frege on identity statements
... of a function-expression and an argument-expression, as transparently representing the application of function to object. Where this tight relation comes unstuck, as Frege saw it, was precisely at identity statements. From the outset of his explicitly logical explorations in Begriffsschrift, Frege t ...
... of a function-expression and an argument-expression, as transparently representing the application of function to object. Where this tight relation comes unstuck, as Frege saw it, was precisely at identity statements. From the outset of his explicitly logical explorations in Begriffsschrift, Frege t ...
Metaphysical Dependence and Set Theory
... of set theory, claims of dependence that people actually make. In this respect we have to be a little bit careful, because the phrase “set theory” itself may be ambiguous, or at least imprecise. Some may take talk of set theory at a general or informal level. At this level, we usually think of sets ...
... of set theory, claims of dependence that people actually make. In this respect we have to be a little bit careful, because the phrase “set theory” itself may be ambiguous, or at least imprecise. Some may take talk of set theory at a general or informal level. At this level, we usually think of sets ...
Schopenhauer`s Theory of Justice
... the past and present, from an epistemological vantage point.5 Seldom have we seen, outside the natural law tradition, a metaphysical or ontological examination of justice, and that is exactly what Schopenhauer gives us. This Article first delves briefly into Schopenhauer's life story. Then Schopenha ...
... the past and present, from an epistemological vantage point.5 Seldom have we seen, outside the natural law tradition, a metaphysical or ontological examination of justice, and that is exactly what Schopenhauer gives us. This Article first delves briefly into Schopenhauer's life story. Then Schopenha ...
Maurice Merleau-Ponty`s Criticism on Bergson`s Theory of
... here, exactly, that Deleuze situates the core difference between Bergson’s antidualism and phenomenology’s. Bergson holds that movement has nothing to do with a thing’s transition from one position in space to another; such a view, he argues, denies movement any creative character. After all, accord ...
... here, exactly, that Deleuze situates the core difference between Bergson’s antidualism and phenomenology’s. Bergson holds that movement has nothing to do with a thing’s transition from one position in space to another; such a view, he argues, denies movement any creative character. After all, accord ...
The Incoherence of the Incoherence
... still in existence and where he had no influence, he being the last great philosopher of his culture. Renan, who wrote a big book about him, Averroes et l’Averro’asme, had never seen a line of Arabic by him. Lately some of his works have been edited in Arabic, for instance his Tahafut al Tahafut, in ...
... still in existence and where he had no influence, he being the last great philosopher of his culture. Renan, who wrote a big book about him, Averroes et l’Averro’asme, had never seen a line of Arabic by him. Lately some of his works have been edited in Arabic, for instance his Tahafut al Tahafut, in ...
Merleau-Ponty`s transcendental theory of perception - SAS
... Merleau-Ponty (and Husserl) with sophisticated naturalistic positions in analytic philosophy of mind, write as follows: ...
... Merleau-Ponty (and Husserl) with sophisticated naturalistic positions in analytic philosophy of mind, write as follows: ...
Kant`s Deconstruction of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
... to understand the why (the reason) in thingr. The parallelism of logical and ontological relations would justify Wolffs statement and dissolve the objection of circularity. The reason that Kant nevertheless formulates this objection is probably that he shares Woltf's view that understanding the reas ...
... to understand the why (the reason) in thingr. The parallelism of logical and ontological relations would justify Wolffs statement and dissolve the objection of circularity. The reason that Kant nevertheless formulates this objection is probably that he shares Woltf's view that understanding the reas ...
Hume on Geometry and Infinite Divisibility in the Treatise
... Second, we can imagine or picture the termination of a geometric plane. But a geometric plane must terminate in a geometric line (T 44). (Proof: Assume L is a line with breadth which terminates plane P. Since L has breadth, L must contain at least two parts, w and y, exactly one of which actually te ...
... Second, we can imagine or picture the termination of a geometric plane. But a geometric plane must terminate in a geometric line (T 44). (Proof: Assume L is a line with breadth which terminates plane P. Since L has breadth, L must contain at least two parts, w and y, exactly one of which actually te ...
Trans Dimensional Unified Field Theory
... we progress up the scale, it will be a discovery to create new units, because by each dimension up, the nature of the dimension changes drastically the properties of that dimension, even to the point at first glance you might say, they are not related, but they are. And by the discovery that they ar ...
