There are several dimensions to this, so it's a tough question. I think it is part of a far larger tendency in modern thought, the move to define free...
Both ancient and early-modern. Contemporary physicalism/materialism is sometimes very much an inheritor of this type of thinking though. "Corpuscular/...
Well, the irony here is that Germany is very often the primary example advocates of the classical education use to push their case (with at least some...
I don't see how it's a caricature. That's the view of the world that unites the Ionian materialists. As mentioned in the post, different thinkers did ...
Right, but the arc of the argument is that people who won't storm beaches or resist sieges (who lack thymos) also won't stand up to public corruption ...
:up: I don't think materialism as a whole is intuitive. However, the main intuition, that "what is most real is what is common to what I can see and t...
Funny enough, that post originally included a paragraph about the old trope that: "no critic of post-modernism has ever understood it, and even if the...
What about literary theory? That's a bit like musicology I suppose. There is an idea, and I'm not really sure how much I agree with it, that the human...
Right, but what do you mean by "there are no true ontological positions?" Maybe I have misunderstood. My assumption was that this meant there simply i...
No, because it seems obvious that there is a difference between what is true and what merely appears to be true. Indeed, one cannot have a coherent ap...
I'm replying to this comment in this thread because my thoughts are more on topic here. I think the above is largely correct. However, the question th...
People have always been pragmatic, engaged in bracketing, put more fundamental questions aside to focus on more pressing concerns, etc. I think the sh...
On their view, they are saving those institutions. That's pretty clear from the rhetoric. I don't think they are entirely wrong here, at least on the ...
Science is also generally thought of as universal knowledge. But in complex systems, it is often the case that what seems like a universal relationshi...
:up: Funny enough, I think the rise of information theoretic/complexity studies approaches to the physical sciences make a good case for a sort of "im...
Interesting article, I still have to finish it. I would question the figures being focused on to some degree, because I think it obscures how the issu...
Quite the contrary, I'm quite interested on a number of fronts. First, I'm interested to see if such views can avoid essentially democratizing truth o...
Thanks everyone for the kind words. I will try to respond in more detail later. Well, the bridge between the two is that our understanding of mathemat...
It's not that hard to give a definition. Truth is the adequacy of thought to being. Being a transcendental, "true" is "said many ways," as it is predi...
My thoughts were that they are ultimately connected. Mathematics is, at least initially, based on abstracting the common sensibles from any underlying...
I did very much like the paper, but this statement of the thesis (which occurs a few times) actually strikes me as somewhat ambiguous. The point could...
Great post. I have brought up this issue many times. One neat historical point here is that Plato's last (and best) argument in the Phaedo against the...
I think the preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit is probably the most famous part of the book. Also the least accessible, which is really saying som...
Delightful. I really like the pictures too. Indeed, just as old Denys said. The ranks of angels are ever joyously active, their gazes eternally fixed ...
Agreed, excellent work. :up: I am seeing a similarity to the thread of Schiller here. And, interestingly, its a conclusion that follows from some quit...
Really great. I'll have a lot to say later. First and foremost, ...I think this makes a lot of sense given your sources. I do wonder if we might not n...
Very nicely done. It's an interesting topic! This would make hinges quite a bit different from many axioms. But must hinges involve unquestioning acce...
It is enough for "knowing that." Someone who wakes up during an operation, but finds themselves immobilized , is obviously aware of the fact that thei...
Knowing how to use a faucet is not the same thing as knowing that any particular faucet is working. A person demonstrates that they know how to use a ...
Can you explain in virtue of what a belief would be "justified" without any reference to truth? How does logic "justify" a belief without reference to...
Or, as seems to be more common in my experience, "direct realism" denies a metaphysics of "representation" as well as knowledge of things "in-themselv...
A bajillion theories of reference (or supposition) have developed over the years; apparently it's a tough question. Some of the "problems" that crop u...
Although "99.9%" probably undersells things. Do ants, or trees, or ducks, or men every give birth to tigers? Has anything but a tiger ever given birth...
Good points there. I am not particularly sure if it makes sense to have more faith in recent scientific theories, as opposed to our bedrock understand...
A key distinction was between "ens rationis" (beings of reason/mind) and "ens reale" (real being). "Ens = being" ("esse" is the verb form of "being") ...
Aside from Hume vs. Dante's Virgil, this is another really good example: ...What though the field be lost? All is not lost—the unconquerable will, And...
Interesting biographical fact about Milton: after graduating as a top student his father supported his doing nothing but staying around home and study...
True, but "heart" had a much different meaning in both the Hebrew and Greek context (see below). The heart is often referred to as the "eye of the nou...
There are a lot of questions there, the relation of the equations of the current discipline of physics to physical reality, the indeterminacy of measu...
:rofl: I was going to say, "I guess my point (not poon) is that the "empirical" part of positivism has a sort of fuzzy definition that can be used, in...
Right, but it was Aristotle who first wrote in De Anima: And the Peripatetic Axiom is "there is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the sen...
Indeed, and I think this makes sense given his starting point in Kant, Hegel, and the broader framework of Enlightenment philosophy, which tends towar...
That makes sense. I think the problems brought up there are more serious than they might seem. Just for one example, an anti-realism that makes scienc...
Totally by accident. I started with Nietzsche, the existentialists, and post-modern thinkers. I read a decent amount, but wasn't a huge student of phi...
Right, and if you combine this with something like MacIntyre's view of traditions it could be the traditions themselves that are "rigid frameworks," b...
The discussion re keeping particularity and difference in focus came to mind when I came across this G.K. Chesterton quote again recently (from Orthod...
Right, but that's precisely where the conflation can occur. Are things (e.g. cats, trees, clouds, etc.) "in the senses" or are they "projected onto th...
It seems to me that this would still be consistent with opposing philosophies though, since many of them hardly deny the techniques in question or the...
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