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Language and thought - Coggle Diagram
Language and thought
Plato
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Peter Geach; is it plausible to exist in a world of forms without people? Is this real human existence?
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Realism
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In this view, the soul is ‘real’ if (if and only if) it corresponds to an external set of events and therefore has objective existence
Anti-realism
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Our sense experiences can only provide us with information about the experience itself- we cannot move past these experiences to establish what exists beyond them
We live our lives in a state of uncertainty
We can only have certainty of our own experiences, not of what they relate to
The soul exists in an anti-realist sense i.e. although I cannot be certain of its objective existence, I can be certain of my own subjective experience of it and in that sense I can consider it real
John Hick
There must be a break in continuity between the original John Smith body and the new body, so it is hard to say it is the same person.
It is plausible to say many replicas could be made, which of these is ‘Me’?
John Hick believed our identity is our memories, but what about an Alzheimer’s sufferer, are they still the same person…?