To be clear, when I say he has reductionist tendencies, I don't mean "materialist reductionism." That substantial form is built up from other "regular...
As noted in the other thread, PA just lays out the challenge to scientific knowledge and demonstration. The full justification of the solution spans a...
:up: Right, and common objections to this tend to rely on the assumption that any such systems must be defined according to some sort of rigid binary....
Facing East in Winter by Rowan Williams. It's a philosophical treatment of the doctrines in Orthodox Christianity, primarily those in the Philokalia, ...
Try applying this logic to other questions. Does Iraq really have or not have WMD, or does it depend on what is useful to us? Are there truly substanc...
All physical beings are changing and so arguably they all are processes, yes. Mark Bickhard had a good (if flawed) article on this that I've posted pa...
Sometimes. At times, theoretical work needs to take a more philosophical look at what is mean by change and motion, and so "process." This comes up a ...
Yes, that's a provisional definition. Sach's translation/commentary, which is fairly widely used, is quoted in the post you are quoting from: I bolded...
What we discussed in that thread isn't Aristotle's answer to the question Wittgenstein took up, just an ancillary point that the positive skeptic's po...
No, Kripke is driven to a "skeptical solution" (his term) which learns to live with the paradox, as opposed to a "straight solution" which dissolves t...
The distinction is not supposed to be merely natural versus artificial. This would severely truncate the role of aims as a principle of unity by which...
The rule following argument is an argument from underdetermination. These arguments have been made for millennia. That's the relation. If you or at @"...
Yes, that's the idea behind equipollence. Phyrronean skepticism relies on a sort of underdetermination and Hume is specifically riffing off this, alth...
It's a bit confusing because Aristotle seems to say different things in different places, and because "ousia" might get translated as "substance," "be...
One cannot logically follow Book XII of the Metaphysics because it talks about God? Aquinas doesn't use arguments from common experience? On this acco...
"Reasons" seem entirely divorced from causes because "causes" in mechanistic philosophy of nature are reduced to bare, inscrutable brute facts. When c...
I wouldn't frame it in terms of some sort of dialectical of caused action versus free action. I think libertarian free will is incoherent, but that's ...
Yes, that's a useful distinction, although I don't think the two are unrelated. The numbers you are adding up play a role in the second sense of "reas...
:up: In particular, the influence of a sort of Humean anthropology, which is extremely dominant in economics (and thus has huge influence on liberal g...
Do you think witness testimony should be admissable in trials? Or, because it might be based on one person's perceptual experiences, should witness re...
The "rule following argument," like the many other empiricist arguments from underdetermination, relies on presupposing empiricism's epistemic presupp...
Good recommendation. From the introduction: Of course, the author strangely spends a lot of time arguing that Peirce is not a scholastic realist, even...
I am not sure if any philosopher has ever tried to ground logic in "intuition" in the sense you are using the term. This would make logic simply a mat...
Sure. Thinking is an act, a change. It either occurs for some reason or it doesn't. Thinking is a move from potentially thinking something to actually...
It's important for building up a coherent ethics and moving to a "metaphysics of goodness." From a practical perspective, I don't think it's necessary...
"Act follows on being." What a thing does, how it interacts with other things or parts of itself depends upon what it is. Otherwise, anything could be...
There are hierarchies of distinctions. Distinctions like act/potency or part/whole are more general than any particular science (e.g. physics, logic, ...
But that isn't what "your house key" means. If someone changes the locks on my door while I'm out, my key doesn't cease to be mine. And if I bend the ...
PNC can be formulated as a metaphysical, epistemic, or semantic principle. Ultimately, the latter will tie back to the former if the former is affirme...
Or apparently by anything more distinct than "what I currently desire." But logic involves what is true, so this makes truth simply a consequence of w...
If I'm misrepresenting you, surely you can lay out what determines usefulness then. This: Leaves "use" as an unanalyzable primitive. And a trivial log...
This was the original idea though, natural laws were "active." Hence the change in philosophy of nature/natural science from a language of "desires," ...
I've asked this question to @"Banno" many times and never received anything but deflection. His notion of use seems to bottom out in a sheer voluntari...
It's often more difficult to come up with definitions for notions other than substance (things), since such concepts will always inhere in something e...
There is a historical relation too in that biosemiotics and the invocation of semiotics in physics almost always involves the tripartite semiotics rec...
Seeing is a power of humans, one every sighted person is innately familiar with. I don't think a reductionist account is the only true account of sigh...
Right, Perl is very good on this. I suppose one of the difficulties here is the modern phobia that appearances might be arbitrarily, randomly related ...
Indeed, that was precisely my point. I don't think neuroscience is any more properly first philosophy then philosophy of language, particularly if it ...
I'm not sure if Mill was necessarily motivated by racism. His initial examples on slavery are from ancient Europe. He just has a view of "natural man"...
Principles might be a better way to understand it. Plato's Theory of Forms is a particular metaphysical explanation of unifying principles. Whether it...
Thanks, you as well. I have mostly read stuff on Taoism that is tied to its contemporary formulations, so that might be the discrepancy. I don't know ...
Right, but if one does not distinguish between univocal and equivocal usage then common facts such as "running involves legs," become unequivocally fa...
I'll agree that there are multiple notions of "intuition" and "understanding" that are unhelpfully related but distinct. I was referring to "what is s...
Do you mean Borges' Library of Babel or the story from Genesis or something else? (The first is one of my favorite ways to think about this sort of th...
Right, but it's worth pointing out that this is sometimes denied (i.e., there is no truth about "what a thing is") and people still try to do ontology...
all predication is equivocal? Then you don't have logic. That terms are never predicated univocally? Then you also don't have logic. But a basketball ...
BTW, I think this is fair if the measuring point is 1925 (a century). But what if we use 1975, half a century? Or the end of the Cold War, when neo-li...
I maintain that Western Civilization has been in serious decline since the death of Marcus Aurelius and the ascension of his son to the purple! :cool:...
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