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... By the canonical order of semantic explanation one first uses a theory of reference as the core part of an explanation of a truth, the theory of which is then part of an explanation of what people do with language such as issue speech acts and infer. Robert Brandom (1994) seeks to reverse this (foll ...
... By the canonical order of semantic explanation one first uses a theory of reference as the core part of an explanation of a truth, the theory of which is then part of an explanation of what people do with language such as issue speech acts and infer. Robert Brandom (1994) seeks to reverse this (foll ...
Advaita Vedanta
... Smṛti, literally "that which is remembered (or recollected)", refers to a specific body of Hindu religious scripture, and is a codified component of Hindu customary law. Post Vedic scriptures such as Ramayana, Mahabharata and traditions of the rules on dharma such as Manu Smriti, Yaagnyavalkya Smrit ...
... Smṛti, literally "that which is remembered (or recollected)", refers to a specific body of Hindu religious scripture, and is a codified component of Hindu customary law. Post Vedic scriptures such as Ramayana, Mahabharata and traditions of the rules on dharma such as Manu Smriti, Yaagnyavalkya Smrit ...
Univocity and Analogy: A Comparative Study of Gilbert
... contact as “thinking things”, but it is not possible to doubt that there must be an existing 'I' that does the thinking in the first place. After all, even thoughts of doubt must come from an existing thinker. In this way, the realm of thought has at least one quality that the external world does no ...
... contact as “thinking things”, but it is not possible to doubt that there must be an existing 'I' that does the thinking in the first place. After all, even thoughts of doubt must come from an existing thinker. In this way, the realm of thought has at least one quality that the external world does no ...
Strong and Weak Emergence
... picture of the world as fundamentally incomplete. By contrast, weak emergence can be used to support the physicalist picture of the world, by showing how all sorts of phenomena that might seem novel and irreducible at first sight can nevertheless be grounded in underlying simple laws. In what follow ...
... picture of the world as fundamentally incomplete. By contrast, weak emergence can be used to support the physicalist picture of the world, by showing how all sorts of phenomena that might seem novel and irreducible at first sight can nevertheless be grounded in underlying simple laws. In what follow ...
Sameness and Referential Opacity in Aristotle Francis Jeffry
... modern notion of identity to being something we would not wish.to call 'identity' at alJ.l In the Topics, an early work, we find hints of something we would recognize (although Aristotle is still claimed to have a "weak grip" on the concept); in Metaphysics V (late) we can find only a series of pron ...
... modern notion of identity to being something we would not wish.to call 'identity' at alJ.l In the Topics, an early work, we find hints of something we would recognize (although Aristotle is still claimed to have a "weak grip" on the concept); in Metaphysics V (late) we can find only a series of pron ...
The “Silence” of Wittgenstein and Kraus
... The most significant change in how he went about it is the replacement of analysis by context as the dominant crux of clarification, as elaborated in the opening sixty-five sections of the Philosophical Investigations.6 Analysis may still be a method of clarification where truth-claims are involved ...
... The most significant change in how he went about it is the replacement of analysis by context as the dominant crux of clarification, as elaborated in the opening sixty-five sections of the Philosophical Investigations.6 Analysis may still be a method of clarification where truth-claims are involved ...
FROM FICTION TO PHRONÉSIS A critical dialogue with Martha
... I share my concern to acknowledge the above mentioned characteristics as important aspects of our human ethical existence with many thinkers, of which the most prominent one is undoubtedly Aristotle. In his Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle gives great priority to the fact that we have unique value syste ...
... I share my concern to acknowledge the above mentioned characteristics as important aspects of our human ethical existence with many thinkers, of which the most prominent one is undoubtedly Aristotle. In his Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle gives great priority to the fact that we have unique value syste ...
Intentional Inexistence and Phenomenal Intentionality
... even though what exists is always determinate. Interestingly, there may also be the converse problem, closely associated with Quine’s (1960) “inscrutability of reference.” This problem arises when what is represented is determinate but what exists is indeterminate. When you think of a rabbit, it see ...
... even though what exists is always determinate. Interestingly, there may also be the converse problem, closely associated with Quine’s (1960) “inscrutability of reference.” This problem arises when what is represented is determinate but what exists is indeterminate. When you think of a rabbit, it see ...
Island Universe Problems - EngagedScholarship@CSU
... The solution to this problem turns on the idea that the speaker of (1) isn't taking the care to use modal language carefully. However a skeptical modal realist might assert (1) though mean (1MR) with the intent to challenge the realist's conception of a world as an isolated spacetime region. If moda ...
