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... fully in my Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of 18 An introduction to the philosophy of mind ciple is correct, then, and turn to the case of a person and his or her ... it, then, it seems, by analogy with the statue and the lump of bronze, every part of the body must be a part of the person but not every part of the person can be part of the body: that is to ... conception of the whole of reality, we cannot hope to render compatible the theories and observations of the various different sciences: and providing that conception is not the task of any one of those...

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... conception of the whole of reality, we cannot hope to render compatible the theories and observations of the various different sciences: and providing that conception is not the task of any one of those ... what they say about this Secondly, if they mean to abandon reasoned argument altogether, even in defence of their own position, then I have Introduction nothing more to say to them because they ... the ontological status of subjects of experience and the relationship between mental and physical states Then, in chapters and 4, I move on to discuss certain general theories of the nature of mental...

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... strange coincidence, the inhabitants of this planet speak a language which sounds just like English and that they use the word ‘snow’ for the stuff descending from their skies An inhabitant of the ... propositional attitude 74 An introduction to the philosophy of mind states And let us then see whether this hypothesis gives rise to any insuperable difficulties THE CAUSAL RELEVANCE OF CONTENT A problem ... following How the contents of mental states contribute to the causal explanation of behaviour? Can the contents of mental states be assigned to them independently of the environmental circumstances in...

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... an account of our concepts of mental states than as a theory of the nature of mental states themselves 52 An introduction to the philosophy of mind ing an adequate account of the character of ... states of consciousness to other human beings, so that to deny consciousness to the hypothetical pile of pebbles in the circumstances envisaged would be to succumb to narrow-minded prejudice, of the ... strings of meaningless marks or sounds If that is so, then to abandon the category of belief is implicitly to abandon also the very notions of truth and falsehood and therewith, it seems, the very...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... colour and shape of the tree and of the house, the intervening ground between them, the sky behind them, and other objects in their vicinity (together with their colours and shapes) And these other ... this is passed to the other tank and the same amount of water is let into or out of it But a much easier solution is to place the two tanks on the same level and join them by an interconnecting ... to divide one’s attention in a way which seems to be psychologically impossible From the point of view of the causal theory, then, it is easy enough to 148 An introduction to the philosophy of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... that analyse c o n t e n t are essentially two-pronged: there are always t w o a g e n c i e s — u s and t h e m , the body and the spirit, the ego and the id, the brain and the mind Part of the ... i s last advantage is crucial to our effort to e x t e n d our understanding of mental life back into the waking state, and to obtain comparable quantitative data from the minds of the same individuals ... priorities we have managed to get along and to help each other F o r m e , the meaning of the dream is transparent: I am anxious about my p r o p e r t y and about entrusting it to people w h o are...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 08:20

... Previous to the year 375 the attempts of the Germans to penetrate into the Empire appear to have been due to their love of adventure, their hope of enjoying some of the advantages of their civilized ... BEFORE THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS III THE GERMAN INVASIONS AND THE BREAK-UP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 25 IV THE RISE OF THE PAPACY 44 V THE MONKS AND THE CONVERSION OF THE GERMANS 56 VI CHARLES MARTEL AND ... than any of the other German races Besides the kingdoms of the East Goths and the Franks, the West Goths had their kingdom in Spain, the Burgundians had established themselves on the Rhone, and...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 23:20

... convinced of the validity of the algorithm as well as of the correctness of the process of analysis Some algorithms are worth analyzing because their analyses can add to the body of mathematical tools ... reference: the intended use of the algorithm, the importance of the algorithm in relationship to others from both practical and theoretical standpoints, the difficulty of analysis, and the accuracy and ... assumed to be larger than all the elements to the end of each of the auxiliary arrays, to help accomplish the task of moving the remainder of one of the auxiliary arrays back to a after the other...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 20:20

... due to their love of adventure, their hope of enjoying some of the advantages of their civilized neighbors, or the need of new lands for their increasing numbers And the Romans, by means of their ... BREAK-UP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE [Sidenote: The Huns force the Goths into the Empire Battle of Adrianople, 378.] Previous to the year 375 the attempts of the Germans to penetrate into the Empire appear to ... than any of the other German races Besides the kingdoms of the East Goths and the Franks, the West Goths had their kingdom in Spain, the Burgundians had established themselves on the Rhone, and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... relative to the Earth The overall relative velocity is the sum of the rotational velocity of the Earth, the velocity of the Earth round the Sun and the Solar System around the centre of the Galaxy, ... point of view of the observer at C, isotropy requires that the expansion in AC be the same as in BC The sides of the triangle are expanded by the same factor Adding a galaxy out of the plane to ... The light curves of the Cepheids give the distance to their host galaxy and calibrate the luminosity of the host If necessary the brightest galaxies themselves can then be used as standard candles...

