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What's metaphysical about metaphysical necessity? [PDF]
, 2009 I begin by contrasting three approaches one can take to the distinction between the essential and accidental properties: an ontological, a deflationary, and a mind-dependent approach. I then go on to apply that distinction to the necessary a posteriori, and defend the deflationist view.
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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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Tango for a dream: Narrative liminality and musical sensuality in Richard Linklater's Waking Life
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2015 Richard Linklater’s Waking Life (2001) combines unapologetically cerebral content with a sensuous audiovisual style; fragmentariness in the narrative with an all-encompassing breadth of ideas.
Danijela Kulezic-Wilson
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Metaphyseal chondrodysplasia [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1977 SummaryAny review of the metaphyseal chondrodysplasias is complicated by their variety and mainly unknown pathogenesis. The more familiar types display considerable clinical and radiological diversity: even more so the rarer disorders which still require complete definition, but differences in their mode of inheritance make diagnostic precision ...
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 In recent years philosophers have been interested in the methodology of metaphysics. Most of these developments are related to formal work in logic or physics, often against the backdrop of the Carnap-Quine debate on ontology. Drawing on Quine's later work, I argue that a psychological or cognitive perspective on metaphysical topics may be a valuable ...
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Metafizyczne doświadczenie niestałej Arche
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2018 METAPHYSICAL EXPERIENCE OF THE VARIABLE ARCHE Summary In my paper I sketch a conception of metaphysical experience as the experience of Arche – a ground of being and existence. I argue that Arche is unstable and fluid, but hidden beneath our everyday,
Piotr Sikora
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Quantum Meta-physics: Nonlocality and Limits of Determinism
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2023 This essay aims to show that the recent development of quantum theory may provide us with an answer to one of the most compelling metaphysical problems, namely the problem of determinism. First, I sketch the conceptual background and draw the distinction
Bartosz Wesół
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The Power and Limits of Reason: Al-Rāzī on the Possibility of General and Particular Metaphysical Knowledge [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2021 This article examines al-Rāzī’s views on the possibility of metaphysical knowledge. Firstly, after outlining his classification of the metaphysical knowable into essence and existence as well as undetailed (ijmālī) and detailed (taf~īlī), the article ...
Eşref Altaş
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The importance of lighting in the interpretations of Christian sacral architecture of the second half of the XX century [PDF]
Arhitektura i Urbanizam, 2020 The character of architectural space is dependent on the range of aspects that define it. Lighting presents a very significant component of architectural space.
Sovilj Danira
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Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.This study explores the origins of life by linking prebiotic chemistry, the emergence of information‐carrying molecules such as RNA and proteins, and philosophical questions about consciousness. The study emphasizes the role of molecular evolution in the Central Dogma and provides insights into the chemical origins of biology and the basis of life's ...
Harald Schwalbe +5 more
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