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Category Archives: Epistemology
Seeing Beauty in Physics, Calling it Good
https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/8Yi1kfd6LkCWY1skXDHbT Index of Topics Covered Copilot: Here’s a clean, compact index of the scientific domains we’ve covered so far, each interpreted through the Red–Blue–Yellow triadic metaphysical logic. I’ll keep it brief, but structurally crisp so you can see the whole … Continue reading
UNITY‑IN‑DISTINCTION AS A METAPHYSICAL LOGIC
Articulated with the immeasurably helpful assistance of Copilot (read discussion). See Aquinas as an example (including AQUINAS VS. WILLIAM LANE CRAIG ON DIVINE SIMPLICITY). UNITY‑IN‑DISTINCTION AS A METAPHYSICAL LOGIC Being △ Action △ Quality as a Unified, Irreducible, Mutually‑Requiring Structure … Continue reading
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The first fallacy: Ought-Value or Action-Quality Conflation
The first fallacy in philosophy, and not just the philosophy of ethics, is neither just the is-ought fallacy, nor just the failure to respect the fact-value distinction, but the fallacy of confusing the former for the latter: conflating oughts and values. This is relevant across every field, not just ethics, because it boils down and adds up to confusing action and quality. Together with the is/fact (substance) element from the first two fallacies, these three elements constitute the is-ought-value distinction, or the substance, action, quality triad. All three are required to obtain true, justified belief (knowledge) about anything, in any field of philosophy (including all the sciences). They are required together, but distinctly. One cannot stand in for either of the others.
But let’s begin in the field of ethics… Continue reading
Elaborating on C Theory
“The end is hypothetical while you are advancing towards or falling away from it. The end is hyperthetical once you have reached it.” (C Theory and the Venn of Import) That was END. Now let’s talk about NOW, relative to … Continue reading
C Theory of Time & the Venn of Import
First, an introduction of C Theory and the Venn of Import, then an explanation of how C Theory is distinct from and resolves conflicts arising from A and B theories, using the Venn (or Harmonic Triad) of Import. This is … Continue reading
“Euthyphro”-type Dilemma of Language Ability and Learning
Does what is encoded (the pious/good) get our attention, or is it that what we attend to (the loved/valued) gets encoded? Continue reading
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