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  • My philosophy lacks healing power

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    My philosophy lacks healing power

    What can either I or my philosophy say to those who are mired in hardship? Of course, although my philosophy leans toward “black magic,” it is not incapable of providing positive force. But to be precise, what philosophy can provide is a certain immunity or resistance, so that once I encounter a difficult situation, I will be more likely to face it with calm, composure, or humor. Yet I know very well that it is not an effective cure, let alone an all-purpose tonic that can cure every illness. It is like getting a vaccination: only when you are in good health, or when the disease has not yet broken…

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  • On “Fate”

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    On “Fate”

    As I mentioned earlier, I feel as though I am being teased kindly by “fate,” and I may have used similar rhetoric in earlier essays as well. Well, this is similar to my saying things like “the ghost of Kant is poking me from behind” — it is simply a metaphorical way of expressing a “feeling,” and does not mean that I believe in “fate”; nor, of course, does it mean that I do not believe in fate. For an ill-defined concept, making an yes/no judgment about it is always pretty meaningless. First of all, I would like to declare that, with regard to the transcendental world of deities, I…

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  • Roderick M. Chisholm: Identity through Possible Worlds: Some Questions

    Philosophy & Thought

    Roderick M. Chisholm: Identity through Possible Worlds: Some Questions

    I hadn’t expected that the reading assignment I was given for the philosophy of logic course would be the only one for which I couldn’t find a Chinese translation…………not even an English electronic version was easy to find. At last I found the original PDF version, http://www.jstor.org/view/00294624/di982797/98p0002q/0 I ran it through Hanwang Text King OCR myself, and after some preliminary correction it is as follows. Turning it into an electronic text makes it a little easier to read with the help of Kingsoft PowerWord……but it is still awfully painful……   Identity through Possible Worlds: Some Questions         Roderick M. Chisholm         Noûs, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Mar., 1967), pp. 1-8. Stable…

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