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Treatise On Basic Philosophy

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Author : M. Bunge
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06

Treatise On Basic Philosophy written by M. Bunge and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.

In this Introduction' we shall sketch the business of ontology, or metaphysics, and shall locate it on the map of learning. This has to be done because there are many ways of construing the word 'ontology' and because of the bad reputation metaphysics has suffered until recently - a well deserved one in most cases. 1. ONTOLOGICAL PROBLEMS Ontological (or metaphysical) views are answers to ontological ques tions. And ontological (or metaphysical) questions are questions with an extremely wide scope, such as 'Is the world material or ideal - or perhaps neutral?" 'Is there radical novelty, and if so how does it come about?', 'Is there objective chance or just an appearance of such due to human ignorance?', 'How is the mental related to the physical?', 'Is a community anything but the set of its members?', and 'Are there laws of history?'. Just as religion was born from helplessness, ideology from conflict, and technology from the need to master the environment, so metaphysics - just like theoretical science - was probably begotten by the awe and bewilderment at the boundless variety and apparent chaos of the phenomenal world, i. e. the sum total of human experience. Like the scientist, the metaphysician looked and looks for unity in diversity, for pattern in disorder, for structure in the amorphous heap of phenomena - and in some cases even for some sense, direction or finality in reality as a whole.

Treatise On Basic Philosophy

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Author : M. Bunge
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06

Treatise On Basic Philosophy

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Author : Mario Augusto Bunge
language : en
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Release Date : 1977

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Treatise On Basic Philosophy

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Author : Mario BUNGE
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1989-07-31

Treatise On Basic Philosophy written by Mario BUNGE and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-07-31 with Philosophy categories.

The purpose of this Introduction is to sketch our approach to the study of value, morality and action, and to show the place we assign it in the system of human knowledge. 1. VALUE, MORALITY AND ACTION: FACT, THEORY, AND METATHEORY We take it that all animals evaluate some things and some processes, and that some of them learn the social behavior patterns we call 'moral principles', and even act according to them at least some of the time. An animal incapable of evaluating anything would be very short-lived; and a social animal that did not observe the accepted social behavior patterns would be punished. These are facts about values, morals and behavior patterns: they are incorporated into the bodies of animals or the structure of social groups. We distinguish then the facts of valuation, morality and action from the study of such facts. This study can be scientific, philosophic or both. wayan animal evaluates environmental A zoologist may investigate the or internal stimuli; a social psychologist may examine the way children learn, or fail to learn, certain values and norms when placed in certain environments. And a philosopher may study such descriptive or explan atory studies, with a view to evaluating valuations, moral norms, or behavior patterns; he may analyze the very concepts of value, morals and action, as well as their cognates; or he may criticize or reconstruct value beliefs, moral norms and action plans.

Treatise On Basic Philosophy

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Author : M. Bunge
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06

Semantics Ii Interpretation And Truth

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Author : Mario BUNGE
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1974-11-30

Semantics Ii Interpretation And Truth written by Mario BUNGE and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974-11-30 with Science categories.

Treatise On Basic Philosophy

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Author : Mario BUNGE
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1974-11-30

Treatise On Basic Philosophy written by Mario BUNGE and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974-11-30 with Science categories.

In this Introduction we shall sketch a profile of our field of inquiry. This is necessary because semantics is too often mistaken for lexicography and therefore dismissed as trivial, while at other times it is disparaged for being concerned with reputedly shady characters such as meaning and allegedly defunct ones like truth. Moreover our special concern, the semantics of science, is a newcomer - at least as a systematic body - and therefore in need of an introduction. l. GOAL Semantics is the field of inquiry centrally concerned with meaning and truth. It can be empirical or nonempirical. When brought to bear on concrete objects, such as a community of speakers, semantics seeks to answer problems concerning certain linguistic facts - such as disclosing the interpretation code inherent in the language or explaning the speakers' ability or inability to utter and understand new sentences ofthe language. This kind of semantics will then be both theoretical and experimental: it will be a branch of what used to be called 'behavioral science'.