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What is the name of this phenomenon?

If you don't know anything about trees and plants, all you see in the forest is a bunch of trees. But if you know the names and appearances of different plants, you might see oaks, elms, pines etc. Similarly, when you hear a foreign language, you…
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How seriously is virtue ethics under attack by moral psychology?

K.A. Appiah, in his "Experiments in Ethics" (2008), gives a rather drastic picture of the attack virtue ethics finds itself under by moral psychology. In a nutshell, (a vast amount of) experiments arguably not only show that people are biased in…
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For someone who studies Daoism, how would they make another Daoist see that they are in fact following the Dao?

For a quick summary of the Dao, here is an excerpt of what it is in the book Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China The culmination of knowledge is understood not in terms of a grasp of abstract…
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Researchers describe emotions as either “positive” or “negative”. But can emotions be “right” or “wrong”?

Could it be regarded as either right or wrong from being tied to either positive or negative connotations? See: On “Positive” and “Negative” Emotions by Robert C. Solomon and Lori D. Stone
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The Farmer narration by Alan Watts

Is anyone aware of the story of a Chinese farmer (A Taoist parable) who keeps saying "maybe" to every event (Good or bad) that happens to him because we don't know the consequences of those events in the future. My question is does that mean we…
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If nature is inherently imprecise, how is it so easy for us to conceptualize mathematical certainties?

In modeling any real physical system, we are required to employ inductive reasoning. We can never be completely certain about the state or properties of any system or of any future observation we will make of it. All we can do is attempt to…
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What is the name of the phenomenon that a thing must be named in order to understand it?

The concept is popular in the media and philosophy that to understand a thing, one should have a name for it. In Star War it is widely known with "Named must your fear be before banish it you can", said by the character Yoda. I'm looking for a term…
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What do philosophers mean when they say language has a psychological reality?

I came across this in trying to understand 'Ignorance of Language' by Michael Devitt, and the back and forth he has had around this topic with other philosophers. Any books (papers?) I can look at to understand a bit more about those who agree with…
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Allais' paradox

Theories of practical rationality have usually taken it for granted that given a choice, people will prefer a maximum of expected utility. The Allais' paradox states that there are many situations in which perfectly reasonable people do not prefer a…
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When does memorization become knowledge?

I am researching aspects of human knowledge acquisition and how it relates to early phases of learning and memorization. Basically, is there research and terminology for the distinction between memorizing a fact and true knowledge/understanding of…
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Does the ineffability of the Dao contradict wuwei?

Wuwei, as I understand it, means the following, depending on the context: You do something because you are born for it and do it without wondering why you need to do it (e.g. trees produce oxygen not because oxygen is needed for animals, but…
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Does following logic necessarily require one to conclude that they are objective and have no bias?

In social psychology, naïve realism is the human tendency to believe that we see the world around us objectively, and that people who disagree with us must be uninformed, irrational, or biased. It is considered as one of the four major insights in…
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Can anyone translate this paragraph from Joseph Glanvill's "The Vanity of Dogmatizing" into simple English?

Can anybody translate this paragraph into simple English? It is a paragraph from Joseph Glanvill's The Vanity of Dogmatizing, Chapter 5, page 26-7. But how is it, and by what art, doth the soul read that such an image or stroke in matter ……
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Is there any study about how half-baked philosophies encourage maladaptive thoughts?

There are many schools of philosophy that advocate refuting perceived phenomena, for example: Taoism: the bad equals the good, why be afraid or avoid the bad ones? Science: before proving it right you must prove it wrong first; everything can…
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Contradictions with Physical Needs within Plato's Tripartite Theory of the Soul? (Reason Rules?)

Aparently, Plato said reason should rule over emotions and appetites When googling the phrase, something about Plato's Tripartite Theory of the Soul comes up. In Republic [Book IX], Plato asserted that the ψυχή (psyche) is composed of three…
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