Human logic is clearly not physical causality. However, logic isn't "about" anything but language? So: Socrates is a man. All men are mortal. Therefor...
Right, so is this "undifferentiated giveness" first in the order of being or in the order of our experience? It seems obvious that it comes first in o...
I'm not changing the subject. I explained why my judgement is completely sound according to @"J"'s criteria of being thoughtful and grounded in practi...
Hm, I don't think I'm misunderstanding then. This is very different from how Wallace understands Plato and Hegel, because there intelligibility always...
What makes an argument valid? Isn't the idea you've advocated for in the past a sort of unrestricted logical pluralism based on what we deem useful? B...
No, but I said "determinant actuality prior to the senses." And this is a denial of that, right? If both, it would be saying that the things we know a...
You keep tacking on things like "universal," "absolute," "infallible." I asked for any criterion, which was allegedly a "leading question." And the on...
I think Neoplatonism would be the paradigmatic example of the opposite orientation, although the idea is central in Scholastic thought, "Golden Age" I...
I find it funny that your example comes from an area that I would imagine most people think is purely a matter of subjective taste, akin to "which foo...
For some phenomenologists. Phenomenology could hardly have become so influential in Catholic thought (winning over two saints and a pope) if it was in...
I don't think it's that hard to get. Either all narratives are acceptable/true/valid, whatever you want to call it, or they aren't. If some aren't, in...
Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Dramatic Structure of Truth: A Philosophical Investigation is the only one I wouldn't really recommend. Not that it isn...
If mathematical findings were "there from the begining" who exactly is the authority that is being "authoritarian" here? Second, the whole idea of "au...
Yes, but this presupposes something prior that determined human logic. So does: I get what you're saying, but I don't not think meant to conflate huma...
Doesn't Merleau-Ponty's point only hold in cases where one intentionally seeks to "get behind" judgement—to attempt to enter something like Hegel's an...
Hegel's style is only monolithic because it is presuppositionless and thus without the multiplicity introduced by bias :cool: Although, more seriously...
I didn't imply anything about a great list. I implied that some explanation of how "everything doesn't go," is needed for you to be offering more than...
Wouldn't that form be a sort of "debunking argument?" A debunking argument will claim to show that the cause of your belief that p is not caused by p ...
A key difference here would be belief in the eternal existence of matter (Aristotle), or the pre-existence of matter (some heterodox theologians), whe...
D.C. Schindler might be my favorite philosopher currently putting out regular material (and he puts out a lot). I will say though that he has a tenden...
Banno, is asking you, "how does your system not lead to 'anything goes?'" really a leading question ? You cannot offer any answer to this? How is it e...
You might be interested in Robert Sokolowski's framing of how predication emerges from the phenomenology of human experience. It doesn't really go aga...
There was a thread on this a while back you might find interesting: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14593/what-is-logic/p1 Or, as Hegel has ...
This conversation reminded me of a passage from D.C. Schindler's the Catholicity of Reason that focuses on the major presumptions made by those who, o...
I could give me my answers to the questions, I just don't think it would be particularly helpful. "Testability" of "falsification" are often offered a...
Right, because the former are seeking different ends from the latter. Potentially. That's a question ethics and politics studies, the role of the "com...
This is a very interesting post. It reminds me of how Aristotle (or maybe it is Aquinas in the commentary), likens moral reason to advice given by a f...
But you made a distinction between philosophy and science. As commonly conceived, philosophy deals in observations all the time. This is true of pheno...
Right, there are all sorts of modifications possible in quotation, ampilation, appellation, etc. But these are hardly counterexamples. Descriptive sen...
You cannot answer the question: "in virtue of what does 'anything not go' given we have already said that we do not possess the truth? The rest is jus...
In Kant? Isn't there apprehension prior to judgement? There is intuition/understanding/reason, which is clearly influenced by the three acts. He takes...
Sure, but falsity is not related to truth as negation (contradictory opposition), but as a contrary. Aristotle has a distinction that I think holds up...
Consider the limit case. There is only God, who is omniscient, and the seven spheres He has created. Now, that the spheres exist is true. It is true b...
No thanks, C.S. Peirce is my go to American. Pragmaticism, not pragmatism, thank you :grin:. While they are contrary opposites, on the view of truth a...
Banno, I asked: It's a question. Surely you have some criteria in mind. I just offered wisdom as an example. You are once again conflating "something"...
It's an interesting framing because I think sophia would have implied something like knowledge (maybe "gnosis" is better). "Wisdom" has taken on a muc...
No, I just had in mind the idea that "wisdom" cannot be vacuous or apply to everything equally. So: If it's wisdom, it would have to be something. Oth...
There is an irony here in that many of the "great names" do this to each other. Nietzsche is obviously offender #1, because he calls out people by nam...
Yes, it absolutely does follow. At least, as I intended "some determinant content." How are you reading that? Are you advancing the claim that a term ...
Or, to add another quote, from Plato's seventh letter: "There neither is nor ever will be a treatise of mine on the subject . For it does not admit of...
That's just what jumped out at me. It has been a while since I read C&P, but it makes sense to me. I think one thing to recall is that horses were sti...
I think this is a pretty major misunderstanding of the concept. Intellectus has nothing to do with the creative imagination, which is its own faculty ...
I don't agree with any strong distinction between science and philosophy, but let me ask: can we (ought we) ever ask questions about ethics or aesthet...
What is normally called Divine Command Theory is Protestant innovation born of volanturist theology. Certainly, it has echoes in some earlier thinkers...
Gotcha. Well, that you think: Needs to be said to me suggests a rather dramatic misreading on your part. What part of "liberalism has difficulties wit...
"Something in particular," not "some particular thing." Which is just to say, the term wisdom has to have some determinant content or else philosophy,...
You might really like Byung-Chul Han's "The Agony of Eros" then. It is very much a "continental philosophy" text in its style, but I think it is a fai...
Oh absolutely. This is couched in the language of marriage as a sacrament. The famous St. Maximus quote to the effect of "food isn't evil, gluttony is...
Non-material entities don't have parts in the way material entities are composites of parts. But we can make distinctions within them. The stuff on th...
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