Questions tagged [thought]
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What is the meaning of reason, and do all animals possess that ability?
Aristotle defined man as the
ζωον λογικόν
Which translates as "logical living thing".
So it appears Aristotle didn't think non-human animals have the ability to reason.
Was he correct?
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I've heard of a term for something beyond the boundaries of human thought. What does the term sound like and whether it exists at all
I've heard of a term for something beyond the boundaries of human thought. That is, there is something a person can think about and there is something that is behind. What does the term sound like and ...
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How can I justify trusting my own thoughts without begging the question?
Suppose I attempt to justify trusting my own thoughts with an argument. Suppose I read the argument and find it compelling. The very process of reading an argument (presumably written in English or ...
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Logic and its beginnings and why it is
When dealing with logic aren't we supposed to question logic, as though what caused it and why it is and therefore ask or beg the question, "Can our basic understanding of logic be logical?" ...
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Is self-awareness necessary to consciousness?
In the act of thought, we often distinguish between the thinking itself and the awareness that 'I am thinking,' representing the thinker. But because the “thinker” is themself a manifestation of ...
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Is there a philosophy about how philosophy is no better than instinct?
Troubles with the circularity of the title question aside, most of philosophy seems to involve conscious thought. This conscious thought involves careful reflection upon matters and reasoning based on ...
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The initial point of everything
Every action is influenced by something, an action happens when it is intended to. Isn't everything influenced by some other phenomena that itself has been influenced by other events? Then every ...
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Isn't every theory or model wrong?
I'm currently in class 12 and I was about different models of atoms in my school chemistry book and there were like 3 or 4 atomic models Rutherford's model, Thompson's model , Bohr's model then ...
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Classifications of experience [closed]
By experience, I mean all the content that I receive, which I have sub-divided into three categories:
Percepts, the content corresponding to the different senses (sight, hearing, olfaction, taste, ...
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How to define intelligence amongst animals [closed]
In the comments section of this article: Humans can recognize and understand chimpanzee and bonobo gestures, a few philosophical questions came up which have redirected me here. Could you please shed ...
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Is Analytic Philosophy really just Language Philosophy
In a recent answer, someone posted this quote from Michael Dummet:
What distinguishes analytical philosophy, in its diverse manifestations, from other schools is the belief, first, that a ...
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Knowing that they know that you know that they know
Suppose there are two spies, A and B. There is also a secret, s. The following situation unfolds:
(1) A learns s.
(2) B learns that A knows s.
(3) A learns that B knows that A knows s.
(4) B learns ...
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Is it necessary to freedom of thought that racist ideas must be tolerated? [closed]
Is it necessary to freedom of thought that racist ideas must be tolerated?
Why isn't the paradox of tolerance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance) also biased? In other words, why can'...
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Language, thought, cognition
Are thoughts distinct from natural language and if so how can 'thought' be defined so this might be established if it is in fact the case?
I am asking in response to a question elsewhere in 'Stack' ...
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What is the view of the origin of language according to contemporary philosophy of language?
Do we think in the language we speak? If we didn't know any language or think of a child for an instant, perhaps a newborn, is there still thinking? and if so, is it a universal language? Some say we ...
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