Thales
... A fuller interpretation of the above necessarily takes one outside of the historically confirmable; yet one must propose some interpretation beyond the hard evidence if later fabrications are to be discarded. On the basis of Aristotle’s cautious remarks it can be inferred that Thales thought of the ...
... A fuller interpretation of the above necessarily takes one outside of the historically confirmable; yet one must propose some interpretation beyond the hard evidence if later fabrications are to be discarded. On the basis of Aristotle’s cautious remarks it can be inferred that Thales thought of the ...
“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 ...
Substantive Syllogisms - Scholarship at UWindsor
... Treatment of the syllogism as a basic form of inference is something found to be widespread, even today, in the post twentieth century which saw the entrenchment of classical propositional logic and the appearance of various post-classical logics. A survey of logic texts seems to reveal that the aut ...
... Treatment of the syllogism as a basic form of inference is something found to be widespread, even today, in the post twentieth century which saw the entrenchment of classical propositional logic and the appearance of various post-classical logics. A survey of logic texts seems to reveal that the aut ...
Aristotle`s Syllogistic and Core Logic
... rule that involves discharge of assumptions made ‘for the sake of argument’. 1.2. The different inferential approach of this study We shall state some altogether new rules for Aristotle’s quantifying expressions. Each of those expressions is governed by at least one basic rule that involves discharg ...
... rule that involves discharge of assumptions made ‘for the sake of argument’. 1.2. The different inferential approach of this study We shall state some altogether new rules for Aristotle’s quantifying expressions. Each of those expressions is governed by at least one basic rule that involves discharg ...
Annas, Aristotle Kant and the Stoics
... wealth, which we generally have reason to go for, are preferred indifferents, while their opposites are dispreferred. 14 The corollary of this for practical reasoning is drastic: only virtue is cho sen, while the preferred indifferents are selected. This is an artificial distinc tion which the Sto ...
... wealth, which we generally have reason to go for, are preferred indifferents, while their opposites are dispreferred. 14 The corollary of this for practical reasoning is drastic: only virtue is cho sen, while the preferred indifferents are selected. This is an artificial distinc tion which the Sto ...
introduction: the task of thinking reality
... contemplative insight into things that lies at the heart of metaphysics. The Greeks called this approach to things theoria, which comes from the word theoros, a word which means "one who sees." The "one who sees" is the theoros, the individual who has an insight into the things of the world, who can ...
... contemplative insight into things that lies at the heart of metaphysics. The Greeks called this approach to things theoria, which comes from the word theoros, a word which means "one who sees." The "one who sees" is the theoros, the individual who has an insight into the things of the world, who can ...
Syllogism - University of Windsor
... Treatment of the syllogism as a basic form of inference is something found to be widespread, even today, in the post twentieth century which saw the entrenchment of classical propositional logic and the appearance of various post-classical logics. A survey of logic texts seems to reveal that the aut ...
... Treatment of the syllogism as a basic form of inference is something found to be widespread, even today, in the post twentieth century which saw the entrenchment of classical propositional logic and the appearance of various post-classical logics. A survey of logic texts seems to reveal that the aut ...
connectedness
... these subjects are two immaterial bodies which were considered by traditional European metaphysics as lying, as a sort of core, inside the objects or underlying the empirical reality of our world. The first European scientist who saw with his inner eye the forces between two things had been Michael ...
... these subjects are two immaterial bodies which were considered by traditional European metaphysics as lying, as a sort of core, inside the objects or underlying the empirical reality of our world. The first European scientist who saw with his inner eye the forces between two things had been Michael ...
aristotle`s poetics - U
... is clear enough from the connection made in the same context with moral purpose or character (ithos) that the success or failure in action which Aristotle has in mind is taken to possess an ethical dimension. These passages confirm, then, what is more diffusely recognisable, that the..types of human ...
... is clear enough from the connection made in the same context with moral purpose or character (ithos) that the success or failure in action which Aristotle has in mind is taken to possess an ethical dimension. These passages confirm, then, what is more diffusely recognisable, that the..types of human ...
