* It took me a little while to accept the fact that most people don’t get this joke. (If you want it explained, just post below; I’ll do my best not to kill it…) Humor aside, though, something important occurred to me in an argument today. It struck me suddenly when Jordan used the phrase, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘a priori’
Self-Reference and This Sentence
Posted in Math and Science, Philosophy in General, tagged a priori, Bertrand Russell, categorical imperative, Gödel, Jordan, Satre, self-reference, sexual fetishes, true by definition, utilitarianism, Whitehead, xkcd on 22 September, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Starting Points
Posted in God and Theology, Philosophy in General, tagged a priori, absolute, Anselm, Argument, axioms, Descartes, disprovable, existence, God, Jordan, Meditations on First Philosophy, of, ontological, ontology, provable, reason, self on 4 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was a gloomy day sometime in 1640, or at least, I like to imagine it was a gloomy, quiet day in Europe when Descartes, dressed still in his nightgown, sat down in front of his softly cackling fireplace and drew his ink bottle and paper towards him to compose the Meditations on First Philosophy. [...]
Truth is Subjectivity: Existential Epistomology
Posted in Existentialism and Authenticity, Philosophy in General, tagged a priori, Descartes, epistomology, evangalism, evangelize, evangelizing, existentialism, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, objective, objectivity, subjective, subjectivity, Truth on 11 March, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I have had people get very confused listening to me discuss – with ardent passion – the absolute nature of reason, and then lapse quietly into existential pathos about the subjectivity of meaning. And rightly so. Epistemology is something that has a special meaning for me, as the problem of knowledge is precisely the thing [...]
