Universals Concepts And Qualities

Author : P.F. Strawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351876704

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Universals, Concepts and Qualities by P.F. Strawson Pdf

Are there universal properties grounding our sense of resemblance or qualitative identity among a number of distinct things or events which appear to form a class, a type or a kind of some other sort? Do universals such as humanness, triangularity, or being an oak exist? Is being a laptop computer a universal which has only recently come into existence? Do predicate expressions, adjectives or abstract nouns refer to objective properties or cognitive contents called concepts? The problem of universals has been at the centre of ancient, medieval, Western and Indian metaphysics. After the logico-linguistic turn in philosophy, this problem re-surfaced in the discourse on the meaning of predicate expressions on the one hand and in the theories of concepts on the other. By introducing newly commissioned essays written by the leading metaphysicians, epistemologists, philosophers of language and philosophers of mathematics, this anthology evinces current analytic philosophy's healthy re-engagement with this perennial problem. Issues raised include: Do properties and other abstract entities exist independently of human language and thought? Can we be in direct perceptual touch with properties or particular qualities? Is a higher order quantification over predicated properties intelligible or indispensable? Insights from current Western thought are compared with recent work in analytic Indian philosophy on such issues. No serious researcher or teacher of contemporary and comparative analytical metaphysics can afford to ignore the essays of this collection.

Author : David Charles
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191614149

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Definition in Greek Philosophy by David Charles Pdf

Socrates' greatest philosophical contribution was to have initiated the search for definitions. In Definition in Greek Philosophy his views on definition are examined, together with those of his successors, including Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Galen, the Sceptics and Plotinus. Although definition was a major pre-occupation for many Greek philosophers, it has rarely been treated as a separate topic in its own right in recent years. This volume, which contains fourteen new essays by leading scholars, aims to reawaken interest in a number of central and relatively unexplored issues concerning definition. These issues are briefly set out in the Introduction, which also seeks to point out scholarly and philosophical questions which merit further study.

Author : Arindam Chakrabarti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350044470

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Realisms Interlinked by Arindam Chakrabarti Pdf

This book brings together over 25 years of Arindam Chakrabarti's original research in philosophy on issues of epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. Organized under the three basic concepts of a thing out there in the world, the self who perceives it, and other subjects or selves, his work revolves around a set of realism links. Examining connections between metaphysical stances toward the world, selves, and universals, Chakrabarti engages with classical Indian and modern Western philosophical approaches to a number of live topics including the refutation of idealism; the question of the definability of truth, and the possibility of truths existing unknown to anyone; the existence of non-conceptual perception; and our knowledge of other minds. He additionally makes forays into fundamental questions regarding death, darkness, absence, and nothingness. Along with conceptual clarification and progress towards alternative solutions to these substantial philosophical problems, Chakrabarti demonstrates the advantage of doing philosophy in a cosmopolitan fashion. Beginning with an analysis of the concept of a thing, and ending with an analysis of the concept of nothing, Realisms Interlinked offers a preview of a future metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind without borders.

Author : Andrei P. Kirilyuk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9660001169

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Universal Concept of Complexity by the Dynamic Redundance Paradigm by Andrei P. Kirilyuk Pdf

Author : Raja Ram Dravid
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8120808320

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The Problem of Universals in Indian Philosophy by Raja Ram Dravid Pdf

The author gives a critical and comprehensive study of the fundamental problem of universals in Indian Philosophy. The centre of the study is the controversy between the Nyaya-Vaisesika and the Mimamsa realists on the one hand and the Buddhist nominalists on the other. The author discusses not only the epistemological and metaphysical approach to the problem of universals but also the semantic approach made by the various systems of Indian Philosophy. In this context the view of the Grammarions with special reference to Bhartrhari has been discussed in some detail. A brief but critical analysis of some of the main trends of thought on universals in Western Philosophy--beginning from Pluto to the contemporary philosophers--has also been given. Besides his scholarly and eminently readable treatment of fundamental problem of universals, the author has attempted to give his own solution of the problem. It is based on the recurrent identities and similarities which are the principles of grouping and which form the foundation of our thought and speech.

