2023-03-10 Fri 11:54 AM [[Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf]] >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:26:14.660Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:26:14.660Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":9802,"end":9881},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Our various questions stem from one: how are we valuable and precious?","prefix":"y do not make us tremble. . ","suffix":" Consider the issue of free wil"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%y do not make us tremble. .%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Our various questions stem from one: how are we valuable and precious?== %%POSTFIX%%Consider the issue of free wil* >%%LINK%%[[#^rtqld0p2ek|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^rtqld0p2ek >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:26:37.578Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:26:37.578Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":10896,"end":11105},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"My concern is not only intense but directed. I want (to be able) to conclude that we a,.e worthwhile and precious. But this bias does not mean I refuse to follow philosophical reason where it leads.","prefix":"t, then we are devoid of value. ","suffix":" Fortu-nately, two factors h"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%t, then we are devoid of value.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==My concern is not only intense but directed. I want (to be able) to conclude that we a,.e worthwhile and precious. But this bias does not mean I refuse to follow philosophical reason where it leads.== %%POSTFIX%%Fortu-nately, two factors h* >%%LINK%%[[#^wjw0k2x9bag|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^wjw0k2x9bag >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:27:24.117Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:27:24.117Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":11713,"end":11812},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"I do not stop the philosophical reason-ing until it leads me where I want to go; then I stop.","prefix":"ctor is an optional stop rule. ","suffix":" This description oversimplifies"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%ctor is an optional stop rule.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==I do not stop the philosophical reason-ing until it leads me where I want to go; then I stop.== %%POSTFIX%%This description oversimplifies* >%%LINK%%[[#^l3x0qf0gex|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^l3x0qf0gex >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:29:41.860Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:29:41.860Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":13684,"end":13767},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":" We learn something of value in discovering that our goal can be reached.","prefix":"guarantee it will reach it. ","suffix":" Since also the general aim "}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%guarantee it will reach it.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==We learn something of value in discovering that our goal can be reached.== %%POSTFIX%%Since also the general aim* >%%LINK%%[[#^ct634xq04ee|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^ct634xq04ee >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:30:30.420Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:30:30.420Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":14314,"end":14783},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Philosophers often seek to deduce their total view from a few basic principles, showing how all follows from their intuitively based axioms. The rest of the philosophy then strikes readers as depending upon these principles. One brick is piled upon another to produce a tall philosophical tower, one brick wide. When the bottom brick crumbles or is removed, all topples, burying even those insights that were independent of the starting point.","prefix":"prefer to let linkages emerge. ","suffix":" Instead of the tottering tow"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%prefer to let linkages emerge.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Philosophers often seek to deduce their total view from a few basic principles, showing how all follows from their intuitively based axioms. The rest of the philosophy then strikes readers as depending upon these principles. One brick is piled upon another to produce a tall philosophical tower, one brick wide. When the bottom brick crumbles or is removed, all topples, burying even those insights that were independent of the starting point.== %%POSTFIX%%Instead of the tottering tow* >%%LINK%%[[#^97ardmuebct|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^97ardmuebct >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:31:50.483Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:31:50.483Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":14784,"end":15050},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Instead of the tottering tower, I suggest that our model be the Parthenon. First we emplace our separate philosophical insights, col-umn by column; afterwards, we unite and unify them under an overarching roof of general principles or themes. ","prefix":"pendent of the starting point. ","suffix":" When the philo-sophical stru"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%pendent of the starting point.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Instead of the tottering tower, I suggest that our model be the Parthenon. First we emplace our separate philosophical insights, col-umn by column; afterwards, we unite and unify them under an overarching roof of general principles or themes.== %%POSTFIX%%When the philo-sophical stru* >%%LINK%%[[#^2e3cgbmea1s|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^2e3cgbmea1s >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:32:59.364Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:32:59.364Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":15682,"end":15813},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"It was not arbitrary of philosophers to start with apparently necessary first principles, given their desire to prove their views.","prefix":"DUCTION Coercive Philosophy . ' ","suffix":" If the tower-like structure is"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%DUCTION Coercive Philosophy . '%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==It was not arbitrary of philosophers to start with apparently necessary first principles, given their desire to prove their views.== %%POSTFIX%%If the tower-like structure is* >%%LINK%%[[#^aoagcl9f1oo|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^aoagcl9f1oo >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:33:03.251Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:33:03.251Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":15895,"end":15943},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"But can philosophy have an aim other than proof?","prefix":"t forsake its purpose as well. ","suffix":" Philosophical training molds ar"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%t forsake its purpose as well.