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Seeking insights on the origin of the term "Peripatetic Axiom"
I have been researching the origins of the "Peripatetic Axiom," which states that nothing is in the mind that was not first in the senses. While I understand that this principle was first ...
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What are an object's properties?
What can we consider an object's properties, for example, when can we consider an object's properties as 'changing'? For example, if I move an object from my desk to my table, has it changed? If I ...
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Truth/actuality as an operator
Frege claimed that "it is true that" adds nothing to the actual meaning of an assertion, and following him along this line are prosentential theories of truth. However, I wonder if this is ...
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According to Aquinas, what is the relationship between the substantial form of a bodily being and its act of existing, ie. its esse?
Consider, for example, an existing bodily being. Because it is bodily, we know that it is composed of prime matter and substantial form. Also, because the bodily being is existing (not just made up in ...
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Is it there any specific and well known continuous/analog alternative to Wheeler's discrete "It from Bit"?
Physicist John A Wheeler (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler) suggested the concept of "law without law" and "it from bit" which suggested that the universe did not have any laws ...
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What is the relation of mathematical propositions to natural language?
Treating natural language as a language game, what role does it play in our understanding of mathematics? Does natural language provide meaning to mathematics?
Does a proof of a conjecture, say ...
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What was Hilary Putnam's criticism of Carnap's Principle of Tolerance?
I do not understand how Hilary Putnam showed that Carnap's response to the self-defeating objection of the verification principle was circular and hence unviable. Can anybody help explain it to me?
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Is the study of IQ an example of greedy reductionism?
Is the study of IQ an example of greedy reductionism?
greedy reductionism occurs when "in their eagerness for a bargain, in
their zeal to explain too much too fast, scientists and philosophers
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Difference between Carnap and Quine's views
What are the main differences between Carnap and Quine's views regarding internal / external questions and realism? Quine called Carnap a Platoist, yet I don't understand why and what exactly the ...
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Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
I mean obviously there's some kinda link between the master's discourse and at least some forms of modernism. I'...
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Does Alvin Plantinga's book Knowledge and Christian Belief offer any substantial updates to Warranted Christian Belief?
The stated primary goal of Plantinga's Knowledge and Christian Belief (2015) was to condense the content of Warranted Christian Belief (2000) into a shorter and more accessible book.
My question is ...
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What role can guilt play in Bentham's utilitarianism?
If Bentham posited a sense of guilt as pain that most would feel when doing wrong by others, then surely Utilitarianism would be unnecessary due to Bentham's own work on the motivation of human beings....
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Per Kant's theory of radical evil/religion, is belief in individual saviors the result of a corrupt subconscious process?
Early enough on in the Religion, he does say:
Now there appeared at a certain time among these very people, when they were feeling in full measure all the ills of an hierarchical constitution, and ...
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What tends to be the opinion on Heidegger's analysis of Greek philosophy?
What tends to be the opinion on Heidegger's analysis of Greek philosophy? What do experts in the (classical) history of philosophy make of his statements about ancient Greek philosophy?
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If I know something, should I feel as though I have absolute certainty as to that thing?
I've been trying to wrap my head around the justified true belief analysis of knowledge along with the fallibly justified, true belief analysis of knowledge; and there is something that keeps ...
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