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Critique of Rene Descartes’ Conceivability Argument
International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Science, 2023 This paper first explains the difference between conceivability and metaphysical possibility from the perspective of possible worlds. Then, it introduces Saul Kripke’s view on the metaphysical necessity of identity, contributing to a premise in Descartes’
Chenghao Li
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KOKIA YRA PROTINGŲ AUTOMATŲ EGZISTAVIMO GALIMYBĖ?
Problemos, 2002 Straipsnyje nagrinėjama, ar gali būti protingų automatų pačia radikaliausia prasme, t. y. ar tokios būtybės gali būti asmenys? Bandoma parodyti, kad tokia galimybė yra logiška, jei priimama ypatinga ontologinio monizmo ir epistemologiškai reikšmingo ...
Algis Davidavičius
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The Coceivability of a Disembodied Personal Life Beyond Death Based on David Lund’s Views [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2020 As science focuses exclusively on the physical, it seems to assume that the brain has a key role in the origin if not also the constitution of our consciousness; and thus the destruction of the brain, the nervous system, and the body makes it pointless ...
Zainab Amiri +2 more
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Margaret Cavendish on conceivability, possibility, and the case of colours
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2021 Throughout her philosophical writing, Margaret Cavendish is clear in stating that colours are real; they are not mere mind-dependent qualities that exist only in the mind of perceivers.
Peter West
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Conceivability Errors and the Role of Imagination in Symbolization
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Leibniz on Language and Cognition, 2021 n the years 1675-84, Leibniz sought to disprove Descartes’s account of clear and distinct perception by implementing a three-step argumentative strategy.
Lucia Oliveri
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Are pure mental states conceivable? [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2021 The article gives critical objections to the minimal dualism argument proposed by Bogdan Faul. It is demonstrated that the method of introspection used by B. Faul in his article in order to explain subject’s access to their own mental states undermines
D. N. Razeev
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Elucidating the Conceivability Argument
Veritas, 2021 It shall be examined how anti-physicalist arguments give rise to the tension between those aspects of our everyday life (with focus on phenomenality) and the thesis of physicalism.
J. T. De Menezes
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Van Inwagen's Modal Skepticism and The Scope of Modal knowledge [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2018 There is a famous idea in modal epistemology according to which conceivability of a proposition is a good guide for its possibility. Yablo (1993) persents a model for justification of modal beliefs, based on which Conceivability of a proposition is ...
Masoud Zia Ali Nasab Pour
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Mereology is not a Guide to (In)conceivability
Dialectica, 2022 A sophisticated version of the zombie argument due to David Chalmers runs roughly as follows: a zombie world is ideally primarily conceivable, and whatever is ideally primarily conceivable is primarily possible.
Mahmoud Morvarid
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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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