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  • often referred to as the Conceivability Argument. In broad outline, it runs ... Descartes' second argument is often referred to as the Divisibility ...
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  • it on faith. In the context of his ontological argument for God's existence ... The argument can be stated as follows: # If a being exists, then it ...
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  • for "wisdom" as well. This argument, however, was inverted by ... *Quine, W.V. Ontological Relativity and Other Essays. New York: Columbia ...
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  • to as "atheism's killer argument." This line of reasoning ... of these types of argument, see ontological argument, teleological argument ...
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  • there are internal relations; the ontological argument for the existence ... arises. Ryle also created the classic argument against cognitivist theories ...
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  • a ground or basis for a particular argument, and hence is used synonymously ... Viewed in these terms reason becomes an ontological term rather than ...
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  • frequent claim made in favor of the former argument is that previous electoral precedent held that one man was equivalent to one vote, and the fact that ...
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  • to guide his reasoning and illustrate his argument rather than lead to any ... The former two follow their standard ontological and epistemological ...
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  • are in principle unknowable. With this argument, God and the soul became ... elements of the mind to answer both ontological and epistemological questions ...
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  • wrote a survey of the history of the ontological proof, together with an analysis of the argument, which he later developed in Faith and Reason ...
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  • logic. Stephen Toulmin's The Uses of Argument, in essence an epistemological ... to posit the mind or mindstuff as an ontological category. Pragmatists ...
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  • of rights with people as there is an ontological distinction between human ... to articulate a discrimination argument against not acknowledging ...
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  • of a substance or entity, clouding the argument. This entire argument, however ... the perceived contradiction between his argument that all species are morally ...
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  • go as far back as Plato, who studied the ontological status of mathematical ... supported by the indispensability argument: mathematics is indispensable ...
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  • Kant’s critical approach, moving from ontological to epistemological questions ... Existence, which questioned the ontological argument for God in the form ...
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  • also in the sense that knowledge has an ontological status (i.e., knowledge ... *The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism (with Sir ...
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  • the original question about being, the ontological question of metaphysics: ... Kant’s recourse to the moral argument as the only alternative to ...
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  • Spirit's divinity, Gregory offered this argument: Look at these ... would shape most later thought about the ontological nature of the Paraclete. ...
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  • He follows Ian Hacking's argument that many adopt social constructionism ... Steve Woolgar and Dorothy Pawluch, "Ontological Gerrymandering: ...
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  • in any natural process. The full argument for the immortality of the ... htm Methodological Naturalism vs Ontological or Philosophical Naturalism ...
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  • and teleological arguments. The ontological argument, originally developed ... The cosmological argument was first suggested by Aristotle, who claimed ...
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  • merely abstract entities in our minds but ontological realities that exist in some higher, eternal realm. And so, Plato's metaphysics seems to ...
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  • if not, how should we understand their ontological status? Aesthetics asks: ... among other means, a version of the ontological argument). Descartes’ approach ...
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  • ID also is not considered by its theorists to be an "argument ... and philosopher Michael Polanyi’s argument that the information in ...
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  • and Mathematics, starts with an argument from Linguistics. The Vedic etymologist and grammarian Yaska (c. seventh century B.C.E.) in his Nirukta ...
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  • * Deterrence is based upon the utilitarian ontological notion of the ... gender, and women's liberation: An argument against postmodernism" ...
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  • and they sought clarity and precision in argument by the use of exact language ... conclude for a short time that the ontological argument is sound), and he ...
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  • currency devaluations. They pose the argument that the IMF requires these ... liberalism in their epistemological and ontological premises. ...
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  • become possible due to man's ontological openness to truth. Heidegger ... * Slingshot argument * Statistical independence * Tautology (logic) ...
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  • presented a philosophical and moral argument as its central purpose. ... explores the factors that affect the ontological security of tourists. ...
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