Square of Opposition The square of opposition is a chart that was introduced within classical (categorical) logic to represent the logical relationships holding between certain propositions in virtue of their form. The square, traditionally conceived, looks like this: The four corners of this chart represent the four basic forms of propositions recognized in classical logic: A propositions, or universal affirmatives take the form: All S

Eigenschaften Ein Stein, Eine Tüte Zucker und ein Meerschweinchen wiegen jeweils ein Kilogramm. Eine Lilie, Eine Wolke und eine Kupfersulfatprobe sind weiß. Eine Statue, ein Tanz und eine mathematische Gleichung sind wunderschön. Die Tatsache, dass verschiedene bestimmte Dinge gleich und dennoch unterschiedlich sein können, war die Quelle zahlreicher philosophischer Diskussionen, und

Immanuel Kant At the foundation of Kant’s system is the doctrine of “transcendental idealism,” which emphasizes a distinction between what we can experience (the natural, observable world) and what we cannot (“supersensible” objects such as God and the soul). Kant argued that we can only have knowledge of things we can experience. Entsprechend, in answer to the question, “What can I know?” Kant replies that

Political Revolution Revolutions are commonly understood as instances of fundamental socio-political transformation. Since “the age of revolutions” in the late 18th century, political philosophers and theorists have developed approaches aimed at defining what forms of change can count as revolutionary (im Gegensatz zu, Zum Beispiel, reformist types of change) as well as determining if and under what conditions such change can be justified by normative

Neo-Kantianism By its broadest definition, the term ‘Neo-Kantianism’ names any thinker after Kant who both engages substantively with the basic ramifications of his transcendental idealism and casts their own project at least roughly within his terminological framework. In diesem Sinne, thinkers as diverse as Schopenhauer, Mach, Husserl, Foucault, Strawson, Kuhn, Sellers, Nancy, Korsgaard, and Friedman could loosely be considered Neo-Kantian. Genauer gesagt, ‘Neo-Kantianism’ refers to