Page 8 - Logical Philosophy: A Compendium

4 LOGICAL PHILOSOPHY

5. Fallacious Criticisms of Selfhood ......................................................................................... 71
6. What “Emptiness” Might Be ................................................................................................. 74
6. Additional Topics ...................................................................................................................... 78
1. Present Appearances .............................................................................................................. 78
2. The Concepts of Space and Time .......................................................................................... 83
3. Apprehension of the Four Dimensions .................................................................................. 85
4. Contents of Thought Processes ............................................................................................. 90
5. Universals and Potentiality .................................................................................................... 90
6. Social vs. Personal Knowledge ............................................................................................. 92
7. The Active Role of Logic .......................................................................................................... 93
1. Principles of Adduction ......................................................................................................... 93
2. Generalization is Justifiable .................................................................................................. 96
3. Logical Attitudes ................................................................................................................... 97
4. Syllogism Adds to Knowledge .............................................................................................. 98
5. There is a Formal Logic of Change ....................................................................................... 99
6. Concept Formation .............................................................................................................. 101
7. Empty Classes ..................................................................................................................... 101
8. Context ................................................................................................................................ 102
9. Communication ................................................................................................................... 103
8. Epistemological Issues in Mathematics ................................................................................... 106
1. Mathematics and Logic ....................................................................................................... 106
2. Geometrical Concepts have an Experiential Basis .............................................................. 107
3. Geometry is a Phenomenological Science .......................................................................... 108
4. On “New Arithmetical Entities” .......................................................................................... 111
5. Imagining a Thoroughly Empirical Arithmetic ................................................................... 113
9. Theology Without Prejudice.................................................................................................... 115
1. Applying Logical Standards to Theology ............................................................................ 115
2. Conceiving the Divine Attributes ........................................................................................ 116
3. Analyzing Omniscience and Omnipotence ......................................................................... 118
4. Harmonizing Justice and Mercy .......................................................................................... 120
5. The Formlessness of God .................................................................................................... 122
10. Illustrations .......................................................................................................................... 124
1. Existence, appearance, and reality ....................................................................................... 124
2. Assumed material, mental and spiritual domains ................................................................ 124
3. A classification of appearances ........................................................................................... 125
4. Three types of continuity ..................................................................................................... 125
5. Contextual meaning ............................................................................................................. 126
Appendices and References ............................................................................................................ 127
1. Using Meditation ................................................................................................................. 127
2. Feelings of Emptiness ......................................................................................................... 130
3. Mental Projection ................................................................................................................ 131
4. References ........................................................................................................................... 133
5. About This Book ................................................................................................................. 134

VOLITION AND ALLIED CAUSAL CONCEPTS .................................................................... 135
1. Basic Causal Relations ............................................................................................................ 142
1. Causation and volition ......................................................................................................... 142
2. Causality and modality ........................................................................................................ 144
3. Spontaneity .......................................................................................................................... 145
4. Relative vs. absolute contingency ....................................................................................... 147
2. Interactions between Volition and Causation .......................................................................... 148
1. Necessity and inertia in causation ....................................................................................... 148
2. Direct and indirect volition .................................................................................................. 150
3. Matter-mind and spirit ......................................................................................................... 151