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Wednesday, 26 August 2015

Wittgenstein's Generalisations About Generalisations

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Firstly here's a quote from the philosopher Gilbert Ryle in which he talks about Wittgenstein’s general distaste for generalisati...
Tuesday, 25 August 2015

Heterological & Homological Metalinguistic Statements

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Various statements can taken as being either homological or heterological in nature. A heterological predicate, statement or senten...
Monday, 24 August 2015

Truth: Its Metaphysics, Epistemology and Semantics

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We can say that epistemology essentially concerns itself with two things: truth and our “relationship to truth”. Many philosophers, ...
Thursday, 20 August 2015

A Coherent Madman and His Little Self-referential Problem

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  The madman or religious maniac can be entirely coherent and systematic yet also be completely divorced from the world. His system of ...
Wednesday, 19 August 2015

Is Consciousness the Brain Carrying Out Computations?

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  Hilary Putnam once held the position (i.e., in the 1960s) that consciousness is literally the brain computing. That also had the impl...
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