Doing and Being: An interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta
Beere, Jonathan. Doing and Being: An interpretation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Theta. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN: 978-0- 19-920670-4, 384 p.
Simon Noriega-Olmos
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Comparative Study of Concept of First and Second Perfection in Aristotle and Avicenna [PDF]
The discussion of perfection is of different natures in the ideas of Aristotle and Avicenna. Both have divided perfection into first perfection and second perfection. What is the difference between the two? What are the meanings of each of these concepts
Hasan Abasi Hosain Abadi
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La communication scientifique directe vers un public élargi
This contribution aims to examine a social mediation allowed by the open access, which is imparting knowledge in Social Sciences and Humanities (thereafter SSH) through a broader public.
Ingrid Mayeur
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La voluntad como primer motor creado en Francisco Suárez
The will as first mover created in Francisco SuárezThe aim of this paper is to show that Francisco Suarez’s claim that the will is the prime mover of the human actions is grounded in his own metaphysical system. For that purpose, I argue that the will is
Mauricio Lecón Rosales
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Time, Truth, Actuality, and Causation: On the Impossibility of Divine Foreknowledge [PDF]
In this essay, my goal is, first, to describe the most important contemporary philosophical approaches to the nature of time, and then, secondly, to discuss the ways in which those different accounts bear upon the question of the possibility of divine ...
Tooley, Michael
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A less simplistic metaphysics: Peirce’s layered theory of meaning as a layered theory of being
This article builds on C. S. Peirce’s suggestive blueprint for an inclusive outlook that grants reality to his three categories. Moving away from the usual focus on (contentious) cosmological forces, I use a modal principle to partition various ...
Marc Champagne
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Sacramental theology has made its reflection regarding the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist and its formal reason from a metaphysics of substance.
Eugenia Colomer E.
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Actuality and happiness of the soul: An Islamic epistemological perspective
Securing the focus of the study on psychological facts carried out by psychology to pass the scientific test still leaves a problem of definition.
Nani Widiawati
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Probabilistic Knowledge as Objective Knowledge in Quantum Mechanics: Potential Powers Instead of Actual Properties [PDF]
In classical physics, probabilistic or statistical knowledge has been always related to ignorance or inaccurate subjective knowledge about an actual state of affairs.
de Ronde, Christian
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Arystotelesa charakterystyka zniszczalnych substancji (Aristotle’s Characteristic of the Sensible and Destructible Substances) [PDF]
The present article attempts to explain what Aristotle’s sensible and destructiblesubstance is from the viewpoint of their separability (to choriston) and individuality(to tode ti).
Maciej Smolak
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