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What precedents are there for the triple-ism of Roger Penrose?
In his The Road to Reality, Roger Penrose espouses three distinct realities - the physical, mental and mathematical.
The physical and mental are basically good old dualism, although he is an atheist ...
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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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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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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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What does Hegel mean by thought at the beginning of his Logic? Mere thinking or thought itself?
I presume that Logic in Hegel's system seeks an immanent and presupposition-free development of the basic categories of being and thought. Logic is therefore a theory of categories and a doctrine of ...
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How does Hegel's Ontology overcome issues in Spinoza's?
I'm trying to write a paper and I've tried to reconstruct an argument about this on my own with no luck so far. It's about Hegel's criticism of Spinoza.
As far as I understand, Hegel's main critique ...
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Duns Scotus : how can the " concept of being" be univocal without there being a nature common to God and to creatures?
Source : Paul Vincent Spade, Survey Of Medieval Philoosphy (https://pvspade.com/Logic/index.html)
Dunst Scotus is said to hold the thesis of univocity of being: i.e. the thesis according to which the ...
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Understanding 'existence' and 'being' in debates about ordinary objects
Quine has brought forward his definition of existence: 'To be is to be the value of a bound variable.' But has also taught us that the sciences ultimately determine what actually exists contrary to ...
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Talking about objects in mereological nihilism: correct but untrue?
Accodrding to T. Sider (p. 248–253)*, a distinction between truth and correctness is possible, such that for the mereological nihilist, statements about wholes can be untrue yet correct: ‘Correct ...
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Grounding vs. metaphysical explanation vs. ontological dependence vs. supervenience
Here are links to the four dedicated SEP entries regarding each topic:
Grounding
Metaphysical Explanation
Ontological Dependence
Supervenience
Determinables and Determnates
These are notoriously ...
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What is the ontology behind true randomness and an indefinite reality?
I was curious as to whether there are any philosophical issues discussed with this concept. Note that by an indefinite reality (and I may be using the wrong term), I mean the notion of reality having ...
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How is asymmetry of metaphor an important part of object-oriented ontology?
I am reading Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything. I'm finding it interesting and a lot of the ideas resonate, although I'm quite sure I don't completely understand it.
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How to correctly understand the positions of ontological nihilism?
Lately I have been investigating ontological nihilism. However, different sources give completely different definitions of this philosophical position, which I have divided into two main groups.
The ...
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What is the ontological status of Plato's Demiurge?
I've done some searching and have found that he (it?) is the anthropomorphization of the deliberate Intellect's intent (SEP: Plato's Timaeus). I understand that he is neither an idea nor an idea's ...
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To what extent is the notion of "common" of philosophical interest?
The 2021 theme for a french competitive philosophical exam is: "the common". I'm not sure the expression really makes sense in English. In French, it is the adjective "commun" ( ...
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