is discontinuous bergsonism possible?
... 1944,196) . This was an extremely difficult task. As Bergson pointed out in the Essai, “all dynamic representation is distasteful to reflective consciousness”.6 However, “concepts are necessary [to reach intuition], for all the other sciences work as a rule with concepts, and metaphysics cannot disp ...
... 1944,196) . This was an extremely difficult task. As Bergson pointed out in the Essai, “all dynamic representation is distasteful to reflective consciousness”.6 However, “concepts are necessary [to reach intuition], for all the other sciences work as a rule with concepts, and metaphysics cannot disp ...
Island Universe Problems - [email protected]
... interacted with, or could possibly ever interact with in the future. You are spatiotemporally related to all of those things, and you and them are all parts, or inhabitants, of the actual world. Imagine a part of the actual world that was not spatiotemporally related to you - a segment of existence ...
... interacted with, or could possibly ever interact with in the future. You are spatiotemporally related to all of those things, and you and them are all parts, or inhabitants, of the actual world. Imagine a part of the actual world that was not spatiotemporally related to you - a segment of existence ...
Island Universes and the Analysis of Modality
... unified; the maximal such unified regions are the worlds. On this basic strategy, I am in agreement with Lewis. But I disagree with Lewis over two substantial issues having to do with the manner of unification. First, for Lewis, all worlds are globally unified (or almost globally unified): at any wo ...
... unified; the maximal such unified regions are the worlds. On this basic strategy, I am in agreement with Lewis. But I disagree with Lewis over two substantial issues having to do with the manner of unification. First, for Lewis, all worlds are globally unified (or almost globally unified): at any wo ...
- Philsci-Archive
... antirealist with respect to theories. Thus Bohr referred to the state vector or the wave function as a symbolic representation. Usually symbolic language stands in contrast to literal language. Bohr associated the latter form of representation with what can be visualized in space and time. Quantum s ...
... antirealist with respect to theories. Thus Bohr referred to the state vector or the wave function as a symbolic representation. Usually symbolic language stands in contrast to literal language. Bohr associated the latter form of representation with what can be visualized in space and time. Quantum s ...
Three Meanings of Epistemic Rhetoric
... the first and third meanings argued in this paper and is therefore somewhat more complicated and subtle. In this view, whether rhetoric properly leads to the discovery of all truth is problematic. This position avoids knotty problems of the role of rhetoric in science, mathematics, etc., by focusing ...
... the first and third meanings argued in this paper and is therefore somewhat more complicated and subtle. In this view, whether rhetoric properly leads to the discovery of all truth is problematic. This position avoids knotty problems of the role of rhetoric in science, mathematics, etc., by focusing ...
Constructing and Representing Reality: Hegel and the Making of
... stands in clear contrast to Plato, who finds reality only in celestial ideas. Based on his Theory of Forms—the view that nonmaterial abstract (but substantial) forms (or ideas), not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest, most fundamental reality—Plato denoun ...
... stands in clear contrast to Plato, who finds reality only in celestial ideas. Based on his Theory of Forms—the view that nonmaterial abstract (but substantial) forms (or ideas), not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest, most fundamental reality—Plato denoun ...
Is Structural Spacetime Realism Relationism in Disguise
... opinion we should believe in the existence of electrons or quarks for the same reasons that we grant mind-independent existence to tables and chairs: not only do we perceive them (although indirectly), but we measure and manipulate them to obtain our aims. Antirealists about entities typically use e ...
... opinion we should believe in the existence of electrons or quarks for the same reasons that we grant mind-independent existence to tables and chairs: not only do we perceive them (although indirectly), but we measure and manipulate them to obtain our aims. Antirealists about entities typically use e ...
The Relevance of Kant's Objection to Anselm's Ontological Argument
... aim instead is to show how Anselm’s ontological argument is, like Meinong, committed to the idea that existence is a real property, a property that some things might have and others might lack, a property that does ‘ make an addition ’ to a thing. James Van Cleve’s equivalent interpretation of Kant’ ...
