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Aboutness in imagination. [PDF]

Philos Stud, 2018
I present a formal theory of the logic and aboutness of imagination. Aboutness is understood as the relation between meaningful items and what they concern, as per Yablo and Fine’s works on the notion.
Berto F.
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Correct Conceivability and its Role in the Epistemology of Modality [PDF]

, 2020
The starting point of this paper is an argument to the conclusion that the definition of metaphysical possibility in terms of correct conceivability, conceivability informed by knowledge of relevant essences, found in Rosen (2006) is equivalent to a ...
Michels, Robert
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A Priori or A Posteriori? [PDF]

, 2020
This article discusses the role of a priori and a posteriori knowledge and methods in metaphysics and metametaphysics. Issues discussed include the viability of the distinction, the continuity of a priori and a posteriori methods, connections to modal ...
Tahko, Tuomas E.
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Transcendental Arguments, Conceivability, and Global Vs. Local Skepticism [PDF]

, 2016
In this paper, I argue that, if transcendental arguments are to proceed from premises that are acceptable to the skeptic, the Transcendental Premise, according to which “X is a metaphysically necessary condition for the possibility of Y,” must be ...
Mizrahi, Moti
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Conceiving Time? Women who do or do not conceive [PDF]

Sociology of Health & Illness, 2007
AbstractThis article explores the importance of time for an understanding of women's experiences of reproductive identity. In order to do this we draw on data from two separate qualitative research projects. The first project is concerned with the experiences of conception, pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood in primagravidae, whilst the second ...
Earle, Sarah, Letherby, Gayle
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Conceivability and Possibility [PDF]

, 2018
Some people might be tempted by modal ontological arguments from the possibility that God exists to the conclusion that God in fact exists. They might also be tempted to support the claim that possibly God exists by appealing to the conceivability of God’
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How Does Colour Experience Represent the World? [PDF]

, 2020
Many favor representationalism about color experience. To a first approximation, this view holds that experiencing is like believing. In particular, like believing, experiencing is a matter of representing the world to be a certain way.
Pautz, Adam
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Anselm’s Metaphysics of Nonbeing [PDF]

, 2012
In his eleventh century dialogue De Casu Diaboli, Anselm seeks to avoid the problem of evil for theodicy and explain the fall of Satan as attributable to Satan’s own self-creating wrongful will.
Jacquette, Dale
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Metaphysical Rationalism [PDF]

, 2019
Material from this paper appears in Chap. 7 of my book Reason and Being, but there is also stuff here that isn't in the book. In particular, it discusses the claims that, for Spinoza, conceiving implies explaining and that existence is identical to or ...
Lin, Martin
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On Conceiving the Inconsistent [PDF]

, 2014
This work has been developed within the 2013–15 ahrc project The Metaphysical Basis of Logic: The Law of Non-Contradiction as Basic Knowledge (grant ref. ah/k001698/1).
Berto, Francesco
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