HON 2010C Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Analytic Philosophy, Bundle Theory, Monism
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Through evolution can say yes: defining a cause as a thing we identify as a precedent, and the thing that is a final cause that we notice with our sensory data. Metalinguistics: study of the large, overarching, school of analytical philosophy, russell, whitehead, frege, ch 3 cottingham, language reflects outer reality, expresses those experiences that come from outside, processed, and expressed and shared, subject-predicate: ball is red. Socrates is courageous: language connects the inner world and the outer world. Practice questions: how do we access plato"s world of forms, the noose (the intellect, the soul, why do we study metaphysics? a. What can we do with objects: transcendental idealism. We can intuit about objects, we have intuition. Anselm father of scholasticism, explaining god"s existence: that then which greater cannot be conceived, descartes: all the things we talk about have a source, an object in reality that we encounter.