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How does "instant knowledge" happen? [duplicate]
2 distinct events happened that got me interested in the Process of Understanding.
First, once so happened that I knew something for many years but one day "it clicked"?! I became very ...
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Akrasia/acedia and a proposed knowledge/understanding distinction
Suppose that there is an epistemic capacity useful to call by the name of understanding, as something on the same level as knowledge in general, but importantly distinct therefrom. Now suppose that ...
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Higher education knowledge and high school knowledge and pleasure
This post wonders about the levels of pleasure that can be attained using high school only knowledge as compared to using higher education knowledge (assuming all pleasurable activities are related to ...
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Is there at least one essay focused on Kant's definition of "notions" as intermediary between idea(l)s and conceptions?
I tried Googling "Kant 'notions'" but that doesn't seem efficient (from the results I've gotten). I assume that he appealed to the word for its being originally cognate with noesis and the ...
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Knowledge-that, knowing-what, epistemic logic, and invertible functions
There's a subsection of my main argument (in my offline notes) that goes:
∃f(f(𝔼) = ♪)
If we knew what f was in particular, then we could go to f -1(♪) = 𝔼
But this would make 𝔼 knowable in a well-...
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How does representationalism respond to the "Mary's room argument"?
So here's Frank Jackson himself responding to his own argument using "representationalism".
So as I'm understanding Frank's newer view... when Mary "sees" red she's not learning ...
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Is scientific knowledge personal or general?
This question was considered off topic in "History of science and mathematics". According to a comment by Alexandre Eremenko it belonged to philosophy.stackexchange.com. I don't understand ...
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What is the syntactic representation of mental content? Is that even possible?
In the philosophy of mind, the Representational Theory of Mind (RTM) usually is said to be associated with semantic propertys of intentionality. Does representation have to be semantic? What would be ...
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Gods from the perspective of animals
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and
let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of
the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, ...
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Is this metalogical diagram a reasonable presentation of untyped logics?
Diagram 1 represents my attempt to present the main components of classical predicate logic in a simple diagrammatic form. Diagram 1 is about logic, not in a particular logic, hence the term ...
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As humans, do we require a total understanding of information to fully embody it as knowledge?
As humans, do we require a total understanding of information to fully embody it as knowledge?
Is the underlying mechanism of the act of knowledge dependent on a complete understanding of theories, ...
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Website on philosophical knowledge
Here http://mathonline.wikidot.com/ you can see a great website where some mathematical knowledge is organized, and I am wondering if there is a similar website for philosophy. Thank you so much.
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Do modern philosophers of mind believe that thinking is a symbolic or visual process by nature?
Do some philosophers regard thinking as a symbolic process only because they don't actually think for themselves -- rather, like most of us, they are "having thoughts", their ...
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Do philosophers think physical laws are logical statements?
I had some questions like:
Do philosophers think that the rules of the universe are always logical or
can they be somehow divorced from logic? The rules of physics seem to follow the laws of logic, so ...
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How do the philosophical notions of schemas and paradigms differ?
In analytical philosophy, both schemas and paradigms are powerful conceptual structures for modeling phenomena, and I wonder which features define and differentiate them.
Schemas (as explored in ...
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Have cognitive scientists dealt with Kant’s idea of a priori knowledge using their tools?
Since Kant’s concept of a priori knowledge is about how humans perceive and construct the world in their head, that sounds very directly related to cognitive science and psychology. Have scientists ...
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Are mental objects timeless?
Let's suspend for a moment the How? of the body mind problem and suppose an ontological paradigm where there are two classes of objects: mental and physical. Also that physical objects are spatially ...
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What Is Critical Thinking, and How Does One Go About Learning It?
I am a freshmen taking an 'Effective/Logical Reasoning' course as an elective. Admittedly, I thought it would be something I could understand easily, but I soon found that this is not something I can ...
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Are we biologically limited from knowing the universe?
Consider the relationship between a human and a dog.
A dog can be very intelligent or not very much. Border Collie is considered to be the most intelligent dog breed in the world, while Afgan Hound ...
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Is this a solution to the disjunction problem of causal representation?
As I understand it, the disjunction problem is how could a causal theory of inner representation account for mistaken identification of external objects or object types. For example, if I see a fox ...
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Not all knowledge is wisdom
It is clear from Big Internet Search Engine that not all knowledge is considered wisdom but, can some knowledge be foolish?
"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart ...
