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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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Was Gödel actually convinced that his ontological proof was correct?
The proof is obviously logically valid, but it is as obvious that it isn't logically sound.
For instance, the second axiom states that ¬P(φ) ⟺ P(¬φ), take φ(x) ⟺ x is a male human being. Then either ...
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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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Metaphysical grounding: Why is “necessarily, if pious then 2+3=5” relevant in the grounding vs. modality debate?
In the SEP entry on Metaphysical Grounding, Lowe argues that grounding cannot be reduced to purely modal notions, since modality is “too coarse-grained.” He illustrates this with the following claim:
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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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What happened to ( aristotelian) substantial forms in cartesian ontology? On which ground ( metaphysical or physical) are they rejected?
In aristotelian philosophy, there are no bare particulars ( contrary to what is the case in Plato, according to P.V. Spade) but internally structured ( substantial) particulars in which 2 "parts"/...
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Has Alexandre Grothendieck ever expounded a particular stance on metaphysics or ontology?
It seems that in Recoltes et Semailles, he does go into quite a bit of philosophizing. the only thing of relevance I've found is that he notes how Riemann "in passing" said how he thought perhaps the "...
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Is Simondon's ontogenesis compatible with Badiou's ontology?
Is Simondon's ontogenesis compatible with Badiou's ontology?
Simondon's belief is that an individual can only be understood as an individuation, presupposing a pre-individual metastable reality, ...
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What is the perspective of major philosophers on classifying loss from a tragic standpoint?
Over the past three days I was engaged in a long discussion with my friends We began with the question: What are the classifications of human tragedies?
After hours of debate on the first day we ...
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Help understanding Husserl and Meinong on non-existence
I don’t quite understand the difference between Husserl and Meinong on the issue of non-existence. I’ve spoken with some Husserlians who explain that Husserl is quite different from Meinong, but ...
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What is the difference between bundle theory and mereological nihilism?
Mereological nihilism is the thesis that composition never occurs; the apparent wholes of common sense are reducible to simples arranged "table-wise" or "cat-wise."
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Emanation by the One according to Plotinus
How is Mind (Nous) formed from "the One” according to Plotinus?
What is the mechanism of this phenomenon?
Why is it Nous, and not the Soul or something else, that is the first emanation?
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