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Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2009 Models of nomination politics in the USA often find ‘gridlock’ in equilibrium because of the supermajority requirement in the Senate for the confirmation of presidential nominees. A blocking coalition often prefers to defeat any nominee. Yet empirically nominations are successful.
Console-Battilana, S., Shepsle, Kenneth
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The Compatibility of Evolution and Thomistic Metaphysics: A Reply to Dennis F. Polis [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2021 In this article the author discusses Dennis F. Polis’ defense of the compatibility of biological evolution and Thomistic metaphysics. Some of Polis’ methodological and metaphysical arguments are examined and it is explained why they are unfaithful to the
Robert A. Delfino
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The Universal Nature of a Spinozistic Substance
Journal of Spinoza Studies, 2023 There is a longstanding alliance between rationalism and realism concerning universals. Spinoza does not disrupt that alliance. The nature of a Spinozistic substance, after all, is a universal. That is what I argue here.
Michael A. Istvan
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L’argomento dell’uno sui molti. Il dilemma dello struzzo
Rivista di Estetica, 2014 The purpose of this paper is to defend the so-called Ostrich Nominalism against the influential criticism that has been put forward by David M. Armstrong.
Francesco F. Calemi
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Syntax without Abstract Objects [PDF]
, 2011 In line with the nominalistic denial of the existence of abstract objects, a basic theory of syntax for formal languages is developed and shown to satisfy certain fundamental ...
Kozian, Ralf
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Theory of Computing Systems, 2013 The author develops an algebraic theory for languages of data words, i.e. words over an alphabet \(\Sigma\times \mathbb{D}\) where \(\Sigma\) is a finite set of labels and \(\mathbb{D}\) is an infinite set of data values. Some of the key notions of the paper are defined relative to a given data symmetry \((\mathbb{D},G)\) in which \(G\) is a subgroup ...
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Theoretical Computer Science, 2003 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Christian Urban +2 more
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La doble vía del origen del nominalismo en la Edad Media desde la visión de José Luis Romero
Síntesis. Revista de Filosofía, 2023 The division of causes in Aquinas’ De principiis naturae 5 establishes how the four classical Aristotelian causes may be divided. The text presents several difficulties, the most important of which are the number of divisions and the not-necessary ...
Ceferino Muñoz Medina
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Abstract Objects in a Metaphysical Perspective [PDF]
, 2018 The article presents an unconventional although not absolutely unprecedented view on abstract objects defending the position of metaphysical realism. It is argued that abstract objects taken in purely ontological sense are the forms of objects. The forms
Kulieshov, Aleksandr
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