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Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
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Apparent Paradoxes Are Paradoxes and the Problem of Change Is an Apparent Paradox
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we argue that, under certain conditions, if something is, apparently, a paradox, then it is a paradox. We then apply this claim to a recent discussion on the so‐called “Problem of Change.” Throughout the history of Philosophy, many authors have viewed change as a paradoxical phenomenon. More recently, some have defended that the
Sergi Oms, Marta Campdelacreu
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Powers That Be: An Adventure in Metaphysics
Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper is an investigation into the increasingly popular trend amongst philosophers on the metaphysics of powers, exemplified by the statement: ‘To be real is to possess a power to affect (or to be affected by) other things’. First, I briefly trace the history of this idea (from the Eleatic dialectic of ancient times to present day quantum
David Rozema
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime +2 more
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David Hume filósofo e historiador
Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2004 Dentre todos os grandes filósofos, David Hume tem o raro mérito de acrescentar, à obra propriamente filosófica, um trabalho de historiador igualmente importante.
Sara Albieri
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Da Dissertação sobre as paixões, de David Hume
Princípios, 2012 Nota sobre a tarduçáo da "Dissertaçáo sobre as paixões", de David Hume.
Jaimir Conte
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Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2014 Nedensellik konusu, felsefe tarihinde çok önemli tartışmaları beraberinde getirmiştir. Bu makalede üç büyük filozof ve düşünür olan Hume, Kant ve Gazali’nin nedensellik hakkındaki düşünceleri mukayeseli olarak incelenmeye çalışılacaktır.
Mehmet DEMİRTAŞ
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Theoria, EarlyView.Abstract This paper argues for the significance of Kaplan's logic LD in two ways: first, by looking at how logic got along before we had LD, and second, by using it to bring out the similarity between David Hume's thesis that one cannot deduce claims about the future on the basis of premises only about the past, and the so‐called "essentiality" of the ...
Gillian Russell
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A experiência como limite do conhecimento humano na perspectiva de David Hume
Kalagatos, 2017 Experiência; Conhecimento; Conceito; Problema filosófico; David ...
Américo Grisotto
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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