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==But can philosophy have an aim other than proof?== %%POSTFIX%%Philosophical training molds ar* >%%LINK%%[[#^knk71ggzw0l|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^knk71ggzw0l >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:33:48.043Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:33:48.043Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":16367,"end":16873},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe the premisses you have to or must be-lieve the conclusion, some arguments do not carry much punch, and so forth. A philosophical argument is an attempt to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to believe it or not. A suc-cessful philosophical argument, a strong argument, forces someone to a belief.","prefix":"argument isn't like that-is it? ","suffix":" Though philosophy is carried on"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%argument isn't like that-is it?%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe the premisses you have to or must be-lieve the conclusion, some arguments do not carry much punch, and so forth. A philosophical argument is an attempt to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to believe it or not. A suc-cessful philosophical argument, a strong argument, forces someone to a belief.== %%POSTFIX%%Though philosophy is carried on* >%%LINK%%[[#^c3lhfoyelg|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^c3lhfoyelg >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:35:10.200Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:35:10.200Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":17790,"end":17941},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Perhaps philoso-phers need arguments so powerful they set up reverberations in the brain: if the person refuses to accept the conclusion, he dies. ","prefix":"lently, smiling, Buddhalike. ","suffix":" How's that for a powerful a"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%lently, smiling, Buddhalike.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Perhaps philoso-phers need arguments so powerful they set up reverberations in the brain: if the person refuses to accept the conclusion, he dies.== %%POSTFIX%%How's that for a powerful a* >%%LINK%%[[#^ek2jdju9een|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^ek2jdju9een >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:42:56.546Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:42:56.546Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":18343,"end":18554},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":" Does either the likelihood of arriving at a true view (as opposed to a consistent and coherent one) or a view's closeness to the truth vary directly with the strength of the philosophical arguments? ","prefix":" promising route to the truth?","suffix":" Philosophical arguments can s"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%promising route to the truth?%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Does either the likelihood of arriving at a true view (as opposed to a consistent and coherent one) or a view's closeness to the truth vary directly with the strength of the philosophical arguments?== %%POSTFIX%%Philosophical arguments can s* >%%LINK%%[[#^83gtup089zv|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^83gtup089zv >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:43:29.159Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:43:29.159Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":18808,"end":18921},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave toward someone","prefix":"tempt to prove, or in arguing? ","suffix":"? I think we cannot im-prove pe"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%tempt to prove, or in arguing?%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave toward someone== %%POSTFIX%%? I think we cannot im-prove pe* >%%LINK%%[[#^wi91xn6sdgh|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^wi91xn6sdgh >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:46:38.128Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:46:38.128Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":20633,"end":20993},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"* Is this the explanation of why philosophy department audiences try espe-cially to refute or poke holes in lectures? The lecturer is trying to ram an opinion into their minds, so quite appropriately the audience resists, because even if it is something they want to believe anyway, they don't want to allow themselves to be forced to believe it.","prefix":" for non-violent resistance. * ","suffix":" 5 , INTRODUCTION Since a succ"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%for non-violent resistance. *%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==* Is this the explanation of why philosophy department audiences try espe-cially to refute or poke holes in lectures? The lecturer is trying to ram an opinion into their minds, so quite appropriately the audience resists, because even if it is something they want to believe anyway, they don't want to allow themselves to be forced to believe it.== %%POSTFIX%%5 , INTRODUCTION Since a succ* >%%LINK%%[[#^cshxmk36n5h|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^cshxmk36n5h >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:47:59.343Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:47:59.343Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":21260,"end":21912},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"While autonomy is not violated by ar-gument as it would be by (involuntary) brain surgery that instilled belief, still, to argue for a conclusion is not merely to point out the consequences of statements which it turns out the person believes; it is to search and cast about for suitable premisses, for statements the person does accept that will lead him to the desired conclusion. Rec-ognizing the deductive connection, the person may either accept the conclusion or reject one of the statements he previously accepted, now that he sees where it leads. So the arguer will seek premisses the person will not abandon. ","prefix":" he already implicitly accepts? ","suffix":"His goal is not simply to poi"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%he already implicitly accepts?%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==While autonomy is not violated by ar-gument as it would be by (involuntary) brain surgery that instilled belief, still, to argue for a conclusion is not merely to point out the consequences of statements which it turns out the person believes; it is to search and cast about for suitable premisses, for statements the person does accept that will lead him to the desired conclusion. Rec-ognizing the deductive connection, the person may either accept the conclusion or reject one of the statements he previously accepted, now that he sees where it leads. So the arguer will seek premisses the person will not abandon.