... The solution to this problem turns on the idea that the speaker of (1) isn't taking the care to use modal language carefully. However a skeptical modal realist might assert (1) though mean (1MR) with the intent to challenge the realist's conception of a world as an isolated spacetime region. If moda ...
Roman Stoicism
... In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle sought an ultimate function for man. Since reason is the thing that sets us apart from the animals, man’s highest good and ultimate function must involve not just reason, but reasoning at the highest level. This, Aristotle calls ‘virtue’, from which he goes on to ...
... In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle sought an ultimate function for man. Since reason is the thing that sets us apart from the animals, man’s highest good and ultimate function must involve not just reason, but reasoning at the highest level. This, Aristotle calls ‘virtue’, from which he goes on to ...
DERRIDA/CIXOUS, CIXOUS/DERRIDA Prof. Claire Colebrook
... wrote philosophy and died. This approach to a philosopher’s life, when we are doing philosophy, is in accord with the body of Derrida’s own work. Derrida will attend to seemingly irrelevant textual details, such as metaphor, example, excuse, misquotation or sounds, but he makes little mention of bio ...
... wrote philosophy and died. This approach to a philosopher’s life, when we are doing philosophy, is in accord with the body of Derrida’s own work. Derrida will attend to seemingly irrelevant textual details, such as metaphor, example, excuse, misquotation or sounds, but he makes little mention of bio ...
The Design Argument (Part 1)
... identified in it certain features. These have compelled us to ascribe the production of the watch to an intelligent designer. (So far, so good: we know from experience, independently of the argument, that watchmakers are indeed responsible for watches.) He has then argued that the natural world is ...
... identified in it certain features. These have compelled us to ascribe the production of the watch to an intelligent designer. (So far, so good: we know from experience, independently of the argument, that watchmakers are indeed responsible for watches.) He has then argued that the natural world is ...
A unified account of causal relata
... to Davidson, we can specify the whole cause of some event, even when we have not wholly specified it (1967b, p. 156): if some person, say Smith, dies while climbing a rockface, we can specify the whole cause of the death by means of the singular term 'Smith's fall', even though this definite descrip ...
... to Davidson, we can specify the whole cause of some event, even when we have not wholly specified it (1967b, p. 156): if some person, say Smith, dies while climbing a rockface, we can specify the whole cause of the death by means of the singular term 'Smith's fall', even though this definite descrip ...
Consciousness, Self and World: Husserl and the Phenomenological
... contrasts markedly with much of the mainstream of modern philosophy since Descartes, where either metaphysical questions (‘how do our subjective representations relate to what there really is?’), or questions of factual epistemology (‘how can we attain knowledge of the actual world?), have tended to ...
... contrasts markedly with much of the mainstream of modern philosophy since Descartes, where either metaphysical questions (‘how do our subjective representations relate to what there really is?’), or questions of factual epistemology (‘how can we attain knowledge of the actual world?), have tended to ...
The Missing Formal Proof of Humanity`s Radical Evil in Kant`s
... one's willing is regulated in its entirety either by a commitment to good or a commitment to evil (R 6:25). This view is known as rigorism. Whether a human being's disposition is good or evil depends upon the relative priority he assigns to the two basic incentives that we all experience, morality a ...
... one's willing is regulated in its entirety either by a commitment to good or a commitment to evil (R 6:25). This view is known as rigorism. Whether a human being's disposition is good or evil depends upon the relative priority he assigns to the two basic incentives that we all experience, morality a ...
DAMIAN ILODIGWE OAKESHOTT`S CRITIQUE OF SOVEREIGNTY
... effectively, as noted, that our theories may be sound but fail to apply to concrete existential situations of political life.14 On Oakeshott’s view, the Achilles heel of rationalism consists precisely in failure to grasp the significance of the disjunction between logic and political life and the r ...
... effectively, as noted, that our theories may be sound but fail to apply to concrete existential situations of political life.14 On Oakeshott’s view, the Achilles heel of rationalism consists precisely in failure to grasp the significance of the disjunction between logic and political life and the r ...
1 Defusing Easy Arguments for Numbers Brendan Balcerak Jackson
... loaded sentences by offering innocent paraphrases for them. According to this response, easy arguments fail to establish the existence of numbers, because accepting (2) and its ilk amount to nothing over and above accepting their innocent paraphrases.4 Like the classic version of the paraphrase stra ...
... loaded sentences by offering innocent paraphrases for them. According to this response, easy arguments fail to establish the existence of numbers, because accepting (2) and its ilk amount to nothing over and above accepting their innocent paraphrases.4 Like the classic version of the paraphrase stra ...
