Friendship - The University of Sydney
... chimera of the moderns—nor of any relation between subjects: rather, existing itself is divided, it is non-identical to itself: the I and the friend are the two faces—or the two poles—of this con-division. 5) The friend is, for this reason, another self, a heteros autos. In its Latin translation, al ...
... chimera of the moderns—nor of any relation between subjects: rather, existing itself is divided, it is non-identical to itself: the I and the friend are the two faces—or the two poles—of this con-division. 5) The friend is, for this reason, another self, a heteros autos. In its Latin translation, al ...
Stanisław Judycki
... possible total nonexistence or against the background of ‘absolute nothingness’. Not only Kant’s real thalars but also his possible thalars, i.e. possible as only thought by some thinking subject, or possible in the sense of being ‘objectively possible’ - all these ‘things’ already exist, which mean ...
... possible total nonexistence or against the background of ‘absolute nothingness’. Not only Kant’s real thalars but also his possible thalars, i.e. possible as only thought by some thinking subject, or possible in the sense of being ‘objectively possible’ - all these ‘things’ already exist, which mean ...
- Philsci
... get at the underlying reality. In a constructive theory one proposes a (set of) model(s) for some part of physical reality […]. One explains the phenomena by showing that the theory provides a model that gives an empirically adequate description of the salient features of reality. Consider the pheno ...
... get at the underlying reality. In a constructive theory one proposes a (set of) model(s) for some part of physical reality […]. One explains the phenomena by showing that the theory provides a model that gives an empirically adequate description of the salient features of reality. Consider the pheno ...
Heraclitus - The Spiritual Naturalist Society
... connotation of 'strife' to us). Like the tension between the lyre and the string, this is what allows for harmony to come about. This informed Heraclitus' approach to the concept of Justice, which he saw as a harmony of tensions. Similarly, the Taoists conceive of the Tao as the force that keeps the ...
... connotation of 'strife' to us). Like the tension between the lyre and the string, this is what allows for harmony to come about. This informed Heraclitus' approach to the concept of Justice, which he saw as a harmony of tensions. Similarly, the Taoists conceive of the Tao as the force that keeps the ...
Introduction to Philosophy
... P But, there do seem to be some things which exist and some things, like James Brown, that do not exist. P Rowe takes this approach: magicans and God are things which may or may not exist. P Many contemporary philosophers think that such a claim, though, is selfcontradictory. P We’ll need more logic ...
... P But, there do seem to be some things which exist and some things, like James Brown, that do not exist. P Rowe takes this approach: magicans and God are things which may or may not exist. P Many contemporary philosophers think that such a claim, though, is selfcontradictory. P We’ll need more logic ...
Efforts to Explain all Existence
... based on it 'disagrees with the possibility that the universe may be empty'.1 But was von Wright wrong? I think not. Bergson might have a valid point were he stretching the idea of 'there existing something' until it covered the 'existence' of bare possibilities; for even if there had been no existe ...
... based on it 'disagrees with the possibility that the universe may be empty'.1 But was von Wright wrong? I think not. Bergson might have a valid point were he stretching the idea of 'there existing something' until it covered the 'existence' of bare possibilities; for even if there had been no existe ...
here - Princeton University
... which a structuralist account would not apply, moving here beyond Parsons’ category of quasi-concrete exceptions to the larger category of abstractions so much discussed in the literature on so-called neo-logicism. The claim of structuralism concerning such objects presumably must be that they no lo ...
... which a structuralist account would not apply, moving here beyond Parsons’ category of quasi-concrete exceptions to the larger category of abstractions so much discussed in the literature on so-called neo-logicism. The claim of structuralism concerning such objects presumably must be that they no lo ...
The New and Improved Paraphysics
... ESP and PK phenomena while consciousness also seems to have some fundamental role in quantum theory. In quantum theory, a conscious and sentient observer seems to be necessary for the creation of a specific reality through the collapse of the wave packet. This view is explicit in the extreme version ...
