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ZHIQI LIU

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Zhiqi Liu (Jacky) — Entrepreneur, FRSA fellow, investor,writer.

16｜Logical Positivism: The Identification of Language with Fact

16｜Logical Positivism: The Identification of Language with Fact

8.8.3 Logical Positivism: The Identification of Language with Fact Following the wake of Empiricism, Philosophy did not retreat into the arms of Metaphysics; instead, it tightened its grip upon the trajectory of "Experience-Language-Logic." If Locke and Hume withered the ontological prestige of Language while

15｜Locke and Hume: The Captivity of Experience within Speech

15｜Locke and Hume: The Captivity of Experience within Speech

8.8.2 Locke and Hume: The Captivity of Experience within Speech John Locke’s foundational judgment was as resolute as it was clear: the mind brings no innate furniture with it into the world. All ideas, he contended, are the offspring of Experience. By "Experience," Locke did

14｜Mistaking the "Clearly Apprehended" for the "Real"

14｜Mistaking the "Clearly Apprehended" for the "Real"

8.8.1 Descartes: Mistaking the "Clearly Apprehended" for the "Real" In our preceding reflections upon Husserl’s Phenomenology, we noted a singular, unyielding premise: that the "I" remains, at last, a transcendental subject. This was no original invention of Husserl’s. At the

13｜How Wittgenstein Re-chartered the Philosophical Course

13｜How Wittgenstein Re-chartered the Philosophical Course

Chapter VIII. The Linguistic Turn: How Wittgenstein Re-chartered the Philosophical Course 8.1 Beyond Hegel: Has Reason Reached Its Tether's End? Following the completion of Hegel’s Science of Logic, Philosophy entered a state of peculiar suspension. This was not because our perennial riddles had been solved,

12｜The Universal Error: Systematic Coherence is Not the Unfolding of Truth

12｜The Universal Error: Systematic Coherence is Not the Unfolding of Truth

7.7.3 The Universal Error: Systematic Coherence is Not the Unfolding of Truth As we survey the long march from Aristotle through the Scholastics to Hegel, a singular, unbroken tradition of Reason comes into sharp relief. This tradition is no haphazard collection of thoughts; on the contrary, it is

11｜The Medieval Scholastics: The Syllogism in the Sanctuary

11｜The Medieval Scholastics: The Syllogism in the Sanctuary

7.7.2 The Medieval Scholastics: The Syllogism in the Sanctuary From the time of Aristotle, Logic had been cloaked in a status far exceeding that of a mere instrument. It was no longer regarded as a nimble technique of the mind, but as the very Architecture of Existence. As

10｜Aristotle: Logic as the Grammar of Being

10｜Aristotle: Logic as the Grammar of Being

7.7.1 Aristotle: Logic as the Grammar of Being Aristotle stands as the primary fountainhead of the entire Western rational tradition. This is no hyperbole: almost everything that has since been christened as "Science," "Philosophy," or "Reason" finds its warrant within his foundational