So having established a couple basic metaphysical principles in the previous posts (here, here, and here): that Reality exists, and is intelligible, and Truth is our words in conformance with Reality, we now come to the central word in the trio of ‘Wha…
So having established a couple basic metaphysical principles in the previous posts (here, here, and here): that Reality exists, and is intelligible, and Truth is our words in conformance with Reality, we now come to the central word in the trio of ‘Wha…
In the previous post we began taking a metaphysical dive into the phrase ‘What is Truth?’, by beginning with the role that ‘What’ plays in that – what is being referred to, how well we know it, and how easily we fool ourselves into mistaking what …
The point of turning our attention to metaphysics (see previous post), is not to wrestle with fancy concepts or to see which big brained person said what impressive (or baffling) thing about this or that obscure issue, but so that when we are talking …
‘All men by nature desire to know’Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Book 1, line 1
The first line of Aristotle’s Metaphysics is “All men by nature desire to know”, but while the desire to know comes naturally to all men, not all men desire to know or acknowledg…