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| | | | | With the exception of Nietzsche, no other madman has contributed so much to human sanity as has Louis Althusser. This newly-found obscurity forces me to summarize his work before suggesting a few (minor) modifications to it...
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| | | | | The First Substance, the mind and the Second Substance, the body, combine to form the Third Substance, Man. What is the fourth Substance? Is the fourth substance God or ... | | |
| | | | | If the concept of error is made use of - surely, there must be times that we are right. "right" and "wrong" are polar concepts. First type, first order concepts can be paired (wrongly) with higher type, lesser order concepts. This, inevitably leads to paradoxes. | | |
| | | | | Whole forests have been wasted in the effort to refute the Chinese Room Thought Experiment proposed by Searle. The experiment envisages a room in which an English speaker ... | | |
| | | | | Finiteness has to do with the existence of boundaries. Cantor is the father of the modern concept of the infinite. He developed Set Theory. Set theory was ... | | |
| | | | | Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine. Complexity and simplicity are regarded as two extremes of the same continuum. | | |
| | | | | A classical point of departure in defining death, seems to be life itself. Capturing the identity of the dying entity (that which "commits" death) is essential in defining death | | |
| | | | | The brain (and, by implication, the mind) have been compared to the latest technological innovation in every generation. Computer hardware metaphors were replaced by software metaphors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors. | | |
| | | | | Events and actions are classified as achievements, in other words, as a result of value judgements within given historical, psychological and cultural contexts. | | |
| | | | | A definition must reveal the meaning of the term or concept defined. "Definition" - A statement which captures the meaning, the use, the function and the essence of a term or a concept. | | |
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