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The Unity of Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics: Book \u395 according to the Interpretation of the Ancient Commentators [PDF]
, 2018 This paper discusses the three ancient commentaries on Book E of Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics, that have been handed down to us. It aims to demonstrate the fundamental part played by their particular interpretation of Aristotle\u2019s doctrines in the ...
Salis, RITA MARIA GAVINA
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The roads to non-individuals (and how not to read their maps) [PDF]
, 2023 Ever since its beginnings, standard quantum mechanics has been associated with a metaphysical view according to which the theory deals with non-individual objects, i.e., objects deprived of individuality in some sense of the term. We shall examine the grounds of the claim according to which quantum mechanics is so closely connected with a metaphysics ...
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An Evolutionary Argument for a Self-Explanatory, Benevolent Metaphysics [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper, a metaphysics is proposed that includes everything that can be represented by a well-founded multiset. It is shown that this metaphysics, apart from being self-explanatory, is also benevolent.
Blondé, Ward
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Asian Studies, 2020 In past work on Chinese “cosmology”, I have resisted using the term “metaphysics” because of the history of this term in classical Greek philosophy.
Roger T. Ames
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The metaphysics of evolution [PDF]
Interface Focus, 2017 This paper briefly describes process metaphysics, and argues that it is better suited for describing life than the more standard thing, or substance, metaphysics. It then explores the implications of process metaphysics for conceptualizing evolution.
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Pеter Lnitskyi as an Apologist Metaphysics in “Age of Science”
Наукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2019 The article is about metaphysical studies of Peter Linitskyi’s (1839–1906), a professor of the Department of Logic and Metaphysics in the Kyiv Theological Academy. For many years P. Linitskyi taught students of the Academy all parts of metaphysics.
Viktor Kozlovskyi
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"Thereness": Implications of Heidegger's "presence" for Māori [PDF]
, 2015 For Māori, the philosophical consequences of colonization are a hugely important issue, due to both the subtlety and the omnipresence of Western metaphysics.
Mika, Carl Te Hira
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Metaphysics, 2020 According to the simple modal account of essence, an object has a property essentially just in case it has it in every world in which it exists. As many have observed, the simple modal account is implausible for a number of reasons.
Michael De
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An Ontological Study of the Ideas of Charles Darwin and Michel Foucault [PDF]
Metaphysics, 2018 The present article attempts to analyze and compare the views of Charles Darwin and Michel Foucault from an ontological point of view, claiming that there are serious ontological common grounds between the two. At first glance, such a comparison seems to
Fazel Asadi Amjad +2 more
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, 2011 Analyzing the position of two philosophers whose views are recognizably divergent, W. O. Quine and M. Dummett, we intend to support a striking point of agreement between them: the idea that our logical principles constitute our principles about what ...
Alves, Daniel Durante Pereira
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