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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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