Analytic philosophy

that we do make decisions including synthetics with a priori. For instance, 8 plus 3 equals 11 as judgment is a priori because it obtains the mark of requirements; 8 plus 3 must equal 11 and constantly has to do so. Although, this judgment is not analytic and synthetic because 11 cannot originate from a study of the numbers 8 and 3.…

Blaise Pascal Pascal's Wager is an argument in philosophy presented by the seventeenth-century French philosopher. He thinks that people are betting on their lives that God exists or not. In Pascal’s view, he argues that a person should live as if God exists and believe in God. If in reality the God does not exist, they still can get the profits in their life. He also developed the theory of modern probability, and believed the reason cannot prove or not prove the existence of God.…

The strength and amount of the Innate Concept differs with the ideas claiming to be innate. The further an idea seems distant from experience through mental processing the more we can rely on that experience. Although, experiencing pain our perception of the former thoughts is a more assuring in being innate. The Innate Concept and Knowledge are vital to rationalism. However, experience does not deliver the knowledge we get from reason. Reason is considered to be more valuable than experiences…

Ludwig Wittgenstein was a philosopher who studied analytic philosophy, he firmly believed that human intention and free will are both things that are real, and cannot necessarily be measured. He once posed the question “When ‘I raise my arm’, my arm goes up. And the problem arises: what is left over if I subtract the fact that my arm goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?”, the answer to that quotation being human intention, free will and conscious choice. In“Gattaca” individuals live in a…

To fully understand Kant’s main points of the third chapter, one must begin by understanding his broad ideology. Kant’s overall intent is to sharpen the reader’s appreciation of the amount of effort it takes to think. Kant uses the description of an island which is surrounded by stormy seas. Before the reader may leave this island, the overall image of landscape should be considered. Kant’s use of the island is metaphoric for empirical knowledge. Empirical knowledge is knowledge that is acquired…

The philosophical debate during the mid-1900’s is the “No-Ought-From-Is” was then debated between the philosophers and thinkers of that time. Even today's philosophers still debated about this problem. David Hume a Scottish philosopher, who is known for “No-Ought-From-is” or Hume’s law. On “Hume on is and Ought”, Pigden recognizes some errors and questions the NOFI. Some of the errors are the reasoning behind the argument itself and whether NOFI supports non-cognitivism? Finally, Pigden points…

approach can be applied to many different areas of teaching to enhance the educational delivery and the resulting understanding of the students. Idealism is possibly the oldest Western philosophy we know and study in the present day. It traces back at least to Ancient Greece and Plato. It was once the dominant philosophy of Western culture and is still influential today. Idealism naturally takes its name from the root word idea. Idealists believe that ideas are reality. They typically reject…

defense of Parmenides. These four paradoxes have been argued throughout time, with some believing they have not been fully disproved to this day. Zeno of Elea’s clever wits and unique ideas are certainly worth studying for anyone with an interest in philosophy. Although not much is known about Zeno of Elea’s personal life, Plato’s dialogue…

analysis is a very well established and developed field of mathematics. It is well known that analytic proofs are very strict in nature and to prove anything in analysis requires a careful consideration of the behaviour and characteristics of the proposition on hand. Before analysis became as well founded as it is today, there was no standard of rigor for analytic proofs. So, many mathematicians gave analytic proofs that were heavily based on spatial and geometric intuition. Bolzano believed…

the particular kind of entity that is the human being, a human structure, which he calls Dasein. The concept of Dasein is fundamental and crucial for Heidegger’s project in Being and Time and for existential philosophy in general. More broadly, and in the context of traditional German philosophy, Dasein denotes being, existence. However, Heidegger uses Dasein in a narrower way so that to describe the particular experience of being that applies to the modes of the…