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Ontic Explanation Is either Ontic or Explanatory, but Not Both [PDF]

open access: yesErgo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2018
This paper advances three related arguments showing that the ontic conception of explanation (OC), which is often adverted to in the mechanistic literature, is inferentially and conceptually incapacitated, and in ways that square poorly with scientific practice.
Wright, Cory, van Eck, Dingmar
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Dendrogramic Representation of Data: CHSH Violation vs. Nonergodicity

open access: yesEntropy, 2021
This paper is devoted to the foundational problems of dendrogramic holographic theory (DH theory). We used the ontic–epistemic (implicate–explicate order) methodology.
Oded Shor   +2 more
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Exposure of the Siegfried Kracauer and Roger Scruton Theories in Essence of the Representation of the Film Media with Appraoch to the Theory of Imagination in the Philosophy of Religious Art [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات رسانه‌های نوین, 2019
Exposure of the Siegfried Kracauer and Roger Scruton Theories in Essence of the Representation of the Film with Appraoch to the Theory of Imagination in the Philosophy of Religious ArtExposure of the Siegfried Kracauer and Roger Scruton Theories in ...
Ahmadreza motamedi
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On the Ontic Origin of Art: Can Art Tell Us Anything about God?

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Heidegger’s ontological differentiation and Derrida’s deconstruction of metaphysics rearranged the key players of the onto-stage, essence, being, existence, and entity (the being), which had an impact on the contemporary understanding of ontology.
Antonia Čačić
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Explanation, representation and information

open access: yesZagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2023
The ontic conception of explanation is predicated on the proposition that “explanation is a relation between real objects in the world” and hence, according to this approach, scientific explanation cannot take place absent such a premise.
Panagiotis Karadimas
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The Wire Is Not the Territory: Understanding Representational Drift in Olfaction With Dynamical Systems Theory

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Representational drift is a phenomenon of increasing interest in the cognitive and neural sciences. While investigations are ongoing for other sensory cortices, recent research has demonstrated the pervasiveness in which it occurs in the piriform cortex for olfaction.
Ann‐Sophie Barwich   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ontic Injustice [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the American Philosophical Association, 2020
AbstractIn this article, I identify a distinctive form of injustice—ontic injustice—in which an individual is wronged by the very fact of being socially constructed as a member of a certain social kind. To be a member of a certain social kind is, at least in part, to be subject to certain social constraints and enablements, and these constraints and ...
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Dimensions of explanation

open access: yesZagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2023
Some argue that the term “explanation” in science is ambiguous, referring to at least three distinct concepts: a communicative concept, a representational concept, and an ontic concept.
Eric Hochstein
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Being an institutionalized elderly person: meaning of experiences based on Heidegger’s phenomenology [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2019
Objective: Analyze the meaning of being an elderly person living in a long-term institution. Method: Qualitative study based on Martin Heidegger’s thought. Twelve phenomenological interviews were conducted with people aged over 60 years living in a long-
Camila Calhau Andrade Reis   +5 more
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What Are Symmetries?

open access: yesErgo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2023
I advance a stipulational account of symmetry-to-reality inference, according to which symmetries are part of the content of theories. For a theory to have a certain symmetry is for the theory to stipulate that models related by the symmetry represent ...
David John Baker
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