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... observed the rising and setting of the sun and the several phases of the moon The more thoughtful among them have then proceeded to ask the question, “Why? Why does the moon wax and wane? Why does the ... Discuss the nativist and empiricist explanations of the origin of human attributes 16 First describe the positions of mechanism and vitalism and then indicate which of the two positions you accept and ... refer to the totality of things but also suggested an elegant, ordered universe The aesthetic aspect of the meaning of the term kosmos is reflected in the English word cosmetic Thus, to the early...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 04:20

... due to their love of adventure, their hope of enjoying some of the advantages of their civilized neighbors, or the need of new lands for their increasing numbers And the Romans, by means of their ... BREAK-UP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE [Sidenote: The Huns force the Goths into the Empire Battle of Adrianople, 378.] Previous to the year 375 the attempts of the Germans to penetrate into the Empire appear to ... than any of the other German races Besides the kingdoms of the East Goths and the Franks, the West Goths had their kingdom in Spain, the Burgundians had established themselves on the Rhone, and...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 23:20

... immediately the following theorems: The number of partitions of n into m parts is equal to the number of partitions on n into parts the largest of which is m; The number of partitions of n into not ... and T ∩ R = ∅ A translation of S of one ˜ into T , i.e., it makes R vanish! On the other hand, a ˜ ˜ unit to the right sends S ˜ ˜ ˜ rotation of the plane through θ sends S into R making T vanish! ... primes n not exceeding n; the number of distinct primes factors of n; the number of prime power factors of n; the number of divisors of n; d the sum of the divisors of n p≤n ω(n) = p|n Ω(n) =...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 16:21

... convinced of the validity of the algorithm as well as of the correctness of the process of analysis Some algorithms are worth analyzing because their analyses can add to the body of mathematical tools ... reference: the intended use of the algorithm, the importance of the algorithm in relationship to others from both practical and theoretical standpoints, the difficulty of analysis, and the accuracy and ... assumed to be larger than all the elements to the end of each of the auxiliary arrays, to help accomplish the task of moving the remainder of one of the auxiliary arrays back to a after the other...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 14:35

... is therefore provided, which links the development of the mathematical theories to the study of programs The only cost of this approach occurs in the introduction of transducers, instead of restricting ... given input if and only if the problem has an answer yes for the input, that is, the program accepts the language { x | x is an instance of the problem, and the problem has the answer yes at x ... contains the instances , , , , and On the other hand, is not an instance of the problem For the instance the problem asks what is the integer part of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 03:28

... one of a or b is an initial segment of the other, then c is the shorter element If neither is an initial segment of the other, then either a(y) = + and b(y) = - or a(y) = - and b(y) = + In either ... example, in the AN INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF THE SURREAL NUMBERS 16 proof of the associative law for addition Theorem 3.3 The surreal numbers form an Abelian group with respect to addition The empty ... away can F and G be from a and still have a = F|G? As a rough rule of thumb, the larger the length of a, the closer F and G must be to a AN INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF SURREAL NUMBERS 40 Proof,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 00:15

... discipline is to the philosophy of mind as the philosophy of linguistics is to the philosophy of language, or as the philosophy of physics is to the metaphysical question as to the nature of the physical ... file:///D| /The% 20Character%2 0of% 20Mind%20-%2 0An% 2 0Introduction% 2 0to% 2 0the% 20Philosophy%2 0of% 20Mind.htm all-or-nothing character It is therefore in place to ask, of any theory of the mind, whether it can ... capacities of the Martian mind, but this would have to look very different from human physics The concepts of Martian physics would be of another order altogether from those accessible to the human physicist,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:27

... going to understand what theists mean when they say that there is a God, we thus need to understand what these properties amount to and how they are related to one another; we need to find out whether ... if there are any); they believe that he is the creator of moral and other sorts of value for us; they believe that he has revealed himself to us; and they believe that he offers us the hope of ... grateful to the editors of these journals and their anonymous referees for their comments Yet others have been discussed informally with members of the Natural Theology group that meets at the Athenaeum:...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:54

... people know—or take themselves to know—is simply the sum total of the answers they offer to the questions they can resolve Propositional knowledge is coordinate with the capacity to answer questions, ... tendency of a displacement of people’s best estimates of various factors on the direction of too big, too little, too long, too short, and so on And then, of course, we can make straightforward use of ... distinguished history in the annals of science, stretching from the speculations of Democritus in antiquity, through the work of Dalton, Rutherford, and Bohr, to the baroque complexities of the present...

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