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Necessary Beings

Author : Bob Hale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199669578

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Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics, according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essences of things—not in meanings or concepts.

Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing

Author : Daniel D. De Haan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004434523

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Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing by Daniel D. De Haan Pdf

In Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing Daniel De Haan examines the primary notions being, thing, one, and necessary and their roles in the central argument of Avicenna’s metaphysical masterpiece.

Being Necessary

Author : Ivette Fred-Rivera,Jessica Leech
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192510600

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Being Necessary by Ivette Fred-Rivera,Jessica Leech Pdf

What is the relationship between ontology and modality - between what there is, and what there could be, must be, or might have been? Bob Hale interwove these two strands of metaphysics throughout his long and distinguished career, putting forward his theses in his book, Necessary Beings: An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them (OUP 2013). Hale addressed questions of ontology and modality on a number of fronts: through the development of a Fregean approach to ontology, an essentialist theory of modality, and in his work on neo-logicism in the philosophy of mathematics. The essays in this volume engage with these themes in Hale's work in order to progress our understanding of ontology, modality, and the relations between them. Some directly address questions in modal metaphysics, drawing on ontological concerns, while others raise questions in modal epistemology and of its links to matters of ontology, such as the challenge to give an epistemology of essence. Several essays also engage with questions of what might be called 'modal ontology': the study of whether and what things exist necessarily or contingently. Such issues have an important bearing on the kinds of semantic commitments engendered in logic and mathematics (to the existence of sets, or numbers, or properties, and so on) and the extent to which one's ontology of necessary beings interacts with other plausible assumptions and commitments.

Necessary Existence

Author : Alexander R. Pruss,Joshua L. Rasmussen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198746898

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Necessary Existence by Alexander R. Pruss,Joshua L. Rasmussen Pdf

"Necessary Existence' breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? The classic answer is in terms of a necessary foundation. Yet, why think that is the correct answer? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defense of the hypothesis that there is a concrete necessary being capable of providing a foundation for the existence of things. They offer six main arguments, divided into six chapters. The first argument is an up-to-date presentation and assessment of a traditional causal-based argument from contingency. The next five arguments are new "possibility-based" arguments that make use of twentieth-century advances in modal logic. The arguments present possible pathways to an intriguing and far-reaching conclusion. The final chapter answers the most challenging objections to the existence of necessary things."--

Kant's Inaugural Dissertation of 1770

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : UOM:39015026496524

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Necessary Beings

Author : Bob Hale
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191648342

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Necessary Beings is concerned with two central areas of metaphysics: modality—the theory of necessity, possibility, and other related notions; and ontology—the general study of what kinds of entities there are. Bob Hale's overarching purpose is to develop and defend two quite general theses about what is required for the existence of entities of various kinds: that questions about what kinds of things there are cannot be properly understood or adequately answered without recourse to considerations about possibility and necessity, and that, conversely, questions about the nature and basis of necessity and possibility cannot be satisfactorily tackled without drawing on what might be called the methodology of ontology. Taken together, these two theses claim that ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another, neither more fundamental than the other. Hale defends a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics, according to which ontological distinctions among different kinds of things (objects, properties, and relations) are to be drawn on the basis of prior distinctions between different logical types of expression. The claim that facts about what kinds of things exist depend upon facts about what is possible makes little sense unless one accepts that at least some modal facts are fundamental, and not reducible to facts of some other, non-modal, sort. He argues that facts about what is absolutely necessary or possible have this character, and that they have their source or basis, not in meanings or concepts nor in facts about alternative 'worlds', but in the natures or essences of things.

Just Don't Be an Asshole

Author : Kara Kinney Cartwright
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780593138489

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Just Don't Be an Asshole by Kara Kinney Cartwright Pdf

This is the tough love that boys need to hear today: a candid and whipsmart guide to being a good guy in a world full of assh*les. In this frank, funny, and necessary guidebook, Kara Kinney Cartwright, a mom who has raised two teenage boys, compiles all the unwritten rules of being a good guy. As it turns out, everyone needs to learn one major lesson to safely avoid assh*le territory: other people are also humans. (Whoa, right?) Just Don’t Be an Assh*le contains everything young men need to know to have positive interactions, make the best decisions, and recognize when they’re being jerks. Things like, Just don’t be an assh*le: • To your family (parents are not your employees) • To your friends (they’ll laugh at you, not with you) • At work (no one wants to hear your podcast idea) • To women (“Are you up?” doesn’t qualify as romance) • Online (if you wouldn’t do it in real life, don’t do it) • In the world (people unlike you are also people) • To yourself (it’s okay not to have all the answers)

The Burhān

Author : Mohammed Hijab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798784089939

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In The Burhān Mohammad Hijab analyses Ibn Sīnā's argument for the existence of God. Regards as being most invulnerable to any type of counterattack, Ibn Sīnā's Burhān argument postulates that a world with only contingent existences is inconceivable, as a contingent existence cannot cause itself. Ibn Sīnā argues that the only way to explain the existence of anything is to postulate the existence of a uncaused necessary being, or a wājib al-wujūd ('necessary existence'). However, despite its impact, the Burhān has not been packaged for apologetic use for a modern audience. Hijab's novel contribution to the discourse surrounding God's existence is found in his re-articulation of this argument for theists attempting to make the case for religion to atheist audiences. Using the Burhān as his guide, Hijab provides his own proofs for the necessary existence of God and answers some of the most prominent objections. Hijab applies the arguments for a necessary being by referring to potential pastoral and apologetic settings using two fictitious characters, Richard and Betty.

The British Quarterly Review

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Christianity
ISBN : IND:30000080764446

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Modern Philosophy

Author : Francis Bowen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Philosophy, Modern
ISBN : MSU:31293036592008

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Modern Philosophy by Francis Bowen Pdf

The great conversation, by R.M. Hutchins

Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Literature
ISBN : UFL:31262000529213

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The great conversation, by R.M. Hutchins by Robert Maynard Hutchins Pdf

University of California Publications

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Middle East
ISBN : UCLA:L0063358436

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الشفاء: الالهيات

Author : Avicenna
Publisher : FARMS
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Islamic philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114123602

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Within this emanative scheme we encounter some of the basic ideas of Avicenna's religious and political philosophy, including his discussion of the divine attributes, divine providence, the Hereafter, and the ideal, "virtuous" city with its philosopher-prophet as the recipient and conveyer of the revealed law, a human link between the celestial and the terrestrial worlds."--BOOK JACKET.