It has hundreds of entries, often of 500 to 1,000 words, on other significant thinkers, and thousands of brief definitions of philosophically important terms. In addition, it provides detailed overviews, some more than 6,000 words, of the subfields of phi- losophy, such as epistemology, ...
"Assumptions of some kind must be introduced which postulate suitable relations between whatever is signified by ‘A’ [the term to be reduced, that is, an element of the vocabulary of theory T ] and traits represented by theoretical terms already present in the primary [reducing] science."2...
There has been a great deal of feminist concern over the supposedly gender-neutral use of terms like ‘he’ and ‘man’. It is commonly said that these terms have both gender-specific meanings, as in sentences (1) and (2), and gender-neutral ones, as in sentences (3) and (4). ...
“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”― Jorge Luis Borges
Other examples include debates over the definition of ‘free will’ and ‘knowledge.’ The question is, “Is there really a correct way to define these terms?” We might think that debates over definitions isn’t really substantive because there is no essence corresponding to the words (at le...
My remarks on what the major terms and schools in this paragraph refer to have become uncontrollably long, so they are relegated to the bottom of the post. I hope readers will have the patience to reach them. The key points are that the German post-warEconomic Miraclecame from Ordo-liberal...
and character in an Antonioni film is different from the relationship between landscape and character in the films of the neorealist movement. As Williams (2008: 50) points out, landscape is used in the neorealist films in neo-Marxian terms as the site for collective social and political ...
to the Bible) has the character of a constitution. Moral norms as “Not Lie, Not Steal” are crucial until today’s international trade. “Being balanced against a feather” is a keyword in Muslim morals. International institutionalised morals can appear as international law (seeINCO-Terms)....
mustbegin to beand that the notion ofbeginning an action(the being thatbeginsit not supposed yet in existence), involves acontradiction in terms; then thisbeginningto exist cannot appear but as acapacity some nature hathto alter the presupposed nonentity, and to act for itself, whilst itself ...
But we need to discuss what it means in contemporary terms of the use of the term "artificial intelligence". First, AI is a modern conception because it relies on a heavily psychological characterization, the language which comes from modern psychology.. From Russell and...