247E-253A, pp. 269-75 - San Jose State University
... (continued) “Visitor: . . . In fact, take expertise in disputation as a whole. Doesn’t it seem like a capacity that’s sufficient for carrying on controversies about absolutely everything? Theaetetus: It doesn’t seem to leave much out anyway. Visitor: But for heaven’s sake, my boy, do you think that’ ...
... (continued) “Visitor: . . . In fact, take expertise in disputation as a whole. Doesn’t it seem like a capacity that’s sufficient for carrying on controversies about absolutely everything? Theaetetus: It doesn’t seem to leave much out anyway. Visitor: But for heaven’s sake, my boy, do you think that’ ...
Matthew Shen Goodman SOAN Senior Comprehensive Thesis
... Being aesthetic, or rooted in the subjective, judgments of taste do not take into account the existence of the object (which would entail a relation to our desire and thus land ourselves in the territory ofthe Critique ofPractical Reason). Judgments take place in 'mere contemplation' of the object, ...
... Being aesthetic, or rooted in the subjective, judgments of taste do not take into account the existence of the object (which would entail a relation to our desire and thus land ourselves in the territory ofthe Critique ofPractical Reason). Judgments take place in 'mere contemplation' of the object, ...
Pragma-dialectics fallacies of relevance - UvA-DARE
... these jumps. These jumps are commonly –and wrongly– understood with a non-gradual state of relevance, i.e. that the jumps are of the kind “black or white”. I think that this prejudice is a typical impediment to understand the nature of relevance. I found the following statement in the book of G. N. ...
... these jumps. These jumps are commonly –and wrongly– understood with a non-gradual state of relevance, i.e. that the jumps are of the kind “black or white”. I think that this prejudice is a typical impediment to understand the nature of relevance. I found the following statement in the book of G. N. ...
Russell`s Neutral Monism
... items which supposedly enter into mental and physical constructions, and this obstacle is made more difficult by the fact that, in the first instance, such items are to be picked out in reference to perceptual contexts. The redness of an apple, for example, is easily enough seen, but the attempt to ...
... items which supposedly enter into mental and physical constructions, and this obstacle is made more difficult by the fact that, in the first instance, such items are to be picked out in reference to perceptual contexts. The redness of an apple, for example, is easily enough seen, but the attempt to ...
Plato`s Apology of Socrates: Philosophy, Religion, and the Gods in
... things good and evil.”1 There were philosophers before Socrates, but they were not interested in human affairs. Socrates himself began as such a philosopher, seeking “that wisdom, which they call the investigation concerning nature,” to know “the causes of each thing, through what each thing comes t ...
... things good and evil.”1 There were philosophers before Socrates, but they were not interested in human affairs. Socrates himself began as such a philosopher, seeking “that wisdom, which they call the investigation concerning nature,” to know “the causes of each thing, through what each thing comes t ...
24.500/Phil253 topics in philosophy of mind/perceptual experience session 8 Figure by MIT OCW.
... • Upon examination, I find only one of the reasons commonly produced for this opinion to be satisfactory, viz. that derived from the variations of those impressions, even while the external object, to all appearance, continues the same. These variations depend upon several circumstances. Upon the di ...
... • Upon examination, I find only one of the reasons commonly produced for this opinion to be satisfactory, viz. that derived from the variations of those impressions, even while the external object, to all appearance, continues the same. These variations depend upon several circumstances. Upon the di ...
Psychology and mind in Aquinas
... all that we know of the body. To know the body fully, it is necessary to know what makes a body the kind of body that it is. The structure of physical bodies as studied by the natural sciences is just a step towards this. These structures are in fact aspects of forms, and forms, for Aquinas, are par ...
... all that we know of the body. To know the body fully, it is necessary to know what makes a body the kind of body that it is. The structure of physical bodies as studied by the natural sciences is just a step towards this. These structures are in fact aspects of forms, and forms, for Aquinas, are par ...
The Cessation of Suffering and Buddhist Axiology Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... from it. The Buddha smiled and took his hand. Together they went to a temple where two old monks were sweeping the floor. The Buddha said to them: “This young monk will live here with you from now on. Continue your According to Goodman, other problems loom (65-66). For instance, the Buddha has littl ...
... from it. The Buddha smiled and took his hand. Together they went to a temple where two old monks were sweeping the floor. The Buddha said to them: “This young monk will live here with you from now on. Continue your According to Goodman, other problems loom (65-66). For instance, the Buddha has littl ...