... aim instead is to show how Anselm’s ontological argument is, like Meinong, committed to the idea that existence is a real property, a property that some things might have and others might lack, a property that does ‘ make an addition ’ to a thing. James Van Cleve’s equivalent interpretation of Kant’ ...
... representation, and that the demonstration only serves to confirm its exactness. I also disagree with him on this point. “I already mentioned a significant event that occurred only recently (the discovery of the unity of science) but another, less promising one, had preceded it—and almost prevented it ...
moving beyond unification and modeling: a reconsideration of
... not of things but of structures. For this reason, the appeal to quantum field theory begins to undermine the very project of constructing an ontology, properly understood as studying things, which indicates that there are other ways of doing metaphysics.1 French (1998) makes a similar point. Second, ...
... not of things but of structures. For this reason, the appeal to quantum field theory begins to undermine the very project of constructing an ontology, properly understood as studying things, which indicates that there are other ways of doing metaphysics.1 French (1998) makes a similar point. Second, ...
Real, invented or applied? Some reflections on scientific objectivity
... For the realist, epistemological objectivity depends on ontological objectivity, namely for our beliefs to be objective we ought to assume the independent existence of determinate facts, objects, properties, events, etc. (i.e., an ‘objective’ ontology). For the anti-realist, epistemological objectiv ...
... For the realist, epistemological objectivity depends on ontological objectivity, namely for our beliefs to be objective we ought to assume the independent existence of determinate facts, objects, properties, events, etc. (i.e., an ‘objective’ ontology). For the anti-realist, epistemological objectiv ...
reply to JJ Valberg - Keele Research Repository
... legitimacy of the phenomenal conception, it has no real place in his account. It serves primarily to provide his diagnosis of where others go wrong, and within his own account, it strikes me as merely an awkwardness. For on the one hand, Valberg thinks that the phenomenal conception, since it applie ...
... legitimacy of the phenomenal conception, it has no real place in his account. It serves primarily to provide his diagnosis of where others go wrong, and within his own account, it strikes me as merely an awkwardness. For on the one hand, Valberg thinks that the phenomenal conception, since it applie ...
Subjects, Objects, Data and Values
... conference — the meeting of art and science. Science is all about subjects and objects and particularly data, but it excludes values. Art is concerned primarily with values but doesn't really pay much attention to scientific data and sometimes excludes objects. My own work is concerned with a Metaph ...
... conference — the meeting of art and science. Science is all about subjects and objects and particularly data, but it excludes values. Art is concerned primarily with values but doesn't really pay much attention to scientific data and sometimes excludes objects. My own work is concerned with a Metaph ...
Problems Of Metaphysical Philosophy
... 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 existence an ...
... 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 existence an ...
THE UNTRUTH AND THE TRUTH OF SKEPTICISM
... But however attractive these accounts of existence may be, they are not enough. Modal notions, such as Mill's "possibility," cry out for explanation; subjunctive conditionals, essential to any officially phenomenalist account, are probably the most unclear kind of statement; the Fregean notion of a ...
... But however attractive these accounts of existence may be, they are not enough. Modal notions, such as Mill's "possibility," cry out for explanation; subjunctive conditionals, essential to any officially phenomenalist account, are probably the most unclear kind of statement; the Fregean notion of a ...
Review of Peter Loptson, Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics
... that the page I hold now and the page I held a few moments ago are not two momentary objects but rather are literally identical, one and the same object, which merely happens to exist now as well as to have existed a few moments ago, though presumably undergoing some alteration. I am not interested ...
... that the page I hold now and the page I held a few moments ago are not two momentary objects but rather are literally identical, one and the same object, which merely happens to exist now as well as to have existed a few moments ago, though presumably undergoing some alteration. I am not interested ...
