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Plato, Cratylus: Thesis and Antithesis

An examination of Plato’s Cratylus and the debate over whether words are arbitrary conventions or natural expressions of the things they name.

Posted byNoctua97August 21, 2022September 1, 2026Posted inEnglish, PhilosophyTags:Grammar, PhilosophyLeave a comment on Plato, Cratylus: Thesis and Antithesis

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

A look at classical paradoxes of infinity and how they bear on the principle of sufficient reason and the question of causal termination.

Posted byNoctua97June 18, 2022September 1, 2026Posted inEnglish, PhilosophyLeave a comment on Exploring Infinity: Paradoxes, Philosophical Implications, and the Principle of Sufficient Reason

Epistemology

Illustration from Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical and physiological studies

A first pass at the question of what it means to know something, and why a satisfying answer is harder to reach than it appears.

Posted byNoctua97May 15, 2022September 1, 2026Posted inEnglish, PhilosophyLeave a comment on Epistemology

Thoughts on the Definition of Existence

Portrait of St. Thomas Aquinas

A comparison of two competing definitions of existence — one as a property things can have, the other as anything that can enter consciousness at all.

Posted byNoctua97May 24, 2021September 1, 2026Posted inEnglish, PhilosophyTags:PhilosophyLeave a comment on Thoughts on the Definition of Existence

Internal Musings of a Wannabe Philosopher

Sculpture of Socrates

An original philosophical dialogue written in the style of Plato, after a deep read of his work — with all the humility of a first attempt.

Posted byNoctua97May 24, 2021September 1, 2026Posted inEnglish, PhilosophyTags:PhilosophyLeave a comment on Internal Musings of a Wannabe Philosopher

On Philosophy

Auguste Rodin's sculpture The Thinker, Paris, 1904

A brief reflection on philosophy as the pursuit of knowledge and truth.

Posted byNoctua97May 24, 2021September 1, 2026Posted inEnglish, PhilosophyTags:PhilosophyLeave a comment on On Philosophy
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