Welcome to aesthetics :) -- those are the questions aesthetics tries to address -- we often believe there's a difference between say even some film th...
I left Kripke out, so to touch back on that -- The part of Kripke that makes sense to me is page 18 of the PDF on the OP Kripke: Identity and Necessit...
Right, I agree! So enter Kant -- he puts the rationalist spin on his philosophy but then I think he has a more romantic undertone which relies upon em...
Yes, but I don't think it does the work you're thinking it does. The first time I read Hume I thought the same, which is what ultimately drove me to K...
Now I've already agreed to say that my understanding is terrible in order to jump into the ideas and arguments. Let's just say Aristotle is right abou...
Why would I think such a thing? I have noted that we could just not know. I don't particularly care to overthrow Aristotle -- I think he's anachronist...
If we know we know something then there's no reason for us to invent some frame in which to say how we know that we know that we know something -- lik...
I don't know that -- it's something I wonder about. And in the context of art I think it's interesting to explore the objectivist stance. In what sens...
I was wondering what the consequences of the question were. When they said they wanted opinions I thought to give them one that hadn't been stated yet...
I imagine it'd be easy to get him to see that knowledge is generated by human being, and that the conclusions of his argument are at least consistent ...
I mean once I get called a bumbler, an idiot, and a manbaby for a philosophical position I hold I'm afraid I can't resist the urge to crack a dry joke...
That's a false dilemma. We can accept the parts we agree with and not accept the parts we disagree with. Heh, I was only playing into your preconcepti...
Yes, indeed. Most of what I believe is from my mother. She was herself a Humean so I tell myself that I'm not, but you've seen my true essence. I have...
I can and I will! But it doesn't do that. We learn about what exists by listening to others. It's marvelously simple, but it brings down the grandeur ...
My goodness, Leon. Are you applying to the philosophical school of inquisition? I wrote that much to give you more to latch onto, to show where I'm co...
I'm willing to include some in those categories, yeah. Let's say for Marx The Soviet Union, and for anarchists the Anarchism in Spain -- so not just t...
Yeah I see a sort of "dialectic" between them -- in some way it feels like the two "fill out" one another, and by keeping that tension in a single pol...
Sure, if I squint I see that. But analogies are more pedagogical or helps us to orient ourselves -- the thing itself isn't either of the animal metaph...
That's interesting. It's not what I think. I think there is a history of patriarchal hierarchy within human culture that continues on into today, but ...
Kinda-sorta, if we squint. As metaphor, but not reality. The danger there is that anarchists are more organized than cats, and Marxists are less organ...
However we answer this question I would say that in answering it we are not doing science as we practice it today. We are engaging in philosophy, and ...
One of the things that might sound Aristotelian, but I want to note differences, is that I'd question Hume's notion of causation. Insofar that we're t...
There's a pair of arguments that I like to employ together as a kind of antinomy. One is the problem of induction. The other is the post-modern meta-i...
Some of the differences I see is how we treat difference. Is difference real, or is it peculiar? Is what is the same the same as what is real? What re...
What is Hume's induction argument? He brings up the problem of induction, but he does it through events. Are events the same as objects, to your mind?...
How I know it is certainly different from whether I think it. Why I think it is because I've seen them before and talked about them with others to mak...
Induction. At least my interpretation of Aristotle's induction, which relies upon a premise that there are predicates which hold for all members of a ...
Something I found interesting in the translator's introduction was that "Bann" can also be translated as "Spell", but the translator chose "bane" beca...
Judging by your quote I'd say that this is really just where I disagree with Aristotle -- there's no such thing as essences. So while I understand tha...
Something that hasn't been mentioned yet is Kant's aesthetic theories which puts art into a category in-between the objective and the subjective. We j...
Eh, not much of one. I was fine with it being deleted at the time for the reasons @"Jamal" mentioned. I'll respond to an OP of any quality as long as ...
Aristotle worked with what he had -- but I'm not sure he had instruments at all, to be honest. His instrument was logic, description, empiricism, and ...
I appreciate your thoughtful approach. I have some objections though. I think you've supported thesis 2 better than thesis 1. "Materialism", as I unde...
By: @"Count Timothy von Icarus" (Only placed here because it wouldn't fit the character limit in the OP) Footnotes: 1. C.S. Lewis. The Discarded Image...
Fair. How would we differentiate it? It looks a lot like set theory to me. Because, for him, the genera are real. When he moves up the chain there's n...
In math we can form an induction which is valid by starting with a particular case and then proving that it holds for all cases so that the individual...
Good point. I think Aristotle sees his categories as mathematical inductions because he empirically witnessed them. I see them as mathematical inducti...
Only in english, and years ago. Something like 15 years. I don't doubt that my reading is rusty. But, yes. I wouldn't bother to say something here unl...
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