predication theory: classical vs modern
... Not everybody among the pre- Fregean logicians has been interested in the new higher predicates; the latter are not, after all, the predicates with which "as a rule arguments and inquiries are concerned" (cf. the end of Aristotle's text quoted in section 2). The most distinguished member of the unin ...
... Not everybody among the pre- Fregean logicians has been interested in the new higher predicates; the latter are not, after all, the predicates with which "as a rule arguments and inquiries are concerned" (cf. the end of Aristotle's text quoted in section 2). The most distinguished member of the unin ...
PLATO: THE SEVENTH LETTER_4
... some an unjustified contempt in a thoroughly offensive fashion, in others certain lofty 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 ...
... some an unjustified contempt in a thoroughly offensive fashion, in others certain lofty 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 ...
After structure: Expression in built form
... by following certain ‘laws’ particular to the architec- ...
... by following certain ‘laws’ particular to the architec- ...
Sameness and Referential Opacity in Aristotle Francis Jeffry
... helpful. As it stands, it appears to presuppose the proof later in Meta. VII 6 that per se entities (e.g., (a) man) are identical with their essences. The second problem with Ross' reconstruction again turns on the fact that he uses our modern '=' to capture Aristotle's sense of'the same'. But his c ...
... helpful. As it stands, it appears to presuppose the proof later in Meta. VII 6 that per se entities (e.g., (a) man) are identical with their essences. The second problem with Ross' reconstruction again turns on the fact that he uses our modern '=' to capture Aristotle's sense of'the same'. But his c ...
1929 Davos Disputation - The Dallas Philosophers Forum
... The encounter was brief: 10:00 AM until Noon. Unlike modern political “debates” with preformulated questions, this event was unscripted and unmoderated. Each philosopher made a statement then posed questions to the other who responded and raised his own questions. There were only four complete excha ...
... The encounter was brief: 10:00 AM until Noon. Unlike modern political “debates” with preformulated questions, this event was unscripted and unmoderated. Each philosopher made a statement then posed questions to the other who responded and raised his own questions. There were only four complete excha ...
The Philosopher and the Poet
... something to something which does not show itself in itself.” In metaphysics, appearances indicate or announce something that is not itself present, and once this function is performed, the appearance disappears into the meaning, the physical yields to the metaphysical. 8 However, Heidegger then sho ...
... something to something which does not show itself in itself.” In metaphysics, appearances indicate or announce something that is not itself present, and once this function is performed, the appearance disappears into the meaning, the physical yields to the metaphysical. 8 However, Heidegger then sho ...
File - History of Western Philosophy
... • “Couples are one and not one, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.” • Half empty is half full • Money is good and evil • “Living and dead are the same, so are awake and asleep, young and old.” • “Out of discord comes the most beautiful h ...
... • “Couples are one and not one, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.” • Half empty is half full • Money is good and evil • “Living and dead are the same, so are awake and asleep, young and old.” • “Out of discord comes the most beautiful h ...
Univocity and Analogy: A Comparative Study of Gilbert
... Read in this way, Heidegger's project does share the importance of analogous being with Aquinas. It would be a dreadful mistake, however, to say that he is a Thomist. Whereas Aquinas unifies his analogous understanding of being by appealing to the absolute contingency of the created order upon its C ...
... Read in this way, Heidegger's project does share the importance of analogous being with Aquinas. It would be a dreadful mistake, however, to say that he is a Thomist. Whereas Aquinas unifies his analogous understanding of being by appealing to the absolute contingency of the created order upon its C ...
Chapter 2 Metaphysics, Fideism, Speculation
... absolutely impossible. Although we cannot apply categorial cognition to the thing-in-itself, the latter remains subject to the logical condition that is the prerequisite for all thought. Consequently, for Kant, the following two propositions have an absolute ontological scope: 1. The thing-in-itself ...
... absolutely impossible. Although we cannot apply categorial cognition to the thing-in-itself, the latter remains subject to the logical condition that is the prerequisite for all thought. Consequently, for Kant, the following two propositions have an absolute ontological scope: 1. The thing-in-itself ...
Divine Origin of Gender
... originates from the spiritual core and flows into the bodily dimension. It is clear that Stein sees maleness and femaleness as stemming from the human’s essential realm and molding humankind’s outward physical presence by manifesting this distinction as gender. This principle of distinction is prese ...
