SORT 2025

Introduction

Introduction

permenides in natural languge?

Concept of common knowledge

Proper names Particulars and universals (hume bundle theory, platonic ontology, aristotle 3rd man, parmenides, relational universals (is darker than), infinite regress, wittgenstein and ontology of facts "the world is all that is the case", "the world is the totality of facts, not of things") Syllogisms and Aristotle Truths of fact and necessity Correspondence theory of truth Coherence theory of truth Coherence theory of justification Foundationalism

modal logic?

Rationalism

Basic beliefs: Incorrigibility (cognito ergo sum)

Empiricism

h3 Linguistics

ideal language philosophy ordinary language philosophy

logical positivism. + problem: how to verify? + problem: not verifiable uninteresting?

lingustics. nominalism vs platonism.

ordinary language philosophy

formal vs natural language

+ we can construct statements + we know some statements to be a-priori true, a-priori false

types of universal: + types + properties + relations

communication between intelligences

modes of persuasion + logos - reason + ethos - character + pathos - appeal to emotion

types of talk + dialectic + didactic + debate + eristic

Universals? something more like lingustics?

universals: + things we talk about have properties. what is the nature of those properties? + these are universals + plato: theory of forms + platonic realism: universals, abstract objects "exist"

universal vs particular abstract vs concrete

Sort

what is meant by fact. "the case"

foundationalism. what is root of belief basic beliefs + empiricism (senses) + self evident belifs

dualism vs monism

types of monism: + physicalism + idealism + neutral monism

cartesian dualism

mind: + functionalism? conciousness?

do we have free will?

aritotle question: are the heaven’s teleological or material? implication

vitalism. non-physical element explains living vs non-living.

divine providence and telos. god the sustainer. natural order. general providence, special providence

free will and compatibalism

"substance" monads etc

causation final cause

absolute skepticism

heidegger, phenomenology

consciousness vs self-consciousness

various proofs for god?

rationalists: can rationally get at existance of god (decarte, others?)

heidegger method as different? divine revelation as method?

how we interact with world? leaps of faith. kiirkegaard

Strauds arguement about validity even if claim of mental state is correct Eg someone who believes in absolute good evil can genuinely believe that, but belief could be incorrect. Other person can hold different belief

theory of forms + exemplar vs thing itself + meter bar is exactly 1 meter, but the form of 1 meter doesn’t necessary have length. length(meter bar in paris) = 1 exactly. length(length()) not defined?

but here we have at least a definition. can there be a definition of the good, the just we have this for some words. the large etc

is of identify is of predication

what is there a form of? every type of thing?

logical positivism

semiotics structuralism

Epistemology. We can’t really verify atomic facts. Even our senses are in a sense in the past. Motivates move to probability, Bayes.

Berkeley and empiricism. Statements are like I perceive chair. How do move to chair is real. Can chair be real without perception

Transedental argument Statement about mental state is true. This implies other true statements about noumenal world Generally considered debunked? Role of skepticism here Skeptical of mental beliefs

What statements on our mental state can we make? Heidegger? Dasein, being in the world

bacon new science. materialism. decarte. solopsism. kant unification. material world is projection of min. we experience phenomena world, not thing in it self. noumenal world

falsifiability

plato: + justified true beliefs

decarte: Discourse on the Method

francis bacon method. hume method. how they differ from each other, decarte

aristotle method

pre phenomenology. what can we say cognito ergo sum locke conception of mind hume empericism

after descartes, spinoza? more rationalism. plato before?

empericist history + aristotle + francis bacon + locke + hume

possible states of worlds + monism + neutral monism + materialism + mind body dualism + subjective idealism + dualism

subjective idealism: + bishop berkeley

quine: word and object

ontology definition metaphysics definition

epistemology definition scepticism definition

a priori, synthetic a-priori phenomonon and noumenal world

gettier problems

francis bacon: novum organum

big thing on phenomenology

ego id, super ego

being and time?

conscious subconsuious

existance of other intelligences

defined by negation? we are not the other?

the mind: + the problem of other minds

empiricism

problem of induction somewhere. just because we observe, and thing fits, doesn’t mean we have law

description of empirical knowledge reductionism, substance, holism, emergentism

aristotelian science: + gather data + 4 causes + describe forms? if wrong, change form? eg zoology?

bacon: can do experiemnts to test induction or form? eg aristotle and anvil/feather gravity newton: simplify to allow for mathematical models. test those bacon: do science ith goal of technology. knowledge is power aristotle: classification can be seen as modern "hypothesis"

observation stuff

senses + through sensory input we can say more about a-postori, but complex how. falsifiability, positivity etc + we can create modedls in our heards to understand what we sense

empiricism: + a priori is maths/logic + a postiroi is after knowledge

direct realism vs indirect realism. do we experiencec world, or internal representation of it

models h3

page on: + moedlling observations, general concept + Epistemological rationalism + Epistemological skepticism and empiricism + assessing models + page on dualism. is mind part of model? + materialism. everything built up mechanically, computationally. physics naive realism? scientific realism means no such thing as color per se

metaphysical realism. world exists independent of our perception of it. empiricism: some facts can be known through sensory inputs

problem of induction: + popper kuhn: falsifiability instead

idealism. mind is primary? mind builds simulcra of material world to interact with others?

logical positivism: only statements which are tautologies or verifiable