Philosophical thought attends to the core meaning of knowledge as a Seinsverhältnis, an ontological relation.
(Kuhn, 1977, p. 241 and 261) The questions are urgent regarding philosophical thought experiments, because they play an important role in philosophical discourse.
The result was a brand of idealist philosophical thought that combined the Anglo-Saxon penchant for empirical study with a vocabulary and conceptual apparatus borrowed from the continent.
2. Indeed, some argue that imagery plays a vital and ineliminable epistemological role in certain scientific (and perhaps, also, philosophical) thought experiments, some of which have played a crucial role in the development of modern science (Brown, 1991; Gendler, 2004; Georgiou, 2007).
To me, that's exactly why we love Chromeo— they don't try to reinvent their albums as some sort of philosophical think-tank.
"This is philosophical, I think.
Though anxious, Ms. Stritch was also philosophical: "I think I'm getting her.
However, I do try to be philosophical and think that's the hand life's dealt me.
These scenarios indicate the diversity of how people, at a philosophical level, think about the meaning of knowledge in relation to their lives.
Although both feminist and nonfeminist analytic philosophers are thought to favor literal uses of language, they also rely on metaphors, analogies, images and the like in the course of making their philosophical cases (think of the frequency of Neurath's ship via Quine).
His website Booktwo.org is lousy with philosophical treatises, thought experiments, creative code, and art projects.