... originates from the spiritual core and flows into the bodily dimension. It is clear that Stein sees maleness and femaleness as stemming from the human’s essential realm and molding humankind’s outward physical presence by manifesting this distinction as gender. This principle of distinction is prese ...
Review of Peter Loptson, Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics
... an indefinite number of modes of presentation, even if it actually presents itself to no one. Frege explicitly held that the reference of an expression has an inexhaustible number of modes of presentation. He explained his notion of the sense of an expression as that wherein the mode of presentation ...
... an indefinite number of modes of presentation, even if it actually presents itself to no one. Frege explicitly held that the reference of an expression has an inexhaustible number of modes of presentation. He explained his notion of the sense of an expression as that wherein the mode of presentation ...
THE UNTRUTH AND THE TRUTH OF SKEPTICISM
... an indefinite number of modes of presentation, even if it actually presents itself to no one. Frege explicitly held that the reference of an expression has an inexhaustible number of modes of presentation. He explained his notion of the sense of an expression as that wherein the mode of presentation ...
... an indefinite number of modes of presentation, even if it actually presents itself to no one. Frege explicitly held that the reference of an expression has an inexhaustible number of modes of presentation. He explained his notion of the sense of an expression as that wherein the mode of presentation ...
The Role Of Genus And Difference In
... apply only to a single individual and anything other than that individual would essentially not be an animal. In this case, every genus (or perhaps species) in our world could only be populated by a single member, and again whatever else one might want to say about such a world, it is not the world ...
... apply only to a single individual and anything other than that individual would essentially not be an animal. In this case, every genus (or perhaps species) in our world could only be populated by a single member, and again whatever else one might want to say about such a world, it is not the world ...
Recovering Play: On the Relationship Between Leisure and
... dawn of forgetfulness of a more fundamental experience of being (Sein). The metaphysical tradition has forgotten that being was originally grasped not in terms of knowing the static properties of beings but as the way in which beings manifest or emerge-forth out of concealment.5 Indeed, as Heidegger ...
... dawn of forgetfulness of a more fundamental experience of being (Sein). The metaphysical tradition has forgotten that being was originally grasped not in terms of knowing the static properties of beings but as the way in which beings manifest or emerge-forth out of concealment.5 Indeed, as Heidegger ...
Introduction to Philosophy
... XI. A priori and a posteriori arguments P The ontological argument is an example of an a priori argument for God’s existence. P A priori statements are explained by the use of thought, rather than experience. P A statement is believed a priori if our justification of that belief is independent of e ...
... XI. A priori and a posteriori arguments P The ontological argument is an example of an a priori argument for God’s existence. P A priori statements are explained by the use of thought, rather than experience. P A statement is believed a priori if our justification of that belief is independent of e ...
Person, Eros, Critical Ontology
... intellectual faculties.’1 ‘Signifiers allow us to share our common reference to reality and experience, but cannot replace the cognitive experience itself. This obvious difference can only take place [...] when the criterion of the critical function is the communal verification of knowledge.’2 For Y ...
... intellectual faculties.’1 ‘Signifiers allow us to share our common reference to reality and experience, but cannot replace the cognitive experience itself. This obvious difference can only take place [...] when the criterion of the critical function is the communal verification of knowledge.’2 For Y ...
PATOČKA`S CONCEPTION OF THE SUBJECT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
... Kierkegaard’s words: “Inasmuch as existence is motion, it holds true that there is indeed a continuity that holds the motion together, because otherwise there is no motion” (ibid., p. 312). His point is that for there to be motion, there must be a continuity, one given by the style of moving. But su ...
... Kierkegaard’s words: “Inasmuch as existence is motion, it holds true that there is indeed a continuity that holds the motion together, because otherwise there is no motion” (ibid., p. 312). His point is that for there to be motion, there must be a continuity, one given by the style of moving. But su ...
A reply on Spinoza`s behalf
... conclusions of roughly this form were reached in one way or another by Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Jacobi, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling. Perhaps, then, the most general reply that might be offered on Spinoza’s behalf would be this: “Such astute philosophers must have been right in judging disjunctively that ...
... conclusions of roughly this form were reached in one way or another by Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Jacobi, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling. Perhaps, then, the most general reply that might be offered on Spinoza’s behalf would be this: “Such astute philosophers must have been right in judging disjunctively that ...