== %%POSTFIX%%His goal is not simply to poi* >%%LINK%%[[#^97nosh9hdn|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^97nosh9hdn >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:48:31.342Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:48:31.342Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":22155,"end":22389},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Occasionally, after a short amount of reading, I find myself switched to a different mode; I become open to what the author has to teach. 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An additional factor affects* >%%LINK%%[[#^6kw7puenekw|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^6kw7puenekw >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:48:49.774Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:48:49.774Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":22432,"end":22790},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Sometimes a writer will begin with a thought similar to one I have had and been pleased with, except that his is more profound or subtle. Or after reading the first few sentences I may have thoughts or objections which the author then will go on to state or meet more acutely. Here, clearly, is some-one from whom I can learn.","prefix":"ional factor affects my stance. ","suffix":" I am willing to accept tho"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%ional factor affects my stance.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Sometimes a writer will begin with a thought similar to one I have had and been pleased with, except that his is more profound or subtle. Or after reading the first few sentences I may have thoughts or objections which the author then will go on to state or meet more acutely. Here, clearly, is some-one from whom I can learn.== %%POSTFIX%%I am willing to accept tho* >%%LINK%%[[#^pymwcp47ozq|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^pymwcp47ozq >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:53:26.775Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:53:26.775Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":23081,"end":23306},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"If our own thoughts just \"come to us\" unbidden, why should we be less receptive to ones that come through reading? Perhaps because we spontaneously have only those thoughts to which we are already receptive. ","prefix":"have that specific new thought. ","suffix":"This may lead me to miss out o"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%have that specific new thought.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==If our own thoughts just "come to us" unbidden, why should we be less receptive to ones that come through reading? Perhaps because we spontaneously have only those thoughts to which we are already receptive.== %%POSTFIX%%This may lead me to miss out o* >%%LINK%%[[#^z9nvzkmk6f|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^z9nvzkmk6f >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:54:23.489Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:54:23.489Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":23896,"end":23974},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Philosophy without arguments, in one mode, would guide some-one to a view","prefix":"em from an adversary stance. ","suffix":". The first chapter presents tho"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%em from an adversary stance.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Philosophy without arguments, in one mode, would guide some-one to a view== %%POSTFIX%%. The first chapter presents tho* >%%LINK%%[[#^3at44rw8qik|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^3at44rw8qik >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:58:54.426Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:58:54.426Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":23975,"end":24608},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":" The first chapter presents thoughts the reader has had (or is ready to have), only more deeply. Reading this chapter stimu-lates new thoughts which, pleased with, he tentatively adopts as his own. The second chapter deepens and extends these very thoughts; the reader willingly accepts them in this form. They are almost ex-actly what he was thinking already; he does not have to be argued into them. This second chapter also stimulates further new thoughts, which please the reader, and he tentatively adopts these thoughts as his own; in the third chapter, he finds these thoughts deepened and extended, and so on.","prefix":"ould guide some-one to a view.","suffix":" At no point is the person "}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%ould guide some-one to a view.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==The first chapter presents thoughts the reader has had (or is ready to have), only more deeply. Reading this chapter stimu-lates new thoughts which, pleased with, he tentatively adopts as his own. The second chapter deepens and extends these very thoughts; the reader willingly accepts them in this form. They are almost ex-actly what he was thinking already; he does not have to be argued into them. This second chapter also stimulates further new thoughts, which please the reader, and he tentatively adopts these thoughts as his own; in the third chapter, he finds these thoughts deepened and extended, and so on.== %%POSTFIX%%At no point is the person* >%%LINK%%[[#^7hzdlzpzdc6|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^7hzdlzpzdc6 >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T21:59:19.755Z","updated":"2023-03-11T21:59:19.755Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":24936,"end":25129},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"With this manner of writing, an author might circle back more than once to the same topic. 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Not everything can be said at once or twice; a reader may not be ready yet to think it all himself.3== %%POSTFIX%%Within the struc-ture of each* >%%LINK%%[[#^g4ra68gfue|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^g4ra68gfue >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T22:11:13.403Z","updated":"2023-03-11T22:11:13.403Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":25846,"end":26009},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":" I would like to present a philosophical view in this way, author and reader traveling together, each continually spurting in front of the other. ","prefix":"to an announcement, even though","suffix":"Not only do I lack the art to d"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%to an announcement, even though%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==I would like to present a philosophical view in this way, author and reader traveling together, each continually spurting in front of the other.