Presumably if it specifies the things in virtue of which all tigers are tigers, while not having anything that isn't a tiger fall under the definition...
No, perhaps I should have specified since the word is uncommon. I mean it in the original sense, as in "all-embracing and unified, one." This is the s...
Well, suppose someone gave a definition of "tiger" as: "a large purple fish with green leaves, a tap root, and horns." Clearly, this is off the mark a...
First, a bus is a poor example because it is an artifact. Second, your claim is that the coastline changes because different people paint or think of ...
This must come up for translators of epics all the time as a more practical concern. They all make a habit of referring to people, places, etc. by cir...
Also, is it supposed to be a vice to "assert with bold certainty" that a knife is a bad toy to give a baby? Yes, I'm quite certain you shouldn't throw...
Yes, but Kierkegaard believes in a transcendent orientation towards the Good in the same way that Plato, St. Augustine, or Hegel did. Our desire for—a...
Sure, the concepts/notions might change (or we might say our intentions towards them). That seems fine. What seems implausible is that all the interac...
To start, it might be helpful to recall that, pace modern practice, when Aristotle is talking about definitions he is talking about the definitions of...
It seems easy to agree with your enactivist precepts, agree with the critique of "the view from nowhere," and to agree on the importance of act ("act ...
I don't think Kierkegard was a fideist. I do think that at times he errs by setting practical reason (the "subjective") over and against theoretical r...
Indeed, whatever properties something has when it is interacting with nothing else and no parts of itself are not only epistemically inaccessible, but...
Who held such a position though? I find this whole area of philosophy to be filled with straw men and ghosts. It's obvious that different peoples use ...
What, the fact that you don't seem to have even grasped the very basics of what you're talking about? Tell you what, essences and essential properties...
Nowhere, my only point is that the example, with the presuppositions attached to it, assumes what it sets out to demonstrate. Also, leaving aside the ...
Your own grasp of the intelligibility of things and understanding of what it is to be human. IIRC, Wittgenstein makes the point re the indeterminacy o...
Counterpoint: if the US and the rest of the region hadn't rapidly stood up a massive air campaign against IS as they advanced into the Baghdad suburbs...
To follow up: I think that Plato does get at something essential here. If the good is "that to which all things aim" (or, anything goal-directed at le...
Perhaps, depending on how "belief" is defined. If belief is just something like "the affirmation of a proposition," then one would always believe what...
I suppose it depends on how it is approached. But Rödl maintains the ultimate proper orientation of the individual towards the Good (at least in Walla...
Anyhow, hinge propositions obviously aren't arbitrary. Why do disparate cultures share so many, e.g. "we have bodies," and "there are corporeal object...
:up: That makes sense. I think that, aside from difficulties from outside "Wittgenstein space," though, there is invariably the difficulty that people...
Makes sense, for Big Heg, "the truth is the whole," and the process of knowing and the knower is not excluded from the Hegelian circle. I seem to reca...
Hmm, this is exactly what Sokolowski tries to disambiguate. For one, we can fail to be proper "agents of truth." We can live into our nature in this r...
From the other thread: It's worth noting that for Aristotle thought is far broader than judgement. Judgement comes in two forms, one involving affirma...
I never suggested they were. I think what is "off the mark" is your reading comprehension. The premise that prior traditions rejected was that knowled...
The idea that it's absurd to say one "knows" that one has a toothache suggests that "knowing" is about justification. The idea that one can (indeed, j...
Of course knowledge must be true. A true belief is a belief though. The contested position would be that knowledge is merely (justified) true belief. ...
Sure. However, a concern with that might denote a conflation of the means of knowing and communicating with what is known and communicated. When we re...
I think your conclusions work fine. A lot of philosophy would take issue with P1 and P4 (is P4 supposed to be a conclusion rather?). Wittgenstein stay...
I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make. A blanket renouncement of figurative language and metaphor? I don't know the context of the quot...
Reminds me of the opening of the Abolition of Man: Of course most people claim they have subjective experiences, that there is a 'whatness' to the obj...
I've only read one of Whitehead's books, but this does seem to be a problem for process philosophy in general. Of course, simply positing objects and ...
I have seen enactivists use the metaphor of "lenses" as opposed to "images," as a counter to representationalism. They employ the lens metaphor pretty...
I suppose another difficulty has reared its head ITT. If modeling (with deflationary assumption or not) is something like "the one true methodology," ...
Yes, it generally not helpful to approach a philosophy through the lens of an explicit parody of it-which is what Moliere’s Invalid Imaginaire is doin...
Right, and this shows up most clearly in the realm of ethics. If there is no truth about what is "truly good" outside the realm of norms, then there a...
As in: "really true," i.e. not something that merely appears to be true, is said to be true by others, or is believed to be true. Presumably, there is...
It seems to me that this is more a question of how models are viewed. Are models, and the observations used to construct them primarily a means of kno...
BTW, I missed this earlier because we seemed to be in agreement, but perhaps not: I was speaking to descriptions, models, etc. being correct vis-a-vis...
Yes, this is essentially what I would argue. Truth is filtered-through socio-historical conditions, through institutions, language, etc. However, it i...
Well, we have a rather severe case of miscommunication here, because I don't think I've tried to ascribe these beliefs to you at all. What I've been t...
But that isn't what I've claimed at all. I understand what is speaking to with the idea of mountains and paths. That's all well and good. What I am po...
It seems to me that it will be harder to find agreement on things like truth and goodness because those are extremely general principles, on many acco...
I probably misunderstood you then. I took: "number is a way of thinking about (talking about, treating, approaching) the animals" to mean that number ...
I'll follow up on the rest later, but your original remark was: "This is an odd mix of being profoundly anti-systems building but also profoundly for ...
One can delimit a measure arbitrarily. This doesn't mean all measures are arbitrary. To count "brown animals" requires knowing an animal, an organic w...
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