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By posing the unanswerable questions of meaning, men establish themselves as question-asking beings. Be a Leader. In working with youths, I have also realised my passion for developing and growing people. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. In general, we tend to motivate our reasoning so that the world appears well-aligned with our pre-existing story about how it should work. He memorably wrote:. The whole of The Life of the Mind is a remarkable feat of intellectual grace.
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Love this. The aim of metaphysics… is to extend, albeit only negatively, our use of reason beyond the limitations of the sensorily given world, that is, to eliminate the obstacles by which reason hinders itself. The great obstacle that reason Vernunft puts in its own way arises from the side of the intellect Verstand and the entirely justified criteria it has established for its own purposes, that is, for quenching our thirst, and meeting our need, for knowledge and cognition… The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning.
And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
This vital distinction between truth and meaning is also found in the fault line between science and common sense. Something very similar seems, at first glance, to be true of the modern scientist who constantly destroys authentic semblances without, however, destroying his own sensation of reality, telling him, as it tells us, that the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening.
It was thinking that enabled men to penetrate the appearances and unmask them as semblances, albeit authentic ones; common-sense reasoning would never have dared to upset so radically all the plausibilities of our sensory apparatus… Thinking, no doubt, plays an enormous role in every scientific enterprise, but it is the role of a means to an end; the end is determined by a decision about what is worthwhile knowing, and this decision cannot be scientific.
This sounds remarkably like the notion of moral wisdom — the necessarily subjective values-based framework that, by its very nature, transcends the realm of science and absolute truth, rising to the level of relative meaning.
Thinking about Knowing. Jay Rosenberg. Abstract. This book offers an unorthodox, systematic view of the relationships among the concepts of knowledge, truth. "Jay Rosenberg's Thinking About Knowing is a rousing defense of an anti- skeptical,pragmatist, persepectivalist account of our epistemic lives."otre Dame.
The end is cognition or knowledge, which, having been obtained, clearly belongs to the world of appearances; once established as truth, it becomes part and parcel of the world. Science in this respect is but an enormously refined prolongation of common-sense reasoning in which sense illusions are constantly dissipated just as errors in science are corrected.
The criterion in both cases is evidence, which as such is inherent in a world of appearances. In what way, in particular, is it possible, at the level of na- ral language, to link together program expressions and natural evolution?
To give an answer to these onerous questions we should immediately point out that cognition as well as natural language has to be considered first of all as a peculiar fu- tion of active biosystems and that it results from complex interactions between the - ganism and its surroundings.
It is not necessary for the monkey to perceive the tree in itself.
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