Glosses on Porphyry
... arguments and of judging them, that is, of confirming and proving the arguments discovered. For two things are necessary to one who argues, first to find the arguments by which to argue, then if any should criticize the arguments as defective or as insufficiently firm to be able to confirm them. Whe ...
... arguments and of judging them, that is, of confirming and proving the arguments discovered. For two things are necessary to one who argues, first to find the arguments by which to argue, then if any should criticize the arguments as defective or as insufficiently firm to be able to confirm them. Whe ...
Epoch: Heidegger and the Happening of History
... Two aspects of the general problematic of history might be put as follows: ‘how did people in the past derive the meaning of their lives?’ and ‘what is the nature of historical description?’ Putting the problem this way brings us into the proximity of the thought of R.G. Collingwood but does not com ...
... Two aspects of the general problematic of history might be put as follows: ‘how did people in the past derive the meaning of their lives?’ and ‘what is the nature of historical description?’ Putting the problem this way brings us into the proximity of the thought of R.G. Collingwood but does not com ...
Kant`s Pre-Critical Proof for God`s Existence
... formally possible, hence logically possible so far forth, it is not after all logically possible, since its possibility is excluded by 7 above. It does not follow from this, of course, that there is some particular thing that exists in every possible world, only that something or other (not necessar ...
... formally possible, hence logically possible so far forth, it is not after all logically possible, since its possibility is excluded by 7 above. It does not follow from this, of course, that there is some particular thing that exists in every possible world, only that something or other (not necessar ...
“Turtles All the Way Down”: Mind, Emotion and Nothing
... stratum. The comic book format allowed for cut-away architectural renderings of Ed’s internal mindscape, with the various offices occupied by the Numskulls themselves presented as architectural sections of his skull. More recently, the 1990s American television sitcom Herman’s Head took a post-Jungi ...
... stratum. The comic book format allowed for cut-away architectural renderings of Ed’s internal mindscape, with the various offices occupied by the Numskulls themselves presented as architectural sections of his skull. More recently, the 1990s American television sitcom Herman’s Head took a post-Jungi ...
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY LECTURE THALES, HERACLITUS
... This makes reference to the past. But the past is gone! It does not exist. Therefore, we cannot meaningfully make a true statement about the past because all true statements must be only about situations that obtain. This leads to the general denial of the passage of time. There is no difference bet ...
... This makes reference to the past. But the past is gone! It does not exist. Therefore, we cannot meaningfully make a true statement about the past because all true statements must be only about situations that obtain. This leads to the general denial of the passage of time. There is no difference bet ...
RealistsvsNominalists
... perceived by the senses. To attend to the common elements in abstraction from sensibly perceived objects is to think. 2. The mark of a Universal is the presence of elements which appear in a number of things or events numerical distinct. It is an identity in difference. a. And since there is identit ...
... perceived by the senses. To attend to the common elements in abstraction from sensibly perceived objects is to think. 2. The mark of a Universal is the presence of elements which appear in a number of things or events numerical distinct. It is an identity in difference. a. And since there is identit ...
Christian Thomas KOHL
... 1. Substantialism. Substance is something that has independent existence (Webster's New World Dictionary, New York, 1968). In Europe, substantialism is at the centre of traditional metaphysics, beginning with pre-Socratic philosophers (such as Parmenides and Heraclitus, two critics of substantial th ...
... 1. Substantialism. Substance is something that has independent existence (Webster's New World Dictionary, New York, 1968). In Europe, substantialism is at the centre of traditional metaphysics, beginning with pre-Socratic philosophers (such as Parmenides and Heraclitus, two critics of substantial th ...
Being
Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing objective and subjective features of reality and existence. Anything that partakes in being is also called a ""being"", though often this use is limited to entities that have subjectivity (as in the expression ""human being""). So broad a notion has inevitably been elusive and controversial in the history of philosophy, beginning in western philosophy with attempts among the pre-Socratics to deploy it intelligibly.As an example of efforts in recent times, Martin Heidegger (who himself drew on ancient Greek sources) adopted German terms like Dasein to articulate the topic. Several modern approaches build on such continental European exemplars as Heidegger, and apply metaphysical results to the understanding of human psychology and the human condition generally (notably in the Existentialist tradition).By contrast, in mainstream Analytical philosophy the topic is more confined to abstract investigation, in the work of such influential theorists as W. V. O. Quine, to name one of many. One most fundamental question that continues to exercise philosophers is put by William James: ""How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.""