interfering with this calm. One can finally achieve freedom by freeing oneself from all nonimportant desires” (242). We can now see that Stoicism and Epicureanism have a common thread: to achieve ones purpose in life, she must look within. Clark expands on this idea ...
... himself from allowing others from interfering with this calm. One can finally achieve freedom by freeing oneself from all nonimportant desires” (242). We can now see that Stoicism and Epicureanism have a common thread: to achieve ones purpose in life, she must look within. Clark expands on this idea ...
Kantianism, Pragmatism, and Autonomy Phillip McReynolds Although
... concept for the development of the concept of the modern human and its requisite demands for dignity as any other we are likely to find. And yet such a high and pure standard creates a problem when it comes to articulating a naturalistic philosophy like pragmatism. The pragmatic principle militates ...
... concept for the development of the concept of the modern human and its requisite demands for dignity as any other we are likely to find. And yet such a high and pure standard creates a problem when it comes to articulating a naturalistic philosophy like pragmatism. The pragmatic principle militates ...