Unanswered Questions
54 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
6
votes
2
answers
147
views
Does Kant implicitly commit the paralogism of pure reason when saying that to have a representation it is necessary to accompany it with 'I think'?
In Caygill's Kant Dictionary entry of 'I Think' there is this part:
Kant further claims that 'I think' is the necessary vehicle/form/accompaniment of experience: to have a representation it is ...
CommunityBot
- 1
4
votes
0
answers
52
views
How much philosophy is about terminology and human conceptions?
I see a lot of sentences like "If a tree fell and nobody hears it did it really fall", or many questions related to infinity. But each of this questions can be true or false according to ...
- 43.4k
4
votes
1
answer
303
views
According to Aquinas, what is the relationship between the substantial form of a bodily being and its act of existing, ie. its esse?
Consider, for example, an existing bodily being. Because it is bodily, we know that it is composed of prime matter and substantial form. Also, because the bodily being is existing (not just made up in ...
CommunityBot
- 1
3
votes
0
answers
39
views
Did Descartes declare the "Non Cogito" first, prior to "cogito ergo sum"
I took A-Level Philosophy, during which we studied Descartes "Meditations" at length.
I remember our teacher explaining that, whilst "Cogito ergo sum" was the famous phrasing, ...
- 176
3
votes
0
answers
29
views
Would presentism and vagueness of the present imply that every event has borderline existence?
Would presentism and the vagueness of the present imply that every event that occurs is in a borderline state of existence? Since vagueness is characterized as having borderline cases.
I take ...
- 43.4k
3
votes
0
answers
103
views
Understanding 'existence' and 'being' in debates about ordinary objects
Quine has brought forward his definition of existence: 'To be is to be the value of a bound variable.' But has also taught us that the sciences ultimately determine what actually exists contrary to ...
- 31
3
votes
1
answer
101
views
Do nominalists say that unicorns and married bachelors don't exist in the same way?
I'm a philosophy novice that's trying to wrap my head around nominalism. In my current thinking there is a big difference between two categories of things that don't exist: non-actual concepts and ...
- 79
2
votes
0
answers
53
views
Can ontic vagueness not exist?
As far as I can tell, I am going to buy a book on ontic vagueness to work out what it is, but I'm fairly sure it occurs when a vague term refers to something that itself is indeterminate, which may be ...
- 6,500
2
votes
1
answer
106
views
What is the origin of the idea of `set of everything`?
Recently I have come to an idea. It is not hard to come to so it should have been talked about by others before. But after some digging in Wikiepedia it soon become out of my reach with zero ...
CommunityBot
- 1
2
votes
1
answer
126
views
Is there a philosophical concept that describes the notion that all permutations of human experience must exist simultaneously?
It's the idea that, basically, if we each have our own paths to walk, so to speak, and if they are all unique to each individual person, then that must mean every possible permutation of a "life&...
CommunityBot
- 1
2
votes
0
answers
560
views
Techniques of overcoming ennui (boredom)
Did any philosophers discuss overcoming ennui/boredom?
I read this question and its answer, but I am less interested in a definition of boredom and more interested in direct approaches or theories ...
- 803
2
votes
2
answers
379
views
Is a void where the laws of physics hold actually a void?
I don't have much background in Cosmology, but an argument I've heard is that the universe sprang into existence from the void via a quantum fluctuation. That is both spacetime & its matter/energy ...
CommunityBot
- 1
2
votes
1
answer
1k
views
What are some examples of things that are ontologically parasitic
To be ontologically parasitic, a thing must exist only in reference to another thing.
For example, in the excellent video "How Many Holes Does a Human Have?", holes are identified as ontologically ...
CommunityBot
- 1
1
vote
0
answers
25
views
Can, "Intuitions without concepts are blind," be explained in terms of sentences featuring indexicals?
I.e., imagine an assertion like, "This is that." Taken per se, it is like "thoughts without content [that] are empty," but taken de re, is it blind? If I point at some "this&...
- 16.7k
1
vote
1
answer
60
views
Are "finding the pain of existence unbearable" and "deciding that life is not worth living" the same?
I have tried to present my views regarding these two seemingly related phenomena.
(a) Thinking that Life is not worth living
When one "thinks" that life is not worth living, that is a ...
- 2,772