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Walker Percy and the Magic of Naming
Walker Percy and the Magic of Naming

... He had twin kings to depose – kings that had ruled over Western culture since the Enlightenment – Newtonian science and Cartesian dualism. In Percy’s academic world, the scientific paradigm took precedence over Descartes’ “ghost in a machine” and certainly over the conservative Christian view. But i ...
Wittgenstein`s Tractatus Logico
Wittgenstein`s Tractatus Logico

... one; it is also not obvious that there is anything more problematic here than in the supposition that all objects are complex itself. The argument from understanding. A slightly different form of argument can also be given for the conclusion here, by employing a thought Wittgenstein expresses later ...
Logic Notes 2006
Logic Notes 2006

... The following treatment of complex arguments is largely borrowed from Bernard D. Katz, Logic Notes ...
View PDF - CiteSeerX
View PDF - CiteSeerX

... pressure boils at 100 degrees centigrade,” he does so under certain conditions. What is the relationship between sentences of this kind and their conditions for assent? It is not description since they “describe” too much. Some positivists respond by replacing verification conditions with confirmati ...
Taking reincarnation seriously
Taking reincarnation seriously

... In work subsequent to Death and Eternal Life, Hick downplays talk of ‘personal identity’ across different lives, not least because he is aware that this terminology is problematic in the context of Buddhism. Buddhists – or, at any rate, those schools of Buddhism with which Hick has the closest affi ...
5 derrida`s critique of husserl and the philosophy of presence
5 derrida`s critique of husserl and the philosophy of presence

... Derrida follows Heidegger’s distinction between (a) the sense of Being, (b) the word Being, and (c) the concept of Being. For Heidegger’s discussion of this, see Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, 12th ed. (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1972), English translation, John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, Being ...
RETRANSMITTABILITY AND EMPIRICAL PROPOSITIONS
RETRANSMITTABILITY AND EMPIRICAL PROPOSITIONS

... definition of knowledge. Unlike justificationists, they do not attach great importance to definitions of philosophical terms. They see knowledge as consisting of a collection of conjectural and tentative theories that may well be replaced by better theories as these come along in the future. Scienti ...
Defending the Subjective Component of Susan Wolf`s “Fitting
Defending the Subjective Component of Susan Wolf`s “Fitting

... objectivism within the debate of life’s meaning, stating that both parts are necessary for a life to be meaningful. The main question of this essay is if Wolf’s claim that, besides an objective component, a subjective component is necessary for meaning in life is accurate or if the critics have show ...
EXPERIENCE AND PERCEPTUAL BELIEF
EXPERIENCE AND PERCEPTUAL BELIEF

... of science’. We cannot test scientific theories against introspective reports from scientists, because scientific theories (save for theories belonging to introspective psychology) say nothing about what the introspective activities of scientists will or will not reveal about their psyches. [If we f ...
Wittgenstein on the Experience of Meaning
Wittgenstein on the Experience of Meaning

... different sentences; in the other, something that is expressed only by these words in these positions (PI 531; cf. LW II, p. 39; PG, 32, p. 69) In this sense he attaches special importance to an elusive feature of meaning to which he refers as the “feeling”, “voice”, “face”, “look”, “physiognomy”, “ ...
babel and derrida
babel and derrida

... And it is clear that Derrida makes no attempt to read the Tower of Babel narrative closely within its context in Genesis or within the Hebrew Bible as a whole. He fails, firstly, to note that the narrative deals with the descendants of Shem, Ham and Japheth and treats the story as though it is deali ...
The “Silence” of Wittgenstein and Kraus
The “Silence” of Wittgenstein and Kraus

... The most significant change in how he went about it is the replacement of analysis by context as the dominant crux of clarification, as elaborated in the opening sixty-five sections of the Philosophical Investigations.6 Analysis may still be a method of clarification where truth-claims are involved ...
REASONS FOR THE MITZVOT (PART I)
REASONS FOR THE MITZVOT (PART I)

... then, that intellection results from an encounter that takes place in time and space. The Active Intellect, in contrast, according to its philosophical definition, is the unity of the knowing mind and that which is known. What does this unity mean? This idea of unity is connected to the point that w ...
Wittgenstein`s Grammar of Emotions
Wittgenstein`s Grammar of Emotions

... «can’t be justified by reality» (BT: 148e). But what does it mean that grammar cannot be justified? First, it means that the rules of grammar cannot be derived from any pre-existent meaning of the words that they are supposed to govern. For example, the fact that two negations yield an affirmation c ...
The Undiscovered Wittgenstein
The Undiscovered Wittgenstein

... mind his conviction that philosophy can be expressed in the formal mode of speech. As regards the topic under discussion here [privacy], his position was that there are no private objects, but he would not have formulated his position that way. He had so diligently trained himself to avoid the mater ...
"Wittgenstein, Ludwig" In: The International Encyclopedia of Ethics
"Wittgenstein, Ludwig" In: The International Encyclopedia of Ethics

