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What did Haugeland mean when he said that the grounding of ontical truth can be transcendental only as existential?
This is probably a narrow question, and so it's my job to motivate it. Due to the fact it would be inappropriate to expect many people to have read what I'm referencing, I'll try my best to explain my ...
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If we keep asking "why" are we guaranteed to end up in one of the three states of the Münchhausen Trilemma?
Could you please explain your reasoning. I thought the whole point of this trilemma was that you can't know anything for certain, yet they propose with certainty that you end up in one of these states,...
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To what extent can one admit that language is an adequate outlet for explicit feelings and experiencings?
If I am sharing my thoughts and another person goes “oh, that’s relatable,” or “yeah, I totally get it,” and other variations like “I feel you on that one!” Do they, really? Is language ever enough, ...
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Arendt on Factual Truth in "Truth and Politics"
I'm reading Hannah Arendt's "Truth and Politics" (1967). I thought I was getting it, but then I read two statements that to me, seem to be in conflict with one another:
"Factual truth, on the ...
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Does existentialism presuppose the supernatural?
When it comes to debates about the existence of an "all powerful all knowing god" believers and non-believers alike often times both agree that the existence of that god can't be scientifically or ...
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Isn't Nietzsche's Übermensch idea self-contradictory?
Doesn't Nietzsche's Übermensch contradicts itself in that understanding everything would enable propagation of that understanding?
Wouldn't Nietzsche's Übermensch eventually fully understand how the ...
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