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5 days ago by Bill Vallicella

0. Herewith, some interpretative notes on Curt Ducasse, "On the Nature and Observability of the Causal Relation," in Causation , eds. Sosa and Tooley, Oxford 1993, pp. 125-136. 1. Assuming that causality is a relation (not entirely obvious!), the question arises as to what sorts of entity can serve ...

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5 days ago by inkli2

And the diminution of ideologues …after a hail of gunfire doesn’t stop V Creedy: Die! Die! Why won’t you die?… Why won’t you die? V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. —Taken from Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta *** I wa ...

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7 days ago by Steven Handel

In 1972, Thomas Nagel first introduced what is now known as the “epistemic gap” amongst contemporary philosophers. It was described in his paper “What Is It Like To Be A Bat?” and the gist of the argument was this: one cannot fully understand the mind unless one is experiencing that mind.

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9 days ago by fleance7

Image via Wikipedia Reliance on reason {Lat. ratio} as the only reliable source of human knowledge. In the most general application, rationalism offers a naturalistic alternative to appeals to religious accounts of human nature and conduct. More specifically, rationalism is the epistemological theor ...

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10 days ago by fleance7

Image by Martin Beek via Flickr Reliance on experience as the source of ideas and knowledge. More specifically, empiricism is the epistemological theory that genuine information about the world must be acquired by a posteriori means, so that nothing can be thought without first being sensed . Promin ...

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11 days ago by deadondres

In Necessary and Contingent Truths, I asked whether you the reader thinks the metaphysical necessarily exists/functions based on the presence of the extant/physical. One way to view the Metaphysical are the laws/properties governing existence, another is God, or truth, or existence etc. However, as ...

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13 days ago by treysuttle78

Second Installment, Only meaningful declarative statements can be true or false. In non-bivalent logic systems one may also allow values of indeterminate. Notice here that the idea of a ‘perfect’ truth is really no longer applicable. Given a statement, it is either true, false, or indeterminate, may ...

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13 days ago by Jo

Homeopathy is the brainchild of Samuel Hahnemann, a German doctor practicing at the beginning of the 19th century. As a young physician, Hahnemann became discontented with the mainstream medicine practiced during his era, which often employed harsh and doubtful measures such as bloodletting, purging ...

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16 days ago by Celucien Joseph

John Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding (1690): A Brief Review An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (AECHU) is perhaps John Locke’s most influential piece. Arguably this work has contributed to the establishment of modern school of empiricism. [1] Below we will survey briefly the work in questi ...

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16 days ago by Ground Possum

As the US Open approaches, I am atwitter with anticipation. I like to see golfers struggle to make par. I like that you’ll get a few 8s on the course. It makes me feel better about all my “8s.” Because I play from the back tees. Yeah… that’s the ticket. But anyway, let’s look at some numbers regardi ...

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