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Final Vocabulary - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Final vocabulary
Richard Rorty coined the term "final vocabulary" which he explicated in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity to mean a set of communicative beliefs whose contingency the bearer more or less ignores. "Final vocabulary" concerns any such beliefs, whether held by one human or all…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Judgement derives from Belief, Belief from Pleasure and Pain
The first step towards the logical is judgment, the essence of which, according to the best logicians, is belief. At the foundation of all beliefs lie sensations of pleasure or pain in relation to the apprehending subject. A third feeling, as the result of two prior, single…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Non credere a nulla senza ragione
Non credere a nulla, non importa dove l’hai letta o chi l’ha detto, neppure se l’ho detto io, a meno che non sia affine alla tua ragione e al tuo buon senso. Buddha
Liberarsi della convinzione di non poter avere
Puoi avere ciò che vuoi semplicemente se sei disposto a liberarti della convinzione che tu non puoi averlo. * (Robert Anthony)
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
La fragilità di chi difende le proprie certezze
Le vengono in mente altri episodi sintomatici a questo riguardo, per esempio la volta che sua sorella Julia era venuta a trovarla quando abitava a casa di Stefano e avevano preparato una bella cena insieme, e dopo qualche bicchiere di vino le due sorelle Moletto si erano messe…
Lessons From My Career Change: Five Ways To Make Your Move Sustainable | Guardian Careers | Guardian Professional
Career change: move forward not away
We often leave a job or situation because we are unhappy about something: an overbearing manager, irritating colleagues, ridiculous hours. When we make a change, however, what thoughts, beliefs and habits travel with us recreating the environment we're escaping? A change is an…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
What philosophers mean by intentionality
“Intentionality” is a technical term used by philosophers to refer to that capacity of the mind by which mental states refer to, or are about, or are of objects and states of affairs in the world other than themselves. So, for example, if I have a belief, it must be a belief…
Mental states as dispositions to behave
According to a typical behaviorist analysis, to say that Jones believes it is going to rain just means the same as saying an indefinite number of statements such as the following: if the windows in Jones’s house are open, he will close them; if the garden tools are left…
Behaviorism smuggles desire back in
I said earlier that the behaviorists would analyze Jones’s belief that it is going to rain into sets of statements about his rain-avoidance behavior. But the difficulty with that is that we can only begin to make such a reduction on the assumption that Jones desires to stay…
What tokens of the same mental type share
But now they are faced with an interesting question. What is it that all of these tokens have in common that makes them tokens of the same mental-state type? If you and I both believe that Denver is the capital of Colorado, then what is it exactly that we share if there is…
Mental states defined by their function
At this point the materialists made a move that was crucial for subsequent philosophizing about the mind. They said: what token brain states have that makes them mental states is a certain type of function in the overall behavior of the organism. Not surprisingly, this doctrine…
Beliefs have no intrinsic features
Mental states such as beliefs are not defined by any intrinsic features, rather they are defined by their causal relations, and these causal relations constitute their function.
Causal relations are all there is to a belief
Beliefs, for example, are caused by perceptions and together with desires they cause actions. Such causal relations are all that there is to having a belief.
Psychological mode, content and aspectual shape
Because intentional states are capable of referring to objects and states of affairs in the world beyond themselves, they must have some sort of content that determines this reference, and indeed we need to distinguish the content of the state from the type of state that it is…
The network and the background
Intentional states do not in general come in isolated units. If I believe, for example, that it is raining, I cannot just have that belief in isolation. I must believe, for example, that rain consists of drops of water, that these fall out of the sky, that they generally go…
Nothing inherently intensional about intentionality
The important thing to remember about the distinction between intentionality-with-a-t and intensionality-with-an-s is that there is nothing inherently intensional about intentionality. A statement to the effect that Brutus believes that Caesar crossed the Rubicon is indeed an…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Writing a mission statement changes you
Writing or reviewing a mission statement changes you because it forces you to think through your priorities deeply, carefully, and to align your behavior with your beliefs. As you do, other people begin to sense that you’re not being driven by everything that happens to you…
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
Disciples invent the master they want
Sadly, it is now almost universally assumed by classical scholars that Pythagoras never existed. It seems that there was a group of people in southern Italy called Pythagoreans who invented a ‘Founder’ for their beliefs who, accordingly, lived and died in a manner consistent…
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Nietzsche on morality and society
It is “because of this origin,” writes the contrarian Nietzsche, “that the word ‘good’ is far from having any necessary connection with altruistic acts, in accordance with the superstitious belief of these moral philosophers.” Nietzsche described Christianity as “hostile to…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Saint or brain damaged: cognitive dissonance
Imagine believing someone to be a shining spiritual example, only to then conclude that they were in fact simply brain damaged. This would provoke too much ‘cognitive dissonance’: the mental discomfort caused by holding incompatible beliefs.
Living as an ego theorist despite neuroscience
Broks says that, despite his intellectual convictions, he lives as a ‘soul theorist’ or ‘ego theorist’ who persists with the belief in a fixed core of self. ‘I think we probably all do, because that’s the way we’ve evolved biologically and sociologically to think and behave…
We are the same because we believe it
‘Physically we’re not the same, psychologically we’re not the same, genetically we’re the same but that doesn’t mean anything really; we may have certain patterns of brain organisation that predispose us temperamentally in certain ways, so we’re the same in that sense but then…
Belief in the enduring self as magical thinking
We may go through major transformations, not just brain injuries, but what psychologists call ‘emotional insult’, such as the break-up of relationships or a bereavement. ‘Are we the same people when we come through them? In some sense yes, in some sense no, but it seems we have…
Selective memory constructs the self
We all ignore and do not commit to memory facts and events that conflict with the way we see ourselves and the world. We remember selectively, usually without conscious effort or desire to do so. And yet because we believe memory records facts, objectively, we fail to see that…
Too firm a sense of self fossilises you
‘I’d say if you have too healthy an appreciation for who you are, that leaves you open to fossilising yourself. Everything’s open to revision. I’m an atheist, but let’s face it, if there was a real God-created miracle out there right now, that would be open to revision. I’m not…
Character judged beyond the evidence
The belief that character predicts action can be so strong that people sometimes confidently say they are certain how someone acted, even when they cannot possible know what they actually did.
Rediscovering one's own beliefs
When I sat down to write it, my own beliefs were not held on file, permanently ready for inspection. I often don’t remember my view about something: it is as though I have to think about the subject again in order to find out what I believe.
Meeting a man who believes he is reincarnated
I wanted to find out what it really meant for someone who sincerely believed he was a reincarnation.
Calling superstition by its name
It is often considered disrespectful to dismiss any aspects of religion as mere superstitions, but if that is what they are, there is no other truthful way of putting it.
Reason in the service of faith
Let’s take the resurrection of Jesus Christ. If science somehow – and I can’t even imagine how – but if it told me that the resurrection of Jesus Christ was just categorically impossible, could not happen, I would disbelieve that and continue to believe what the Bible teaches…
Waldensians - Wikipedia
Waldesians join the nascent protestantism
When the news of the Reformation reached the Waldensian Valleys, the Tavola Valdese decided to seek fellowship with the nascent Protestantism. A Synod held 1526 in Laus, a town in Chisone valley, decided to send envoys to examine the new movement. In 1532 they met with German…