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Question about word (relationship between language and thought)
Your question is an empirical question about whether unsymbolized thinking happens. Any consensus among philosophers is of no import to this question; what matters is what neuroscience has revealed.
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Is consciousness a prerequisite for knowledge?
It ultimately depends on how one defines consciousness and knowledge. E.g., one could say that knowledge is a conscious awareness of facts, which makes the two inseparable.
On the other hands, if ...
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Can science inform philosophy?
Groovy got to it first, but the notion that philosophical knowledge intersects with scientific fact is naturalized epistemology which enjoys a range of belief from mutually supportive but distinct ...
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Question about word (relationship between language and thought)
Different philosophers have different views on the question of how thought and language interrelate. According to modern cognitive science, not all thoughts require language, and not all language use ...
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How to justify our beliefs so that it is not circular?
Solipsism can explain our experience using the smallest number of entities.
This is logically inconsistent. If we are different people each having our own experience, then solipsism is false.
My ...
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Question about word (relationship between language and thought)
I noticed recently that my dog can observe a situation, anticipate what will happen, and autonomously, without being trained, much less receiving a command, act accordingly (in his opinion).
As a ...
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How to justify our beliefs so that it is not circular?
I don't know why you keep stubbornly assert that solipsism is supported by Occam's Razor just because it posits quantitatively less entity, even though people has been telling you that claim is pure ...
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Is consciousness a prerequisite for knowledge?
Yes, consciousness is a prerequisite for knowledge. The two previous answers have noted that the answer depends on how one defines "consciousness" and "knowledge", which is ...
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Are there epistemic vices?
Some epistemic vices I can think of
Intellectual dishonesty (deliberately manufactoring evidence for one's beliefs)
Dogmatism, closed-mindedness, prejudice (a certain lack of imagination, ...
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Are there epistemic vices?
Positing epistemic vices seems to go hand-in-hand with positing epistemic virtues, see e.g. this section of the SEP entry on the topic. Regarding madness, I am reminded of something from Kant's third ...
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Can science inform philosophy?
When philosophy deals with topics that are not easily quantifiable, it will be harder to argue that the exact sciences would provide useful input. On the other hand, when philosophy deals with topics ...
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How to justify our beliefs so that it is not circular?
But where did you get your concepts and words like "solipsism," "minds," "justify," "circular," "parsimony," and so on from? Did they come, in major ...
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Is consciousness a prerequisite for knowledge?
'Consciousness' is a word, a symbol which we define the meaning of - what we intend when we utter that noise. Likewise for 'knowledge'. Ultimately they are symbols represented by noises or visual ...
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Question about word (relationship between language and thought)
What is the nature of the relationship between language and thought?
This inevitably depends on what we mean by "language" and "thought".
Like Descartes, I think a thought is any ...
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Question about word (relationship between language and thought)
Today, most philosophers/cognitive scientists tend to agree that it is possible to think without language, but the way this theory is formulated varies in some specific details (e.g. Carruthers says ...
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PC as a rebuttal to the Gettier case against JTB definition of knowledge
One of the primary occupations of philosophy is to sort out the difference between actuality and appearances (springer.com). (Or to cast doubt that actuality exists at all for those who challenge ...
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How to justify our beliefs so that it is not circular?
How to justify our beliefs so that it is not circular?
Descartes postulated that the theoretical basis of our concepts rest on "clear and distinct ideas" which he implicitly takes to be ...
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How to justify our beliefs so that it is not circular?
A Christian philosopher named Alvin Plantinga would say that belief in other minds is what's called a properly basic belief. The way he describes it, you don't base the belief strictly on external ...
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How to justify our beliefs so that it is not circular?
How can we reject solipsism?
IMO history shows that there is no
philosophical argumentation which rejects solipsism.
Hence if
solipsism seems a problem or a challenge for someone I recommend to ...
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What are the philosophical implications of Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem?
The original question concerns the first incompleteness theorem, but some of the answers, including the highly upvoted answer https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/2645, delve into the second ...
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Can science inform philosophy?
It is a bi-directional influence. Philosophy influences Science and Science influences Philosophy. The distinction between the two is also "blurred". Take theoretical physics for example it ...
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Is it possible to accurately describe something without describing the rest of the universe?
Accuracy is relative. Descriptions convey limited information about an actual entity. One can describe a human with varying degrees of precision:
that it is an instance of homo sapiens
physical ...
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Is consciousness a prerequisite for knowledge?
Distinctions arise in my conscious mind. One such distinction is between a conscious versus unconscious source of knowledge. Baruch Spinoza, for example, describes desire as appetite accompanied by ...
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Question about word (relationship between language and thought)
I will present a Kantian response, and then a post-Kantian close.
We are always already in the stuff of language if, like Kant, you utilize the notion of an a priori ordering of thought, namely, ...
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Question about word (relationship between language and thought)
The limits of my language are the limits of my world
Wittgenstein
Anyone who truly groks this must have an instantaneous horror reaction as though to an interminable sentence to an invisible prison — ...
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Question about word (relationship between language and thought)
OP : "Have philosophers come to a consensus about the relationship between language and thinking?"
Here are a few quotes from Heidegger's Being & Time (H.160-161) where he addresses ...
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Question about word (relationship between language and thought)
Blocking progress on this question: beginning with language understood as simply a collection of word tokens, and mind understood as simply individual minds- both separated from their environments and ...
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