What is Philosophy?

presuppositions and basic concepts or categories as they are also called. <b>

        For instance, to believe that anything material must be cognitively inert in and of itself is a fundamental presupposition of classical dualism. That it would take a soul to have a mind is another. These are in contradistinction to the materialist and scientific presupposition that the physical causal system is closed, and that material power and agency is all there are. Of basic concepts, these include such notions as existence (or being) and nothingness, actuality and possibility, matter and mind, body and soul, act and object, substance and form, attribute and substance, accident and essence, function and structure, and so on and so forth. <b>

        What presuppositions and basic concepts provide are some possible ways of mapping and relating many of the diverse features of what is known as human reality. However, across the span of centuries, different philosophers have found different ways of conceptualization to be intelligible, resulting in the proliferation of different philosophical styles and perspectives. Under this light, it can be said that every philosophical theory is in the ultimate analysis but the consequence of presuppositions and categories that its owner intends to grind. <b>

        Another way of saying the same thing is that many philosophical controversies are actually brought about by differences in conceptualization rather than disagreements about facts. In the final analysis, they are controversies about the explanatory efficacy of certain concepts and presuppositions upon which the same set of phenomena or facts and events are to be explained. More often than not, the gut

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