An informal fallacy constituted by arguing that a series of increasingly unpalatable event swill follow from an initial course of action, resulting in a circumstance no one would want.This result…
Fried rich Nietzsche’s (1844-1900) view of a morality of obligation, where one is a slave to imperatives rather than exerting one’s self-driven will to power. https://youtube.com/shorts/1_lkFgHuU-Y?feature=share
1) The ancient Greek practice of investigating experience and being suspicious of those theories that obscure what experience teaches. 2) In modern philosophy, doubt about the veracity and reliability of…
According to Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), terms of natural language are to be understood both with respect to the objects they denote (their reference) and their mode of presentation (their sense);…
Immediate objects of sense, prior to any conceptual organization. According to representational realists, we do not have direct perception of external objects but, rather, of their effects upon our senses.…
The theory of signs and signification, including symbols (conventional signs such as language), indexes (natural signs with a causal correspondence to their referent), and icons(signs whose form resembles their referent).…
1) A formal mathematical theory that defines truth in terms of set theory and satisfaction,with truth taken to be a property of sentences; commonly associated with the work of AlfredTarski…
The claim that the meaning of a symbol (for instance, individual terms of a scientific theory)is relative to the entire system (such as the scientific theory as a whole). As…