Ontology

The Argument for our Existence (the "Cogito"): 1. Even if we assume that there is a deceiver, from the very fact that I am deceived it follows that I exist. 2. In general it will follow from any state of thinking (e.g., imagining, sensing, feeling, reasoning) that I exist. While I can be deceived about the objective content of any thought, I cannot be deceived about the fact that I exist and that I seem to perceive objects with certain characteristics. 3. Since I only can be certain of the…

Truth is found within; truth is relative; truth is believing in one’s own reality. Amy Hempel's short story “The Harvest,” Alexander Pope’s poem “An Essay on Man,” and John Keats’, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” shed light on how to find truth, what it is, and what it isn’t. “An Essay on Man” uses rationalist idealism to convey that the reader must trust their instincts. That is essentially what Pope’s thesis is, “Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; the proper study of mankind is man.” One…

Ex machina is a film set in the isolated mountain home of the CEO of a massive internet search engine “bluebook” ,a young programmer named Caleb is brought in to test if the newly made A.I Ava would work in human society by using the turing test . Before everything there is the main conflict which should be man versus machine but that is not always the case ,when Caleb meets Nathan for the first time there conversation acts more like a psycho-analysis test then a normal conversation . It…

2). What is the “mind-body problem,” described in Chapter 4, and how is this problem illustrated in Nagel’s essay on “consciousness”? For example, does Nagel find a solution to the problem? Why or why not? For example, how does he answer the question posed in the title of his essay? Finally, to what extent do you agree with him here? In “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” Thomas Nagel claims humans cannot experience what it is like to be a bat. Even through imagination humans still cannot experience…

6b. Leibniz, could you explain your “veined block of marble” analogy to me? How is our mind like a veined block of marble? What do you mean? What are some of the examples of veins in our minds? Compare a blank piece of marble to one that is veined. If I showed you the one without veins and asked you to depict a certain shape out of this piece of marble, it would not be so easy. For example, “If the soul were like an empty page, then truths would be in us in the same way that the shape of…

In Descartes’s Second Meditation, he aims to determine what “I think, therefore I am” means. He accepts that he is not solely a being who can think and doubt, but that he can also imagine and sense. While Descartes admits that everything may be a deception, he is still convinced that he can sense things and imagine. While sensory perception could be separate from reality, it is still a part of his thinking mind. Descartes begins to examine what he knows of what he is. He acknowledges that he…

In true philosophical fashion, the paper will look into the critique of Thomas Hobbes to Rene Descartes’s argument for the existence of God. Descartes argues that he has the idea of the existence of an infinite, perfect and all-powerful being. In the meditations on first philosophy, Descartes presents the proves for the existence of god with the apparent evidence that I am finite and imperfect being but I have this idea of the existence of an infinite, perfect and eternal being in mind which…

Paper VIII Unlike the vast topics of philosophy, free will (ability to do otherwise and be the originator of the choice) is one that appeals to everyone regardless of their beliefs or life choices. The topic itself is an ontological issue, deeply rooted in the metaphysical nature of reality. For example, arguments for logical determinism are dependent on the aspect of the reality of time and whether or not the future already exists or if it is adaptable. Additionally, logical determinism can be…

An important topic is being discussed, and it concerns the various concepts of God. Indeed, throughout history humanity have asked the same question with no avail, is there really a God? However, “Philosophers have offered three answers to the “is anyone in charge” question: 1) there is a God, 2) there is no God, and 3) we can’t know whether there is a god or not a God (Roots of Wisdom Pg. 167). The belief that there is a god is called theism. Conversely, the belief that there is not a god is…

This picture of two hands being the base of an island shows how an individual’s natural point of view can result in fragmented reality. The people who live on the two-hand island may never realize the island’s full appearance without viewing this image, or observing through some other method of outward analysis. Those living on the island might never realize what architectural-beauty their lives are encompassed around. Without taking a step away from “the normal,” one can miss the entire truth.…