Descartes, Mathematics and Music
... separable from sound. Though it is of an intelligible order, its intelligibility is not conceptual. Furthermore, it has a fundamental appeal to the senses and the passions. On this point, Maritain distinguishes the "ontological splendor" of a work of art from "conceptual clarity." It is a Cartesian ...
... separable from sound. Though it is of an intelligible order, its intelligibility is not conceptual. Furthermore, it has a fundamental appeal to the senses and the passions. On this point, Maritain distinguishes the "ontological splendor" of a work of art from "conceptual clarity." It is a Cartesian ...
Diapositive 1
... Correspondence theory of truth or objective reality Correspondence theories state that true beliefs and true statements correspond to the actual state of affairs. This type of theory posits a relationship between thoughts or statements on the one hand, and things or objects on the other. It is a tra ...
... Correspondence theory of truth or objective reality Correspondence theories state that true beliefs and true statements correspond to the actual state of affairs. This type of theory posits a relationship between thoughts or statements on the one hand, and things or objects on the other. It is a tra ...
epistemological puzzles alexandru anghelescu, laurenţiu rozylowicz
... This is the ideal moment zero when humans started to know. The first thing humans have to do at M0 is to start making differences: “to construct” the objects, to say so. But this may be impossible at M0, because ...
... This is the ideal moment zero when humans started to know. The first thing humans have to do at M0 is to start making differences: “to construct” the objects, to say so. But this may be impossible at M0, because ...
Common Sense Philosophy and American Political Theology
... community alike--seemed to verify those principles. Locke's right to self-preservation was selfevident because the Anglo-American experience of resistance to governmental and ecclesiastical tyranny confirmed the rightness of it, made the soundness of the principle stand out sharply. It is worth rec ...
... community alike--seemed to verify those principles. Locke's right to self-preservation was selfevident because the Anglo-American experience of resistance to governmental and ecclesiastical tyranny confirmed the rightness of it, made the soundness of the principle stand out sharply. It is worth rec ...
The Method – Analysis and Criticisms
... Knowing and being certain seem to be different for the following reason. If I know p, I have sufficient justification for believing p to be true. For example, I know it is Wednesday because I have the evidence of the newspapers and the radio and the fact that my students and colleagues are behaving ...
... Knowing and being certain seem to be different for the following reason. If I know p, I have sufficient justification for believing p to be true. For example, I know it is Wednesday because I have the evidence of the newspapers and the radio and the fact that my students and colleagues are behaving ...
1 - David Papineau
... philosophy consists of synthetic theories. In section 4 I shall qualify this thesis to accommodate the normative and mathematical elements in philosophy. Section 5 will explain how a priori knowledge is at least possible. Sections 6 and 7 will then consider whether there is a real difference between ...
... philosophy consists of synthetic theories. In section 4 I shall qualify this thesis to accommodate the normative and mathematical elements in philosophy. Section 5 will explain how a priori knowledge is at least possible. Sections 6 and 7 will then consider whether there is a real difference between ...
Thomas Hippler
... (p. 6). He then goes on by comparison with other source material and historical studies about the social history of suicide, murder and accidental death in Paris at that time, thus giving background information of what we can presumingly know beyond the limits of the Dossier. In the second part of t ...
... (p. 6). He then goes on by comparison with other source material and historical studies about the social history of suicide, murder and accidental death in Paris at that time, thus giving background information of what we can presumingly know beyond the limits of the Dossier. In the second part of t ...
HOLISM AND REALISM - Jacques Maritain Center
... a time. Explicitly rejecting the idea that science is a set of models that yield predictions by reflecting nature, Duhem proposed that scientific theories are networks of theoretical facts that can be more or less coherent but which are not composed of individual generalizations or descriptions of p ...
... a time. Explicitly rejecting the idea that science is a set of models that yield predictions by reflecting nature, Duhem proposed that scientific theories are networks of theoretical facts that can be more or less coherent but which are not composed of individual generalizations or descriptions of p ...
What is Philosophy
... statements, I should like to present one example of the kind of confusion that can arise from lack of proper understanding of an important, though ordinary, word. It is very easy to come to think that "I believe" and "I know" simply express different degrees of confidence in what follows them. Thus, ...
