Being — Mikie
Awareness
Consciousness
Time
Sensation
Perception
Thinking
Mind
Body
Good
Happiness
Justice
Truth
No, but the aim (provide no answers but assist others in discovering their own) seemed similar. — Mikie
But more like getting to know them better. — Mikie
And I don’t consider this a “test,” really — although I can see how it would be viewed that way. I’m in no position to grade anyone’s work. — Mikie
Quite easily. We use terms for which we don't have ready definitions all the time. That's why we need dictionaries, and why good ones are so difficult to write.How would you use those terms if you do not know their definition? — javi2541997
If the current fashionable state of philosophy is to answer with a slogan like “it’s how it’s used,” I think we’re in real trouble. — Mikie
I'd use the term, and encourage them to use it, so the child can see how it is used.
— Banno
All kind of sounds like a cop out to me. — Mikie
So what happened? A few folk provided their own lists of synonyms, then the thread petered out. — Banno
If there is a cop out here, it is in thinking that by providing a definition, one is doing philosophy. — Banno
Philosophy is not a list of facts, so much as an ongoing conversation. — Banno
I disagree. Banno's comment is an explanation of doing philosophy, not its definition.Funny that you’d end your post with a definition of philosophy as an “ongoing conversation.” — Mikie
You're not convinced with your own assertion. "Kind of"?An explanation of what something “is” or isn’t— that’s dealing with meaning, and is a kind of definition. — Mikie
But not all ongoing conversations are doing philosophy. — L'éléphant
True. Still, I’m sure you use these words like anyone else, and usually mean something by them. So that’s what I was asking for. If a kid would ask for your own take on these terms, would the answer be “it depends on use” or would you have some (albeit provisional) answer? — Mikie
If the current fashionable state of philosophy is to answer with a slogan like “it’s how it’s used,” I think we’re in real trouble. — Mikie
“Philosophy is not x, but more y.”
An explanation of what something “is” or isn’t— that’s dealing with meaning, and is a kind of definition. — Mikie
Yes, of course all material definitions are nominal. But if you don't admit the existence of [definitions] then you cannot say that A is a better X than B. . . — Leontiskos
So if we take your interpretation of Searle then we get, "B(L, f(a)) is a better construal of belief than B(L,p)." Once we understand what a real definition and a nominal definition are, then this is just to claim that the nominal definition B(L, f(a)) better approximates the real definition of belief than the nominal definition B(L,p). If there is no real definition, then there can be no approximation or comparison. — Leontiskos
Being: Whatever it is that everything is doing without qualification.
Awareness: The activity that brings beings into presence
Consciousness: Whatever conditions that make awareness possible
Thinking: Talking with others and myself through making or following connections.
Time: That one is very tricky. I don't have time to explain myself.
Sensation: An integral component of perception
Perception: Distinguishing things given through sensation. (I recognize this is straight up Aristotle)
Mind: A way to talk about consciousness as an agent.
Body: What every being is with qualifications.
Good: The idea of the best as conceived against the reality of its absence.
Happiness: When I feel good.
Justice: Another very tricky one but am convinced of its importance for the Good to be.
Truth: Not sure I can handle the truth.
— Mikie
Being — Mikie
Awareness
Consciousness
Thinking
Time
Sensation
Perception
Mind
Body
Good
Happiness
Justice
Truth
I think it is a couple things.Consciousness — Mikie
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