The Principle Of Excluded Middle Then And Now: Aristotle
... blended, the blend is neither good nor not-good, so that it is not possible to say anything truly.7 The Principle of Identity is not derived from either of the others, but from Aristotle's reflections on the unity and being of substance: "To ask why something is itself is to inquire into nothing, fo ...
... blended, the blend is neither good nor not-good, so that it is not possible to say anything truly.7 The Principle of Identity is not derived from either of the others, but from Aristotle's reflections on the unity and being of substance: "To ask why something is itself is to inquire into nothing, fo ...
this PDF file - Lexicon Philosophicum
... what Aristotle previously demonstrated. As is known, Aristotle in Metaphysics Γ 4-6 proves by refutation the validity of the principle of noncontradiction. Alexander refers to the meaning of this principle with the expression “it is not possible for the contraries to simultaneously exist”. In this w ...
... what Aristotle previously demonstrated. As is known, Aristotle in Metaphysics Γ 4-6 proves by refutation the validity of the principle of noncontradiction. Alexander refers to the meaning of this principle with the expression “it is not possible for the contraries to simultaneously exist”. In this w ...
Problems Of Metaphysical Philosophy
... Introduction The word problem as used in this context is a noun and it could mean difficulty, puzzle or question to which answer or solution has to be given. When we therefore speak of the problems of metaphysical philosophy we have in mind those recurrent issues in metaphysics which border on human ...
... Introduction The word problem as used in this context is a noun and it could mean difficulty, puzzle or question to which answer or solution has to be given. When we therefore speak of the problems of metaphysical philosophy we have in mind those recurrent issues in metaphysics which border on human ...
PDF only - at www.arxiv.org.
... since the dawn of the modern era. It is so engrained in our culture, that the sentence “to find a scientific explanation” usually means “to point to an antecedent situation, which ...
... since the dawn of the modern era. It is so engrained in our culture, that the sentence “to find a scientific explanation” usually means “to point to an antecedent situation, which ...
Cosmological sources of critical cosmopolitanism
... of Black Studies, 38:6 (July 2008), pp. 951–67. From Giambattista Vico, we have learnt that myth – or cosmology in the cultural sense of the term – should not be opposed to abstract rationality or scientific truth; myths are narratives that can have truth-value and be based on the results of science ...
... of Black Studies, 38:6 (July 2008), pp. 951–67. From Giambattista Vico, we have learnt that myth – or cosmology in the cultural sense of the term – should not be opposed to abstract rationality or scientific truth; myths are narratives that can have truth-value and be based on the results of science ...
Aristotle`s Theory of the Assertoric Syllogism
... its subaltern AoC would follow), nor can AaC follow (or its subaltern AiC would too). Thus, Aristotle takes syllogistic validity to be formal. In fact, he does more than this. Many authors have been puzzled to determine what is the actual basis of syllogistic validity. It might appear that all valid ...
... its subaltern AoC would follow), nor can AaC follow (or its subaltern AiC would too). Thus, Aristotle takes syllogistic validity to be formal. In fact, he does more than this. Many authors have been puzzled to determine what is the actual basis of syllogistic validity. It might appear that all valid ...
A discussion of Aristotle`s De Anima
... and work through page by page until ? Should we coordinate editions and such? The easiest thing for non-Greek-readers would probably be to use the Barnes collected works (they’re good and common enough that the local library should have a set if one doesn’t want to purchase a set). We probably wan ...
... and work through page by page until ? Should we coordinate editions and such? The easiest thing for non-Greek-readers would probably be to use the Barnes collected works (they’re good and common enough that the local library should have a set if one doesn’t want to purchase a set). We probably wan ...
Being and Time Introduction Chapter One
... Aristotle’s Metaphysics IV.1 • “There is a science that studies being insofar as it is being, and also the properties of being in its own right. It is not the same as any of the socalled special sciences. For none of them considers being quite generally, insofar as it is being; rather, each of them ...
