Wednesday, 30 December 2015
Demonstratives, Sense-data and Individuation (2)
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It's the case that even the words ‘this’ and ‘that’ must rely on some kind of descriptive content - at least for the speaker or ...
Tuesday, 29 December 2015
Introduction: Objects and Their Individuation (1)
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It's generally thought that an object must have at least one criterion of identity. It's also said that a criterion of identity m...
Monday, 28 December 2015
John Pollock on Percepts and Description
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John Pollock writes: “ When I see an object and make a judgement about it, I do not usually think of that object under a description...
Saturday, 26 December 2015
What Can Be Shown, But Not Said
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Philosopher A: “Moral properties can’t be studied as neurons or protons are studied. There are no microscopes for such things. You ca...
Thursday, 24 December 2015
Chomsky’s Sortal: [Human]
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Noam Chomsky once wrote that it is part of the “human essence to be capable of learning only the languages whose syntactic rules sat...
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