... ESP and PK phenomena while consciousness also seems to have some fundamental role in quantum theory. In quantum theory, a conscious and sentient observer seems to be necessary for the creation of a specific reality through the collapse of the wave packet. This view is explicit in the extreme version ...
About Mechanics of Virtual Reality
... whether we are living in it: we call the world we are living in reality, and other worlds virtuality. For example, if we are living in world A, we call it reality and another world B virtuality. While if we transfer our consciousness from world A into world B, then, we shall call world B reality and ...
... whether we are living in it: we call the world we are living in reality, and other worlds virtuality. For example, if we are living in world A, we call it reality and another world B virtuality. While if we transfer our consciousness from world A into world B, then, we shall call world B reality and ...
IV. The Verbal Form
... appeared in our last issue comes in apt illustration of the foregoing contentions. In traversing a brief section of it we shall accept the account as it stands and shall not concern ourselves with the question how far it truly represents Berkeley, and how far it is rather the writer’s own individual ...
... appeared in our last issue comes in apt illustration of the foregoing contentions. In traversing a brief section of it we shall accept the account as it stands and shall not concern ourselves with the question how far it truly represents Berkeley, and how far it is rather the writer’s own individual ...
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY LECTURE THALES, HERACLITUS
... Use of Observation and Critical Reasoning Another important feature of this newfound way of explaining the world is the use of observation to support one’s argument. This is certainly not the case when one explains things in religious or poetic terms. In religion and poetry (story-telling), one use ...
... Use of Observation and Critical Reasoning Another important feature of this newfound way of explaining the world is the use of observation to support one’s argument. This is certainly not the case when one explains things in religious or poetic terms. In religion and poetry (story-telling), one use ...
My Slides - Thatmarcusfamily.org
... P For Berkeley, only God can be taken as the true cause of my ideas. P An all-powerful God could have no use for an intermediate instrument. P “Though we do the utmost we can to secure the belief of matter, though, when reason forsakes us, we endeavor to support our opinion on the bare possibility o ...
... P For Berkeley, only God can be taken as the true cause of my ideas. P An all-powerful God could have no use for an intermediate instrument. P “Though we do the utmost we can to secure the belief of matter, though, when reason forsakes us, we endeavor to support our opinion on the bare possibility o ...
What is immediate perception? The Buddhist answer
... immediately given. But, deprived as it is of mental construction, immediate perception becomes automatically incapable of providing any cognitive information about its object. That is why Buddhist thinkers had to prove that immediate perception (pratyaksha), in spite of its non-conceptual character, ...
... immediately given. But, deprived as it is of mental construction, immediate perception becomes automatically incapable of providing any cognitive information about its object. That is why Buddhist thinkers had to prove that immediate perception (pratyaksha), in spite of its non-conceptual character, ...
Harmonic Parameterization by Electrostatics
... Peng et al. [2004] produce smooth continuous distance fields that parameterize the space in the vicinity (thick shell) of a reference object. They apply their method to define 3D textures and displacement maps within the parameterizable shell. While an improvement over naı̈ve distance fields, the me ...
... Peng et al. [2004] produce smooth continuous distance fields that parameterize the space in the vicinity (thick shell) of a reference object. They apply their method to define 3D textures and displacement maps within the parameterizable shell. While an improvement over naı̈ve distance fields, the me ...
HOLISM AND REALISM - Jacques Maritain Center
... A well-known holist about scientific theory, Duhem claimed that no particular scientific hypothesis can be tested by an experiment, since experiments test only whole bodies of theory, or sets of hypotheses, at a time. Explicitly rejecting the idea that science is a set of models that yield predictio ...
... A well-known holist about scientific theory, Duhem claimed that no particular scientific hypothesis can be tested by an experiment, since experiments test only whole bodies of theory, or sets of hypotheses, at a time. Explicitly rejecting the idea that science is a set of models that yield predictio ...
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 ...
Argument - University of Warwick
... Descartes’ indivisibility argument “There is a great difference between the mind and the body, inasmuch as the body is by its very nature always divisible, while the mind is utterly indivisible. For when I consider the mind, or myself in so far as I am merely a thinking thing, I am unable to distin ...