... we progress up the scale, it will be a discovery to create new units, because by each dimension up, the nature of the dimension changes drastically the properties of that dimension, even to the point at first glance you might say, they are not related, but they are. And by the discovery that they ar ...
brandomsingularterms..
... 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 ...
George Herbert Mead Final
... centuries however, this term morphed into exactly the opposite meaning; so for James and Whitehead the ‘specious present’ became the true present of conscious experience, suggesting a temporal extension that spreads the present across time. These specious presents may have varying lengths, and inde ...
... centuries however, this term morphed into exactly the opposite meaning; so for James and Whitehead the ‘specious present’ became the true present of conscious experience, suggesting a temporal extension that spreads the present across time. These specious presents may have varying lengths, and inde ...
just what is vagueness?
... Therefore (by mathematical induction): A 21915-day (or 60 year) old is a non-adult. Undoubtedly, the front runner amongst philosophers and logicians, at least, for a satisfactory solution to sorites paradoxes such as the one above is the supervaluational account (e.g., Keefe 2000). According to supe ...
... Therefore (by mathematical induction): A 21915-day (or 60 year) old is a non-adult. Undoubtedly, the front runner amongst philosophers and logicians, at least, for a satisfactory solution to sorites paradoxes such as the one above is the supervaluational account (e.g., Keefe 2000). According to supe ...
The One Fallacy Theory
... V's conclusion. I want X and X's theory to explain V's argument by pointing out some fallacy. So pointing out a fallacy must be an explanatory act. Well, X proved in phase one (or appeared to) that V's conclusion is false (otherwise Y wouldn't be an opponent of X.) So, since (for X), V's conclusion ...
... V's conclusion. I want X and X's theory to explain V's argument by pointing out some fallacy. So pointing out a fallacy must be an explanatory act. Well, X proved in phase one (or appeared to) that V's conclusion is false (otherwise Y wouldn't be an opponent of X.) So, since (for X), V's conclusion ...
24.500/Phil253 topics in philosophy of mind/perceptual experience session 8 Figure by MIT OCW.
... requires that there be a causal unity, an object, for the term to refer to. The rule fixing the reference of [‘I’] is…”Any token of ‘I’ refers to whoever produced it”…If we really thought that occurrent thoughts in one person’s stream of consciousness were being produced by the beliefs and desires o ...
... requires that there be a causal unity, an object, for the term to refer to. The rule fixing the reference of [‘I’] is…”Any token of ‘I’ refers to whoever produced it”…If we really thought that occurrent thoughts in one person’s stream of consciousness were being produced by the beliefs and desires o ...
A Theory of Sentience - sikkim university library
... tangled hierarchy or semi-ordering of processes, some of which are ‘early’ and others of which are ‘late’. ‘Early vision’ is generally taken to include processes in the visual nervous system from transduction up to and including tertiary visual association areas in the neocortex. Those areas have co ...
... tangled hierarchy or semi-ordering of processes, some of which are ‘early’ and others of which are ‘late’. ‘Early vision’ is generally taken to include processes in the visual nervous system from transduction up to and including tertiary visual association areas in the neocortex. Those areas have co ...
the cosmology of archelaus of athens
... norms in the work in which he wrote about the origins of the cosmic order. It is this work in which he discussed the just and the ignoble, whereas he wrote some other works too, the contents of which are not specified. (Incidentally, Plutarch informs us that Archelaus composed also poetic works.) ‘I ...
... norms in the work in which he wrote about the origins of the cosmic order. It is this work in which he discussed the just and the ignoble, whereas he wrote some other works too, the contents of which are not specified. (Incidentally, Plutarch informs us that Archelaus composed also poetic works.) ‘I ...
maimon and deleuze: the viewpoint of internal genesis and the
... judgments a priori with regard to mathematics and pure physics. In Maimon’s terms: Kantian transcendental philosophy not only claims to think logical objects or an “object in general” in accordance with the a priori concepts of the understanding, but also to recognize these concepts in empirical obj ...
... judgments a priori with regard to mathematics and pure physics. In Maimon’s terms: Kantian transcendental philosophy not only claims to think logical objects or an “object in general” in accordance with the a priori concepts of the understanding, but also to recognize these concepts in empirical obj ...
