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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Viaggiare vedendo solo aeroporti e alberghi
Se viaggiate molto, lo fate spesso frequentando solo gli aeroporti, o i grandi alberghi, senza poter visitare i luoghi dove andate. Non avete mai tempo di conoscere e imparare.
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Jokes require living a human life
Jokes are bits of knowledge that can only be acquired through living a life as a member of the species Homo sapiens. The Architect in The Matrix possessed truly God-like omniscience. But even the Architect did not seem to have much of a sense of humor.
Confusing experience with knowledge
Again in an email correspondence with Riccardo Manzotti he says: There is a confusion between experience and knowledge, which is the same as saying that there is a confusion between phenomenology and epistemology. Since we do both with our minds, a lot of people confuse the…
Condemned to treat representations as the world
“Many people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem condemned by our constitution to treat these representations as if they were the world, for our everyday experience feels as if…
Nietzsche's perspectivism
Few associate Nietzsche with philosophy of mind per se, but his perspectivism is very similar to Kant’s idealism in that both hold that we cannot have knowledge of the objective world. Perspectivism even rejects the possibility of objective metaphysics outright. Like the…
How can subjective observers know the world?
how can subjective observers know anything about the observer-independent world? And as we saw in Chapter 6, we cannot assume that we can know anything about the objective world.
Calvinism (wikipedia Contributors)
God is infinite, and finite people are incapable of comprehending an infinite being
Reformed theologians believe that God communicates knowledge of himself to people through the Word of God. People are not able to know anything about God except through this self-revelation. Speculation about anything which God has not revealed through his Word is not…
Cidoc-crm Version 4.2.4 - Reference Document
Property quantifiers are ontological
We use the term property quantifiers for the declaration of the allowed number of instances of a certain property that an instance of its range or domain may have. These declarations are ontological, i.e. they refer to the nature of the real world described and not to our…
Description Logic - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
The open world assumption
[referring to Description Logic] Not having CWA, or rather having the Open World Assumption (OWA) means that lack of knowledge of a fact does not immediately imply knowledge of the negation of a fact.
Gnosticism - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Ancient Greek forms of knowing
Ancient Greek was capable of discerning between several different forms of knowing. These different forms may be described in English as being propositional knowledge, indicative of knowledge acquired indirectly through the reports of others or otherwise by inference (such as…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
After of the ending of absolute values, a life of tranquillity is the only solution (granted a man has the right temperament for it)
For Tranquility.—But will not our philosophy become thus a tragedy? Will not truth prove the enemy of life, of betterment? A question seems to weigh upon our tongue and yet will not put itself into words: whether one can knowingly remain in the domain of the untruthful? or, if…
Science and philosophy
This constitutes the antagonism between the specialties of science and philosophy. The latter aims, as art aims, at imparting to life and conduct the utmost depth and significance: in the former mere knowledge is sought and nothing else—whatever else be incidentally obtained.
Everything is necessity—so says the new knowledge: and this knowledge is itself necessity. All is guiltlessness, and knowledge is the way to insight into this guiltlessness.
The sun of a new gospel sheds its first ray upon the loftiest height in the souls of those few: but the clouds are massed there, too, thicker than ever, and not far apart are the brightest sunlight and the deepest gloom. Everything is necessity—so says the new knowledge: and…
Hypotheses, Evidence And Relationships: The Hyper Approach For Representing Scientific Knowledge Claims
Epistemic value of nanopublications
What remains problematic is that even if we were to have a perfect representation of phrases into triplets, this collection of sentences still do not answer the question ‘what does p53 activate?’ An important omission of this representation is that we get no grip on the…
Information Anxiety 2
Information anxiety
People still have anxiety about how to assimilate a body of knowledge that is expanding by the nanosecond…. Information anxiety is produced by the ever-widening gap between what we understand and what we think we should understand.
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
The Muller-Lyer illusion
Consider the Muller-Lyer illusion. Line 1 and Line 2 are of the same length, although Line 2 appears to be longer than Line 1. Even though we have knowledge that tells us the two lines are of equal length, our perception of the two arrows is not privy to this information. Our…
Perception works independently of knowledge
“module” must be working independently of this knowledge.
