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Someone standing in a doorway seems to be both in and not-in the room [Priest,G, by Sorensen]
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Full Idea:
Priest says there is room for contradictions. He gives the example of someone in a doorway; is he in or out of the room. Given that in and out are mutually exclusive and exhaustive, and neither is the default, he seems to be both in and not in.
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From:
report of Graham Priest (What is so bad about Contradictions? [1998]) by Roy Sorensen - Vagueness and Contradiction 4.3
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A reaction:
Priest is a clever lad, but I don't think I can go with this. It just seems to be an equivocation on the word 'in' when applied to rooms. First tell me the criteria for being 'in' a room. What is the proposition expressed in 'he is in the room'?
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Schiller speaks obsessively of freedom throughout his works [Schiller, by Berlin]
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Full Idea:
Schiller constantly speaks of spiritual freedom: freedom of reason, the kingdom of freedom, our free self, inner freedom, freedom of mind, moral freedom, the free intelligence - a very favourite phrase - holy freedom, the impregnable citadel of freedom.
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From:
report of Friedrich Schiller (works [1794]) by Isaiah Berlin - The Roots of Romanticism
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A reaction:
Kant's philosophy and his Kingdom of Ends are an obvious source for this, but I trace the sentiment back to 'Freeborn John' Lilburne during the English Civil War. The English, thanks to Voltaire, embodied freedom in the Enlightenment.
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The present moment, time's direction, and time's dynamic quality seem to be objective facts [Price,H]
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Full Idea:
The flow of time seems to be an objective feature of reality because of 1) the present moment can be objectively distinguished, 2) time has an objective direction, of earlier and later, and 3) there is something objectively dynamic about time.
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From:
Huw Price (The Flow of Time [2011], 1.1)
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A reaction:
Price sets out to undermine all three of these claims, in implicit defence of a psychological view. I disagree with him.
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We must explain either the existence of a time direction, or our psychological sense of it [Price,H]
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Full Idea:
If the world comes equipped with a time orientation, where does it come from? If it doesn't, what explains our psychological feeling of a direction for time?
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From:
Huw Price (The Flow of Time [2011], 3.5)
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A reaction:
The chances of 'explaining' either one look slim to me. That is, the fact would explain our experience, but the experience without the fact looks ridiculous, and I cannot conceive of any time-free entity which could explain the fact.
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