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Book request: A nosology of untruths

I recall reading several philosophical articles which deal with various types of untruths: lies, misrepresentations, contradictions, omissions, confabulations, delusions, hallucinations, apparitions, veiled implications, exaggerations, gaslightings,…
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What is the philosophical study of classification called?

What is the philosophical study of classification called? Taxonomy? Taxology? "Category theory"? "Classificology"? Logic? And which philosopher(s) studied exactly what it means to classify? How we classify? What classification tells us? Whether…
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Classifications of experience

By experience, I mean all the content that I receive, which I have sub-divided into three categories: Percepts, the content corresponding to the different senses (sight, hearing, olfaction, taste, tactile sensation, etc.) Emotion, including content…
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One and many, particular and universal, individual and general... how do they relate?

In reading Koji Karatani's Transcritique, I found myself a bit confused by the distinctions and couplings he draws between these terms in relation to Hegel and Russell. It wasn't actually his approach (I'm not asking about Karatani), but my own poor…
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Rebuttal from first principles as a type of refutation?

There is an intriguing paper by Easwaran on types of refutations: Easwaran, Kenny. Rebutting and undercutting in mathematics. Epistemology, 146-162, Philos. Perspect., 29, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2015. Briefly, rebutting an argument involves…
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Relationship between basic statements of knowledge and rare exceptions

Being not a philosophy scholar, I am trying to get up to speed on the nature of statements about basic, established facts in human knowledge and how these relate to the existance of rare exceptions. For instance, consider the current Encyclopedia…
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Is there a logic of non-universal class characteristics?

The proposition (1) Dogs have four legs is true, but if you tried to convert this proposition into predicate logic, the only reasonable candidate is the false (2) for all x, x is a dog implies x has four legs there are, after all, three-legged…
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Positive vs negative classes in ontology

I am interested in the nature of ontological classification and whether there exists some form of accepted terminology to distinguish classes that are 'positive' (matching characteristics) and classes that are 'negative' (in the sense of being…
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What is an individual thing? Examples?

In common western philosophy, what does it mean when we say such and such things are individual things? Also could someone give examples of individual things and non-individual things?
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Why is everything in a different category despite their similar origins?

Assuming a non-religious stance, we are made of the atoms that make up everything else in the universe. Why are we categorized as humans, and not the stars that existed billions of years ago and exploded, making up what we see now? Why are we…
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Is this outline typical of the organization of academic analytic philosophy?

After doing some research I came up with the following classification of analytic philosophy. Do certain branches overlap or worse, are there any inclusions that I have missed? Axiology Æsthetics Philosophy of beauty Philosophy of…
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Human Knowledge definition and architecture

Hello Every one I'm really determined to understand what is human knowledge and its main fields. For me knowledge is the must important concern for humanity. I read some books and the one who really got my attention is "General theory of Knowldge"…
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What is the relationship between categorization and structuralism?

I have a couple questions: Does the act of categorization or classification always reflect a structuralist mind? Like wise, does the act of de-categorization (or re-categorization) reflect a post-structuralist mind? Can one really escape the…
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draw a distinction between a class (abstract) and the set of all members (concrete)

I'm designing a learning program and I need to come up with a set of terms for the "objects" the user interacts with. In a concise way, I'd like to come up with two terms that describe: a property (like color, if applied to a fruit) the set of…
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Is there a limit to abstraction?

Maybe people have asked this before - it seems a fairly basic question to ask, in a similar vein to a child's chain of "Why?" questions. If you ask me "What is a chair?", I respond that it is an item of furniture. If you then ask "What is an item of…
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