Philosophie taoïste et confucianisme, « taoïsme » (parfois appelé « taoïsme ») est l'une des deux grandes traditions philosophiques indigènes de Chine. En tant que terme anglais, Le taoïsme correspond à la fois au Daojia ("Famille Dao" ou "école des Dao"), une ancienne dynastie Han (c. 100s B.C.E.) terme qui désigne des textes dits « philosophiques » et des penseurs tels que Laozi et Zhuangzi, et Daojiao (« enseignement du Dao »), which describes various

Zhong Hui (Chung Hui, 225–264 C.E.) Zhong Hui (Chung Hui) was a major philosophical figure during China’s early medieval period (220-589 CE). An accomplished interpreter of the Laozi and the Yijing, Zhong Hui contributed significantly to the early development of xuanxue—literally “learning” (xue) of the “dark” or “mysterious” (xuan) Dao ("Chemin"), but sometimes translated as “Neo-Daoism“. He also was a major political figure whose ambition

Stoicism Stoicism originated as a Hellenistic philosophy, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium (modern day Cyprus), c. 300 B.C.E. It was influenced by Socrates and the Cynics, and it engaged in vigorous debates with the Skeptics, the Academics, and the Epicureans. The name comes from the Stoa Poikile, or painted porch, an open market in Athens where the original Stoics used to meet and teach

Rudolf Carnap: Modal Logic In two works, a paper in The Journal of Symbolic Logic in 1946 and the book Meaning and Necessity in 1947, Rudolf Carnap developed a modal predicate logic containing a necessity operator N, whose semantics depends on the claim that, where α is a formula of the language, Nα represents the proposition that α is logically necessary. Carnap’s view was that Nα should

Epistemic Value Epistemic value is a kind of value which attaches to cognitive successes such as true beliefs, justified beliefs, connaissance, et la compréhension. These kinds of cognitive success do often have practical value: true beliefs about local geography help us get to work on time; knowledge of mechanics allows us to build vehicles; understanding of general annual weather patterns helps us to plant our fields

The Semantic Theory of Truth The semantic theory of truth (STT, ci-après, par la suite) was developed by Alfred Tarski in the 1930s. The theory has two separate, although interconnected, aspects. D'abord, it is a formal mathematical theory of truth as a central concept of model theory, one of the most important branches of mathematical logic. Deuxième, it is also a philosophical doctrine which elaborates the notion of