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Anselm’s Metaphysics of Nonbeing [PDF]
, 2012 In his eleventh century dialogue De Casu Diaboli, Anselm seeks to avoid the problem of evil for theodicy and explain the fall of Satan as attributable to Satan’s own self-creating wrongful will.
Jacquette, Dale
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract The term semantic primitives refers to a set of basic, atomic concepts from which all other (compound) concepts are constructed. It presupposes the principle of compositionality—the idea that complex items or expressions can be formed by combining simpler constituents.
Birger Hjørland
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Ion Petrovici între metafizică de consolare și gândire categorială
Studii de Istorie a Filosofiei Româneşti, 2022 In the following paper, Ion Petrovici’s concept of metaphysics is taken into consideration. Starting from the debates on metaphysics that were at their peak at the beginning of the last century, the present paper explores the possibility of a ...
Adrian Ciocioman
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Metaphysics, 2021 It has been widely argued that words are analogous to species such that words, like species, are natural kinds. In this paper, I consider the metaphysics of word-kinds.
J. T. M. Miller
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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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ChemBioChem, EarlyView.At the intersection of chemical biology, plant imaging, and contemporary art, this review introduces the concept of chembioart. By tracing how chemical reporters illuminate plant biomolecules in vivo, their role not only in advancing scientific understanding but also in inspiring transdisciplinary collaborations and visual expression is highlighted ...
Marie Hinnebo +4 more
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Badiou and Agamben Beyond the Happiness Industry and its Critics
Open PhilosophyModern continental thought is skeptical toward happiness and no longer easily reconciles its pursuit with a desire for justice, the good, and truth. Critical theory has unmasked happiness as a commodity within an industry, an ideological tool for control,
de Boer Ype
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The Metaphysics of Alvin Plantinga [PDF]
, 2009 This is an article on the metaphysics of Alvin Plantinga. It is from the Blackwell Companion to Metaphysics (2009)
Davidson, Matthew
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Universe creation on a computer [PDF]
, 2004 The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of the epistemology and metaphysics of universe creation on a ...
McCabe, Gordon
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The Interface Between Metaphysics and Science
ABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBOThe interface between metaphysics and science refers to the close-knit relationship between Metaphysics as First Philosophy and science. The first conception of metaphysics by Aristotle makes its appearance after Physics.
Ademola Lukman Lawal
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