I have been kicking around ideas on this for a while. In Eddington's "The Rigor of Angles: Kant, Borges, Heisenberg, and the Ultimate Nature of Realit...
Well, if we take it that adiaireta, awareness of something, is a sort of knowledge, it seems like we can possess it without formulating any propositio...
I think there are a lot of concepts that are not decomposable, that is, you cannot break them down into component parts without losing something. Perc...
It just doesn't seem very convincing. The experience of being aware of an experience is phenomenologicaly concurrent with it. Certainly, it's true tha...
You might consider here Aristotle's two types of truth, which gets at this distinction. I would add that our limited cognitive bandwidth requires that...
I'm not sure if this is much of a criticism. Thought is essentially processual. The very effort to understand a claim like "I think, therefore I am," ...
I would think most people would like to avoid: - Doing things that are ugly/disgusting - Looking stupid or embracing falsehoods - Preforming practical...
Of relevance: This seems to justify: "I am" as opposed to merely: "thinking is," because there is both thinking and the recursive awareness of this th...
Just bear in mind that the protean nature of religious belief is not unique. You'll see the same thing in scientific articles and public health datase...
It's worth distinguish between "the philosophy of science," and "the philosophy of x science." The stuff you find in handbooks of "philosophy of biolo...
There seems to be two different conceptions of information being mixed together here. The shortest possible way to write a program that produces a giv...
This is a pretty common example in logic textbooks, but it is not the case that if A -> B then ~A -> ~B. To see why, consider a lawn with a sprinkler ...
Ok, but this is really missing the point. Saying "different things can be good or bad for different," people doesn't even require perspectivism, let a...
:up: My first thoughts as well. "I know no one can know," seems to fall into the same bucket as "it is absolutely true that there are no absolutes," e...
It's possible; whole centuries get reduced to one or two names in the grand scheme of things. I feel like Nietzsche is much more often described as th...
Well yes, "hard determinism," is generally defined as "determinism in which freedom is impossible." So it's true that, given not-P, not-P. But the way...
Some foreshadowing of Kant 1,200 years earlier in St. Maximus the Confessor's Ambigua: But then his ultimate view of extension and motion is quite dif...
I do wonder what Nietzsche's impact will be going into the future. Will he be be like Plato or St. Augustine, a mainstay on introductory philosophy sy...
Some degree of relativism is one thing. Most thoughtful thinkers are relativists in some manner or another, e.g., Aquinas' "all knowledge is received ...
:up: Strangely, this is a very common conception outside of religious contexts as well — that "laws" and "regularity" can only exist as the sui generi...
Ironically, this is an image of God that is often criticized by the Patristics, some of the big Medieval Latin theologians, and many contemporary Cath...
I really shouldn't have said "prior," especially when trying to present Plato. The two are mutually reinforcing. Ethics is prior to the freedom of the...
It definitely is treating the Good as something concrete. But Plato thinks he has good reasons for doing this. Rather then start with considering the ...
I think you are right on the nomenclature. W. Norris Clarke's "The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics," presents itself as "existe...
I don't think there is anything like proof for either case. However, I do think there are very strong arguments for not assuming the reductionist view...
Well, I think you have to conceptualize this in terms of the Plato's vertical conception of reality: It's not hard to see the similarities here to St....
If you adopt a code of ethics because you believe it is truly good behavior and find yourself unable to do what you think is good, how is that freedom...
I also grew up outside of any religious background. I would say my father at least was militantly atheist. However, now I attend a non-denominational ...
It's a little strange to make an appeal for historical nuance and then launch into a simplistic dichotomy of secular/good/progress and Christianity/ev...
I am not really sure what you're trying to to get at here. What counts as intuitive might be debated, but certain statements like "a line of points ca...
The way I understand combinatorial objections to panpsychism, the issue isn't that fundemental forces cannot combine to form complex systems. Rather, ...
Reminds me of Plato's Divided Line and his difference between opinion (about mutable things) and knowledge (about things that are always true). It str...
I am not sure if this is an apt point of comparison. Consider that we tend to think all sorts of animals experience phenomenal conciousness. That is, ...
I'm using "intuitive" the way it is generally used throughout philosophy. Something is intuitive, a noetic "first principle," if we cannot conceive of...
Not sure what you mean here. For most of the history of philosophy it wasn't really much of an issue. There are things. Of these, some are living. Of ...
A good explanation shows in some way why something is necessary. I do not see how something "computing really hard," ever necessitates the emergence o...
Right, the boundaries of nature can stretch quite a bit. Eriugena's conception of "nature" includes God. Or we might place the boundary at the truly i...
I think I might be able to clarify: Consider that naturalism still has to explain gods, angels, djinn, genies, etc. Clearly, people think these exist,...
Well, this sort of depends on one's view of the world. In ontic structural realism, things sort of are the mathematics that describe them. A proton or...
It's quite good. It's nice to dip into from time to time. You have to really sit with each aphorism. I find it similar to my Rumi's collected works in...
I agree. Like I said, there would seem to be two horns here, the evidential and the ability to apply predicates to God. I do not see the evidential as...
IIRC Maimonides puts forth a sort of radical negation of this sort, in that things simply cannot be predicated of God. However, Maimonides still allow...
Yes, this is absolutely true, I did not mean to imply otherwise; there is nuance here. I was thinking of Gideon in particular and Jesus' words about t...
Wouldn't knowing that God is unknowable constitute knowing something about God? Or knowing that God is infinite and that our terms cannot be predicate...
This is really a misreading of the concerns with Gideon. Gideon points to his material conditions and says the Lord has abandoned Israel and asks why ...
The Stanford Encyclopedia article on Hegelian Dialectics, which is quite good too. I can see why people found similarities between Spencer Brown's "La...
The Gideon example is also interesting because in general it's not considered to be a good sign of his character that he "puts the Lord to the test." ...
Right, but it isn't just St. Paul. St. Peter includes Christ right amidst the Father and the Holy Spirit in his doxology in his first letter. He then ...
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