Questions tagged [thought]
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Isn't every theory or model wrong?
I'm currently in class 12 and I was about different models of atoms in my school chemistry book and there were like 3 or 4 atomic models Rutherford's model, Thompson's model , Bohr's model then finally Quantum Mechanical model.
After reading every…
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Is Analytic Philosophy really just Language Philosophy
In a recent answer, someone posted this quote from Michael Dummet:
What distinguishes analytical philosophy, in its diverse manifestations, from other schools is the belief, first, that a philosophical account of thought can be attained through a…
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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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How to define intelligence amongst animals
In the comments section of this article: Humans can recognize and understand chimpanzee and bonobo gestures, a few philosophical questions came up which have redirected me here. Could you please shed some light on these points:
How can an animal be…
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Is it necessary to freedom of thought that racist ideas must be tolerated?
Is it necessary to freedom of thought that racist ideas must be tolerated?
Why isn't the paradox of tolerance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance) also biased? In other words, why can't we also claim a paradox of intolerance, where…
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Is there any clue as to whether there are things that cannot be thought or expressed in thought?
Is there any clue as to whether there are things that cannot be thought or expressed in thought? Everything that can be thought may exist, but are there things that maybe we can't possibly express in words, thought or we can't comprehend or think…
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Are Ideas Noumenal?
I've been studying Kant's philosophy recently and I haven't been able to get something straight.
Quick question here: How does Kant's distinction between phenomena/noumena apply to ideas and thoughts? Are there such things as thoughts or ideas…
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Language, thought, cognition
Are thoughts distinct from natural language and if so how can 'thought' be defined so this might be established if it is in fact the case?
I am asking in response to a question elsewhere in 'Stack' asking for a single word that for 'something that…
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Do modern philosophers of mind believe that thinking is a symbolic or visual process by nature?
Do some philosophers regard thinking as a symbolic process only because they don't actually think for themselves -- rather, like most of us, they are "having thoughts", their subconsciousness (which itself is, technically, a neural network AI, a…
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Knowing that they know that you know that they know
Suppose there are two spies, A and B. There is also a secret, s. The following situation unfolds:
(1) A learns s.
(2) B learns that A knows s.
(3) A learns that B knows that A knows s.
(4) B learns that A knows that B knows that A knows s.
(5) A…
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What is the view of the origin of language according to contemporary philosophy of language?
Do we think in the language we speak? If we didn't know any language or think of a child for an instant, perhaps a newborn, is there still thinking? and if so, is it a universal language? Some say we have invented language to communicate, but is it…
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What's the difference between Imaginary Thinking and Imaginal Thinking?
What's the difference between Imaginary Thinking and Imaginal Thinking?
I hear somebody say the Imaginary Thinking is belong Imaginal Thinking, is it true?
please give me a detail explanation.
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What's the difference between Inductive thought and Convergent thinking?
What's the difference between Inductive thought and Convergent thinking?
To my point of view,
in Inductive thought, aim to get the common attribute from the experimental objects, but Convergent thinking is get the conclusion from experimental…
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The initial point of everything
Every action is influenced by something, an action happens when it is intended to. Isn't everything influenced by some other phenomena that itself has been influenced by other events? Then every action I take and every thought that comes in my mind…
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What if heroin was served instead of alcohol?
If instead of alcohol heroin would have been part of the alcoholic beverages that are sold and served everywhere. And alcohol was extracted from plants like heroin is now.
Would the attitude to heroin been different in that case? Would it be…
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