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Explanations about the though of a philosophical author or school
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German reception of Aristotle from Melanchton to Heidegger?
What happens from Luther to Heidegger in Germany with Aristotle?
I've read that starting with Melanchton—partly due to renewed access to Greek texts—there emerged a distinct German tradition of ...
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Can Aristotle’s fourfold causality be applied to an author’s work?
Aristotle typically uses human artifacts, like a bronze statue as he does in Physics ii 3, as examples to explain his doctrine of the four causes.
Since a written work is also a human artifact, I ...
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Ambiguity on the definition of a model in model theory
Is the following definition of a model in model theory ambiguous? The definition is the following: A model of a theory is an interpretation of the theory that makes all sentences in the theory true. I ...
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Is for-itself simply in-itself-and-for-other in Hegel's Science of Logic?
I have been going through Hegel's Doctrine of Being, and have started rewriting it in my own words, as that usually helps me understand something.
In so doing, I created a (new?) suffix: -in-itself-...
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Prior Analytics I.6 Disproof of syllogism by "indefinite nature of the particular statement"
There is an argument that I am having trouble following which appears in Chapter 6 of Prior Analytics for the disproof of a false "syllogism". A very similar argument occurs earlier in ...
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Prior Analytics I.3: Unsure about Aristotle on modal conversion of possible universal negatives, in relation to necessity
In Book I, Chapter 3 of Prior Analytics, Aristotle says the following:
Whatever is said to be possible, either because B necessarily is A, or because B is not necessarily A, admits of conversion like ...
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Why does Quine report on Kant's definition of analytic truths in the way that he does?
The offending passage (from "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"):
Kant conceived of an analytic statement as one that attributes to its subject no more than is already conceptually contained in the ...
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How does decidability work in a semantic level?
In the Diagonal Argument : Cantor, Turing, Tarski and Lawvere video (link is with a timestamp), when the diagonal argument is explained in order to prove the Tarski's Undefinabiliy Theorem, an ...
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What are the key differences, with respect to meta-ethics and philosophical method, between P. F. Strawson and Alasdair Macintyre?
There seem to be some similarities. Macintyre argues that the virtues are internal to social practices and traditions while Strawson argues for a method of 'descriptive metaphysics' whereby ...
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Am I getting a "wrong impression" of some sort of "significant shift among the fundamentals" between the second Critique, and MOM?
Quick note: "MOM" means The Metaphysical of Morals. So the newly-updated SEP entry on Kant-as-a-whole says:
... while German philosophy moved on to assess and respond to Kant’s legacy, Kant ...
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Aristotle and "Every X is every Y" falsity
I am currently reading "On Interpretation" by Aristotle, and in the section 7 there is the following statement:
If, however, both predicate and subject are distributed, the proposition thus ...
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Blaise Pascal and a possible unfinished Philosophical System?
We know that Blaise Pascal died young and was unable to develop many of his theses that are embryonically present in his Pensées, his treatise on Grace, or his reflections on the spirit of geometry. ...
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What did Haugeland mean when he said that the grounding of ontical truth can be transcendental only as existential?
This is probably a narrow question, and so it's my job to motivate it. Due to the fact it would be inappropriate to expect many people to have read what I'm referencing, I'll try my best to explain my ...
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What did Fraçois la Rouchefoucauld mean by "gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body" [closed]
There is this famous quote from the french writer, which goes like
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to conceal the want of mind
I don't quite understand what the word gravity ...
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Is having infinite amount of a quantity same as having none of it? [closed]
Ithink that if you have an infinite amount of material, you actually have none of it. I interpret this as you having imaginary material.
Am I correct in making this assessment?
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