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Chi parla di ciò che non sa mente
La gente finge di sapere qualsiasi cosa su Dio, sulla vita futura, l'universo, le origini dell'uomo, l'evoluzione; ma, in realtà, non sa nulla, neppure su se stessa. E ogni volta che uno parla di qualcosa che non sa come se la sapesse, mente. Gurdjieff
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Realizzare il Sé dimenticandolo
Ecco un altro spunto che il buddhismo giapponese farà proprio: studiare la Via del Buddha significa studiare il Sé. Il Sé è la base della rilettura nipponica del buddhismo: non se ne può fare a meno. Ciò non rinvia al soggettivo, bensì a una componente transpersonale…
Salute, sapere e benessere
L’unico valore assoluto è l’utile, referente necessario per la determinazione di ogni norma etica. Stuart-Mill è il mèntore di Nishi. Su uno sfondo utilitaristico, si stagliano i tre valori fondamentali dell’etica: la salute, il sapere e il benessere. L’uomo deve curare il…
Scienza e morale crescono insieme
Fukuzawa insiste sull’equivalenza tra morale e conoscenza, affermando che il progresso scientifico procede di pari passo con quello etico. L’ottimismo dei filosofi Meiji è trasparente. Non fu Wang Yang-ming a sottolineare la stretta correlazione, anzi l’unità, di conoscenza e…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Bodies known only by inference from ideas
Bodies, on the other hand, cannot be known directly but only indirectly by inferring their existence and features from the contents of the mind. I do not directly perceive the table in front of me; but, strictly speaking, I perceive only my conscious experience of the table, my…
The representative theory of perception
How do I know that the representation really represents, or represents accurately? Descartes’ view was common in the seventeenth century. It is called the “representative theory of perception,”
The argument from analogy lacks an independent check
According to the argument from analogy, I infer the existence of mental states in other people, by analogy with myself. Just as I observe a correlation of my own behavior with my mental states, so I can infer the presence of appropriate mental states in others when I observe…
God is not a deceiver
assuming that God exists, he argues that God cannot be a deceiver. Because of God’s perfection, it would be inconsistent to suppose that he could be a deceiver, for deceit is an imperfection. But if God is not a deceiver, then there must exist an external world, and I must have…
Mary has never seen red
A similar argument was advanced by the Australian philosopher, Frank Jackson.2 Jackson imagines a neuro-biologist, Mary, who knows all there is to know about color perception. She has a total and complete knowledge of the neurophysiology of our color-perceiving apparatus, and…
Induction cannot ground the uniformity of nature
Unless we presuppose some sort of uniformity of nature, the uniformity of nature guaranteed by causality and causation, we have no ground for inductive arguments. But, and this is the crucial point, there is no ground for the belief in the uniformity of nature, because any such…
Rdf Primer
RDF doesn't look inside URIrefs
Using common URI prefixes provides a convenient way to organize the URIrefs for a related set of terms. However, this is just a convention. The RDF model only recognizes full URIrefs; it does not "look inside" URIrefs or use any knowledge about their structure.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Habits as knowledge, skill and desire
For our purposes, we will define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire. Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our…
Widening the overlap of knowledge, skill and desire
Knowledge, skill, and desire are all within our control. We can work on any one to improve the balance of the three. As the area of intersection becomes larger, we more deeply internalize the principles upon which the habits are based and create the strength of character to…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Taught by the plants themselves
Indeed, the far-reaching question Schultes’s fieldwork raises is how the local tribes could possibly have worked it out. Trial and error, in a jungle containing some eighty thousand different species of plant, hardly seems credible. The case of curare, the paralyzing arrow…
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
Philosophy is erotic, not just epistemic
Socrates only seems to embody a weak paradox. On the one hand, Socrates is declared the wisest man in Greece by the Oracle at Delphi. On the other hand, Socrates always insists that he knows nothing. How therefore can the wisest man in the world know nothing? This seeming…
Philosophy against the new sophistries
There has never been a more important time to emphasize this distinction between philosophy and sophistry. We are surrounded by countless new sophistries. Televangelists offer authoritative knowledge of the true word of God and perform miraculous cures in exchange for…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Self-knowledge needs the eyes of others
Many a person plays the role of great thinker when no one else is around to challenge their thoughts. The eyes of the world can force us to see ourselves as others see us. Alone, the image we may hold of ourselves may be no true reflection, but a flattering portrait produced by…
Misplaced confidence in judging character
What there is plenty of evidence for is that this confidence in our ability to know the characters of others, and ourselves, is misplaced.
The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic
Knowledge and information
T.S. Eliot said it best, "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"and I would add, Where is the information we have lost in data?
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Piaget asked how children come to know
Although Piaget is frequently referred to as a psychologist, he was really an epistemologist (someone who studies the nature and beginning of knowledge). It is this piece of his work that has made Piaget a major contributor to the knowledge base of educational psychology. While…
Construction is superior to instruction
While others of his time argued that learning is either intrinsic (coming from the child) or extrinsic (imposed by the environment or taught by adults), Piaget thought that neither position by itself explains learning. Rather, he thought that children’s interactions with their…
Knowledge is social as well as personal
For years, early educators, schooled in Piaget’s theories, viewed children’s knowledge as being constructed from personal experiences. Although Vygotsky also believed this, he thought that personal and social experience cannot be separated. The world children inhabit is shaped…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
A thesaurus reflects an historical state of knowledge
It must be clear, that a thesaurus can never reflect absolute truth but only a historical stage of knowledge.
Three C’s Of Ontology Engineering
Reusing public ontologies makes RDF interpretable
the use of existing public domain ontologies in one’s own ontology allows us to publish RDF such that external consumers (machines or humans) will already know how to interpret and use the knowledge described therein.
Zappa Quotes
Music
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best…