... Descartes’ indivisibility argument “There is a great difference between the mind and the body, inasmuch as the body is by its very nature always divisible, while the mind is utterly indivisible. For when I consider the mind, or myself in so far as I am merely a thinking thing, I am unable to distin ...
Monism and Dualism
... impelled to conceive the material interaction between the elements composing the brain and nervous system as an outer form of the inner ideal unity of consciousness. What we in our inner experience become conscious of as thought, feeling, and resolution, is thus represented in the material world by ...
... impelled to conceive the material interaction between the elements composing the brain and nervous system as an outer form of the inner ideal unity of consciousness. What we in our inner experience become conscious of as thought, feeling, and resolution, is thus represented in the material world by ...
30155-doc - Project Gutenberg
... certainly regard everyone with disdain who should pronounce even the most out-of-the-way proposition of this science to be untrue. But perhaps this feeling of proud certainty would leave you immediately if some one were to ask you: "What, then, do you mean by the assertion that these propositions ar ...
... certainly regard everyone with disdain who should pronounce even the most out-of-the-way proposition of this science to be untrue. But perhaps this feeling of proud certainty would leave you immediately if some one were to ask you: "What, then, do you mean by the assertion that these propositions ar ...
The Identification of Mind and Principle
... the myriad things of the universe are manifestations of a single “Principle” (li) and that this Principle is the essence of morality. By understanding the Principle that underlies the universe (just as Buddhists understood all things in the universe as manifestations of the single Buddha spirit), th ...
... the myriad things of the universe are manifestations of a single “Principle” (li) and that this Principle is the essence of morality. By understanding the Principle that underlies the universe (just as Buddhists understood all things in the universe as manifestations of the single Buddha spirit), th ...
One - Woodstock School
... sukhavati, The Pure Land, Nirvana, The Land of Bliss. In any sect of Buddhism, Nirvana is understood, in the words of Edward Conze, as “permanent, stable, imperishable, immovable…it is the real Truth and the supreme Reality.” Herein lies the argument against Nagarjuna’s vision of samsara and sukhava ...
... sukhavati, The Pure Land, Nirvana, The Land of Bliss. In any sect of Buddhism, Nirvana is understood, in the words of Edward Conze, as “permanent, stable, imperishable, immovable…it is the real Truth and the supreme Reality.” Herein lies the argument against Nagarjuna’s vision of samsara and sukhava ...
docx version - Ferment Magazine
... research into Cosmology, General Relativity, Geometric Combinatorics, Quantum Field Theory, Differential Geometry and related disciplines. He is passionately committed to the advancement of knowledge in these fields, with particular emphasis on the promotion and defense of his own ideas. They tend t ...
... research into Cosmology, General Relativity, Geometric Combinatorics, Quantum Field Theory, Differential Geometry and related disciplines. He is passionately committed to the advancement of knowledge in these fields, with particular emphasis on the promotion and defense of his own ideas. They tend t ...
Bertrand Russell. The World of Universals [The Problems of
... when we wish to prove something about all triangles, we draw a particular triangle and reason about it, taking care not to use any characteristic which it does not share with other triangles. The beginner, in order to avoid error, often finds it useful to draw several triangles, as unlike each othe ...
... when we wish to prove something about all triangles, we draw a particular triangle and reason about it, taking care not to use any characteristic which it does not share with other triangles. The beginner, in order to avoid error, often finds it useful to draw several triangles, as unlike each othe ...
1 Mathematics, Mysticism, and More 77 - Wiley-VCH
... discipline severe. One joined the Pythagorean community for life by surrendering all earthly possessions and totally submitting to the new system. It must have been worth the sacrifice, for there is no record of dissention among the initiates. The Pythagoreans were a self-supporting group and relied ...
... discipline severe. One joined the Pythagorean community for life by surrendering all earthly possessions and totally submitting to the new system. It must have been worth the sacrifice, for there is no record of dissention among the initiates. The Pythagoreans were a self-supporting group and relied ...