== %%POSTFIX%%Not only do I lack the art to d* >%%LINK%%[[#^5jifw60ofie|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^5jifw60ofie >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T22:13:14.698Z","updated":"2023-03-11T22:13:14.698Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":27845,"end":27944},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"There is a second mode of philosophy, not directed to arguments and proofs: it seeks explanations.","prefix":"em.) 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Philosophical Explanations%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==There is a second mode of philosophy, not directed to arguments and proofs: it seeks explanations.== %%POSTFIX%%Various philosophical things ne* >%%LINK%%[[#^d08d3t9z8pf|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^d08d3t9z8pf >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T22:14:05.904Z","updated":"2023-03-11T22:14:05.904Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":28105,"end":28201},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Many philosophical problems are ones of understanding how something is or can be possible. 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","suffix":"How is it possible for us to hav"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%coherent and better understood.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Many philosophical problems are ones of understanding how something is or can be possible.== %%POSTFIX%%How is it possible for us to hav* >%%LINK%%[[#^oug2sp4dr1g|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^oug2sp4dr1g >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T22:28:43.699Z","updated":"2023-03-11T22:28:43.699Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":29642,"end":29744},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"The form of these questions is: how is one thing possible, given (or supposing) certain other things?","prefix":"t: how is philosophy possible? ","suffix":" Some statements rl, ... , rn "}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%t: how is philosophy possible?%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==The form of these questions is: how is one thing possible, given (or supposing) certain other things?== %%POSTFIX%%Some statements rl, ... , rn* >%%LINK%%[[#^xl7ujso2bdh|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^xl7ujso2bdh >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T22:41:48.374Z","updated":"2023-03-11T22:41:48.374Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":32436,"end":32621},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"To rebut an argument for not-p from specific apparent excluders removes a reason for thinking p cannot hold, and so counts as a kind of explanation of how p can be possible.","prefix":"e of these apparent excluders. ","suffix":" This task is unending, for as k"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%e of these apparent excluders.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==To rebut an argument for not-p from specific apparent excluders removes a reason for thinking p cannot hold, and so counts as a kind of explanation of how p can be possible.== %%POSTFIX%%This task is unending, for as k* >%%LINK%%[[#^2fc7q7rfh1|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^2fc7q7rfh1 >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T22:54:28.590Z","updated":"2023-03-11T22:54:28.590Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":33334,"end":33500},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Typically, the arguments of the epistemological skeptic do not lead us to conclude we don't have knowledge; but they do leave us wondering how we can know what we do.","prefix":"zzled as to how p can be true. ","suffix":" A proof that p is true, howe"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%zzled as to how p can be true.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Typically, the arguments of the epistemological skeptic do not lead us to conclude we don't have knowledge; but they do leave us wondering how we can know what we do.== %%POSTFIX%%A proof that p is true, howe* >%%LINK%%[[#^dm8990xaep4|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^dm8990xaep4 >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T22:54:35.780Z","updated":"2023-03-11T22:54:35.780Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":33019,"end":33174},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"A proof of p will give us the conviction that p is true, but it need not give us understanding of how p can be true (given the apparent excluder).","prefix":"roposal miscon-strues the need. ","suffix":" Even when the argument from a"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%roposal miscon-strues the need.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==A proof of p will give us the conviction that p is true, but it need not give us understanding of how p can be true (given the apparent excluder).== %%POSTFIX%%Even when the argument from a* >%%LINK%%[[#^80uefm3w97f|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^80uefm3w97f >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T22:55:17.636Z","updated":"2023-03-11T22:55:17.636Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":33991,"end":34230},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"To see how p can be true (given these apparent excluders) is to see how things fit together. 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There remains the question of what facts or principles might give rise to p.","prefix":" or wanting it. 10 INTRODUCTION ","suffix":" Here the philosopher searches "}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%or wanting it. 10 INTRODUCTION%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==The task of explaining how p is possible is not exhausted by the rearguard action of meeting arguments from its apparent excluders. There remains the question of what facts or principles might give rise to p.== %%POSTFIX%%Here the philosopher searches* >%%LINK%%[[#^wefm4qkskve|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^wefm4qkskve >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:00:39.085Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:00:39.085Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":34696,"end":34966},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"To show that these principles, if true, would explain p involves deducing p from them-at least so holds the de-ductive-nomological view according to which each explanation de-duces the fact to be explained from general laws and initial condi-tions.4 ","prefix":" excluded by current knowledge. ","suffix":"Yet still, this is rio atte"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%excluded by current knowledge.