Aristotle's Platonic Response to the Problem of First Principles [PDF]
, 2020 how does one inquire into the truth of first principles? Where does one begin when deciding where to begin? Aristotle recognizes a series of difficulties when it comes to understanding the starting points of a scientific or philosophical system, and ...
Rodriguez, Evan
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Converging ontologies: On some similarities between the Sāṃkhyakārikā and Plotinus's Enneads
Metaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 264-279, April 2025.Abstract This article endeavors to conduct a comparative analysis between the philosophical systems of Plotinus and classical Sāṃkhya, two distinct philosophical traditions characterized by their substantial historical and cultural contexts. The primary aim of the study is to discern and evaluate the fundamental themes inherent in these philosophical ...
Federico Divino
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The Reception of Hesiod by the Early Presocratics [PDF]
, 2018 The early Presocratics’ major speculative and critical initiatives—in particular, Anaximander’s conceptions of the justice of the cosmos and of the apeiron as its archē and Xenophanes’s polemics against immorality and anthropomorphism in the depiction of
Miller, Mitchell
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Negative findings in electronic health records and biomedical ontologies: a realist approach [PDF]
, 2007 PURPOSE—A substantial fraction of the observations made by clinicians and entered into patient records are expressed by means of negation or by using terms which contain negative qualifiers (as in “absence of pulse” or “surgical procedure not performed”).
Ceusters, Werner +2 more
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Speaking Truth to Power: Understanding the Role of Political Theater in Russia
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 149-156, April 2026.
Katherine A. New
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Lügen die Dichter? Poetische und diskursive Er-Kenntnis
Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik, 2019 The article considers the question whether poets lie against the background of the possible difference between poetical and discursive knowledge. Starting from Plato’s thesis, namely that poets lie, the article refers to Rorty, who, in contrast to Plato ...
Rainer Grübel
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Univocity, Duality, and Ideal Genesis: Deleuze and Plato [PDF]
, 2017 In this essay, we consider the formal and ontological implications of one specific and intensely contested dialectical context from which Deleuze’s thinking about structural ideal genesis visibly arises. This is the formal/ontological dualism between the
Bova, John, Livingston, Paul M.
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On the Semantics and the Ontology of the Mass‐Count Distinction
Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2025.ABSTRACT The mass‐count distinction is a morpho‐syntactic distinction among nouns in English and many other languages. Tree, chair, person, group, and portion are count nouns, which come with the plural and accept numerals such as one and first; water, rice, furniture, silverware, and law enforcement are mass nouns, which lack the plural and do not ...
Friederike Moltmann
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From Parmenidean Identity to Beyond Classical Idealism and Epistemic Constructivism [PDF]
, 2016 Rockmore’s paper offers a nice discussion on how classical German idealism provides a plausible account of the Parmenidean insight that thought and being are identical and suggests that idealist epistemic constructivism is arguably the most promising ...
Kilakos, Dimitris
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Why the One Cannot Have Parts: Plotinus on Divine Simplicity, Ontological Independence, and Perfect Being Theology [PDF]
, 2017 I use Plotinus to present absolute divine simplicity as the consequence of principles about metaphysical and explanatory priority to which most theists are already committed.
Cohoe, Caleb M.
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