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• A Psychoanalytic Defense of Realism

  
  Larval Subjects . — Authority: 527
  A central aim of Bhaskar’s A Realist Theory of Science is to diagnose what he refers to as the “epistemic fallacy”. In a nutshell, the epistemic fallacy consists in the thesis, often implicit, that ontological questions can be reduced to epistemological questions. The idea here is that ontology can be ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: love verses logic

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: ape Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:36 pm (GMT -5) Nile-ism wrote: Love is not ever logical. Logic is more important in making decisions than love. Hi Nile-ism! I am not in deNial about that being a great name! Love is not ever logical when it hates the illogical and was never really pure ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Philosophy of mathematics

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: ape Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:25 pm (GMT -5) Kool-aid wrote: Hi ape, Id like some backup through comments on your views please. What does xlnt mean? "Intuitionism denies the reality of actual infinites, they are never subject to human thought.(NOT TRUE)" Let me add to this, actual ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Philosophy of mathematics

  
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  Author: Kool-aid Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:47 pm (GMT -5) As an anti-platonist I cannot say I can relate to his view. Even granted a materialist view; the very proposition that mathematics is fundamental to the metaphysics in our world is a huge assumption. To say that mathematics is a basis for the universal ...
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• Reflections on the Religious Legal Theory Conference

  
  Through a Glass Darkly — Authority: 464
  Last week we held the Religious Legal Theory:  The State of the Field conference at the law school.  I’m incredibly gratified at how the conference went.  Organizing this conference was, in fact, one of the most satisfying projects of my professional career. This was a unique conference in that we focused on ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Philosophy of mathematics

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: Nick_A Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:10 am (GMT -5) I hope it never happens but it is inevitable that psychologists will begin to speculate on the remarkable relationship of two complimentary geniuses born to the same parents. Andre Weil was three years older then Simone Weil. When she was five Andre ...
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• Flying pigs: social media is really showing up old media

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 436
  Image via Wikipedia Following the flying pigs I had a follow-up to my post on Managing in Africa. My curiosity about the fate of warthogs that got in the way of a jet taking-off at Harare International Airport received some dry feedback.  Apparently, there were no pigs.  The plane ‘just’ lost its ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Philosophy of mathematics

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: Kool-aid Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 7:22 am (GMT -5) The platonic view and formalist view to some degree supports "implicit existence". This is existence by the impossibility of existence. This is the taken as an axiom in both of these views through the Law of excluded middle (not not p = p). This is however ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: love verses logic

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: Belinda Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:30 am (GMT -5) Athena, you have a strong sense of duty to others, so when you are planning to be involved with child care in some way you consider altering your own personality for the better, you think,by Zoloft. Mind altering drugs have uses. However the uses of mind ...
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  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Philosophy of mathematics

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: Nick_A Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:49 am (GMT -5) Kool-aid wrote: Nick_A wrote: I.m trying to think of how I could accept this. You write: Therefore; existence cannot be defined as independent of human thought, but is instead entirely dependent of the human mind. This means that ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: love verses logic

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: Nile-ism Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:47 pm (GMT -5) Love is not ever logical. Logic is more important in making decisions than love.
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Cause of Somethingness

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: Bluemist Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:36 pm (GMT -5) James S Saint wrote: ... by taking one over that inconceivable number, you get the inconceivable smallness of effort required to cause all of creation from true nothingness. An infinitely small something alters nothing into everything. And ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Philosophy of mathematics

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: Kool-aid Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:29 pm (GMT -5) Nick_A wrote: I.m trying to think of how I could accept this. You write: Therefore; existence cannot be defined as independent of human thought, but is instead entirely dependent of the human mind. This means that if a virus killed of all ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Philosophy of mathematics

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: Nick_A Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:51 pm (GMT -5) Kool-aid wrote: Nick_A wrote: Kool-aid Quote: I can not subscribe to such a materialist view. For me it seems illusional to ascribe this kind of fundamentality to matter as we perceive it. Do you believe that if Man ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Philosophy of mathematics

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: Kool-aid Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:43 pm (GMT -5) Nick_A wrote: Kool-aid Quote: I can not subscribe to such a materialist view. For me it seems illusional to ascribe this kind of fundamentality to matter as we perceive it. Do you believe that if Man became extinct the ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Philosophy of mathematics

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: Nick_A Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:13 pm (GMT -5) Kool-aid Quote: I can not subscribe to such a materialist view. For me it seems illusional to ascribe this kind of fundamentality to matter as we perceive it. Do you believe that if Man became extinct the material difference between the ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Philosophy of mathematics

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: Juice Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:10 pm (GMT -5) All-It is exactly from these mathematical/philosophical postulates that I have begun to understand some very basic fundamentals of existence, and defining existence by pure logic. It is kind of like a dog chasing his own tail, but more experiential like ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Philosophy of mathematics

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: Kool-aid Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:01 pm (GMT -5) Hi Belinda. Formalism would be a proper view if it was even possible to reduce mathematics to purely a game of symbols. This is only possible in some sense. In my view, this ignores everything which is beautiful about mathematics. It ignores creativity as ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Philosophy of mathematics

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 173
  Author: Belinda Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:53 pm (GMT -5) Philosophy of mathematics interests me. From your definitions I choose formalism which seems to describe what I think mathematics is. A way using symbols to describe an abstract quality of things, this particular abstract quality being quantity(e.g. not ...
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