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Metrics of the complexity/richness of theories
Are there methods proposed to "measure" the complexity of a theory? either quantitatively or qualitatively. Let me explain with an example: I'd say that theories of the type of Hooke's law:
F = k.x
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What is the meaning of an explanation
I am a software engineer and recently got involved in a community project that aims to teach underprivileged kids. This got me thinking about the term 'explanation'. What I want to ask is- what in ...
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Are paradoxes a necessary element of everyone representation of the world?
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I stumbled upon the quotation
Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.
from Raheel Farooq according to goodreads.com.
I am here not so much interested in the ...
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Does knowledge include created idea?
Is an idea knowledge?
I think there are various example that is an idea and seems different from normal knowledge.
I believe "Steve Jobs invented iPhone" is knowledge. However, when Jobs conceived ...
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Opinions in face of an unsolvable problem (case-study on the existence of God)
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For the purpose of this post, I will assume the following quote from @jobermark (here) to be true and will ask a question on the consequences of such truth
[W]e really can only talk about ...
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Are these logical arguments against the existence of a god? [closed]
Consider the two following observations...
Observation 1
Randomly assigned individuals to watching a movie about death or a random movie about a very neutral subject. At the end of the movie, ask ...
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What consequences (types of) exist in the real world (categorical monoidal logic)?
Springer book http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783642128202 "New Structures for Physics" (which contains lot of metaphysics despite the physics in its title) elaborates categorical and monoidal ...
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What is the difference between expressivism and representationalism in modern philosophy of language?
Philosophers like Robert Brandom and Huw Price make a fairly sharp distinction between expression and representation (or at least expressivism and representationalism). Price goes so far as to ...
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References for how to build knowledge and representations from discourse
First of all I would like to say that I am asking this for a friend and I have no previous knowledge of the field so the terminology that I am using might be erroneous. Feel free to leave comments ...
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Example of knowledge representation as a surrogate for something in the world
I've been trying to learn about knowledge representations.
According to a canonical definition, a knowledge representation is:
a surrogate for real-world entities
an ontological commitment ...
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Is there a literature theory of science and math texts?
I'm compiling a list of ideas and recommendations on how to read math and physics books with the aim of taking apart the presented content, classifying the provided information and, to some extent, ...
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Aside from logical representations, what are other ways philosophers approach representing knowledge?
Of course different arguments can be neatly spelled out in logical symbols, but logic isn't sufficient for all kinds of knowledge.
I know the issue is represented in different ontologies in the ...
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Could Science and Philosophy be focused too much on physical states and not enough on dynamic processes? [closed]
Many times I've read about machines or processes being described as a collection of only physical states and not as a set of 'interacting' processes. A physical STATE is not a process which might have ...
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Two types of routines
Can anyone one provide counterexamples to the following: The assumption that all human behavioral level activity (i.e. no sub-personal or subconscious processes) can be bifurcated into two kinds of ...
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Propositional knowledge vs. Procedural knowledge vs Knowledge by acquaintance
I am looking for a reference which explains the differences between these conceptions of knowledge (and potentially others).
Ideally, I prefer an academic paper authored by a respected scholar.
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is knowledge an impediment for seeing things the way they are? is silent observation the true instrument of comprehension? [closed]
when we are in a state of not knowing there is much more sensitivity, choiceless awareness, impartial observation, it seems to me.its knowledge the cloud of belief, conclusions preventing the true ...
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Dennett's view on the effect language has on the mind/brain
Several years ago, while studying philosophy, I recall reading in numerous sources that Dennett believed (or was interpreted as believing - by either Clark or Churchland [or Fodor?]) that it was ...
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How much is our understanding of Kant's Categorical Framework (published in German in 1781) obscured by translation and basic semantics?
Upon reading about and later researching [1] Kant's famous Categorical Framework, which is included as a key part of his classic Critique of Pure Reason (1781), I am struck by aspects that are quite ...
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How can I develop my critical thinking skills?
I am a freshman engineering student going to college. I want to learn how to think critically and to become a critical thinker and a sharp arguer. I am interested in philosophy, because I am curious ...
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Is there a logical methodology to classify things?
I wonder if there is any established logical methodology to classify things?
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My concern is to have a good method that lets me classify information in any context. I am actually a programmer....
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Does knowledge exist outside human consciousness?
Wikipedia defines knowledge as "familiarity with someone or something" and Plato defined knowledge as "justified true belief". Belief and familiarity is something that only a sentient being can have, ...
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The represenation of nothing
If zero is the representation of nothing, then nothing must me something because it is being represented, correct?
Now, if the above is incorrect, and zero is actually nothing, then why is it that ...
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