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==To show that these principles, if true, would explain p involves deducing p from them-at least so holds the de-ductive-nomological view according to which each explanation de-duces the fact to be explained from general laws and initial condi-tions.4== %%POSTFIX%%Yet still, this is rio atte* >%%LINK%%[[#^089y850y184q|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^089y850y184q >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:01:19.346Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:01:19.346Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":35156,"end":35270},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"To produce this possible explanation of p is, by seeing one way p is given rise to, to see how p can be true. ","prefix":"ounds independent of p itself. ","suffix":"\"How is it possible that p? Thi"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%ounds independent of p itself.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==To produce this possible explanation of p is, by seeing one way p is given rise to, to see how p can be true.== %%POSTFIX%%"How is it possible that p? Thi* >%%LINK%%[[#^iff90uxr33|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^iff90uxr33 >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:03:33.499Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:03:33.499Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":36118,"end":36799},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Feynman notes6 that the inverse square character of gravitation would follow if particles Hew equally in all directions but were par-tially blocked by bodies, so fewer reached the earth sunward than from the other side (and fewer hit the sun earthward than from the other side), so that each body was propelled toward the other by the hitting particles. Yet this potential explanation is known to be false; no effect is observed of the moving earth~ s being slowed down by the larger number of particles hitting it from the front. Still, even though false, this explanation produces some illumination and in-creased understanding.","prefix":" it latches onto these. Richard ","suffix":" 11 \" INTRODUCTION I am tempted"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%it latches onto these. Richard%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Feynman notes6 that the inverse square character of gravitation would follow if particles Hew equally in all directions but were par-tially blocked by bodies, so fewer reached the earth sunward than from the other side (and fewer hit the sun earthward than from the other side), so that each body was propelled toward the other by the hitting particles. Yet this potential explanation is known to be false; no effect is observed of the moving earth~ s being slowed down by the larger number of particles hitting it from the front. Still, even though false, this explanation produces some illumination and in-creased understanding.== %%POSTFIX%%11 " INTRODUCTION I am tempted* >%%LINK%%[[#^pu39zcla0nn|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^pu39zcla0nn >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:04:27.893Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:04:27.893Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":36818,"end":37218},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"I am tempted to say that explanation locates something in actual-I ity, showing its actual connections with other actual things, while understanding locates it in a network of possibility, showing the con-nections it would have to other nonactual things or processes. 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(Ex-planation increases understanding too, since the actual connections it exhibits are also possible.)== %%POSTFIX%%Recall how illuminating it* >%%LINK%%[[#^9i5ufw8ra89|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^9i5ufw8ra89 >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:05:33.664Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:05:33.664Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":37949,"end":38068},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"However much it may increase understanding, a hypothesis known to be false will not explain how something is possible.","prefix":"ncreased understanding gained. ","suffix":" (If we can find no other exp"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%ncreased understanding gained.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==However much it may increase understanding, a hypothesis known to be false will not explain how something is possible.== %%POSTFIX%%(If we can find no other exp* >%%LINK%%[[#^ggb3hss24h9|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^ggb3hss24h9 >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:11:21.651Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:11:21.651Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":40855,"end":41436},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way to behave toward someone; also, it does not fit the original motiva-tion for studying or entering philosophy. That motivation is puzzle-ment, curiosity, a desire to understand, not a desire to produce uni-formity of belief. Most people do not want to become thought-police. The philosophical goal of explanation rather than proof not only is morally better, it is more in accord with one's philosophical motiva-tion. ","prefix":"test.9 Explanation versus Proof ","suffix":"Also it changes how one proceed"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%test.9 Explanation versus Proof%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way to behave toward someone; also, it does not fit the original motiva-tion for studying or entering philosophy. That motivation is puzzle-ment, curiosity, a desire to understand, not a desire to produce uni-formity of belief. Most people do not want to become thought-police. The philosophical goal of explanation rather than proof not only is morally better, it is more in accord with one's philosophical motiva-tion.== %%POSTFIX%%Also it changes how one proceed* >%%LINK%%[[#^lh01nl9ib3f|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^lh01nl9ib3f >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:14:21.841Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:14:21.841Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":42929,"end":43429},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"A proof transmits conviction from its premisses down to its conclusion, so it must start with premisses (q) for which there already is convic-tion; otherwise, there will be nothing to transmit.10 An explanation, on the other hand, may introduce explanatory hypotheses (q) which are not already believed, from which to deduce p in explanatory fashion. Success in this explanatory deduction itself may lend sup-port and induce belief, previously absent, in the hypothesis.","prefix":" God's existence nonetheless. ","suffix":" The activity of explaining how "}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%God's existence nonetheless.