Philosophy 1130F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Martin Heidegger, Causal Structure
9 Apr 2020
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In general, statements can either be true or false. It is logically and mathematically true, derived from first principles. It is a statement about what is in the real world, a matter of empirical fact, and can be verified by observation. If false, this means either that it is logically contradictory, or the it is contradicted by the facts. A statement that cannot be verified by any empirical observation or logical reasoning, even in principle, is neither true nor false. Example: nothing nothings is neither true nor false. Whatever content it might have is emotional rather than cognitive. What einstein did was not merely to propose a theory with philosophical implications. He actually created his theories by applying philosophical analysis to concepts of physics. His theory of time is not a hypothesis about time, but a philosophical analysis of the concepts involved in our thinking about time and how we measure it.
