Between Probability and Certainty
... questions – but I will attempt, in this book, to come to a rather different way of thinking about justification. Some of the views that I’ll defend – or at least take seriously – might strike some as obviously wrong. An example might be the view that we can, sometimes, be justified in believing thin ...
... questions – but I will attempt, in this book, to come to a rather different way of thinking about justification. Some of the views that I’ll defend – or at least take seriously – might strike some as obviously wrong. An example might be the view that we can, sometimes, be justified in believing thin ...
Reality and Appearance
... concepts and terms used by Plato, and also the Presocratics, no longer have their original meaning in modern thinking. Indeed, “thought” itself has changed meaning, and so the understanding of words like “knowledge”, “truth”, “being”, “reality”, “reason”, “idea”, “nature”, “cosmos”, “theory” have al ...
... concepts and terms used by Plato, and also the Presocratics, no longer have their original meaning in modern thinking. Indeed, “thought” itself has changed meaning, and so the understanding of words like “knowledge”, “truth”, “being”, “reality”, “reason”, “idea”, “nature”, “cosmos”, “theory” have al ...
Imre Lakatos`s Philosophy of Mathematics
... Euclidean sciences, we have to be able to give a credible account of the mechanism that makes the axioms true. Lakatos discusses (mainly) two candidates for the epistemology of Euclidean mathematics: logicism and formalism. The failure of Euclidean epistemologies According to the logicist philosophe ...
... Euclidean sciences, we have to be able to give a credible account of the mechanism that makes the axioms true. Lakatos discusses (mainly) two candidates for the epistemology of Euclidean mathematics: logicism and formalism. The failure of Euclidean epistemologies According to the logicist philosophe ...
Philosophy as Wisdom of Love
... East, this philosophical impulse was inseparable from the evolutionary spiritual impulse for selfrealization, which defined the office of philosophy in the East as the Way of Realization. Therefore, such eminent esoteric schools of Eastern thought as Yogacara, Madhyamika, rDzogs-chen, Vedanta, Samkh ...
... East, this philosophical impulse was inseparable from the evolutionary spiritual impulse for selfrealization, which defined the office of philosophy in the East as the Way of Realization. Therefore, such eminent esoteric schools of Eastern thought as Yogacara, Madhyamika, rDzogs-chen, Vedanta, Samkh ...
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... the moment of death you are living). It makes a considerable difference, of course, which description fits your disposition (as in ―half empty/half full‖). Confronted with a diagnosis of ‗terminal illness‘ one may choose the description and comportment ‗I am dying‘; but it is equally a fact and ...
... the moment of death you are living). It makes a considerable difference, of course, which description fits your disposition (as in ―half empty/half full‖). Confronted with a diagnosis of ‗terminal illness‘ one may choose the description and comportment ‗I am dying‘; but it is equally a fact and ...
BL5-13 - Additional Information
... Of Hartley's hypothetical vibrations in his hypothetical oscillating ether of the nerves, which is the first and most obvious distinction between his system and that of Aristotle, I shall say little. This, with all other similar attempts to render that an object of the sight which has no relation t ...
... Of Hartley's hypothetical vibrations in his hypothetical oscillating ether of the nerves, which is the first and most obvious distinction between his system and that of Aristotle, I shall say little. This, with all other similar attempts to render that an object of the sight which has no relation t ...
John Francis Nieto - Thomas Aquinas College
... Three arguments have been proposed. But objections have been raised, including the claim that the soul is nothing more than a harmony-we might say composition3 -of our bodily parts. Phaedo, reporting the conversation, says, Hearing them as they spoke we all took it badly (as we later said to each ot ...
... Three arguments have been proposed. But objections have been raised, including the claim that the soul is nothing more than a harmony-we might say composition3 -of our bodily parts. Phaedo, reporting the conversation, says, Hearing them as they spoke we all took it badly (as we later said to each ot ...
Thesis Abstract
... that the empiricist discourse was particularly amenable to such arguments -- perhaps because of its preoccupation with studying the mind (which explains the fact that Reid’s discussion follows the empiricists in several respects). Hence, the existence and significance of such arguments is engendered ...
