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Fictionalism and the problem of universals in the philosophy of mathematics [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2018 Many long-standing problems pertaining to contemporary philosophy of mathematics can be traced back to different approaches in determining the nature of mathematical entities which have been dominated by the debate between realists and ...
Đorđević Strahinja
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E. Durkheim’s concept of sacredness
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2022 E. Durkheim’s concept of sacredness as formulated in The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life aims at explaining why and how an aggregate of people becomes ‘a single whole’ and reproduces itself.
A. E. Kapishin
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Od Bacona do Hume’a – istota i odcienie empiryzmu w nowożytnej Anglii
Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2012 The aim of the article is to give a brief overview of English empiricism, particularly in modern philosophy. The paper will firstly examine the pre-enlightenment thought of F. Bacon, upon which it will discuss the empiricism of J. Locke, G.
Bolesław Andrzejewski
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Studia Gilsoniana, 2019 The author makes an attempt to show why (1) Darwin’s teaching in The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection and The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex cannot be “scientific” in a modern, classical, or any, sense and that ...
Peter A. Redpath
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Are musical works sound structures? [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2019 This paper is about the dilemma raised against musical ontology by Roger Scruton, in his The Aesthetics of Music: either musical ontology is about certain mind-independent “things” (sound structures) and so music is left out of the picture, or ...
Guerreiro Vitor
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The Metaphysics of Sparse Properties and Deep Resemblance Nominalism
ProblemosThis paper introduces Deep Resemblance Nominalism (DRN) as a novel approach within the framework of resemblance nominalism and compares it to other forms of nominalism, including Rodriguez-Pereyra’s Resemblance Nominalism (RN).
Sun Demirli
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Les idées de la nature humaine : l’anthropologie critique et pratique de Spinoza
Astérion, 2018 Although the idea of a specific nature seems to be incompatible with the rejection of universals in the second part of Spinoza’s Ethics, the notion of human nature is yet clearly used by this philosopher for both descriptive and normative purposes.
Sophie Laveran
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Obesity raises blood levels of PAI‐1, a protein linked to metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease in people with obesity. In female mice fed a high‐fat diet, partially lowering PAI‐1 led to smaller subcutaneous fat cells and lower liver cholesterol, without changing body weight or insulin sensitivity.
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Early Modern Aesthetics: Antony and Cleopatra and the Afterlife of Domination
Aisthesis, 2020 This essay argues that Antony and Cleopatra’s pitting of Egypt against Rome is a cipher of aesthetic resistance to modern rationality. The coordinates are Adornian. Antony’s and Cleopatra’s complex identities elude the disenchanting, nominalist machinery
Nigel Mapp
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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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