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Personhood: An emergent view from Africa and the West

Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
Abstract African understandings of personhood are complex, with different accounts emphasizing distinct aspects of what it means to be a person. Some accounts stress excellence of character and performing well in social roles and relationships, while others focus on innate moral qualities of individuals independent of their conduct and character.
Nancy S. Jecker, Caesar A. Atuire
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Conceptual Modeling Metaphysics: Existence Containers, Leibniz's Monads and Avicenna's Essence [PDF]

arXiv
Requirement specifications in software engineering involve developing a conceptual model of a target domain. The model is based on ontological exploration of things in reality. Many things in such a process closely tie to problems in metaphysics, the field of inquiry of what reality fundamentally is.
arxiv  

The Open World: Three Lectures on the Metaphysical Implications of Science [PDF]

, 1932
T. G.
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Social disharmony, inauthenticity and patriarchy: an Ubuntu perspective on the practice of female genital mutilation

Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
Abstract Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a universal issue which affects girls in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America, and immigrant communities in Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. FGM is a cultural practice in approximately 29 countries in Africa, affecting over 140 million girls.
Tauseef Ahmad Ally, Lizeka Amanda Tandwa
wiley   +1 more source

Lozomieh in Ibn Sina’s Logic and its Relation to Various Kinds of Conditionals in Modern Logic with Analysis and Critique of Some Views

Metaphysics, 2011
According to Ibn Sina's logic, Lozomieh is the only conditional that is suitable to be named real conditional. Also Lozomieh is among the foundations of Ibn Sina’s logic that the rules Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens would be applied only to it ...
M Hajihosseini
doaj  

Against methodological continuity and metaphysical knowledge. [PDF]

Eur J Philos Sci, 2023
Allzén S.
europepmc   +1 more source

IV.—-GREEN'S METAPHYSICS OF KNOWLEDGE [PDF]

, 1884
ARTHUR JAMES BALPOUR
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Adults aged 65 years and older in South Africa have a responsibility to vaccinate against influenza

Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we draw on the thinking about incompleteness and conviviality grounded in Afro‐communitarianism ethics from the Global South to argue that adults aged 65 years and above have a prima facie responsibility to vaccinate against influenza.
Ruach Sarangarajan, Cornelius Ewuoso
wiley   +1 more source

Necessary Conclusions in Moods with only One Necessary Premise A problem in Aristotelian modal syllogism

Metaphysics, 2010
There are many criticisms about Aristotelian modal syllogism. Some logicians tried to provide adequate formulation of his total system but they were not successful.
F. Nabati
doaj  

PHYSIOLOGY VERSUS METAPHYSICS IN RELATION TO MIND. [PDF]

, 1884
WalterHayle Walshe
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