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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the origins of the words we use. In this paper, we will shed light on these origins, including the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the British Empire and, of course, a TV show.
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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İSMAİL FENNİ ERTUĞRUL'UN BAZI FELSEFİ GÖRÜŞLERİ
Felsefe Dünyası, 2009 Murtaza KORLAELÇİ, "İSMAİL FENNİ ERTUĞRUL'UN BAZI FELSEFİ GÖRÜŞLERİ"
Murtaza Korlaelçi
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Explanation in Metaphysics? [PDF]
Metaphysica, 2011 Arguments from explanation, i.e. arguments in which the explanatory value of a hypothesis or premise is appealed to, are common in science, and explanatory considerations are becoming more popular in metaphysics. The paper begins by arguing that explanatory arguments in science—even when these are metaphysical explanations— may fail to be explanatory ...
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Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper compares Hartmut Rosa's resonance theory of “the good life” and Daniel Haybron's psychic affirmation theory of “happiness,” which he differentiates, as a descriptive notion, from “well‐being” as an evaluative notion. Haybron suggests that a central determinant of happiness has to be the somewhat reliable occurrence of positive ...
Ole Höffken
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EPIFANIE METAFIZYCZNE R. INGARDENA I S. I. WITKIEWICZA [PDF]
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2007 Th e author in his article approaches and confronts metaphysical threads of conceptions authors mentioned above. It deals with some fundamental questions of aesthetics and widely comprehended philosophy: symbolization, metaphysical experience and ...
Marcin Polak
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Metaphysical stuctures and holism: Reply to Schaffer [PDF]
Filozofija i DruštvoThis paper deals with Schaffer’s distinction between metaphysical structures, as well as his appeal for the revival of neo-Aristotelian approaches that imply ordered structure, based on the criticism of Quine’s method that, in his view, implies ...
Bogdanović Miloš
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Dismissivism in metaphysics : debates about what there is and debates about what grounds what [PDF]
, 2013 In this thesis I focus on dismissivism in metaphysics. Some philosophers argue that at least some metaphysical disputes are not substantial, and as a consequence should be dismissed.
Porro, Laura Cecilia
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Separating Metaphysical Issues
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. PhilosophiaIn this paper, I introduce two important distinctions that, when taken seriously, help clarify the dialectic behind metaphysical debates and respond to the objection from incredulity.
Martin VACEK
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The Transformation of Metaphysics in Late Antiquity [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2009 The paper discusses the development of metaphysics understood as a philosophical discipline or science. I would like to propose that the last period of Greek philosophy, that going from about the 3rd to the 6th centuries A.D., made new and interesting ...
O'Meara, Dominic
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