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The ‘Galilean Style in Science’ and the Inconsistency of Linguistic Theorising [PDF]
Chomsky’s principle of epistemological tolerance says that in theoretical linguistics contradictions between the data and the hypotheses may be temporarily tolerated in order to protect the explanatory power of the theory.
A. Kertész +35 more
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Hawking Temperature in Taub-NUT (A)dS spaces via the Generalized Uncertainty Principle [PDF]
Using the extended forms of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle from string theory and the quantum gravity theory, we drived Hawking temperature of a Taub-Nut-(A)dS black hole.
A. Awad +38 more
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Kant’s Humanism: A Loophole in the Principle of Sufficient Reason [PDF]
I consider the principle of sufficient reason (henceforth, PSR) as it functions in both Leibniz and Kant. The issue separating these thinkers is a modal status of absolute contingency, which is exempt from PSR insofar as it is neither logically necessary,
Daniel Dal Monte
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A Guide to Ground in Kant's Lectures on Metaphysics [PDF]
While scholars have extensively discussed Kant’s treatment of the Principle of Sufficient Ground in the Antinomies chapter of the Critique of Pure Reason, and, more recently, his relation to German rationalist debates about it, relatively little
235Bonaccini +143 more
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Is It Rational to Assume that Infants Imitate Rationally? A Theoretical Analysis and Critique [PDF]
It has been suggested that preverbal infants evaluate the efficiency of others' actions (by applying a principle of rational action) and that they imitate others' actions rationally.
Adolph K.E. +74 more
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What are ‘universalizable interests’? [PDF]
Many of Habermas's critical commentators agree that Discourse Ethics fails as a theory of the validity of moral norms and only succeeds as a theory of the democratic legitimacy of socio‐political norms. The reason they give is that the moral principle (U)
Finlayson, James Gordon
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The principle of sufficient reason asserts that anything that happens does so for a reason: no definite state of affairs can come into being unless there is a sufficient reason why that particular thing should happen. This principle is usually attributed
Stapp, Henry P.
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Kant and the “awakening” from the rationalist principle of sufficient reason
The paper inspects Anderson’s central thesis that Kant’s dogmatic slumber was interrupted by Hume’s critique of metaphysics (rational theology) in his Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, namely, by his critique of the rationalist principle of ...
Victor Chorny
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Conflicts in the Metaphysical Foundations of Schopenhauer’s Ethics [PDF]
Schopenhauer encourages us towards sympathy and empathy for others by holding that compassion is the foundation and essence of ethics; but when we turn to his philosophical system, we encounter conflicts that negate his ethics and in practice, compassion
Masoud Asgari, Gholam Hossein Tavacoly
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Religion and Ethics in Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer’s theory of religion is mainly discussed in his ethics. Therefore, conventional studies often argue that Schopenhauer made an attempt to make a rational justification of religion through the process of recognising the reason for religion’s ...
Takao Ito
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