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Qeios, 2023 We plead for a fluid margin, or mixed/indeterminate buffer zone, between Physical and Non-Physical Causal Closures, and for a Neutrosophic Causal Closure Principle claiming that the chances of all physical effects are determined by their prior partially physical and partially non-physical causes.
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Ankylosing spondylitis and glaucoma in European population: A Mendelian randomization study
Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 BackgroundThe relationship between ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and glaucoma in the European population remains unclear. In the present study, we applied a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) method to investigate their causal relationship.MethodsMR ...
Shengjie Li +5 more
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A Critical Study: Physical Closure and the Argument for Naturalism [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2021 Great naturalist philosophers like David Armstrong, David Papineau, Jeagwon Kim, and others have argued that the best arguments for naturalism are based on Physical Causal Closure (in brief P.C). P.C that is a premise in these arguments implies that only
Nima Narimani
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, 2013 In biological systems, closure refers to a holistic feature such that their constitutive processes, operations and transformations (1) depend on each other for their production and maintenance and (2) collectively contribute to determine the conditions at which the whole organization can exist.
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Enactivism and the New Teleology: Reconciling the Warring Camps [PDF]
Avant, 2014 Enactivism has the potential to provide a sense of teleology in purpose-directed action, but without violating the principles of efficient causation.
Ralph D. Ellis
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St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023 This entry begins with a consideration of what a soul is and whether it is reasonable to believe in its existence. It then looks at what, if anything, the Bible teaches about the existence of the soul, and whether there are non-biblical reasons for ...
Stewart Goetz
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Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, 2023 From the lay epistemic theory we derive the concept of Need for Cognitive Closure, which contemplates the underlying cognitive and motivational elements of individuals in the construction and use of knowledge, as well as in decision making and ...
Manuel Tomás Passero +2 more
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Polkinghorne on Metaphysics of Divine Action: Presuppositions and Implications [PDF]
Religious Inquiries, 2020 This article is an effort to evaluate the epistemological and ontological presuppositions of John Polkinghorne's interpretation of the mechanism of God’s special action. Briefly, it can be said that in his view, God forms and models the world's processes
Mahdi Qiasvand, Hossein khatibi
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St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023 Historically and today, the movement of naturalism affirms the reality of the natural world, rejecting religious views of God, the soul, and values when these are understood to be supernatural or transcending the natural world.
Charles Taliaferro
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The Principle of the Causal Openness of the Physical
Organon F, 2019 The argument from causal closure for physicalism requires the principle that a physical event can only occur through being necessitated by antecedent physical events.
Daniel von Wachter
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