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A plea for a modal realist epistemology [PDF]
, 2000 David Lewis’s genuine modal realism postulates the existence of concrete possible worlds that are spatio-temporally discontinuous with the concrete world we inhabit. How, then, can we have modal knowledge?
Bueno, O., Shalkowski, S.
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PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedded in metaphysical truths, and enacted in service of the future. Part 1 assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the “preambular approach to history”
Antoon De Baets
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O niektórych aspektach platońskiej filozofii matematyki
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2015 Modern philosophers of mathematics in their discussions tend to refer to mathematical Platonism. Usually they believe that they talk about philosophical thought of Plato himself and understanding of mathematics that was introduced by the ancient ...
Bogdan Dembiński
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Platonism as a Philosophical Method [PDF]
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2018 The concept of Platonism has shown variations throughout history, but generally it has been associated with those thinkers who have accepted, with different permutations, the so-called Theory of Ideas, a theory defended by those who have advocated for ...
Ignacio García Peña
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, 2019 This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores, inter alia, the strategy employed by Augustine in using Plato as a pseudo-prophet against later Platonists and explores ...
Emilsson, Eyjolfur +3 more
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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
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Biolinguistics and Platonism: Contradictory or Consilient?
Biolinguistics, 2013 It has been argued that language is a Platonic object, and therefore that a biolinguistic ontology is incoherent. In particular, the notion of language as a system of discrete infinity has been argued to be inconsistent with the assumption of a physical (
Jeffrey Watumull
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Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity [PDF]
, 2019 Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as a pagan competitor and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith.
Emilsson, Eyjolfur +3 more
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The Implications of Interactions for Science and Philosophy
, 2011 Reductionism has dominated science and philosophy for centuries. Complexity has recently shown that interactions---which reductionism neglects---are relevant for understanding phenomena.
A. Toffler +9 more
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Syntax without Abstract Objects [PDF]
, 2011 In line with the nominalistic denial of the existence of abstract objects, a basic theory of syntax for formal languages is developed and shown to satisfy certain fundamental ...
Kozian, Ralf
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