... can be said and what can only be shown (Wittgenstein 1974 [1922]: 4.1212), though it is controversial how it is to be applied. On one view, the ethical sentences of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – like its other philosophical sentences, about the existence of objects, for example – express what wou ...
Explaining the disquotational principle
Explaining the disquotational principle

... priorities of mind and language more sharply: find some necessary truth connecting linguistic and mental facts and ask whether that necessary truth is to be explained in terms of the essence of the linguistic, or of the mental, facts. An example of such a necessary truth is the following (simplified ...
Cato Wittusen - University of Chicago
Cato Wittusen - University of Chicago

... for a slice of pizza instead of a token.6 Thus, even though the uses of ‘fat’ and ‘lean’ are palpably different from the familiar ones, it is not clear in what sense we could rightly argue that the word must have taken on a new meaning. This problem seems even more pressing against the backdrop of v ...
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Aspects of Visual Epistemology: On the “Logic” of the Iconic Dieter

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saying and showing the good
saying and showing the good

... of objects or of facts, that there is no world. To suppose that he did would be to attribute to him a simplistic understanding of the notions of what there is (“reality”) and of what there is not, to suppose that, by rejecting a simplistic “realism,” he accepted a simplistic “antirealism.” It would ...
Is the language of intuitionistic mathematics adequate for
Is the language of intuitionistic mathematics adequate for

... The task of turning these meaning explanations into a precise definition is proving to be extremely difficult (I discuss some of the difficulties in my papers (1999) and (2000)). Meanwhile, many philosophers have claimed that these explanations are internally incoherent, so that the attempt to make ...
The Objectivity of the Past
The Objectivity of the Past

... III. Davidson’s Deflationary Externalism At first blush, the likelihood of finding a more substantive notion of representation in Davidson’s work does not appear promising. Davidson seems, at times, to have taken a rather dim view of the prospect of a representational relation between language, on t ...
Chapter 2 Metaphysics, Fideism, Speculation
Chapter 2 Metaphysics, Fideism, Speculation

... very root, precisely insofar as it is intended to access an absolute existence. For its inference, according to which if God is perfect, then he must exist, claims to be a necessary one. But even if we were to grant that this necessity is not merely sophistical, it still would not have proven the ex ...
- ANU Repository
- ANU Repository

... anti-realism depends on the assumption that a theory of meaning should explain how speakers understand one another. The theory should therefore describe linguistic abilities in terms of communicable features of linguistic practice: those which are exhaustively manifest in use. I call this the manife ...
Kant`s Critique of the Ontological Argument: FAIL
Kant`s Critique of the Ontological Argument: FAIL

... The same holds for Kant’s final point offered in defense of the claim that existence is not a predicate or a property in the case of God. 10 According to Kant, the notion of existence adds nothing to the concept of a thing by way of increased meaning or information. Thus, the substantive content of ...
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Problem of religious language

The problem of religious language considers whether it is possible to talk about God meaningfully if the traditional conceptions of God as being incorporeal, infinite, and timeless, are accepted. Because these traditional conceptions of God make it difficult to describe God, religious language has the potential to be meaningless. Theories of religious language either attempt to demonstrate that such language is meaningless, or attempt to show how religious language can still be meaningful.Traditionally, religious language has been explained as via negativa, analogy, symbolism, or myth, each of which describes a way of talking about God in human terms. The via negativa is a way of referring to God according to what God is not; analogy uses human qualities as standards against which to compare divine qualities; symbolism is used non-literally to describe otherwise ineffable experiences; and a mythological interpretation of religion attempts to reveal fundamental truths behind religious stories. Alternative explanations of religious language cast it as having political, performative, or imperative functions.Empiricist David Hume's requirement that claims about reality must be verified by evidence influenced the logical positivist movement, particularly the philosopher A. J. Ayer. The movement proposed that, for a statement to hold meaning, it must be possible to verify its truthfulness empirically – with evidence from the senses. Consequently, the logical positivists argued that religious language must be meaningless because the propositions it makes are impossible to verify. Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein has been regarded as a logical positivist by some academics because he distinguished between things that can and cannot be spoken about; others have argued that he could not have been a logical positivist because he emphasised the importance of mysticism. British philosopher Antony Flew proposed a similar challenge based on the principle that, in so far as assertions of religious belief cannot be empirically falsified, religious statements are rendered meaningless.The analogy of games – most commonly associated with Ludwig Wittgenstein – has been proposed as a way of establishing meaning in religious language. The theory asserts that language must be understood in terms of a game: just as each game has its own rules determining what can and cannot be done, so each context of language has its own rules determining what is and is not meaningful. Religion is classified as a possible and legitimate language game which is meaningful within its own context. Various parables have also been proposed to solve the problem of meaning in religious language. R. M. Hare used his parable of a lunatic to introduce the concept of ""bliks"" – unfalsifiable beliefs according to which a worldview is established – which are not necessarily meaningless. Basil Mitchell used a parable to show that faith can be logical, even if it seems unverifiable. John Hick used his parable of the Celestial City to propose his theory of eschatological verification, the view that if there is an afterlife, then religious statements will be verifiable after death.
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