CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS
... “Let us imagine the following case. I want to keep a diary about the recurrence of a certain sensation. – I will remark first of all that a definition of the sign cannot be formulated – But still I can give myself a kind of ostensive definition. – How? Can I point to the sensation? Not in the ordina ...
... “Let us imagine the following case. I want to keep a diary about the recurrence of a certain sensation. – I will remark first of all that a definition of the sign cannot be formulated – But still I can give myself a kind of ostensive definition. – How? Can I point to the sensation? Not in the ordina ...
`Can we know God by experience
... The next bit discusses feeling certain and being right 15) Despite its popularity among some writers and Christians, the views about intuition of God expressed above have been criticised by modern philosophers. This isn’t just an antireligious bias, but reflects concerns about appealing to intuition ...
... The next bit discusses feeling certain and being right 15) Despite its popularity among some writers and Christians, the views about intuition of God expressed above have been criticised by modern philosophers. This isn’t just an antireligious bias, but reflects concerns about appealing to intuition ...
Print this article - Wittgenstein Repository, ed. Wittgenstein Archives
... 1989; Stern 1995; Engel 1996). As he says in Philosophical Investigation (1953: 63), it is the instruments of grammar and linguistic games which provide a means to interpret psychological concepts. The external character of linguistic rules and their applied, intrinsic nature constitute the basis fo ...
... 1989; Stern 1995; Engel 1996). As he says in Philosophical Investigation (1953: 63), it is the instruments of grammar and linguistic games which provide a means to interpret psychological concepts. The external character of linguistic rules and their applied, intrinsic nature constitute the basis fo ...
My Confession By Leo Tolstoy -Alexis Marroquin
... expensive car, but after you get what you desire, what of that? Eventually, he believed someone was looking over him and controlling his life to be a joke as they laughed and enjoyed seeing him wonder about life. Tolstoy explained that everyone either lived in the lie or saw the terrible truth, and ...
... expensive car, but after you get what you desire, what of that? Eventually, he believed someone was looking over him and controlling his life to be a joke as they laughed and enjoyed seeing him wonder about life. Tolstoy explained that everyone either lived in the lie or saw the terrible truth, and ...
PowerPoint No. 13 – The Ontological Argument
... with omniscience because an omnibenevolent being cannot know what it’s like to do evil. ...
... with omniscience because an omnibenevolent being cannot know what it’s like to do evil. ...
The Ontological Proof
... with omniscience because an omnibenevolent being cannot know what it’s like to do evil. ...
... with omniscience because an omnibenevolent being cannot know what it’s like to do evil. ...
The Dialectical Interplay of Reason and Aaron Trappett
... to believe, only they know not what; or, those who believe, yet know not why. The dialect terminates in the overwhelming subjective appropriation of that which is believed, concerning which reason inevitably reconnoiters its impotence in Ankst, or ...
... to believe, only they know not what; or, those who believe, yet know not why. The dialect terminates in the overwhelming subjective appropriation of that which is believed, concerning which reason inevitably reconnoiters its impotence in Ankst, or ...
Class #8
... seemed to be the last bastion of a ultimate support for the existence of God. Thus many theists to this day resist the Darwinian view which meanwhile has become the dominant scientific theory within Biology and has ...
... seemed to be the last bastion of a ultimate support for the existence of God. Thus many theists to this day resist the Darwinian view which meanwhile has become the dominant scientific theory within Biology and has ...
Is There a God?
... those which urge that children should be taught respect for the flag. A man with any genuine religious feeling will not be content with the view that the belief in God is useful, because he will wish to know whether, in fact, there is a God. It is absurd to contend that the two questions are the sam ...
... those which urge that children should be taught respect for the flag. A man with any genuine religious feeling will not be content with the view that the belief in God is useful, because he will wish to know whether, in fact, there is a God. It is absurd to contend that the two questions are the sam ...
Final Paper - The Comparison Project
... Names uses many words and Names to describe all the God contains, and all that he is precursor to. In stating all of these things, we know that God is not simply defined by those concepts or words. We may use those words with the realization that God is hyper to all of them. He is not just the trini ...
... Names uses many words and Names to describe all the God contains, and all that he is precursor to. In stating all of these things, we know that God is not simply defined by those concepts or words. We may use those words with the realization that God is hyper to all of them. He is not just the trini ...
Wittgenstein`s Conception of Ethics
... of a notation as the only means of formulating cognitive statements, it becomes conceivable that ethics (in Wittgenstein’s cognitive sense) might be possible. So in what sense can ethical articulations convey something true and important, as Wittgenstein himself suggests at the beginning of his Lect ...
... of a notation as the only means of formulating cognitive statements, it becomes conceivable that ethics (in Wittgenstein’s cognitive sense) might be possible. So in what sense can ethical articulations convey something true and important, as Wittgenstein himself suggests at the beginning of his Lect ...
A Critical overview on the Ontological Argument
... perfect, and the whole ontological argument is flawed. Another argument that a German philosopher named Immanuel Kant insisted strongly on was that, the word 'exists' may not be used as a simple quality of god. The word 'God' may indeed include goodness, almightiness, wisdom etc, but not 'existence' ...
... perfect, and the whole ontological argument is flawed. Another argument that a German philosopher named Immanuel Kant insisted strongly on was that, the word 'exists' may not be used as a simple quality of god. The word 'God' may indeed include goodness, almightiness, wisdom etc, but not 'existence' ...
July 18th as a powerpoint file (requires Powerpoint)
... religious tradition, relies on arguments which do not depend on premises drawn from traditional (e.g. scriptural) sources. • Dogmatic Theology on the other hand relies on arguments which do depend on premises drawn from traditional (e.g. scriptural) sources. • Religious philosophers, on the whole, c ...
