Beyond Necessity

The Logic Museum is a collection of source material, much of it Latin and medieval, on logic and metaphysical writing, and particular on the...

Alan Rhoda has found a link to a fascinating debate here , on whether there is "Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus?...

'I worked with him a few years ago and he was always trying to convert me to Islam. It would drive me mad. Finally, I said "So you ...

Too good to keep off the internet. A companion piece to Dens of Robbers . "The reflective nihilation, however, is pushed further than t...

There are two approaches to ordinary language philosophy, one represented by Hobbes, the other by Ockham. According to the first, there is n...

Here is a passage from Locke, in a similar spirit to Hobbes, and with the same ingredients. The gibberish of metaphysicians, contrasted with...

"There is yet another fault in the discourses of some men; which may also be numbered amongst the sorts of madness; namely, that abuse ...

The latest exhibit in the Logic Museum is a parallel Latin English translation of Ockham's theory of past and future tenses, in chapter...

"There is some actual state of affairs which constitutes its now being the case that it’s possible that it rain tomorrow" But is t...

And here is Locke on the distinction between truths of reason and truths of fact, from Bk 4 ch xi, 13 ' Of our Knowledge of the Existenc...

Here is a passage from the Essay (Bk IV, c. viii, 8) that is suggestive of the Analytic / Synthetic distinction. 8. … We can know then the ...

Spur writes here Leibniz and Hume have the same basic distinction in mind, between those truths which are necessary and can be known a prior...

'The predicate is included in the subject of a true proposition'. Leibniz says this (in a letter to Arnauld) but of course his use o...

What on earth is going on here ? and particularly here ? Fr. Alexis Bugnolo, a Franciscan who is developing an internet library of Scholasti...

Any philosopher who mentions my work in their Ph.D. thesis is to be recommended, in my view. One such is Oxford philosopher Edward Kanterian...

Brandon here has pointed out that it is not inconsistent to hold that there are three persons in the Trinity, but only one God. For the fol...

These are discussed in Freud's great work, The Interpretation of Dreams , which I dusted off after a discussion at Bill Vallicella's...

'Existential Import' is a term so frequently bandied around (e.g. here and here ) that it is worth explaining its correct meaning, ...

To me, the following three sentences seem identical No mountains are golden There are no golden mountains Golden mountains do not exist Bran...

I argued (commenting in Alan Rhoda's weblog here ) that (1) It is possible that there are unicorns. does not imply (2) There are unicorn...