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Boyle’s Reductive Occasionalism [PDF]
Was Robert Boyle an occasionalist? And if so, what kind of occasionalist was he? These questions have long troubled commentators, as Boyle’s texts often seem to offer both endorsements of occasionalism and affirmations of bodies’ causal powers.
Daniel Layman
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AbstractThe top‐down nature of Descartes's view commits him to occasionalism, at least where body–body causation is concerned. This chapter rounds out the argument for this reading, appealing chiefly to the laws of nature: given their status as divine commands, Cartesian laws must be implemented at every moment by God himself.
Walter Ott
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Bir İlahi Nedensellik Teorisi Olarak Konkürentizm
Bu makale ilahi nedensellik tartışmaları içinde evrendeki bir sonuç üzerinde hem Tanrı’nın hem de yaratılmış varlıkların birlikte etkide bulunduğunu iddia eden konkürentizm hakkındadır.
Emine Gören Bayam
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Deviant expansion of neoanthroponyms in the speech of social media users
The article analyzes modern ways of creating occasional anthroponyms in political media discourse as linguistic triggers of the slang level, aimed at modeling a certain type of perception of reality by the recipient, laid down and provided by the creator-
Kateryna Diukar
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The editors of The Oncologist offer suggestions for summer reading of books that provide insight into our field of endeavor, our civil discourse, and our personal lives.
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The paper aims at presenting the research potential of the transformational paradigm of the phraseological unit as a set of all detected speech realisations of its updated invariant, formed not by the principle of “predicting” the possible ...
Alla M. Arkhangelskaya
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Formation of Neologisms with English Component ‘Lockdown’ in Modern german
During the pandemic, the German language lexicon was replenished with socially significant keywords, including anglicism ‘Lockdown’. The study of new formations on the basis of socially significant generating bases is important for studying the dynamics ...
I. B. Akkuratova, M. I. Doynikova
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Mary Astell on Neighborly Love
In discussing the obligation to love everyone, Mary Astell (1666–1731) recognizes and responds to what I call the theocentric challenge: if humans are required to love God entirely, then they cannot fulfill the second requirement to love their neighbor ...
Timothy Yenter
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Al-Ghazali And Hume On Natural Causal Necessity And Miracles A Comparative Analysis
This paper argues that Al-Ghazali and Hume arrived at similar conclusion rejecting natural causality as a logical necessity; however, they provide very different premises for this conclusion.
Syed Jawad Ali Shah , Shuja Ahmad
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Living and Nonliving Occasionalism
Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology has employed a variant of occasionalist causation since 2002, with sensual objects acting as the mediators of causation between real objects.
Weir Simon
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