... religious tradition, relies on arguments which do not depend on premises drawn from traditional (e.g. scriptural) sources. • Dogmatic Theology on the other hand relies on arguments which do depend on premises drawn from traditional (e.g. scriptural) sources. • Religious philosophers, on the whole, c ...
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bahktin
... because the dead are as innocent as children. No matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, in Hitler’s time, in Stalin’s time, through all occupations. When she felt low, she would get into the car, leave Prague far behind, and walk through one or another ...
... because the dead are as innocent as children. No matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, in Hitler’s time, in Stalin’s time, through all occupations. When she felt low, she would get into the car, leave Prague far behind, and walk through one or another ...
Symbol, Myth, and Culture: Essays and Lectures of Ernst Cassirer
... arguments that support my thesis. Mainly, the connection between myth and language as something symbolic. That through symbols we represent world, however, the world does not correspond to the reality, it is only a linguistic interpretation, suggestion. Robert Wicks, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook t ...
... arguments that support my thesis. Mainly, the connection between myth and language as something symbolic. That through symbols we represent world, however, the world does not correspond to the reality, it is only a linguistic interpretation, suggestion. Robert Wicks, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook t ...
American Classicism
... – Based on constants (rules) – Man could use reason (science) to discover these laws ...
... – Based on constants (rules) – Man could use reason (science) to discover these laws ...
Emotivism - Pegasus Cc Ucf
... Does not literally spell out the speaker’s feelings Expresses feelings, approval, or disapproval with emotive force Similar to connotation The overtones of feeling that a word arouses Separate from its literal meaning Is the difference between conveying information and appealing to feelings ...
... Does not literally spell out the speaker’s feelings Expresses feelings, approval, or disapproval with emotive force Similar to connotation The overtones of feeling that a word arouses Separate from its literal meaning Is the difference between conveying information and appealing to feelings ...
Philosophy of Language
... philosophers. Then there is the familiar point that, from the original ‘natural philosophy’, the empirical sciences have split off, leaving philosophers to try to find something more general to say which does not depend directly on empirical scientific evidence (while of course taking due note of wh ...
... philosophers. Then there is the familiar point that, from the original ‘natural philosophy’, the empirical sciences have split off, leaving philosophers to try to find something more general to say which does not depend directly on empirical scientific evidence (while of course taking due note of wh ...
Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is. verseny 07 L
... lingustical dicussions into a coherent philosphical system touching all the philosophical disciplines, gnoseology, metaphisich and ethic alike, if only for one or two sentences, are maybe the points most woth considering. Now, we will try to understand and interpret these metaphysical conclusions an ...
... lingustical dicussions into a coherent philosphical system touching all the philosophical disciplines, gnoseology, metaphisich and ethic alike, if only for one or two sentences, are maybe the points most woth considering. Now, we will try to understand and interpret these metaphysical conclusions an ...
Donovan Essay
... Religious Experiences are encounters with the divine. They are non-empirical occurrences that bring with it an awareness of something beyond ourselves and so for believers, this experience is the most convincing proof of Gods existence. Donovan argues that there are ‘varieties of religious experienc ...
... Religious Experiences are encounters with the divine. They are non-empirical occurrences that bring with it an awareness of something beyond ourselves and so for believers, this experience is the most convincing proof of Gods existence. Donovan argues that there are ‘varieties of religious experienc ...
religion - Angelfire
... the Way and Its Power The text is actually a compilation of various writings collected over the course of generations Compiled around the third century B.C. Some of its ideas may have been more than a century old by that time ...
... the Way and Its Power The text is actually a compilation of various writings collected over the course of generations Compiled around the third century B.C. Some of its ideas may have been more than a century old by that time ...
Existentialism
... as God’s way of calling each individual to make a commitment to a personally valid way of life. • Anxiety stems from our understanding and recognition of the total freedom of choice that confronts us every moment, and the individual’s confrontation with ...
... as God’s way of calling each individual to make a commitment to a personally valid way of life. • Anxiety stems from our understanding and recognition of the total freedom of choice that confronts us every moment, and the individual’s confrontation with ...
Metaphysics As Speculative Nonsense
... Nietzsche provides an argument against metaphysics very different from verificationism. He argues that metaphysical claims are, in the end, products of people’s values. Nietzsche diagnoses the origin of this false belief in a world that transcends the world of the senses in a moral belief, viz. that ...
... Nietzsche provides an argument against metaphysics very different from verificationism. He argues that metaphysical claims are, in the end, products of people’s values. Nietzsche diagnoses the origin of this false belief in a world that transcends the world of the senses in a moral belief, viz. that ...
Language Games84.66 KB
... – He offers us the following example: Imagine if you found yourself standing the driver’s cabin of a steam train, in front of you would be a large array of controls that you have no understanding of, while the actual driver would understand perfectly. The only way to engage with these controls is to ...
... – He offers us the following example: Imagine if you found yourself standing the driver’s cabin of a steam train, in front of you would be a large array of controls that you have no understanding of, while the actual driver would understand perfectly. The only way to engage with these controls is to ...
Analogy and the Apophatic Way - PushMe Press makes Ethics
... sacred, Holy and pure. 5. This then means that any expression of description of God that is anthropocentric must not be understood literally but metaphorically. 6. This includes Biblical accounts such as Moses experiencing God through a burning bush or getting the Ten Commandments from God on Mount ...
... sacred, Holy and pure. 5. This then means that any expression of description of God that is anthropocentric must not be understood literally but metaphorically. 6. This includes Biblical accounts such as Moses experiencing God through a burning bush or getting the Ten Commandments from God on Mount ...