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==A proof transmits conviction from its premisses down to its conclusion, so it must start with premisses (q) for which there already is convic-tion; otherwise, there will be nothing to transmit.10 An explanation, on the other hand, may introduce explanatory hypotheses (q) which are not already believed, from which to deduce p in explanatory fashion. Success in this explanatory deduction itself may lend sup-port and induce belief, previously absent, in the hypothesis.== %%POSTFIX%%The activity of explaining how* >%%LINK%%[[#^pro6h46kk8d|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^pro6h46kk8d >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:17:13.065Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:17:13.065Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":44953,"end":45318},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Consider the philosophical problem of skepticism; this has been pre-sented and pursued as the problem of refuting the skeptic, II of prov-ing to him that he does know what he doubts he knows, or of proving to him that you do know what he denies you know. 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My concern with skepticism is different, fitting within philosophy as an explanatory acti vi ty .== %%POSTFIX%%12 My purpose is not to refu* >%%LINK%%[[#^83t25rncs2x|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^83t25rncs2x >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:18:06.388Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:18:06.388Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":45321,"end":45995},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"My purpose is not to refute the skeptic, to prove he is wrong, to convince him, to marshal arguments and reasons which must con-vince him (if he is rational). 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If I attempt to convince the skeptic of something p, that is a task of the foreign relations deparbnent of my belief system. I have to find something q which the skeptic ac-cepts (it does not matter whether I also accept it) from which he will conclude that p.== %%POSTFIX%%In a discussion of skepticism,* >%%LINK%%[[#^heb6ac9wsfc|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^heb6ac9wsfc >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:19:14.261Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:19:14.261Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":47878,"end":48036},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"But the attempt to explain how knowledge is or can be possible, given what the skeptic says, is a task for my belief system's bureau of internal affairs. 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In this way,%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==I take very seriously what the skeptic says, for I acknowledge that what he says creates a problem for me and my beliefs.== %%POSTFIX%%In thus trying to explain to my* >%%LINK%%[[#^93u8mfx86k9|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^93u8mfx86k9 >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:25:48.459Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:25:48.459Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":52125,"end":52349},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"1 suggest the distinction lies here: the mental patient presents us with a problem of foreign relations, but what he says does not cause difficulties about how our beliefs fit together within our own belief system.","prefix":"luded person that he is wrong. ","suffix":" Therefore, it need not con-\\ "}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%luded person that he is wrong.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==1 suggest the distinction lies here: the mental patient presents us with a problem of foreign relations, but what he says does not cause difficulties about how our beliefs fit together within our own belief system.== %%POSTFIX%%Therefore, it need not con-\* >%%LINK%%[[#^29k2htv02vz|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^29k2htv02vz >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:27:43.342Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:27:43.342Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":53673,"end":54078},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Thus, what is philosophically interesting, what demarcates the philosophically important disagreements from the others, is the do-mestic problem presented for our own beliefs. 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Because this is what creates the philosophical interest, it is on this explanatory issue we shall concentrate, rather than on the philosophically pointless task of attempting to convince the other person.1== %%POSTFIX%%3 Philosophical Pluralism Can a* >%%LINK%%[[#^sku807erawc|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^sku807erawc >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:30:15.399Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:30:15.399Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":55991,"end":56300},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"It is clear that any goal put forth for philosophy will be philosophically controversial in that some philosophies will reject that goal in favor of another, while yet other philosophies which accept it will specify it differently. How, then, is it possible for philosophy to get started? ","prefix":"ions from which proofs begin.) ","suffix":"I do not see how to satisfy th"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%ions from which proofs begin.)%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==It is clear that any goal put forth for philosophy will be philosophically controversial in that some philosophies will reject that goal in favor of another, while yet other philosophies which accept it will specify it differently. How, then, is it possible for philosophy to get started?== %%POSTFIX%%I do not see how to satisfy th* >%%LINK%%[[#^y0ncqjf6da|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^y0ncqjf6da >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:31:33.471Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:31:33.471Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":54165,"end":54451},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Doesn't the desire for explanation rather than something else already presuppose philosophical views about what is intellectually desir-able? 