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Ergo, 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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Synthese, 2021 A respectable assessment of priority-based ontic structuralism demands an elucidation of its metaphysical backbone. Here we focus on two theses that stand in need of clarification: (1) the Fundamentality Thesis states that structures are fundamental, and (2) the Priority Thesis states that these structures are prior to putative fundamental objects, if ...
Silvia Bianchi, Joaquim Giannotti
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THE WORLD-RELATEDNESS OF AFFECTIVITY: HEIDEGGER AND RICHIR
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2021 My investigation reveals that Heidegger’s account of affectivity – though his programmatical determination included an ontical dimension or otherwise lived, personal experiences – is overshadowed by a dense ontology that cannot enable real phenomenal ...
Dominic Nnaemeka EKWEARIRI
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Journal 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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4.3. Vaghezza ontologica senza scetticismo
Rivista di Estetica, 2012 Ontic vagueness is defended by appealing to a realist and objectivist perspective. First, ontic vagueness is distinguished from epistemic vagueness and semantic vagueness.
Elisa Paganini
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The Hole Argument, Manifold Substantivalism, and Ontic Structural Realism [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021 The hole argument has become one of the main issues in the philosophy of space-time after the article by Earman and Norton (1987), according to which a certain version of substantivalism (manifold substantivalism) cannot be defended because it brings ...
Saeed Masoumi
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Occupational therapy’s oversight: How science veiled our humanity
Scandinavian Journal of Occupational TherapyBackground Occupational therapy’s connection to positivist science predates the profession’s formal beginning, with important contributing knowledge sources coming from mathematics, physics, psychology, and systems theory.
Heleen Reid +2 more
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Compositions of Being: Metaphysical and Non-Metaphysical Ways of Understanding and Discerning Them [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2017 This article discusses different ways of understanding compositions of being, and different methods for discerning them. It considers non-metaphysical (physical, scientistic, phenomenological, abstractionist) interpretations in order to decide whether ...
Andrzej Maryniarczyk
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Foundations and applications of the orbital theory in chemistry: A philosophical perspective
Eclética QuímicaThe concept of atomic and molecular orbitals has been a fundamental pillar in modern chemistry, shedding light on the structures and reactivity of chemical compounds.
Ricardo Vivas-Reyes +2 more
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Entropy, 2019 Information and probability are common words used in scientific investigations. However, information and probability both involve epistemic (subjective) and ontic (objective) interpretations under the same terms, which causes controversy within the ...
Toshiyuki Nakajima
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