PRODAMBCH7052206
... prior beliefs play a causal role in this sequence of events.... A process which warrants belief counts as a basic warrant if no prior beliefs are involved in it, that is, if no prior belief is causally efficacious in producing the resultant belief. Derivative warrants are those warrants for which pr ...
... prior beliefs play a causal role in this sequence of events.... A process which warrants belief counts as a basic warrant if no prior beliefs are involved in it, that is, if no prior belief is causally efficacious in producing the resultant belief. Derivative warrants are those warrants for which pr ...
Handout
... II. “Presence” and “re-presentation”: BD. For Aristotle, anything can potentially be present to our souls. That is, our souls have the potential of becoming aware of anything, in particular, any particular thing, which Aristotle calls an ousia. Natural things become present to us through our sense-p ...
... II. “Presence” and “re-presentation”: BD. For Aristotle, anything can potentially be present to our souls. That is, our souls have the potential of becoming aware of anything, in particular, any particular thing, which Aristotle calls an ousia. Natural things become present to us through our sense-p ...
Phronomoi Across Cultures: A Checklist
... has “wooed” consent in a shared world, as opposed to the episteme of scientific, mathematical or logical certainties. “Hence judgment is endowed with a certain specific validity but it is never universally valid. Its claims to validity can never extend further than the others in whose place the jud ...
... has “wooed” consent in a shared world, as opposed to the episteme of scientific, mathematical or logical certainties. “Hence judgment is endowed with a certain specific validity but it is never universally valid. Its claims to validity can never extend further than the others in whose place the jud ...
Socrates and Plato - Metaphysics and Epistemology
... doing wrong. Although he professes to be concerned about the youth of our community, he does not care about them at all. Tell me, Miletus, is it better to live among good citizens or bad ones? .......Miletus: Good ones. .......Socrates: Is there someone who would rather be hurt than helped by people ...
... doing wrong. Although he professes to be concerned about the youth of our community, he does not care about them at all. Tell me, Miletus, is it better to live among good citizens or bad ones? .......Miletus: Good ones. .......Socrates: Is there someone who would rather be hurt than helped by people ...
Plato: Phaedo (Selections) 1 And now, O my judges, I desire to
... during my whole life, I have been seeking, according to my ability, to find a place;—whether I have sought in a right way or not, and whether I have succeeded or not, I shall truly know in a little while, if God will, when I myself arrive in the other world—such is my belief. And therefore I maintai ...
... during my whole life, I have been seeking, according to my ability, to find a place;—whether I have sought in a right way or not, and whether I have succeeded or not, I shall truly know in a little while, if God will, when I myself arrive in the other world—such is my belief. And therefore I maintai ...
Plato and Vedanta
... contemporary of the Buddha, Mahavira and Confucius. Human culture was being developed and the basic ideas that have shaped human destiny ever since were being formulated. It is my view th at Plato's thinking hos influenced religious and social thinking in every part of the globe. " He hos always bee ...
... contemporary of the Buddha, Mahavira and Confucius. Human culture was being developed and the basic ideas that have shaped human destiny ever since were being formulated. It is my view th at Plato's thinking hos influenced religious and social thinking in every part of the globe. " He hos always bee ...
What is Philosophy
... its own sake, but for the help that it gives in understanding philosophical questions. An understanding of this point makes it clear why philosophers are interested only in a very small number of words and phrases in ordinary language. They are interested only in those words and phrases that either ...
... its own sake, but for the help that it gives in understanding philosophical questions. An understanding of this point makes it clear why philosophers are interested only in a very small number of words and phrases in ordinary language. They are interested only in those words and phrases that either ...
sadwcn_adwy - Square
... which contribute to knowledge are transcribed in aesthetic, moral or verbal terms into consciousness. Matter is in flux; mind … [is] simply sensibility in bodies’ (1043) …’ Santayana’s broad perspective of reality and experience stated in Reason and Art (1905), as quoted by Runes, is that, ‘… Life i ...
... which contribute to knowledge are transcribed in aesthetic, moral or verbal terms into consciousness. Matter is in flux; mind … [is] simply sensibility in bodies’ (1043) …’ Santayana’s broad perspective of reality and experience stated in Reason and Art (1905), as quoted by Runes, is that, ‘… Life i ...
