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Plato, Cratylus: Thesis and Antithesis

Thesis and Antithesis: Notes on Plato’s Cratylus With respects to the status of languages, more particularly their components: names and verbs. Whether they are arbitrary, or follow some kind of natural similarity according to the essences of things. Under this similarity thesis we could either keep names as mere representations or as a genuine expressionContinue reading “Plato, Cratylus: Thesis and Antithesis”

Exploring Infinity: Paradoxes, Philosophical Implications, and the Principle of Sufficient Reason

There are a number of problems and paradoxes one might a arrive at when contemplating the notion of infinity. Problems that have been amply agknowledged by the first philosophers and used to justify further conclusions. When engaging in thought about infinity one might arrive at some of these paradoxes, for example, thinking about the distanceContinue reading “Exploring Infinity: Paradoxes, Philosophical Implications, and the Principle of Sufficient Reason”

Thoughts on the Definition of Existence

In what concerns the nature of existence, two distinct definitions seem to be relevant. One defines it as a property, as something to be had by other subjects, the other in the broadest possible way as anything that is, anything that can ever come into one’s field of consciousness, such that by the mere factContinue reading “Thoughts on the Definition of Existence”

Internal Musings of a Wannabe Philosopher

So reading Plato’s dialogues actually got me ramped up to try writing a philosophical dialogue myself. Although mine could never hope to reach Plato’s level, I still had fun nonetheless. Before we begin however, I’d like to point out that this is an amateur work, so there may be many errors which I cannot seeContinue reading “Internal Musings of a Wannabe Philosopher”