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Akrasia/acedia and a proposed knowledge/understanding distinction
Suppose that there is an epistemic capacity useful to call by the name of understanding, as something on the same level as knowledge in general, but importantly distinct therefrom. Now suppose that ...
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Higher education knowledge and high school knowledge and pleasure
This post wonders about the levels of pleasure that can be attained using high school only knowledge as compared to using higher education knowledge (assuming all pleasurable activities are related to ...
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Is there at least one essay focused on Kant's definition of "notions" as intermediary between idea(l)s and conceptions?
I tried Googling "Kant 'notions'" but that doesn't seem efficient (from the results I've gotten). I assume that he appealed to the word for its being originally cognate with noesis and the ...
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Knowledge-that, knowing-what, epistemic logic, and invertible functions
There's a subsection of my main argument (in my offline notes) that goes:
∃f(f(𝔼) = ♪)
If we knew what f was in particular, then we could go to f -1(♪) = 𝔼
But this would make 𝔼 knowable in a well-...
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How does representationalism respond to the "Mary's room argument"?
So here's Frank Jackson himself responding to his own argument using "representationalism":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPT0BE1WAHk
So as I'm understanding Frank's newer view... when ...
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Is scientific knowledge personal or general?
This question was considered off topic in "History of science and mathematics". According to a comment by Alexandre Eremenko it belonged to philosophy.stackexchange.com. I don't understand ...
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What is the syntactic representation of mental content? Is that even possible?
In the philosophy of mind, the Representational Theory of Mind (RTM) usually is said to be associated with semantic propertys of intentionality. Does representation have to be semantic? What would be ...
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Gods from the perspective of animals
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and
let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of
the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, ...
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Is this metalogical diagram a reasonable presentation of untyped logics?
Diagram 1 represents my attempt to present the main components of classical predicate logic in a simple diagrammatic form. Diagram 1 is about logic, not in a particular logic, hence the term ...
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As humans, do we require a total understanding of information to fully embody it as knowledge?
As humans, do we require a total understanding of information to fully embody it as knowledge?
Is the underlying mechanism of the act of knowledge dependent on a complete understanding of theories, ...
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Website on philosophical knowledge
Here http://mathonline.wikidot.com/ you can see a great website where some mathematical knowledge is organized, and I am wondering if there is a similar website for philosophy. Thank you so much.
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Do modern philosophers of mind believe that thinking is a symbolic or visual process by nature?
Do some philosophers regard thinking as a symbolic process only because they don't actually think for themselves -- rather, like most of us, they are "having thoughts", their ...
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Do philosophers think physical laws are logical statements?
I had some questions like:
Do philosophers think that the rules of the universe are always logical or
can they be somehow divorced from logic? The rules of physics seem to follow the laws of logic, so ...
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How do the philosophical notions of schemas and paradigms differ?
In analytical philosophy, both schemas and paradigms are powerful conceptual structures for modeling phenomena, and I wonder which features define and differentiate them.
Schemas (as explored in ...
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Have cognitive scientists dealt with Kant’s idea of a priori knowledge using their tools?
Since Kant’s concept of a priori knowledge is about how humans perceive and construct the world in their head, that sounds very directly related to cognitive science and psychology. Have scientists ...
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