En Eski Peter Kreeft Gönderileri
En Eski Peter Kreeft kitaplarını, en eski Peter Kreeft sözleri ve alıntılarını, en eski Peter Kreeft yazarlarını, en eski Peter Kreeft yorumları ve incelemelerini 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.When a thing is known, it acquires a second existence, a mental existence; the thing becomes a thought. If familiarity did not dull us, we would find this utterly remarkable, unparalleled in all the Lmiverse. No galaxy, no physical energy, no cell, no animal can do this; only a mind can give a thing a second life.
Every language speaks of the human mind, or intellect, as doing something more than the (animal) senses do: as going “deeper” or “below the surface” or “penetrating” what is sensed, like an X-ray; as going beyond appearances to reality, beyond seeing to understanding.
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a new species of human has appeared: one that does not know the difference between a human mind and a computer, between “natural intelligence” and “artificial intelligence.” Some of these people even teach philosophy!
For centuries there have also been some people —many of them philosophers —who say they do not know what the difference is between a human being and an ape. Afterall, apes seem to reason quite well sometimes. If you put an ape in a pit with a dozen wooden crates, he might figure out how to get out by piling up the crates against a wall in the form of a stairway, whereas some humans would not figure that out.
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An amoeba is closer to understanding than a computer, for it has some rudimentary sensation of feeling (e.g. it detects food).
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Concepts are amazing things. They can do what no material thing in the uni- verse can do. They can transcend space and time. No body can be in two places at the same time, but a concept can. Suppose someone asks you whether you think San Francisco or Boston is the more beautiful city. You understand the question, and you answer it. Your mind compared (and therefore was present to) two cities 3000 miles apart —at once! Your concepts did what your body cannot do.
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bir noktayı cihan yap o noktaya hakim ol
Though your body is unimaginably tiny compared with the universe, your concept of the universe is greater than the universe! For if you understood the word “universe,” your thought ‘surrounded’ the universe —the same universe that surrounds your body. You did that by having a concept of the universe.
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Concepts have at least five characteristics that material things do not have. They are spiritual (or immaterial), abstract, universal, necessary, and unchanging.
1. Concepts are spiritual (immaterial, non-material).
2. Concepts are abstract.
3. Concepts are universal.
4. Relations between concepts are necessary.
5. Concepts are unchanging.
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