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The Generation of Art as the Generation of Philosophy

2017
This chapter studies how early modern thinkers understood the connection between the generation of art and the generation of philosophical understanding. It argues that in this period, the generation of mental representations was understood through practices of artistic production, and that the notion of generation itself was central to philosophy. The
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Generality, generalization, and induction in Poincaré’s philosophy

2017
This article examines Henri Poincaré’s philosophical conceptions of generality in mathematics and physics, and more specifically his claim that induction in experimental physics does not consist in extending the domain of a predicate. It first considers Poincaré’s view that generalization is not a means to reach generality and that the issue of ...
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Generalization In The Philosophy Of Art

Philosophy, 1958
If we ask what are the problems which have to be dealt with when the subject of art is being discussed in a philosophical manner, we shall no doubt receive a variety of answers: but there will be in one respect a considerable measure of agreement, viz.
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Against generality: Meaning in genetics and philosophy

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 1996
Philosophers have always sought general theories.’ We have sought general theories of truth, knowledge, justice, and beauty, to mention just a few. In The Principles of Morals and Legislation, for example, Bentham says that ‘By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the ...
Robert C. Richardson, Wim J. van der Steen, Richard M. Burian   +2 more
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Relations in General Philosophy

1994
Earlier chapters have demonstrated the close link between analysis and relations in Russell’s mathematical philosophy. Yet, as usually happens in philosophy, developments in one area are not long in spilling over into others. Hence it comes as no surprise to find Russell applying the combination of analysis and relations to a much wider range of ...
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PHILOSOPHICAL SPECIALIZATION AND GENERAL PHILOSOPHY

Metaphilosophy, 1993
La philosophie specialisee (analytique ou post-analytique) est compatible avec la philosophie generale et contribue a son developpement.
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A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence [PDF]

Ratio Juris, 2006
Abstract.  “The Notebook Corner,” edited by Enrico Pattaro, makes its first appearance here as a new section of Ratio Juris. This new section can be described in a sense as an offshoot of the project for A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, a work still in progress composed of five theoretical volumes and six historical ones.
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General philosophy and methodology

2006
Introduction There was a rationalist side to Walras's philosophical and methodological thought and, in a certain sense and in certain limited respects, an idealist side, but he was also a realist and an empiricist. He had the latter attributes in the sense that he contended, first, that there is an objective reality independent of ideas about it ...
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The general philosophy of organic nomenclature

Journal of Chemical Education, 1961
A discussion of the underlying principles of nomenclature that are basic to all systems of organic nomenclature.
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Geometry and generality in Frege's philosophy of arithmetic

Synthese, 1995
This paper develops some respects in which the philosophy of mathematics can fruitfully be informed by mathematical practice, through examining Frege'sGrundlagen in its historical setting. The first sections of the paper are devoted to elaborating some aspects of nineteenth century mathematics which informed Frege's early work.
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