... statements, I should like to present one example of the kind of confusion that can arise from lack of proper understanding of an important, though ordinary, word. It is very easy to come to think that "I believe" and "I know" simply express different degrees of confidence in what follows them. Thus, ...
Monism and Dualism
... One must not confound with this doctrine that very different one, Spiritism, which teaches that a certain favored class of persons called mediums may bring back the spirits of the departed and enable us to hold communication with them. Such beliefs have always existed among the common people, but th ...
... One must not confound with this doctrine that very different one, Spiritism, which teaches that a certain favored class of persons called mediums may bring back the spirits of the departed and enable us to hold communication with them. Such beliefs have always existed among the common people, but th ...
`I` am a Fiction: An Analysis of the No-Person Theories
... unity ‘feigned’ or constructed by our imagination? Hume questions the philosophers who claim that they are intimately conscious of what is called the ‘self’ – do they really constantly perceive their ‘self’, and if they do, then Hume ridicules them as being of a different constitution then his kind. ...
... unity ‘feigned’ or constructed by our imagination? Hume questions the philosophers who claim that they are intimately conscious of what is called the ‘self’ – do they really constantly perceive their ‘self’, and if they do, then Hume ridicules them as being of a different constitution then his kind. ...
Chapter 8 - Barbara Gail Montero
... Will we ever solve the mind-body problem? Will we ever understand how the Dijin of consciousness arises out of entirely physical processes in the brain? Some philosophers—the Cartesian dualists from Chapter 2—say that we know the solution to the mind-body problem: the mind, including consciousness, ...
... Will we ever solve the mind-body problem? Will we ever understand how the Dijin of consciousness arises out of entirely physical processes in the brain? Some philosophers—the Cartesian dualists from Chapter 2—say that we know the solution to the mind-body problem: the mind, including consciousness, ...
The Emergence of Conventionalism - Philsci
... Poincaré’s conventionalism has thoroughly transformed both the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mathematics. Not only proponents of conventionalism, such as the logical positivists, were influenced by Poincaré, but also outspoken critics of conventionalism, such as Quine and Putnam, were ...
... Poincaré’s conventionalism has thoroughly transformed both the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mathematics. Not only proponents of conventionalism, such as the logical positivists, were influenced by Poincaré, but also outspoken critics of conventionalism, such as Quine and Putnam, were ...
The Principles of History RGCollingwood and
... thus better to free a guilty than commit an innocent. In history there is no such strictures, the agents of history can be kept under suspicion indefinitely. There is no practical need for closure and the definite case. Historical cases can always be re-opened. History does not deal with the present ...
... thus better to free a guilty than commit an innocent. In history there is no such strictures, the agents of history can be kept under suspicion indefinitely. There is no practical need for closure and the definite case. Historical cases can always be re-opened. History does not deal with the present ...
Here
... resemble their mental representations. But this is only an assumption, based on the fact that these are simple and basic features. Since in principle there is no way we can compare between our mental representations of spatial and temporal features (i.e. distance and duration) to their external coun ...
... resemble their mental representations. But this is only an assumption, based on the fact that these are simple and basic features. Since in principle there is no way we can compare between our mental representations of spatial and temporal features (i.e. distance and duration) to their external coun ...
Handout
... to worry that there just aren’t enough objects in the world to make our mathematical theories true. (ii) Semantic physicalism implies that our mathematical theories are empirical theories and that the right methodology for determining whether there are, say, infinitely many primes would involve an e ...
... to worry that there just aren’t enough objects in the world to make our mathematical theories true. (ii) Semantic physicalism implies that our mathematical theories are empirical theories and that the right methodology for determining whether there are, say, infinitely many primes would involve an e ...
Plato`s Republic PowerPoint
... Education is the most important task of the state. In order manage an idealized state for the benefit and justice for all, citizens are divided into classes based on their ability and educational achievement. The top class is the Guardians, citizens chosen by education and abililty to keep the peace ...
... Education is the most important task of the state. In order manage an idealized state for the benefit and justice for all, citizens are divided into classes based on their ability and educational achievement. The top class is the Guardians, citizens chosen by education and abililty to keep the peace ...
