HON 2010C Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Analytic Philosophy, Logical Positivism, Category Mistake
21 Oct 2018
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Loux: sticks to bundle and bare substratum but touches on trope theory a bit. It"s true walking=moving but moving does not mean walking. Category mistake: walking is a part of the category moving. Just because it looks similar doesn"t mean it"s similar: our senses see objects in reality we think and reason, grows out of foundational ideas. 7-6th cent bce: miletus- first philosopher, monism (don"t see this until spinoza, anaximander, anaximenes. 5th c. - presocratics: xenophanes, pythagoras, settled in sicily, heraclitus, empedocles, anaxagoras, democritus, leucippus. 3 polarities: the one and the many (monism, monadism, and plurality) a, spinoza leibniz i. Spinoza: pantheistic type: mill (phenomenalist, bradley - holism (the whole thing, bertrand russell (pluralist) i. ii. iii. iv. Talks about things that are only mental, material, or neutral (they"re both) 20th century atheist, there is no god: mental & material, 3 idealisms (from berkeley) i. ii. iii.