... that the empiricist discourse was particularly amenable to such arguments -- perhaps because of its preoccupation with studying the mind (which explains the fact that Reid’s discussion follows the empiricists in several respects). Hence, the existence and significance of such arguments is engendered ...
Fundamentalism versus Irony
... thoroughly in his previous books and combines them with a new approach. This time he provides an overview of how the majority of modern scientific and literary theorists have ended up where they are today (and why they are wrong). He calls them fundamentalists, of all things! He could hardly have ch ...
... thoroughly in his previous books and combines them with a new approach. This time he provides an overview of how the majority of modern scientific and literary theorists have ended up where they are today (and why they are wrong). He calls them fundamentalists, of all things! He could hardly have ch ...
Bertrand Russell - UOWM Open eClass
... Penrhyndeudraeth, Merioneth), British philosopher, logician, and social reformer, founding figure in the analytic movement in Anglo-American philosophy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Russell’s contributions to logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics establis ...
... Penrhyndeudraeth, Merioneth), British philosopher, logician, and social reformer, founding figure in the analytic movement in Anglo-American philosophy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Russell’s contributions to logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics establis ...
Are real numbers the same for physicists and mathematicians?
... however admit that the discrete intuition served Boltzmann remarkably well, and also fit the later quantum ideas. Boltzmann’s ideas about discretizing real numbers were of course linked with his ideas about the atomic structure of matter, but they went further. He writes for instance: “The concepts ...
... however admit that the discrete intuition served Boltzmann remarkably well, and also fit the later quantum ideas. Boltzmann’s ideas about discretizing real numbers were of course linked with his ideas about the atomic structure of matter, but they went further. He writes for instance: “The concepts ...
Luc Bovens, `Interview.` In: Epistemology: 5 Questions. Edited by
... puzzling issues in epistemology broadly construed by constructing models to cash out this simple intuitive idea. Bayesian Networks are a handy tool to construct models of information gathering from partially reliable sources. Here are some of the puzzles we addressed. First, one could interpret the ...
... puzzling issues in epistemology broadly construed by constructing models to cash out this simple intuitive idea. Bayesian Networks are a handy tool to construct models of information gathering from partially reliable sources. Here are some of the puzzles we addressed. First, one could interpret the ...
9/5/2006 - University of Pittsburgh
... model provided by the forms of understanding distinctive of the natural sciences. But the sciences of the late nineteenth century, from which the pragmatists took their cue, were very different from those that animated the first enlightenment. The philosophical picture that emerged of the rational c ...
... model provided by the forms of understanding distinctive of the natural sciences. But the sciences of the late nineteenth century, from which the pragmatists took their cue, were very different from those that animated the first enlightenment. The philosophical picture that emerged of the rational c ...
Nietzsche`s critique of past philosophers
... illusion, error, and selfishness. Therefore, there ‘must’ be a pure, spiritual world and a spiritual part of human beings, which is the origin of truth and goodness. Philosophy and values But ‘must’ there be a transcendent world? Or is this just what the philosopher wants to be true? Every great phi ...
... illusion, error, and selfishness. Therefore, there ‘must’ be a pure, spiritual world and a spiritual part of human beings, which is the origin of truth and goodness. Philosophy and values But ‘must’ there be a transcendent world? Or is this just what the philosopher wants to be true? Every great phi ...
Person, Eros, Critical Ontology
... accuracy of the individual’s intellectual faculty verifies knowledge, even if proper communion of experience presupposes the accuracy of intellectual faculties.’1 ‘Signifiers allow us to share our common reference to reality and experience, but cannot replace the cognitive experience itself. This ob ...
... accuracy of the individual’s intellectual faculty verifies knowledge, even if proper communion of experience presupposes the accuracy of intellectual faculties.’1 ‘Signifiers allow us to share our common reference to reality and experience, but cannot replace the cognitive experience itself. This ob ...
locke
... He attacks previous schools of philosophy, such as those of Plato and Descartes, that maintain a belief in a priori, or innate, knowledge. begins by opposing the idea that we are all born knowing certain fundamental principles, such as “whatever is, is.” The usual justification for this belief ...
