pages tagged metaphysicsspwhittonhttps://spwhitton.name//tag/metaphysics/spwhittonikiwiki2015-11-18T17:09:12ZBall-throwinghttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/ballthrowing/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2013-05-29T21:19:00Z
<p>Today I had an exam called “knowledge & reality”, arguably on topics at
the heart of philosophy, where I answered this question:</p>
<blockquote><p>Suppose there is only ever one ball-throwing. Can throwing the ball
cause the window to break?</p></blockquote>
<p>Six years of studying philosophy and it all comes down to this.
Brilliant.</p>
The Dynamic Unity of Realityhttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/dynamicunityofreality/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2012-05-06T09:31:00Z
<p>What, as a student of the modern analytic Academy, am I supposed to make
of something like this:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.spaceandmotion.com/">The Dynamic Unity of Reality</a></p>
<p><a href="https://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/dynamicunityofreality/#more">continue reading this entry</a></p>
Moore on colourhttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/mooreyellow/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2012-02-17T11:50:00Z
<p>To me this point is <em>patently obvious</em> but lots of people I know
disagree. Also this means the primary/secondary quality distinction is
legitimate.</p>
<blockquote><p>Consider yellow, for example. We may try to define it, by describing
its physical equivalent; we may state what kind of light-vibrations
must stimulate the normal eye, in order that we may perceive it. But a
moment’s reflection is sufficient to shew that those light-vibrations
are not themselves what we mean by yellow. <em>They</em> are not what we
perceive. Indeed we should never have been able to discover their
existence, unless we had first been struck by the patent difference of
quality between the different colours. THe most we can be entitled to
say of those vibrations is that they are what corresponds in space to
the yellow which we actually perceive. —Moore, <em>P.E.</em>, p. 10</p></blockquote>