DIRECT REALISM WITHOUT MATERIALISM
... "In the case of being appeared to, there is something, one's being appeared to in a certain way, that one interprets as being a sign of some external fact" (Chisholm's italics).xi And: "if, for example, you look outside and see a dog, then you see it by means of visual sensations that are called up ...
... "In the case of being appeared to, there is something, one's being appeared to in a certain way, that one interprets as being a sign of some external fact" (Chisholm's italics).xi And: "if, for example, you look outside and see a dog, then you see it by means of visual sensations that are called up ...
1 Graham Priest. One: Being an investigation into the Unity of
... fringe views for which he is well-known, speaks to its power and elegance. For this reason One could also serve as a panoramic introduction to Priest’s work generally. But a review of this size can only highlight its peaks at the expense of details in the valleys. Unities are more than just the sum ...
... fringe views for which he is well-known, speaks to its power and elegance. For this reason One could also serve as a panoramic introduction to Priest’s work generally. But a review of this size can only highlight its peaks at the expense of details in the valleys. Unities are more than just the sum ...
The Issue of Correspondence between Scientific Law and Ultimate
... eventually reach the level of absolute knowing, in which its knowledge is completely united with the noumenal world. But I argue that this leap occurs only within Hegel’s philosophical imagination, and therefore we cannot extrapolate his conception of absolute knowing to help illuminate the issue of ...
... eventually reach the level of absolute knowing, in which its knowledge is completely united with the noumenal world. But I argue that this leap occurs only within Hegel’s philosophical imagination, and therefore we cannot extrapolate his conception of absolute knowing to help illuminate the issue of ...
RealistsvsNominalists
... appear in a number of things or events numerical distinct. It is an identity in difference. a. And since there is identity in difference throughout the scale of experience, universals comprehend the whole range of apprehension and reflection. b. An inquiry into the nature of universals will embrace ...
... appear in a number of things or events numerical distinct. It is an identity in difference. a. And since there is identity in difference throughout the scale of experience, universals comprehend the whole range of apprehension and reflection. b. An inquiry into the nature of universals will embrace ...
1 - PhilPapers
... need any sophisticated philosophical explanations. We need merely look around, because possible worlds are just more things of that sort. There are like remote planets (cf. Kripke, 1972, p. 44), although most of them are much bigger and are not remote. His argument — called also the argument from wa ...
... need any sophisticated philosophical explanations. We need merely look around, because possible worlds are just more things of that sort. There are like remote planets (cf. Kripke, 1972, p. 44), although most of them are much bigger and are not remote. His argument — called also the argument from wa ...
OBJECTIONS TO REALISM Introduction: There are a bewildering
... seeing things as having certain characteristics one never saw them as having before--very much the way in which one first sees the picture as being of a rabbit and then, without drawing inferences or reaching conclusions, suddenly sees it as a picture of a duck. Does "seeing as" point us to a phenom ...
... seeing things as having certain characteristics one never saw them as having before--very much the way in which one first sees the picture as being of a rabbit and then, without drawing inferences or reaching conclusions, suddenly sees it as a picture of a duck. Does "seeing as" point us to a phenom ...
Concepts and Objects
... within nature, Sellars develops an inferentialist account of the normative structure of conception that allows him to prosecute a scientific realism unencumbered by the epistemological strictures of empiricism.5 In doing so, Sellars augurs a new alliance between post-Kantian rationalism and post-Dar ...
... within nature, Sellars develops an inferentialist account of the normative structure of conception that allows him to prosecute a scientific realism unencumbered by the epistemological strictures of empiricism.5 In doing so, Sellars augurs a new alliance between post-Kantian rationalism and post-Dar ...
L. Notes - School of Computing
... Immanuel Kant is a modern Idealist: Kant believed that the moral principle could be summed up in what he called the Categorical Imperative. He had two formulations of this Imperative: 1) "Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law" ( ...
... Immanuel Kant is a modern Idealist: Kant believed that the moral principle could be summed up in what he called the Categorical Imperative. He had two formulations of this Imperative: 1) "Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law" ( ...
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 ...