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That may be, but "meaning is use" means we must attend to how the word is being used. The etymology is helpful. The root 'leg -' means to collect or g...

No need to remember it. It is right there in the quote:

What counts as justification depends on what the justification is of. In the case of the car it is seeing or showing that the car is still there. Plat...

I think a good case can be made for biological teleology at the level of organisms. Cell differentiation allows for one kind of stuff, a totipotent ce...

It is wonderous! The Greek terms ????? and ?????? mean not only beautiful but fine, good, and noble. In the Symposium the love of wisdom is erotic. It...

Good point. Unlike Christian eschatology where there is a beginning and end it time, for Heraclitus time does not play a significant role. The arche i...

Rather than cannot know I would say we do not know. But methodologically reduction has been enormously successful. I take a pragmatic approach. We sho...

Of course. My hermeneutic preference is to first try and understand what an author is saying. In line with this to try and figure out what he is denyi...

I don't think that arche is an active principle in John 1. He says explicitly that the Logos was God. Note also that in the beginning God/Logos alread...

According to Kant a substance is the subject of predicates. Since a thing in itself cannot be known nothing can be predicated of it.

It looks that way to me.

He arrived at this by mentally deleting all the properties, and concludes that substance is just a word is wrong. He offers no other definitions.

Right, but it is an Aristotelian understanding that was presented in the OP.

In the passage from the Meno what must be held fast to are the images of Daedalus. But he goes on to say that this is an illustration of the nature of...

I think reductionism needs to be looked at from both ends - more complex things can be broken down into simpler components, but in order to understand...

Without the specifics of the account I can only speak in generalities. When you say he is capable do you mean Socrates or Theaetetus or Plato? If he w...

If he was not a saint it would seem sneaky.

While it is true that there are human capacities not shared with organisms with a lesser degree of order it does not follow that humans are designed i...

There seems to be an equivocation in the use of the word 'purpose' between #1 and #2. In #1 something is designed for a purpose - the watch is designe...

It is also worth noting that what John says about the beginning is not what the story it alludes to says.

Plato does not have a doctrine of reincarnation.Socrates tells some problematic myths. One problem is that if we start with the premise that knowledge...

Understood. The denial of atoms was intended to illustrate my point about terminology. The term atom is still being used, but it means something diffe...

I am not advising you or anyone else who might be reading this to accept this or any other likely story. It may be that what is and has been going on ...

That explains the tiny diplomas on the wall.

I think the architecture of ant colonies is instructive because it involves many ants doing specialized tasks. If it is intelligent design then which ...

Given the definition of substance (there are others) that you cite: your question then is: is there a thing or are there things with properties? You t...

The impersonal god is also a product of the imagination. It is because impersonal gods is a vague enough concept that to group together as if there is...

@"Tom Storm" His is certainly a Jewish perspective but Maimonides is a relative latecomer. He denies things that were fundamental parts of the ancestr...

From the Arche thread about likely stories. Regarding terminology: I might say @"180 Proof" "atoms and the void" but there are no atoms.

The term ontology does not have an single agreed upon usage or definition . I mean that the most basic "stuff" of the world is physical. The term redu...

Stumbling my way through I'll try this and see where it leads. Ontologically I am a reductionist. Life is not a fundamental, that is to say, life emer...

One of Darwin's major contributions was to replace the idea of 'kinds' with variations. Is the difference between biology and physics a difference in ...

Can you be more specific? What is Plato's idea of an account? In what way is it inadequate? Is there an adequate idea of an account? Theaetetus says: ...

Liddell and Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon lists several meanings, under IV: Given the context of the discussion, my statement about cosmogony from Ti...

Despite the success of reductionist science it can lead to blindness. The zoologist Adolf Portmann gives careful attention to the appearance of animal...

Not much help to what end? I think it helpful in pointing to the inadequacy of JTB. But if what one wants is a definition of knowledge that provides k...

How does the speaker know that the knower knows? To answer that the speaker has JTB is to kick the can down the road.

One can recognize the desire for transcendence without sharing it or attributing to it an ontological reality coextensive with that desire. There is a...

The ordered whole.

From another thread: For a long time I assumed "wind egg" was a polite translation of fart, but a wind egg is an egg that is insufficient. Nothing is ...

If the house is not there then he does not live in a non-existent house. I agree. All of this reminds me of the problem of object permanence. I do not...

And if not? Right, there is always the possibility of illusion or deception, but when you say that he is mistaken unless he is looking at it, such pos...

Follow up: If instead hapless Al is on his way home and get stopped. Cop: Where are you going? Al: Home. Cop: Where do you live? Al: I don't know. Aft...

Because they were not thought of as different states of the same thing.

Suppose the parking lot has a high fence that you can't see over but can see through the gaps between the boards. As Al walks he gets a glimpse of his...

Al is stopped by a cop. Cop: Where are you going? Al: To get my car. Cop: Where is your car? Al: I don't know. Things may not go so well for Al.

So the question then is where do we begin, with what do we begin? The first word in Genesis is traditionally translated "in the beginning" but many sc...

I hit enter before completing the post. I resubmitted it. When Al returns and his car is still where he left it is his belief then justified? Is there...

Both Betty and Al know where their cars are when they exist them. When Betty's car is stolen it is no longer the case that she knows where it is, but ...

As I see it, the Socratic philosophers accept the human condition. There are no Buddhas who transcend it.