Questions tagged [difference]
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help with understanding Deleuze's argument on "difference first, identity second"
if i'm not mistaken, deleuze says you only know about "apple" because you know apple is not an orange, is not a tea, is not justice, is not rock,...
so by differentiating "apple" ...
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does Hegel's Dialectical Materialism needs justification when we re-examine the notion of "opposite" and whether that's a fact of the world?
Hegel basically says thesis-antithesis-synthesis, and this works because there are opposition of ideas or there are contradictions
Derrida also uses concepts like "binary oppositions"
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Any good examples of a sign 's meaning being revised according to Derrida's différance?
Différance means that a sign is temporarily meaningful and its meaning may be revised when other signs are added in a signifying chain. Does anyone know any good examples of the deferral of a sign's ...
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What is the difference between mind and consciousness?
I have heard the terms "mind" and "consciousness" used interchangeably, but I am now wondering, is there a difference between them? If so, what is the difference between them? I ...
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Is there a difference between "there is" versus "there exists"?
I have heard the phrases "there is" and "there exists" used interchangeably, but I am now wondering, is there a difference between them, and if so, what is it? Also, have ...
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What is the difference between wisdom and clarity?
I am asking this question here because wisdom is related to philosophy. I want to know, is wisdom the same as seeing things clearly? Or is there a difference between wisdom and clarity? If so, what is ...
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Is there a difference between knowing, and knowing for certain?
When one knows something, do they also know it for certain? Or is knowing distinct from knowing for certain? I find a statement like, "I know X, but I don't know X for certain" to be pretty ...
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Can the fact/value distinction be drawn on any conception of facts, or only some of these?
The SEP article on facts goes over many conceptions of these things. Sec. 5 of the article on correspondence theories of truth lists the following objection at its end:
All facts, even the most ...
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Is there a domain of discourse in which the trivial/nontrivial distinction breaks down?
Let us suppose that we commonly imagine that problems have sets of solutions, wherein there are empty solutions, trivial ones, and then nontrivial ones. Add further that we have a relatively stable ...
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Is the clear/unclear distinction itself clear, unclear, or something else?
Suppose that clarity occurs for two representations when one attends to what makes the representations different. (This is, to my knowledge, a somewhat common or accepted "definition" of ...
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Would a divine being having properties of multiple orders undermine the point of attributing divine simplicity to this being?
It seems as if debates about divine natures, among the "laity," are usually preoccupied with what have been called first-order properties of those natures. So we see the perennial quibbling ...
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What is the difference between a Belief and Truth
I was interested in the definition of truth, i followed this post
What is the difference between Fact and Truth?
what I understood is that truth is anything I believe in or appears to be accurate ...
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Could the boundary between concrete and abstract objects be vague?
Though the SEP article on abstract objects has long weighed on my mind, I never formed much of an opinion about the question until now. The opinion I did have was negative: the ~space/~time definition ...
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What's the difference between morality and rationality?
What's the difference between morality and rationality?
Some of my friends argue with me saying,
What is rational is what is moral
I do not believe so because, I believe there are absolute moral ...
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Can a category of non-difference exist in Western logic?
Indian philosophy has a logical category of non-difference (related somewhat to abheda) in which something is different from something else but identical to it as well. An example is that of the the ...
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