The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 82 potx
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 82 potx
... without relata to complete them. So conceived, relations no more require additional relations to connect them to their relata than bricks require additional bricks to connect them to their shapes. ... either (or any) of the related terms separately it seems that they must really be a property of the whole the terms make up together, so that, if every item in the world is rel...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 11 potx
... has come to be used, perhaps, to put a good face on the largess of the better-off to the worse-off. It thereby introduces doubts about the moral value of benevolence. The question of the moral ... attach to judging it so), and if ‘beauty’ is the term for aesthetic value, then we have to acknowledge that a 82 Bayesian confirmation theory with them, superstructural phe...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 18 potx
... Reformation, even to the point of refusing to recognize its contributions to science the overall effect of change up through the stages is progressive. Looking therefore at the history of the West—Comte had ... philo- sophical, part historical, part sociological—was expressed in his law of the three -part nature of human societal devel- opment. Apparently, societies are...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 26 potx
... wish- ing to extend to the many the rigorous intellectual educa- tion hitherto enjoyed only by the few. But it ran into difficulties. These were partly specific— about whether, for instance, there ... valued field to devote themselves to the devel- opment of their talent. To object to this in itself seems, as Nietzsche urged, to be little more than a symptom of envy on the...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 35 potx
... errors, and the behaviour of the patient towards the therapist in the analytic setting ( the transference’), they uncovered the repressed pathogenic material. This material was found to display ... ‘repression’, these states are subject to transform- ations which render them unrecognizable by the subject and may have pathological consequences. The conviction that, when the...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 46 potx
... fact more important to modern set theory than the infinite cardinals. But there is no space to describe them here. d.b. *numbers. G. Cantor, Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers, ... provoking Anaxagoras to hold that there was no smallest quantity of anything, and the Greek atomists to the opposite opinion. But the atom- ists showed no fear of...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 47 potx
... 443 theological dispute as to how objective the principles of ethics are, but this did not really become part of the debate in philosophy. The latter took off when the views of Plato and Aristotle ... intuitionism has been taken to be a form of pluralism, pluralism in the theory of the right. Monists in the theory of the right say that there is only one way in which an...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 54 potx
... In the ancient world, par- ticularly among the Greeks, to be free was to be able to participate in the government of one’s city. The laws were valid only if one had had the right to take part ... artificial leviathan, the state, needs to have absolute power. The book is divided into four parts: the first provides an account of persons prior to the state; the se...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 59 potx
... applied to the material world or, in other words, to show how the subject-matter of mathematics is related to the subject-matter of the sciences, and how the methodology of mathematics fits into the ... of the philosophy of. Stewart Shapiro, Thinking about Mathematics (Oxford, 2000). mathematics, philosophy of, problems of. The aim of the philosophy of mathematics...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 66 potx
... later recipient of the name to use it successfully to refer to the individual originally named by it is that each speaker in the chain should use it with the intention to refer to the same indi- vidual ... has as its goal the attempt to persuade people to obey the law and thereby to avoid civil war. For civil war leads to the state of nature with all of the...
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