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The Logic of Contingent Actuality
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of PhilosophyCurrent orthodoxy in modal logic and metaphysics has it that actuality is non-contingent in the following sense: for all p, if actually, p, then necessarily, actually, p. Call this thesis (Actuality) Necessitism and its negation (Actuality) Contingentism.
Martin Glazier, Stephan Krämer
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Actuality and fake tense in conditionals
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 Sabine Iatridou (2000) and Katrin Schulz (2014) defend accounts of the past tense in subjunctive conditionals according to which the past tense has a modal reading that excludes the world of utterance or some set of epistemically possible worlds. I argue
John Mackay
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Possibility Precedes Actuality
Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy, 2022 This paper is inspired by and develops on E. J. Lowe’s work, who writes in his book The Possibility of Metaphysics that ‘metaphysical possibility is an inescapable determinant of actuality’ (1998: 9).
Tuomas E. Tahko
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Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE, 2021 Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease (iPD) is a common motor neurodegenerative disorder. It affects more frequently the elderly population, causing a significant emotional burden both for the patient and caregivers, due to the disease-related onset of motor ...
Annalisa Vitale +5 more
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Causality and aspect in ability, actuality, and implicativity
, 2021 Past-tense ability ascriptions (e.g., "was able") alternate between pure, potentially unrealized ability and an interpretation which actualizes the ability.
Prerna Nadathur
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Are Potency and Actuality Compatible in Aristotle? [PDF]
, 2018 The belief that Aristotle opposes potency (dunamis) to actuality (energeia or entelecheia) has gone untested. This essay defines and distinguishes forms of the Opposition Hypothesis—the Actualization, Privation, and Modal—examining the texts and ...
Sentesy, Mark
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Towards a new theory of practice for community health psychology [PDF]
, 2013 The article sets out the value of theorizing collective action from a social science perspective that engages with the messy actuality of practice. It argues that community health psychology relies on an abstract version of Paulo Freire’s earlier writing,
Brown S +16 more
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Virtuality, aesthetics and technics: from the mask gas to the invention of a new sensibility
Trilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad, 2014 sometimes, a technical research leads to a mathematical model that virtualizes the studied phenomenon. Soon thereafter, we can see that the phenomenon in question is only an update among many others, often from very different domains.
Juan Gonzalo Moreno Velásquez
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, 2010 Timothy Williamson (1992, 224–5) and Ernest Sosa (1996) have ar- gued that knowledge requires one to be safe from error. Something is said to be safe from happening iff it does not happen at “close” worlds.
Frank J. J. Leusen (1939729) +3 more
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Воєнне кіно в об’єктиві Дельозіанської часової тріади: Війна як пам'ять, подія та образ [PDF]
International Journal of Slavic Studies, 2020 War cinema occupies a special place in the structure of cinematography. Its specificity lies in the subject matter itself, which is the basis of the plot, idea, expression, namely war. Modern cinema with its advanced technical means with the ability to
Катерина Сергіївна Гончаренко
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