Antony Flew My question is this: "Why and how was it that Hume failed to find a kind ofimpression from which to legitimate the complementary ideas of physical necessity and physical impossibility?" We can best begin from his first published discussion of causation. 1. In Treatise 1.3.2, ...
The idea of ‘the given’ and its alleged problematic status as most famously articulated by Sellars (1956, 1981) continues to be at the center o
What does the word "noble" still mean for us nowadays? How does the noble man betray himself, how is he recognized under this heavy overcast sky of the commencing plebeianism, by which everything is rendered opaque and leaden?—It is not his actions which establish his claim—actions are ...
But what else would love mean? It is often noted that the Greeks had three different words for "love," although there are actually four, at least. The common impression is that people with many different words for something (like the Eskimo/Inuit for "snow" -- although this may be a...
What does this mean? What is “negative reality”? If I lack food, how is this not an example of a “very existent reality”? If I am cruel and bereft of compassion, ask the victims of my cruelty whether my cruelty was an “existent reality”! Obviously, it is. Common sense will ...
Common sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened and run; we are insulted by a rival, are angry and strike. Here we have David Hume's view that reason alone can not cause us to act, but that emotions and feelings are the fundamental ...
The same thing could be said about “deism” or the idea of “natural religion,” which appears first in the clandestine manuscripts (the Colloquium, the Quatrains du déiste, Challe’s work) and not in the texts of Voltaire, Hume, and the early Diderot. Also, the program of a “...
we tend view our own beliefs as if they are realknowledge. I hadn’t realized how crusty and obsolete my impression of “dance music” was. In reality, since I’d last actively considered it, the sun had risen and set four thousand times, wars had been fought, borders had been redrawn...
In this case, the behavior aspect is assessed sufficiently by analyzing gaze behavior as well as take-over performance and the handling of critical situations. While the short interviews after the drive can give an impression on trust level and situation awareness, however they do not allow an ...