From The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer, edited by
... resist and distort scientific thought? The misconceptions interested him. If the logical and factual type of thought which science demands is hard to maintain, there must be some other mode of thinking which constantly interferes with it. Language, the expression of thought, could not possibly be a ...
... resist and distort scientific thought? The misconceptions interested him. If the logical and factual type of thought which science demands is hard to maintain, there must be some other mode of thinking which constantly interferes with it. Language, the expression of thought, could not possibly be a ...
Polar Concepts Essay Research Paper Sam Vaknin
... There are serious reasons to believe that the origin of most paradoxes is in polar concepts. As such, they are not only empty (useless) ? but positively harmful. This is mostly because tend to regard every pair of polar concepts as both mutually exclusive and mutually exhaustive. In other words, pe ...
... There are serious reasons to believe that the origin of most paradoxes is in polar concepts. As such, they are not only empty (useless) ? but positively harmful. This is mostly because tend to regard every pair of polar concepts as both mutually exclusive and mutually exhaustive. In other words, pe ...
Introduction to Philosophy
... Type 2 Counterexamples: Locke’s Room Example Being Free vs. Being Lucky ...
... Type 2 Counterexamples: Locke’s Room Example Being Free vs. Being Lucky ...
Chapter IX The Illative Sense
... Newman spends some time on this last question, which he presents as an assertion (and assumption) made by Protestant that the Rule of Faith is derived solely from scripture. Here, Newman lays “the ways in which truth is struck out in the course of life:” “Common sense, chance, moral perception, geni ...
... Newman spends some time on this last question, which he presents as an assertion (and assumption) made by Protestant that the Rule of Faith is derived solely from scripture. Here, Newman lays “the ways in which truth is struck out in the course of life:” “Common sense, chance, moral perception, geni ...
connectedness
... neither out of themselves, 2. nor out of something else, 3. nor out of both, 4. nor without a cause. (tetralemma: a figure in Ancient Greek and Eastern logic with four possibilities.) This kind of tetralemma refutes the four modern views of reality as above mentioned. This shows that Kumarajiva/Naga ...
... neither out of themselves, 2. nor out of something else, 3. nor out of both, 4. nor without a cause. (tetralemma: a figure in Ancient Greek and Eastern logic with four possibilities.) This kind of tetralemma refutes the four modern views of reality as above mentioned. This shows that Kumarajiva/Naga ...
Markie, Speckles, and Classical Foundationalism
... nothing to prevent an appearing theorist from claiming that it is simply false that when 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 propert ...
... nothing to prevent an appearing theorist from claiming that it is simply false that when 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 propert ...
Cosmological Certainty - Philsci
... world is such that all theories which fail to proceed from some “simple … unifying idea” are false.3 For theories of this type, even though being more empirically successful than accepted theories, are never even considered by science. This implicit metaphysical assumption4 is accepted by science as ...
... world is such that all theories which fail to proceed from some “simple … unifying idea” are false.3 For theories of this type, even though being more empirically successful than accepted theories, are never even considered by science. This implicit metaphysical assumption4 is accepted by science as ...
Cosmological Certainty
... world is such that all theories which fail to proceed from some “simple … unifying idea” are false.3 For theories of this type, even though being more empirically successful than accepted theories, are never even considered by science. This implicit metaphysical assumption4 is accepted by science as ...
... world is such that all theories which fail to proceed from some “simple … unifying idea” are false.3 For theories of this type, even though being more empirically successful than accepted theories, are never even considered by science. This implicit metaphysical assumption4 is accepted by science as ...
Empiricism
Empiricism is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience. One of several views of epistemology, the study of human knowledge, along with rationalism and skepticism, empiricism emphasizes the role of experience and evidence, especially sensory experience, in the formation of ideas, over the notion of innate ideas or traditions; empiricists may argue however that traditions (or customs) arise due to relations of previous sense experiences.Empiricism in the philosophy of science emphasizes evidence, especially as discovered in experiments. It is a fundamental part of the scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world rather than resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.Empiricism, often used by natural scientists, says that ""knowledge is based on experience"" and that ""knowledge is tentative and probabilistic, subject to continued revision and falsification."" One of the epistemological tenets is that sensory experience creates knowledge. The scientific method, including experiments and validated measurement tools, guides empirical research.