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And, even given the goal of explanation, won't philosophies differ in their conception of an acceptable or adequate explanation,== %%POSTFIX%%in the conditions that they hold* >%%LINK%%[[#^egqyla4c4ur|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^egqyla4c4ur >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:32:21.752Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:32:21.752Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":56300,"end":56483},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"I do not see how to satisfy the desire to start philosophy in a neu-tral way, making no philosophical assumptions, remaining neutral among all possible philosophical views.","prefix":"or philosophy to get started? 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","suffix":" We can build modes of change in"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%or not-will this factor have?%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==If a neutral beginning is chimerical, the alternative of starting just where we are seems parochial and dogmatic, especially if there are some theoretical places we can~t get to from here.== %%POSTFIX%%We can build modes of change in* >%%LINK%%[[#^2ppe7d7rj4|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^2ppe7d7rj4 >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:34:52.384Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:34:52.384Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":57510,"end":57631},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"A metaphilosophy will be part of a total philo-sophical view rather than a separate neutral theory above the battle.","prefix":" in what gets reached when. 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","suffix":" Should we view the highest pro"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%eably wishy-washier than most.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Treating philosophy as a black box, we might view its "output" not as a single theory, not even as one set of theories, but as a set of questions, each with its own set of associated theories as possible answers.== %%POSTFIX%%Should we view the highest pro* >%%LINK%%[[#^q5oyp4c48ni|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^q5oyp4c48ni >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:52:05.059Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:52:05.059Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":61191,"end":61401},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Embedding the world in the network of alternative philosophical theories and visions, seeing how each of these different philosophical possibilities gets a grip on the world, does produce understanding. 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","suffix":"The major philosophical theori"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%n explaining and understanding.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Embedding the world in the network of alternative philosophical theories and visions, seeing how each of these different philosophical possibilities gets a grip on the world, does produce understanding.== %%POSTFIX%%The major philosophical theori* >%%LINK%%[[#^4cgw7t8yyeq|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^4cgw7t8yyeq >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:52:34.089Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:52:34.089Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":61572,"end":61676},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"We understand the world by seeing it in its matrix of possibilities, in its possibility neighborhood. 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","suffix":"Still, this book does not aim at"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%adings of the actual world.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==We understand the world by seeing it in its matrix of possibilities, in its possibility neighborhood.== %%POSTFIX%%Still, this book does not aim at* >%%LINK%%[[#^rb2y2ueeo8|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^rb2y2ueeo8 >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:55:24.408Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:55:24.408Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":61791,"end":61928},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"n any case, I would not think it a good strategy to aim at illuminating possibility; we are all too likely to fail in our aim","prefix":"y-at explanation, at truth. 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Aiming for the true expla* >%%LINK%%[[#^4hgfrao1pfy|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^4hgfrao1pfy >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-11T23:59:30.332Z","updated":"2023-03-11T23:59:30.332Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":62205,"end":62392},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":" Moreover, my desire is to explain how knowledge is possible, how free will is possible, how there can be ethical truths, how life can have meaning. 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","suffix":" The position is not relativism"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%aps will order the others.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Yet the first ranked view is not completely adequate all by itself; what it omits or distorts or puts out of focus cannot be added compatibly, but must be brought out and highlighted by another incompatible view, itself (even more) inade-quate alone.== %%POSTFIX%%The position is not relativism* >%%LINK%%[[#^jrst1psfyp|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^jrst1psfyp >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-12T00:03:59.960Z","updated":"2023-03-12T00:03:59.960Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":64579,"end":64734},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"I am not proposing a neutral way to do this, simply describing how things look from within the view I rank first (which includes a meta-component).","prefix":"hey rank the views that remain. 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","suffix":"23 \" INTRODUCTION highest ranked"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%ked first, or at least highly.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==On the view presented here, philosophical work aspires to produce a== %%POSTFIX%%23 " INTRODUCTION highest ranked* >%%LINK%%[[#^pta6cj7wgg|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^pta6cj7wgg >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-12T00:11:15.707Z","updated":"2023-03-12T00:11:15.707Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":69186,"end":69433},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"highest ranked view, at least an illumin.ating one, without attempting to knock all other theories out as inadmissible. (Even this general view of the basketful with rankings need aspire only to being first ranked in its basket.)","prefix":" to produce a 23 \" INTRODUCTION ","suffix":" This view of philosophy is in h"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%to produce a 23 " INTRODUCTION%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==highest ranked view, at least an illumin.ating one, without attempting to knock all other theories out as inadmissible. (Even this general view of the basketful with rankings need aspire only to being first ranked in its basket.)