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Apparent Paradoxes Are Paradoxes and the Problem of Change Is an Apparent Paradox
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we argue that, under certain conditions, if something is, apparently, a paradox, then it is a paradox. We then apply this claim to a recent discussion on the so‐called “Problem of Change.” Throughout the history of Philosophy, many authors have viewed change as a paradoxical phenomenon. More recently, some have defended that the
Sergi Oms, Marta Campdelacreu
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MATHEMATICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NATURAL SPIRAL OF BEAUTY, HARMONY AND BALANCE
Journal of Industrial Design and Engineering Graphics, 2014 This paper aims to reveal one aspect of the natural implications of mathematics. Specifically, based on the logarithmic spiral and natural logarithm, based on the number e, extending the idea of the natural spiral.
STANCIU Virgil, PAVEL Cristina
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Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Objectives In recent decades, research has increasingly highlighted the devastating effects of childhood trauma and relational processes that violate human development. However, the unique dynamics of such early‐life deprivations in adults who practice meditation, a context where the complexity of such wounding (and healing) may become ...
Anna‐Maria Frastali, Adhip Rawal
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Certainties and the Bedrock of Moral Reasoning: Three Ways the Spade Turns
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we identify and explain three kinds of bedrock in moral thought. The term “bedrock,” as introduced by Wittgenstein in §217 of the Philosophical Investigations, stands for the end of a chain of reasoning. We affirm that some chains of moral reasoning do indeed end with certainty.
Konstantin Deininger, Herwig Grimm
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A Modest Conception of Moral Right & Wrong
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Taking inspiration from Hume, I advance a conception of the part of morality concerned with right and wrong, rooted in the actual moral rules established and followed within our society. Elsewhere, I have argued this approach provides a way of thinking about how we are genuinely “bound in a moral way” to keep our moral obligations that it is ...
Jorah Dannenberg
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From Moral Supervenience to Moral Contingentism (In One Easy Step!)
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT According to the Divide & Conquer (DC) strategy (Fogal and Risberg 2020) for explaining moral supervenience, the modal covariation between moral and natural properties can be partly explained by appeal to pure moral principles. Bhogal (2022) has recently argued that DC fails.
Alexios Stamatiadis‐Bréhier
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Proof that π is not a Transcendental number but Rational Using Niven's Method
Evangelista, Armando
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Transcendental entire functions mapping every algebraic number field into itself [PDF]
, 1968 A. J. van der Poorten
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On the Practical Necessity of the Categories
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Kant tells us that we cannot know whether all finite rational beings must share the same forms of sensibility. Can we know whether all finite rational beings must share the same forms of understanding? Recent discussion of this issue has focused on whether Kant thinks this can be decided from the theoretical point of view.
Anil Gomes, Andrew Stephenson
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