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Defending Contingentism in Metaphysics [PDF]
, 2009 Metaphysics is supposed to tell us about the metaphysical nature of our world: under what conditions composition occurs; how objects persist through time; whether properties are universals or tropes.
Miller, Kristie
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Social movements and the synecdoche problem
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
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NIHILIZMAS LIETUVOJE, ARBA KAS BENDRA TARP A. ŠLIOGERIO IR E. SEVERINO
Problemos, 2008 Kaip nihilizmo problemos kėlimo bei nihilizmo ir Niekio problemos nealternatyvaus traktavimo pavyzdžius autorė analizuoja E. Severino ir A. Šliogerio filosofiją.
Rita Šerpytytė
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The Implications of Interactions for Science and Philosophy
, 2011 Reductionism has dominated science and philosophy for centuries. Complexity has recently shown that interactions---which reductionism neglects---are relevant for understanding phenomena.
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In several articles, McCall and Lowe have claimed that endurantism and perdurantism are “equivalent.” From this, they conclude that there is no fact of the matter as to whether we live in an endurantist world or in a perdurantist world. In this paper, I use the notion of Morita equivalence to show in which precise sense, McCall and Lowe's ...
Joshua Babic
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Nihilism, Origins, Types, and its Consequences in Terms of Nietzsche [PDF]
Metaphysics, 2015 “Nihilism” is one of the basic keywords in Nietzsche’s thinking, and because of its strong connection with his other teachings, it is considered to be a principle subject in his philosophizing.
Azadeh Emami, Ali Karbasizadeh
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Nietzsche, though he used various senses of ‘nihilism’, had two main conceptions: nihilism as the belief that life is meaningless (which I term ‘value-nihilism’), and nihilism as negation of life.
Yates, Dominic
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Token-Reflexivity and Repetition [PDF]
, 2018 The classical rule of Repetition says that if you take any sentence as a premise, and repeat it as a conclusion, you have a valid argument. It's a very basic rule of logic, and many other rules depend on the guarantee that repeating a sentence, or really,
Radulescu, Alexandru
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