Adamitic language …
There is something attractive in the thought that our language of universals was preceded by an Adamitic language which makes use only of proper names. Such a language acknowledges the importance of...
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The aspect-blind
In the Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein discusses the ambiguous duck-rabbit picture as illustrating a specific kind of seeing, seeing-as: we see the drawing now as a duck, now as a rabbit....
View ArticleRelating your Dreams
Dreams are boring. For the others. They are all subjectivity, and consist only of affordances. There are no non-realised affordances in a dream: everything happens for your sake. Hence, there are no...
View ArticleArgumentum ad Futuram
The Argumentum ad Futuram is a fallacy for arguing from the assumed state of the future to say something to determine our choices in the present. The fallacy tries to do away with difficult ethical...
View ArticleThe brain and the mind
Sometimes, the brain is in charge in my mind, though mostly, thank God, it isn’t. This morning I lay awake for an hour with a phrase in my mind from a tune by Krezip (“Does it never get any...
View ArticleAnd our associations?
Perhaps, our associations too, are mere brain waves. The interesting thing about them is that we shall try to understand them whenever they occur. (Just like our puzzlement over our dreams sets us to...
View ArticlePhilosophy of Perception and Aesthetics
1. Philosophy of Perception as a branch in aesthetics regards the awareness of aesthetic qualities, properties or values. In short, it concerns the awareness of subjective properties of things and...
View ArticleIntrospectivism and my mind
Introspectivism I think that the problem is quite simple (but I may be wrong): once you believe that your mind is something in you, you must also think that the way to find out what the mind is is by...
View ArticlePractices and Institutions (and psychology)
If we want to understand why people do good, or how we can make them do good, we must look at their psychologies. Practices work because participants are dedicated to contribute to them in favourable...
View ArticleWhat is Philosophy of Art?
When you do philosophy of art and discuss for instance, paintings and photographs, it makes little sense to make universal claims about aesthetic values. It makes little sense to say what beauty is,...
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