... Aristotle’s Metaphysics IV.1 • “There is a science that studies being insofar as it is being, and also the properties of being in its own right. It is not the same as any of the socalled special sciences. For none of them considers being quite generally, insofar as it is being; rather, each of them ...
Logos, Ethos and Pathos
... • Those who wish to persuade you will play with your emotions. They may persuade you with fear, love, patriotism, guilt, hate or joy. • Although the use of pathos can be manipulative, it is the cornerstone of moving people to action and it will continue to be used again and ...
... • Those who wish to persuade you will play with your emotions. They may persuade you with fear, love, patriotism, guilt, hate or joy. • Although the use of pathos can be manipulative, it is the cornerstone of moving people to action and it will continue to be used again and ...
`Among contemporaries the most exciting thinker, masterful
... longer think in terms of a self, as owner of experiences, and the separate and independent things around the self in space and time. We need to recover a lost primordial unity in which such divisions did not exist. We are to do this, in phenomenology, by “out-staring” the phenomena, until in a momen ...
... longer think in terms of a self, as owner of experiences, and the separate and independent things around the self in space and time. We need to recover a lost primordial unity in which such divisions did not exist. We are to do this, in phenomenology, by “out-staring” the phenomena, until in a momen ...
the tension between aristotle_s theories
... similes and metaphors, all used to explain the most difficult doctrinal points33: the unity of body and soul is conceived as the unity of a circle and its tangent at a point34, and as the unity of a wax tablet and the image stamped upon it35. Concerning the body's instrumental relationship to the so ...
... similes and metaphors, all used to explain the most difficult doctrinal points33: the unity of body and soul is conceived as the unity of a circle and its tangent at a point34, and as the unity of a wax tablet and the image stamped upon it35. Concerning the body's instrumental relationship to the so ...
Boethius Dacus on the supreme good
... of the value of beings. This delight is greater than that of sense. Therefore, he despises sense pleasures. But many sins and vices consist in excessive sense pleasure. Thirdly, because there is no sin in understanding and theorizing. There is no possibility of excess and of sin in the order of supr ...
... of the value of beings. This delight is greater than that of sense. Therefore, he despises sense pleasures. But many sins and vices consist in excessive sense pleasure. Thirdly, because there is no sin in understanding and theorizing. There is no possibility of excess and of sin in the order of supr ...
Irwin`s Routledge Encyclopedia article on Aristotle
... editors and commentators (from the first century BC to the sixth century AD); it reflects their view not about the order in which the works were written, but about the order in which they should be studied. This entry generally follows the order of the corpus, except that it discusses On the Soul af ...
... editors and commentators (from the first century BC to the sixth century AD); it reflects their view not about the order in which the works were written, but about the order in which they should be studied. This entry generally follows the order of the corpus, except that it discusses On the Soul af ...
Cosmological Argument
... • Why is there something rather than nothing? • Why does the universe the form it does, and not some other form? • How can the series of events that are the universe be explained? ...
... • Why is there something rather than nothing? • Why does the universe the form it does, and not some other form? • How can the series of events that are the universe be explained? ...
Causality in the Nyāya
... between a cause and its effect? The second, and perhaps more basic question is: whether the notion of cause is at all a viable concept in philosophy, useful for explanation and understanding of what are called 'events'? Because of the muddle and complexity associated with the notion of 'cause', some ...
... between a cause and its effect? The second, and perhaps more basic question is: whether the notion of cause is at all a viable concept in philosophy, useful for explanation and understanding of what are called 'events'? Because of the muddle and complexity associated with the notion of 'cause', some ...
12 Substances
... be, and which persists in the result” (I.8 192a31). But if matter is the subject that persists through change, then it has the feature that Aristotle said at Categories 4a10 was “most distinctive” of substances. And since matter is also the primary subject of predication (“the predicates other than ...
... be, and which persists in the result” (I.8 192a31). But if matter is the subject that persists through change, then it has the feature that Aristotle said at Categories 4a10 was “most distinctive” of substances. And since matter is also the primary subject of predication (“the predicates other than ...