== %%POSTFIX%%This view of philosophy is in h* >%%LINK%%[[#^7gznx63s32h|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^7gznx63s32h >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-12T00:12:30.462Z","updated":"2023-03-12T00:12:30.462Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":70122,"end":70252},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"It is (hard) enough to offer an explanation which the reader will find illuminating. There is no need also to prove it is.","prefix":"odology around those occasions? ","suffix":" (Would one prove it by pr"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%odology around those occasions?%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==It is (hard) enough to offer an explanation which the reader will find illuminating. There is no need also to prove it is.== %%POSTFIX%%(Would one prove it by pr* >%%LINK%%[[#^ydekuc7spae|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^ydekuc7spae >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-12T00:14:17.532Z","updated":"2023-03-12T00:14:17.532Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":70773,"end":71264},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"the process of seeking and elaborating explanations, being open to new possibilities, the new wonderings and wanderings, the free exploration, is itself a delight. Can any pleasure compare to that of a new idea, a new question? There is sexual experience, of course, not dissimilar, with its own playfulness and possibilities, its focused freedom, its depth, its sharp pleasures and its gentle ones, its ecstacies. What is the mind's excite-ment and sensuality? What its orgasm?","prefix":"e worth surpassing; also, that ","suffix":" Whatever, it unfortunately w"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%e worth surpassing; also, that%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==the process of seeking and elaborating explanations, being open to new possibilities, the new wonderings and wanderings, the free exploration, is itself a delight. Can any pleasure compare to that of a new idea, a new question? There is sexual experience, of course, not dissimilar, with its own playfulness and possibilities, its focused freedom, its depth, its sharp pleasures and its gentle ones, its ecstacies. What is the mind's excite-ment and sensuality? What its orgasm?== %%POSTFIX%%Whatever, it unfortunately w* >%%LINK%%[[#^sg9iekjv6fc|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^sg9iekjv6fc >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-30T04:22:28.673Z","updated":"2023-03-30T04:22:28.673Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/1-pub/A/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/1-pub/A/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/1-pub/A/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":71928,"end":72111},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Since one of the self s distinctive properties, surely, is .its capacity for self-consciousness, you would think that if it knew anything, it would know its own nature.","prefix":"man as Brahman, and so on. ","suffix":" Yet the self is a problem and "}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%man as Brahman, and so on.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Since one of the self s distinctive properties, surely, is .its capacity for self-consciousness, you would think that if it knew anything, it would know its own nature.== %%POSTFIX%%Yet the self is a problem and* >%%LINK%%[[#^ckp37ryunfa|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^ckp37ryunfa >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-03-30T06:40:22.174Z","updated":"2023-03-30T06:40:22.174Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/1-pub/A/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/1-pub/A/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/1-pub/A/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":61191,"end":61400},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"Embedding the world in the network of alternative philosophical theories and visions, seeing how each of these different philosophical possibilities gets a grip on the world, does produce understanding. 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","suffix":" The major philosophical theor"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%n explaining and understanding.%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==Embedding the world in the network of alternative philosophical theories and visions, seeing how each of these different philosophical possibilities gets a grip on the world, does produce understanding.== %%POSTFIX%%The major philosophical theor* >%%LINK%%[[#^24py667vbfb|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^24py667vbfb >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-05-14T17:08:42.731Z","updated":"2023-05-14T17:08:42.731Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/1-pub/A/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/1-pub/A/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/1-pub/A/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":18922,"end":18997},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":" I think we cannot im-prove people that way-the means frustrate the end. ","prefix":"ay to behave toward someone?","suffix":"Just as depen-dence is not eli"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%ay to behave toward someone?%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==I think we cannot im-prove people that way-the means frustrate the end.== %%POSTFIX%%Just as depen-dence is not eli* >%%LINK%%[[#^29cjli1pz0i|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^29cjli1pz0i >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-05-14T17:08:50.442Z","updated":"2023-05-14T17:08:50.442Z","document":{"title":"Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},{"href":"vault:/1-pub/A/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"8f067cf6ff00624dbf45c6331161a538"},"uri":"vault:/1-pub/A/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/1-pub/A/Robert Nozick - Philosophical Explanations-Harvard University Press (1983).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":19234,"end":19312},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":" The valuable person cannot be fashioned by committing philosophy upon him.","prefix":"l, whether he wants to or not.2","suffix":" So don't look here for a kn"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%PREFIX%%l, whether he wants to or not.2%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==The valuable person cannot be fashioned by committing philosophy upon him.== %%POSTFIX%%So don't look here for a kn* >%%LINK%%[[#^1vi3fmac71p|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^1vi3fmac71p