Wotser Proper Filossofer?
My philosophical outlook
Six Kinds of Proposition
and the Edges of Normality
On the way:
What Existence
is not, and what it might be
New: A ravenous tale - the induction and
falsifiability illusions
Xmas diversions: paradoxes
of Relativity & Zeno
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Philosophers' business - its essential features and importance. “Proper
philosophers” are non-specialist system builders who take on board a
wide range of “essential” philosophical outlooks, and who hold a deep
respect for meaningfulness and simple language.
My philosophical position and how I reached it - a brief personal history
of ideas and influences.
A very long paper claiming that there are six basic, mutually exclusive
kinds of proposition, none of which is strictly analytic, but which
encompass all meaningful expressions about the world and our interaction
with it. A propositional scheme is developed from them. However it is
suggested that the boundaries between these kinds are not sacrosanct
and that their dissolution will lead to a radically different view of the world.
An incomplete set of remarks on existence - chiefly about what it is not
(the many concepts with which it often gets confused), and concluding
with what it might be.
Remarks on the illusions of induction and falsifiability (Popper).
Paradoxes about gavity and parallel lines, and discussion of Xeno’s
Achilles and the Tortoise paradox. With a contrasting introduction about
tsunamis and bushfires.
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