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Vicious Intellectualism and the Reality of the Unknown

Jeff Carreira April 21, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 21 Comments

There are things that we know. And there are things that we know that we don’t know. And there are things that we don’t know that we don’t know. These last are the “unknown unknowns” …

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Charles Sanders PeirceWilfred SellersWilliam James

Escape From The Myth of the Given

Jeff Carreira March 24, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 14 Comments

One way to think about the existential dilemma of postmodernism is that we began to realize that our perception of reality is a hopeless tangle of sensation and interpretation. What we assume to be reality as we …

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David HumeWilfred Sellers

The Myth of the Given – or – Marooned on Mount Assumption

Jeff Carreira March 17, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 5 Comments

We all believe in an outdated myth. It is the unconscious belief that something is given – that we are standing on some solid ground of truth from which the rest of our understanding of …

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Wilfred Sellers

“To Thing”: A New Verb

Jeff Carreira March 2, 2011 Blog Posts, New Paradigm Thinking 22 Comments

Thing (v). to thing, thinging.   1. To create an object by defining a boundary around some portion of reality separating it from everything else and then labeling that portion of reality with a name. One …

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Charles Sanders PeirceWilfred Sellers

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