Thu 8 Jul, 2010 01:26 pm - [quote="Ding an Sich"]
I have been thinkning about a proper method for the past few days concerning the way in which to approach philosophy, and to philosophize as well. It might appear... (view)
Sun 4 Apr, 2010 06:16 pm - [QUOTE=Extrain;148292]--one philosopher accusing another philosopher of over philosophizing?-- That's too funny.
So is this your appropriate response to philosophers who spend hours... (view)
Sun 4 Apr, 2010 09:04 am - [QUOTE=Extrain;148006]Can it? Are you talking about sentence types or sentence tokens, or what?
(Utterance at Time1) "You are hungry" is a sentence token of some sentence type.... (view)
Sat 3 Apr, 2010 05:15 pm - [QUOTE=Extrain;147970]You are working from a Russellian take on "this" or "that" as having a logically fixed meaning. This is obvious when you said, "I am located at x and... (view)
Sat 3 Apr, 2010 03:46 pm - [QUOTE=Extrain;147938]Of course. (I might be just getting a little imaginative here.) But the meaning of the [B]proposition expressed[/B] (assuming I had actually keyed "I am here and not... (view)
Thu 25 Mar, 2010 05:23 pm - [QUOTE=Diogenes;141188]Alright, I have just realized constructing a valid argument is impossible with the given conclusions. Sorry for the waste of time.[/QUOTE]
That's not really the point,... (view)
Thu 25 Mar, 2010 12:19 pm - [QUOTE=Humanity;143450]
The two quotes i provided was to show how Berkeley viewed matter in the common sense perspective.[/quote]
If that was the case, you chose a very strange passage. Perhaps you... (view)
Wed 24 Mar, 2010 11:40 pm - [QUOTE=Humanity;143386]In the [B]common sense perspective[/B], matter is defined in whatever manner that is agreed by majority consensus or to specific groups.
The externality of such matter is... (view)
Wed 24 Mar, 2010 10:16 pm - [QUOTE=Humanity;143371]I written it somewhere.
imo and for this purpose we can deal with 'matter' under the
following categories;
1. Common sense perspective
Matter as in the... (view)
Wed 24 Mar, 2010 08:04 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;142969]It might be worth here to make a distinction made by the late Bernard Williams between the History of Philosophy, and the History of Ideas. He makes this distinction as... (view)
