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Tag Archives: Theory of Knowledge
Chastek and the Aristotelico-Thomistic Theory of Time. An Aristotelian Critique
0. In “Our contribution to motion and time,” his January 3, 2015, post to his blog, Just Thomism, James Chastek offers a brief statement of the Aristotelico-Thomistic understanding of time. Time is a sort of measure, and so presupposes some contribution … Continue reading
Theories of Knowledge and Theories of (Linguistic) Representation in Parallel Outline 3
0. In the previous posts in this series, conveniently listed in the one immediately preceding this one, I have spelled out parallel sets of defining theses of some fundamental theories of knowledge, on the one hand, and theories of, first, … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy of Literature, Theory of knowledge, Theory of Linguistic Representation
Tagged Alan H. Goldman, and Literature, Aristotle, Epistemism, Epistemological Realism, Heart of Darkness, Idealism, Idena Rosmarin, Joseph onrad, Language, Ontological Priority, Philosophy of Literature, Reader-Response Criticism, Reading, Republic of Plato, Richard Gaskin, Skepticism, Socrates, Sophists, Stanley Fish, Text, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Theory of Knowledge, Theory of Representation, Truth
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Theories of Knowledge and Theories of (Linguistic) Representation in Parallel Outline 2
0. In my post of December 30, 2013, “Theories of Knowledge and Theories of Linguistic Representation in Parallel Outline 1,” having been inspired to do so by some passages in the “Introduction to Theory and Criticism” of The Norton Anthology of … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy of Literature, Theory of Linguistic Representation
Tagged Aristotle, Bill Vallicella, Existential Quantifier, Identity, Logic, On the Soul, Representation, Seeing, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Theory of Knowledge, Theory of Linguistic Representation, Universal Quantifier
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Theories of Knowledge … in Parallel Outline 1 Revisited Again
I attempted, in the “Theories of Knowledge … in Parallel Outline 1 Revisited” of January 2, 2014, to simplify that which I had presented in my December 30, 2013, post, “Theories of Knowledge and Theories of Linguistic Representation in Parallel Outline 1.” … Continue reading
Theories of Knowledge and Theories of Linguistic Representation in Parallel Outline 1
0. I have found myself turning my attention to literature and the philosophy of literature, more specifically to the literature that is the fictional narrative represented the short story and the novel and the philosophy thereof. This is one of … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy of Literature
Tagged Alain Badiou, Anti-Linguistic Representationalism, Epistemism, Epistemology, Gorgias, Linguistic Representationalism, Ontological Nihilism, Ontological Realism, Ontology, Parmenides, Quantifier, Skepticism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Theory of Knowledge, Theory of Linguistic Representation
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Reading Alain Badiou’s Being and Event 4: Implications of the Badiou Thesis that “Leibniz’s Law” Has Been Refuted
0. Continuing the process of extracting and spelling out, in mini-steps, the theses operative in the thought of Alain Badiou: he tells us, still early on in his Being and Event (translated by Oliver Feltham (London and New York: Continuum … Continue reading
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