Author : Fraser MacBride
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192539304

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On the Genealogy of Universals by Fraser MacBride Pdf

The concepts of particular and universal have become so familiar that their significance has become difficult to discern, like coins that have been passed back and forth too many times, worn smooth so their values can no longer be read. On the Genealogy of Universals seeks to overcome our sense of over-familiarity with these concepts by providing a case study of their evolution during the late 19th century and early 20th century, a study that shows how the history of these concepts is bound up with the origins and development of analytic philosophy itself. Understanding how these concepts were taken up, transfigured and given up by the early analytic philosophers, enables us to recover and reanimate the debate amongst them that otherwise remains Delphic - to interpret some of the early, originating texts of analytic philosophy that have hitherto baffled commentators, including Moore's early papers, to appreciate afresh the neglected contributions of philosophical figures that historians of analytic philosophy have mostly since forgot, including Stout and Whitehead, and to shed new light upon the relationships of Moore to Russell and Russell to Wittgenstein.

Author : Constantine Stephanidis,Margherita Antona
Publisher : Springer
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642391941

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Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: Applications and Services for Quality of Life by Constantine Stephanidis,Margherita Antona Pdf

The three-volume set LNCS 8009-8011 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2013, held as part of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2013, held in Las Vegas, USA in July 2013, jointly with 12 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1666 papers and 303 posters presented at the HCII 2013 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 5210 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The total of 230 contributions included in the UAHCI proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this three-volume set. The 78 papers included in this volume are organized in the following topical sections: universal access to smart environments and ambient assisted living; universal access to learning and education; universal access to text, books, ebooks and digital libraries; health, well-being, rehabilitation and medical applications; access to mobile interaction.

Author : Patrick M. Dalos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Universals (Philosophy)
ISBN : PSU:000057450025

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The Critical Value of Concepts and Universal Ideas by Patrick M. Dalos Pdf

Author : Claudia Linnhoff-Popien,Heinz-Gerd Hegering
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540410249

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Trends in Distributed Systems: Towards a Universal Service Market by Claudia Linnhoff-Popien,Heinz-Gerd Hegering Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International IFIP/GI Working Conference on Trends Towards a Universal Service Market, USM 2000, held in Munich, Germany in September 2000. The 28 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on electronic auctions and trading, Internet-based service markets, quality of service, mobile and distributed services, middleware architectures, service management, mobile agents and applications, and trends in data- and telecommunications.

Author : R. Paul Olson,R. Paul Olson Ph. D. MDIV
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Health care reform
ISBN : 9781467856270

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Moral Arguments for Universal Health Care by R. Paul Olson,R. Paul Olson Ph. D. MDIV Pdf

Author : Charles Kendall Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UCAL:C2557567

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Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia by Charles Kendall Adams Pdf

Author : Samuel Orchart Beeton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1286 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600082028

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Beeton's Dictionary of universal information; comprising a complete summary of the moral, mathematical, physical and natural sciences [&c., ed. by S.O. Beeton and J. Sherer. Wanting pt. 13]. by Samuel Orchart Beeton Pdf

Author : Daniel Heider
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027270672

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Universals in Second Scholasticism by Daniel Heider Pdf

This study aims to present a comparative analysis of philosophical theories of universals espoused by the foremost representatives of the three main schools of early modern scholastic thought. The book introduces the doctrines of Francisco Suárez, S.J. (1548–1617), the Thomist John of St. Thomas, O.P. (1589–1644), and the Scotists Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola, O.F.M. Conv. (1602–1673) and Bonaventura Belluto, O.F.M. Conv. (1600–1676). The author examines in detail their mutual doctrinal delineation as well as the conceptualist tenet of the Jesuit Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578–1641), whose thought constitutes an important systematic point of comparison especially with Suárez’s doctrine. The book offers the first comparative elaboration of the issue of universals, in both its metaphysical and its epistemological aspects, in the era of second scholasticism.

Author : Charles Kendall Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : WISC:89061337465

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Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia by Charles Kendall Adams Pdf

Author : Paul V. Spade
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781624662003

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Five Texts on the Mediaeval Problem of Universals by Paul V. Spade Pdf

New translations of the central mediaeval texts on the problem of universals are presented here in an affordable edition suitable for use in courses in mediaeval philosophy, history of mediaeval philosophy, and universals. Includes a concise Introduction, glossary of important terms, notes, and bibliography.