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Why is the thing-in-itself ideal in Schelling's philosophy
In System of Transcendental idealism P68
what the ideal activity becomes fixated as? So far as it is fixated at all, it ceases to be pure activity. It becomes in the same action
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Abhidharma dharmas compared with Kantian categories
I have been reading SEP articles in alphabetical order and came across a very interesting article on the school of Abhidharma.
According to the texts, it splits sentient experience into many ...
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Does direct realism rely on colour realism?
It seems to me that, to avoid the idea that the 'colouring' of the data one receives is in the mental representation of it, one would have to say that colours exist in the real world, so the data is ...
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Does hylomorphism have anything to do with the extremely broad use of "form" in scholasticism?
Introductions to the Aristotelian concept of form always begin with hylomorphism: everyday objects (like horses) are composed of matter and form. The form is the intelligibility of the thing (e.g., ...
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Contradictory unprovable statements in Tarski's "The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages"
In Tarski's "The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages", he glosses over the proof of a difficult lemma. I am looking for help writing a proof of it. In Tarski's notation, it is:
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How can Weber's approach be compatible with evolutionism?
Weber's epistemology is synthesized in one paragraph in Economy and Society (1921):
Sociology (in the sense in which this-highly ambiguous word is used here) is a science concerning itself with the ...
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How do Thomists understand the efficient and final causes in planetary motion under Newtonian physics?
Under the influence of Newtonian physics Thomists have come to perceive the force of inertia and the force of gravity as the efficient cause of the planetary motion confining the final cause to things ...
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Symmetrical patterns of supervenience?
Given all the dualities (c.f. the IEP entry on duality in language and logic) and symmetries and so on that feature in these meta/physical pictures that are prominent both historically and in the ...
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Did Descartes declare the "Non Cogito" first, prior to "cogito ergo sum"
I took A-Level Philosophy, during which we studied Descartes "Meditations" at length.
I remember our teacher explaining that, whilst "Cogito ergo sum" was the famous phrasing, ...
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Philosophy of Action 101
I am looking for a concise introductory work to the philosophy of action, to use as a background text from which to start for a work in the field of social sciences.
After extense review, I haven't ...
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Is Aquinas's "act is the principle of action" a tautology?
In Summa Contra Gentiles II.6.7, Aquinas suddenly claims that "act is the principle of action" (actus autem actionis principium est).
Is this phrase supposed to be a definition of act? Or a ...
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Problem of Induction in Methodology of History?
Has there been any work done in exploring how the problem of induction applies to the study of history?
It seems to me that many historical inferences might require a sort of uniformity of human/...
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Is emergent property basically a subsystem?
I've been thinking about the relationships between systems, subsystems, and emergent properties, and I would appreciate your insights on this concept.
My notion is that subsystems can be viewed not ...
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How much philosophy is about terminology and human conceptions?
I see a lot of sentences like "If a tree fell and nobody hears it did it really fall", or many questions related to infinity. But each of this questions can be true or false according to ...
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Kant acknowledges physical needs as well as moral law, but has he adequately explained why one should win out over the other?
Theorem II, Book 1, of the Critique of Practical Reason acknowledges finite beings, as part of physical nature, and that they have desires and needs, specifically a need to be happy. But the Critique ...
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