One must presume that Schoener derived two more crases in the same way: 'dry' with 'hot' and 'cold' balanced, and 'moist' with 'hot' and 'cold' balanced. In his opinion the yield was then eight combined crases, plus four simple crases and the eucrasic state in which 'hot' and 'cold', and 'warm' and 'moist' were equally balanced. But it should be obvious that in the simple crasis 'hot' (where 'h...

DESPOT: Samoispovijest ne treba razumjeti kao ispovijest gospodina Nietzschea. Isto tako ako se općenito uzme svaka filozofija, onda to nije ispovijest Platona, ispovijest Aristotela, nego se kao samoispovijest, strogo uzevši, razumije sopstvo koje kroz čovjeka kao čovjeka progovara ili istinski čovjek sam. Na tragu delfijskog ukaza ili zapovijesti, “spoznaj samog sebe” ne znači: ti, Sokrate, l...

*** Lao-Tzu, paradoxical poet-philosopher of the mysterious Tao, father of the mysticalmeditative philosophical religion of Taoism. Plato, mathematically-minded theorizer of Forms, father of Academic philosophy and Western rationalism. What could these two foundational thinkers of East and West possibly have in common? Quite a lot, as it turns out. As we shall see, for both Plato 1 and Lao-Tzu,...

"Aristotle defines truth for classical philosophy: 'to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.' (Metaphysics 1011b) This seems simple, but it is important to see that it is not. The formula synthesizes three distinct and in no way obvious or unobjectionable assumptions, assumptions which prove decisive for the career of truth in philosophy. First, the priority of ...

progress with its repetitive nature depicting it as an uninterrupted spiral. The history of sneeze is however neither of these but rather represents a closed circle. In the Talmudic text, the Mishnah, 'sneeze' was described as a dialectic summation of a thesis and antithesis combining the bad with the good. Sneezing in this concept means a unity of the bad, fearful omen and the good 'salvation'...

After briefly addressing the origin of the word ontology, I will ask what formal ontology might be. I will first argue that formal ontology is not the same as formalized or general ontology. In order to understand the meaning of the epithet “formal,” I will then look for a suitable way of distinguishing form from matter. Formal ontology will be shown to be formal insofar as it does not refer to...