Resource Guide for Physics and Whitehead
... assuming the concepts of ‘region’ and ‘connection relation’ as primitive. Several years after and independently Grzegorczyk, in a brief but very interesting paper, proposed another definition of point in a system in which the inclusion relation and the relation of being separated were assumed as prim ...
... assuming the concepts of ‘region’ and ‘connection relation’ as primitive. Several years after and independently Grzegorczyk, in a brief but very interesting paper, proposed another definition of point in a system in which the inclusion relation and the relation of being separated were assumed as prim ...
The Metaphysics of John Dewey, Part II
... City of all places, that gave him a deep sense of safety and peace. But experiential mysticism was not enough to assuage Dewey’s feelings of isolation and estrangement, since he was, above all, an inveterate intellectual. What he craved was a philosophy that intellectually would bear out what he de ...
... City of all places, that gave him a deep sense of safety and peace. But experiential mysticism was not enough to assuage Dewey’s feelings of isolation and estrangement, since he was, above all, an inveterate intellectual. What he craved was a philosophy that intellectually would bear out what he de ...
The Given - Tim Crane
... given, for McDowell, as he himself acknowledges (McDowell 2008). In order to set the stage for this, I must first briefly explain the developments of McDowell’s views about experience. In Mind and World (1994), McDowell had argued that the challenge posed by Sellars can only be met if experience has ...
... given, for McDowell, as he himself acknowledges (McDowell 2008). In order to set the stage for this, I must first briefly explain the developments of McDowell’s views about experience. In Mind and World (1994), McDowell had argued that the challenge posed by Sellars can only be met if experience has ...
Consciousness, Self and World: Husserl and the Phenomenological
... analysis of intentional content. Husserl, by contrast, certainly does offer an extremely nuanced conceptual arsenal in this respect, but his approach is often thought to be irremediably compromised by two problematic, and related, methodological commitments: (1) a form of ‘Cartesian’ content intern ...
... analysis of intentional content. Husserl, by contrast, certainly does offer an extremely nuanced conceptual arsenal in this respect, but his approach is often thought to be irremediably compromised by two problematic, and related, methodological commitments: (1) a form of ‘Cartesian’ content intern ...
Notes on Epistemology
... that them mind knows two truths and also that it is doubtful whether it can know any truth at all. Moreover, the position implies that the mind knows still another truth, viz., that the supposition is made that the mind’s power to know truth is doubtful. II. Second Objection: The power of analyzing ...
... that them mind knows two truths and also that it is doubtful whether it can know any truth at all. Moreover, the position implies that the mind knows still another truth, viz., that the supposition is made that the mind’s power to know truth is doubtful. II. Second Objection: The power of analyzing ...
CHANGES IN BOLZANO’S DEFINITION OF MATHEMATICS
... reverts to the traditional definition of mathematics because he wants to preserve a well-established, almost idiomatic expression, but at the same time he changes its meaning by giving a different explanation of the concept of quantity. The linguistic use, and the mathematical practice are maintaine ...
... reverts to the traditional definition of mathematics because he wants to preserve a well-established, almost idiomatic expression, but at the same time he changes its meaning by giving a different explanation of the concept of quantity. The linguistic use, and the mathematical practice are maintaine ...
PLATO: THE SEVENTH LETTER_4
... and vain hopes, as if they had acquired some awesome lore. It has occurred to me to speak on the subject at greater length, for possibly the matter I am discussing would be clearer if I were to do so. There is a true doctrine, which I have often stated before, that stands in the way of the man who w ...
... and vain hopes, as if they had acquired some awesome lore. It has occurred to me to speak on the subject at greater length, for possibly the matter I am discussing would be clearer if I were to do so. There is a true doctrine, which I have often stated before, that stands in the way of the man who w ...
COMPOSITION, IDENTITY, AND EMERGENCE
... has been criticized in [Bohn, 2012]3 and more recently in [Sider, 2014]. Using the formal resources of plural logic and extensional mereology Sider argues that CAI conflates extensionally identical pluralities. He labels this principle Collapse Principle (CP). CP in turns undermines McDaniel’s argume ...
... has been criticized in [Bohn, 2012]3 and more recently in [Sider, 2014]. Using the formal resources of plural logic and extensional mereology Sider argues that CAI conflates extensionally identical pluralities. He labels this principle Collapse Principle (CP). CP in turns undermines McDaniel’s argume ...