... He attacks previous schools of philosophy, such as those of Plato and Descartes, that maintain a belief in a priori, or innate, knowledge. begins by opposing the idea that we are all born knowing certain fundamental principles, such as “whatever is, is.” The usual justification for this belief ...
RealistsvsNominalists
... doctrine implies that one thing is in essence the same as another thing. (a) ...
... doctrine implies that one thing is in essence the same as another thing. (a) ...
Dragon Cofernence Talk
... culture – Transitions are uncanny, and the uncanny is frightening. Perhaps what is sacred, and what is uncanny, frightening or taboo are the same, differing only in how humans relate to them. It all depends on which myth you use. So what does this western belief system of dualities tell us about our ...
... culture – Transitions are uncanny, and the uncanny is frightening. Perhaps what is sacred, and what is uncanny, frightening or taboo are the same, differing only in how humans relate to them. It all depends on which myth you use. So what does this western belief system of dualities tell us about our ...
Panpsychism | uboeschenstein.ch
... nothing that does not possess a soul and that has no vital principle."[3] Platonist ideas like the anima mundi also resurfaced in the work of esoteric thinkers like Paracelsus, Robert Fludd and Cornelius Agrippa. Modern philosophy In the 17th century, two rationalists can be said to be panpsychists, ...
... nothing that does not possess a soul and that has no vital principle."[3] Platonist ideas like the anima mundi also resurfaced in the work of esoteric thinkers like Paracelsus, Robert Fludd and Cornelius Agrippa. Modern philosophy In the 17th century, two rationalists can be said to be panpsychists, ...
Early Greek Thought and Perspectives for the - Philsci
... does not imply the “unreality” of the things we experience, it states our absolute interconnectedness with the world we experience. Tradition transmitted as its counterpart the Eleatic school, named after its inspirator Parmenides of Elea. Of him more extant textfragments are known, although there r ...
... does not imply the “unreality” of the things we experience, it states our absolute interconnectedness with the world we experience. Tradition transmitted as its counterpart the Eleatic school, named after its inspirator Parmenides of Elea. Of him more extant textfragments are known, although there r ...
Polar Concepts Essay Research Paper Sam Vaknin
... Sam Vaknin’s Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web SitesThe British philosopher Ryle attacked the sceptical point of view regarding right and wrong (=being in error). He said that if the concept of error is made use of ? surely, there must be times that we are right. To him, it w ...
... Sam Vaknin’s Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web SitesThe British philosopher Ryle attacked the sceptical point of view regarding right and wrong (=being in error). He said that if the concept of error is made use of ? surely, there must be times that we are right. To him, it w ...
Walden: Philosophy and Knowledge of Humankind
... few experiences we have had." If I was right before in maintaining that claims to knowledge of humankind cannot be proven and that evidence for them includes imponderable evidence, then it may seem as if knowledge of humankind could not be something philosophical, something that concerns the philoso ...
... few experiences we have had." If I was right before in maintaining that claims to knowledge of humankind cannot be proven and that evidence for them includes imponderable evidence, then it may seem as if knowledge of humankind could not be something philosophical, something that concerns the philoso ...
Knowledge structuring in scholarly discourse
... This will not make the original literature unnecessary. For scientific quotations the original source with the literal wording is needed, i.e. added or paraphrased concepts will have to be eliminated or marked. The additional concepts that were inserted are there to ease the search and to make it po ...
... This will not make the original literature unnecessary. For scientific quotations the original source with the literal wording is needed, i.e. added or paraphrased concepts will have to be eliminated or marked. The additional concepts that were inserted are there to ease the search and to make it po ...
What is an Anthropology of the Contemporary?
... relations with others. The task of dialectic is to analyze the formation of ‘socio-historical’ concepts. Why is this the task of dialectic? If dialectic constitutes the essence of human relations and as a mode of understanding constitutes the form for understanding the essence of human relations, th ...
... relations with others. The task of dialectic is to analyze the formation of ‘socio-historical’ concepts. Why is this the task of dialectic? If dialectic constitutes the essence of human relations and as a mode of understanding constitutes the form for understanding the essence of human relations, th ...