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Berkeley’s Arguments on Realism and Idealism [PDF]
, 2008 We analyse Berkeley's argument that realism cannot be defined, and show that his epistemological assumptions lead to the inevitable conclusion that solipsism is the only definable metaphysics.
Winter, Mr. Blake K.
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An Evolutionary Argument for a Self-Explanatory, Benevolent Metaphysics [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper, a metaphysics is proposed that includes everything that can be represented by a well-founded multiset. It is shown that this metaphysics, apart from being self-explanatory, is also benevolent.
Blondé, Ward
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Brazilian Journal of DevelopmentIn this paper I provide a meta-analysis of Berkeley’s argument of ‘esse est percipi.’ – to be is to be perceived. I also propose an alternative way Berkeley, could have solved the problem of solipsism without invoking God.
Vegitha Reddy +2 more
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Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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Solipsism or a Dream: the Question of Reality in Vera Pavlovna’s Ninth Dream by Victor Pelevin
FilologVictor Pelevin often explores the question of reality in his works, as he does in his 1991 short story Vera Pavlovna’s Ninth Dream. This story is frequently interpreted from the perspective of solipsism, a philosophical concept that explains the world ...
Galina-Marija N. Micic
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract After working at a university as a language teacher educator for 20 years, I returned to the P‐12 setting to coteach an inclusive high school Spanish class. The purpose of this return was to relearn to teach and to better understand current challenges in language education, student engagement, and inclusive instruction.
Beth Wassell
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Delayed Choice, Complementarity, Entanglement and Measurement
, 2017 It is well known that Wheeler proposed several delayed choice experiments in order to show the impossibility to speak of the way a quantum system behaves before being detected.
Zwirn, Hervé
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LEIBNIZ\u2019S MIRROR THESIS. SOLIPSISM, PRIVATE PERSPECTIVES AND CONCEPTUAL HOLISM [PDF]
, 2017 One of the symbolic images to which Leibniz constantly entrusted the synthesis of his philosophy regards the idea of considering one and the same city from various visual perspectives.
Nunziante, ANTONIO MARIA
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“That We May Love the As Yet Unknown God”: The Meaning of Analogy in Augustine’s De Trinitate
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Recent interest in the idea of analogy and the analogy of being, along with the apparent invocation of Augustine’s De Trinitate in the definition of Lateran IV, calls for a renewed investigation into the idea of analogy in the aforementioned text. Methodologically, “analogy” in De Trin. names a form of discourse which attempts to see the truth
Samuel J. Korb
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