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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I develop an axiomatic system of mereology that accounts for the ways in which musical works can be said to have parts. I distinguish two fundamental modes of composition that musical works exhibit: successive composition, whereby sound events are concatenated in time, and simultaneous composition, whereby sound events occur at the same time ...
Alejandro G. Di Rienzo
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EikasíaIn order to investigate the meaning that the first pope of the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA) gave to the slogan «Augustinian spirit» that his pontificate embraced, this article suggests that such a spirit consists of overcoming the Manichaeism that ...
Alberto Hidalgo Tuñón
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Revisiting the Debate between Joseph Raz, Robert Alexy, and Eugenio Bulygin
Ratio Juris, EarlyView.Abstract Ratio Juris is making available the English translation of a debate between Joseph Raz, Robert Alexy, and Eugenio Bulygin that had been previously published by Marcial Pons in Spanish in 2007. The debates focus on Raz's distinctive view of conceptual analysis and his argument that it is central to theories about the nature of law.
Brian H. Bix
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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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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Fictionalism and mathematical explanations
Filosofia Unisinos, 2019 In this paper, I place Mary Leng’s version of mathematical instrumentalism within the context of the debate in mathematical realism/anti-realism as well as within the context of the platonism/nominalism debate.
Pamela Ann Jose Boongaling
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Contemporary Reflections on Substantial Kind Change in Avicenna
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary metaphysics, and especially neo‐Aristotelian metaphysics, tackles many of the same problems as Avicenna did. One of these problems is the possibility of substantial kind change. For instance, is it possible for an animal to change its species?
Tuomas E. Tahko
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Plato, 2017 The paper examines different approaches to key metaphysical and conceptual claims in Plato’s dialogues. It explores how different readers of Plato, beginning with Aristotle, make sense of the status of and the relations between some of the key Forms ...
Allan Silverman
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, 2015 In this essay, I argue that mathematics is a natural science---just like physics, chemistry, or biology---and that this can explain the alleged "unreasonable" effectiveness of mathematics in the physical sciences.
E. Landry +4 more
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Hunting Structural Demons in Digital Reticular Chemistry: Lessons From Metal‐Organic Frameworks
Israel Journal of Chemistry, Volume 66, Issue 4, July 2026.Digital reticular chemistry is haunted by “structural demons”, chemically invalid models lurking within massive experimental and hypothetical MOF databases. This mini‐review tracks where these anomalies enter the data pipeline, evaluate the modern computational arsenal used to detect them (from rule‐based algorithms to machine‐learning classifiers ...
Yongchul G. Chung, Myoung Soo Lah
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