Slides - Faculty of Philosophy
... persists in its state of rest or motion, in the same direction and with the same speed, if it is not compelled by an external cause to leave this state.) (543) 3. In all communication of motion action and reaction are always equal to one another. (544) ...
... persists in its state of rest or motion, in the same direction and with the same speed, if it is not compelled by an external cause to leave this state.) (543) 3. In all communication of motion action and reaction are always equal to one another. (544) ...
Aristotle and the Problem of Human Knowledge
... to do so either because it itself is divine or is the most divine thing (theiotaton) in us (a15-16).18 The proper activity of nous is contemplation (theôria), which therefore constitutes complete human happiness (a16-18). Contemplation is the best activity (kratistê energeia), for it directs mind, t ...
... to do so either because it itself is divine or is the most divine thing (theiotaton) in us (a15-16).18 The proper activity of nous is contemplation (theôria), which therefore constitutes complete human happiness (a16-18). Contemplation is the best activity (kratistê energeia), for it directs mind, t ...
B.A. PHILOSOPHY PR OGRAMME UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT (CUCBCSS -2014 admn.) (I SEMESTER)
... wisdom’. The term science comes from the Latin word ‘scire’ which means ‘to know’. The distinction between philosophy and science is not absolute. However, there are some differences between them in terms of methods and concerns. i) Philosophy is the basic discipline that enters into all areas of hu ...
... wisdom’. The term science comes from the Latin word ‘scire’ which means ‘to know’. The distinction between philosophy and science is not absolute. However, there are some differences between them in terms of methods and concerns. i) Philosophy is the basic discipline that enters into all areas of hu ...
- Philsci
... I understand that some historians read the accounts of space, time, causation and knowledge in the Critique of Pure Reason as purely logical, or purely "conceptual" efforts, while others, Patricia Kitcher for example, read the book as a psychological theory, a theory of how the mind works and, in v ...
... I understand that some historians read the accounts of space, time, causation and knowledge in the Critique of Pure Reason as purely logical, or purely "conceptual" efforts, while others, Patricia Kitcher for example, read the book as a psychological theory, a theory of how the mind works and, in v ...
Asian Philosophy (CH. 1 of AP)
... • Some Asian thinkers used the same method that Western philosophers, such as Plato used. For example, some Asian thinkers argued that we can come to understand the nature of the self, knowledge, and the good life by examining the concepts we use to think about them. ...
... • Some Asian thinkers used the same method that Western philosophers, such as Plato used. For example, some Asian thinkers argued that we can come to understand the nature of the self, knowledge, and the good life by examining the concepts we use to think about them. ...
Cosmological Certainty - Philsci
... or quantum theory), it will always be possible, in the way indicated, to concoct endlessly many “patchwork quilt” theories that are better, according to (1) to (4). Such theories are, it may be objected, horribly complex or disunified, in that they consist of diverse theoretical bits and pieces stuc ...
... or quantum theory), it will always be possible, in the way indicated, to concoct endlessly many “patchwork quilt” theories that are better, according to (1) to (4). Such theories are, it may be objected, horribly complex or disunified, in that they consist of diverse theoretical bits and pieces stuc ...
Cosmological Certainty
... or quantum theory), it will always be possible, in the way indicated, to concoct endlessly many “patchwork quilt” theories that are better, according to (1) to (4). Such theories are, it may be objected, horribly complex or disunified, in that they consist of diverse theoretical bits and pieces stuc ...
... or quantum theory), it will always be possible, in the way indicated, to concoct endlessly many “patchwork quilt” theories that are better, according to (1) to (4). Such theories are, it may be objected, horribly complex or disunified, in that they consist of diverse theoretical bits and pieces stuc ...
Skepticism and Perceptual Faith: Henry David Thoreau and Stanley
... discontent, [and] superstition.”9 Combining the two lists, we have a total of eighteen afflictions, one of which—remarkably enough—is superstition. Unwarranted belief, in other words, is not only one of the miseries of human existence, but it also counts as another piece of evidence in favor of skep ...
... discontent, [and] superstition.”9 Combining the two lists, we have a total of eighteen afflictions, one of which—remarkably enough—is superstition. Unwarranted belief, in other words, is not only one of the miseries of human existence, but it also counts as another piece of evidence in favor of skep ...
the value in a story
... to feel at least as confident about an individual understanding as about the allegedly underlying logic or principles. That is a less dogmatic a view than the casuist’s assertion that moral knowledge is essentially particular;9 and it is not quite the point made many times in the long-running differ ...
