Metaphysics, Nature of
Modern Natural Sciences Could Inspire from Classical Chinese Metaphysics to Better Understand the Nature of Being
... the nature and laws of antithetic streams of the anti-mass to its “boson´s” substrate or to the most fundamental entity of the pure Energy! Yes, empirically we can discover that the streams of atoms in the ...
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Time, fixity, and the metaphysics of the future
... What, then, of our intuitions? Craig acknowledges that his definitions of hard and soft facts are such that hardness and softness ‘are not dispositional properties of facts, but simply characterize things de facto' ...
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The Metaphysics of Super-Substantivalism
... It is exactly this idea that has driven many philosophers of physics since the completion of the General Theory of Relativity (GR for short) in 1915. The question was not so much whether we find substantivalism or ...
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Metaphysics for the Marriage Debate
... Reasoning along these lines has produced dozens of hypotheses about differences between men and women, and the problem for feminism is that many of these differing characteristics are instantly recognizable in women as ...
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Metaphysics and religious experience
... reality? It is the contention of many that this is so, notably of W.T. Stace in Mysticism and Philosophy and Aldous Huxley in The Doors of Perception. But there are also those who have argued the other way, one of the ...
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Towards understanding the dynamics of transformation in spiritual psychology with particular reference to Buddhist teachings
... true nature of things arises. Caputo saw that ‘metaphysics without metaphysics’ based on ‘undecidability’ anchors the person ‘in the midst’ of their own life and ...
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African Metaphysics
... composite nature of body- idem and a dual soul–ukpong; one soul, unites with the physical body while the other, resides in plants and animals known as, ukpongikot “bush soul” (Talbot, 1962; Ekong, ...
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Metaphysics of Terrorism
... the Metaphysics of ...the nature of man based on existentialist perspective because according to Grene (1957, 1995) “it is the nature of man to ask the all important question, what it is to be? This ...
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Modality and Anti-Metaphysics
... The relevant ‘liberalization’ of empiricism involves the inclusion of a broad notion of indirect observability, including argument to the best explanation, but (presumably) a denial of the existence of a priori ...
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On the studies of space : in physics and metaphysics
... of metaphysics and another is from the perspective of physics, as the study of ...the nature of space is not a set of relations among ...the nature of space, what space is and what space is ...
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The Physics and Metaphysics of Time
... time by cutting away pieces of it, and/or applying deformations that introduce curvature. In small pieces of general relativistic space-time, however, the relations between events remain like those in Minkowski ...
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Plotinus on metaphysics and morality
... Plotinus’ choice of words is partly responsible for the paradoxes. His heavy reliance on images and metaphors imparts a degree of conceptual fuzziness to terms that philosophers such as Aristotle had taken care to define ...
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Precis of a metaphysics for freedom.
... A Metaphysics is therefore devoted to the attempt to see whether there might be any mileage in the concept of top-down causation, understood as the capacity for a whole to affect its parts in such a way that those ...
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METAPHYSICS OF ISLAM (AN OVERVIEW)
... Prophets are the bearers of revelations. They convey the message of Allah to mankind. The holy prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is chief of all prophets and seal of prophecy. Angel Gabriel revealed Holy Qur‟an on Prophet ...
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Tragedy, morality and metaphysics
... Lecture II, pp. 40-2: the fact that reason necessitates our referring ourselves to an ever-higher goal generates a demand for the infinite, in the light of which our finite, dependent, mortal existence seems transitory ...
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Responsibility and the metaphysics of justice
... willingness to follow ‘the line of most resistance’. In this chapter, I adopt a similar approach, in an area that is daunting even to the uninhibited. I organise my thoughts around two linked discussions. First I look ...
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Metaphysics, intuitions and physics
... But before we move to that defence, a concern. Dorr (2010), in reviewing Ladyman and Ross, says: ‘saying ‘Intuitively, P’ is no more than a device for committing oneself to P while signalling that one is not going to ...
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Fictional metaphysics of fiction: Metaphysics and imagination in the humanities
... A word, in the first instance, designates something entirely sensuous (nur etwas ganz sinnliches bedeutet). This sensuous designation (meaning) is then carried over (übertragen) into a spiritual sphere (Geistiges). Hegel ...
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Metaphysics of normativity
... in nature, would have to be located in the framework that serves as a point of departure for the pursuit outcomes desired or required by those who did have a chance to partake in the determination of these ...
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On the metaphysics of management
... dissect nature along lines laid down by our native ...cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way ...
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