... to feel at least as confident about an individual understanding as about the allegedly underlying logic or principles. That is a less dogmatic a view than the casuist’s assertion that moral knowledge is essentially particular;9 and it is not quite the point made many times in the long-running differ ...
What should we make of Wittgenstein`s paradoxical claim at the end
... contradiction, a distinction developed within the Tractatus. A proposition represents a state of affairs. Wittgenstein defines the form of this proposition as the possibility of the simples within this state of affairs being arranged in the way they are (TLP: 2.032-2.033). Its logical form is thus t ...
... contradiction, a distinction developed within the Tractatus. A proposition represents a state of affairs. Wittgenstein defines the form of this proposition as the possibility of the simples within this state of affairs being arranged in the way they are (TLP: 2.032-2.033). Its logical form is thus t ...
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... By sketching a psychological portrait of the tyrant, he attempts to prove that injustice tortures a man’s soul, whereas a just soul is a healthy, happy, untroubled and calm. Next he argues that, though each of the three main character types, money-loving, honour-loving, and truth-loving—have their o ...
... By sketching a psychological portrait of the tyrant, he attempts to prove that injustice tortures a man’s soul, whereas a just soul is a healthy, happy, untroubled and calm. Next he argues that, though each of the three main character types, money-loving, honour-loving, and truth-loving—have their o ...
Kantianism, Pragmatism, and Autonomy Phillip McReynolds Although
... Kant grounds the dignity that humans manifest as rational beings in their ability to employ autonomous reason rather than being subject to the vicissitudes of impulse as are, apparently, non-rational brutes. The Kantian idea of autonomy is probably as important a concept for the development of the c ...
... Kant grounds the dignity that humans manifest as rational beings in their ability to employ autonomous reason rather than being subject to the vicissitudes of impulse as are, apparently, non-rational brutes. The Kantian idea of autonomy is probably as important a concept for the development of the c ...
the production of knowledge and the production of hegemony
... engage in world wide communication not only among scholars but also with the knowledge produced in non-academic contexts and in non-scientific realms of experience. The desire to create a new form of communication stems from the will to be alive, to form a community that will allow us growth and cha ...
... engage in world wide communication not only among scholars but also with the knowledge produced in non-academic contexts and in non-scientific realms of experience. The desire to create a new form of communication stems from the will to be alive, to form a community that will allow us growth and cha ...
Session 1 Rationalism –v
... – What is the role of Reason (as opposed to perception, action etc.) in particular as to its relation to knowledge? – What is Rational (in contrast to irrational)? ...
... – What is the role of Reason (as opposed to perception, action etc.) in particular as to its relation to knowledge? – What is Rational (in contrast to irrational)? ...
Why Hume and Kant were mistaken in rejecting natural theology
... simple bodily movement, such as me moving my hand, is normally a basic action – I just do it, do not do it by doing anything else. (Although of course certain neural events have to happen in order for me to move my hand, I do not intentionally bring these about.) In doing such actions as moving a ha ...
... simple bodily movement, such as me moving my hand, is normally a basic action – I just do it, do not do it by doing anything else. (Although of course certain neural events have to happen in order for me to move my hand, I do not intentionally bring these about.) In doing such actions as moving a ha ...
Faith and Reason
... The need for an absolutely certain foundation, a rational justification beyond doubt, was what drove Descartes to look for an indubitable truth upon which he could build a philosophical system. He found it in his own ontological reality. Foundationalism has been the dominant way of thinking about qu ...
... The need for an absolutely certain foundation, a rational justification beyond doubt, was what drove Descartes to look for an indubitable truth upon which he could build a philosophical system. He found it in his own ontological reality. Foundationalism has been the dominant way of thinking about qu ...
Markie, Speckles, and Classical Foundationalism
... visually experiencing the speckled hen, one is appeared to forty-eight-speckled-ly. Rather, one is appeared to only many-speckled-ly, and when one is directly acquainted with the exemplification of that property as one has the relevant thought and awareness of the relevant correspondence, one has on ...
... visually experiencing the speckled hen, one is appeared to forty-eight-speckled-ly. Rather, one is appeared to only many-speckled-ly, and when one is directly acquainted with the exemplification of that property as one has the relevant thought and awareness of the relevant correspondence, one has on ...