The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 89 pdf

... Unmasked (Princeton, NJ, 2001). self-defeating theories. In the simplest sense, a theory is self-defeating if the truth of the theory would imply the falsity of the theory. However, the expression ... semantics, or the study of the relation of signs to the things they represent; and *pragmatics, or the study of the relation of signs to their users. Semantics is thus...

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... well to the jury of distinguished philosophers who cast an eye over the initial list of their contemporaries, and then to the thirty advisers in this matter for the second edition. Thanks too to ... Rundle University of Oxford Contributors xvii Contributors Almost all the contributors are or were members of the departments, faculties or sub-faculties of philosophy at t...

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... the attacks of Aristotelians, he left his valuable Greek library to the Venetians. Much of *Renaissance philosophy is the afterlife of Byzantine philosophy. m.d.j. Milton V. Anastos, The Mind of Byzantium ... with the help of such sceptical arguments as the following. The reliable means of knowledge are estab- lished by appeal to the reality of the objects they make u...

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... Co-founder with Leucippus of the theory of *atomism. His exact relation to Leucippus is obscure. Aristotle and his school agree in treating Leu- cippus as the originator of the theory, but also in assigning its ... of the physical doctrines we are reliant on the doxographical tradition stemming ultimately from Aristotle, who discusses atomism extensively. According to Aristotle,...

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... choose to do so, there is no *God of the kind supposed. The problem of evil has always been the most powerful objection to traditional theism. The usual response of theists to this ‘problem’ is to deny ... with one of the unity of the organic world. Not that most of these thinkers or those sympathetic to them (such as Goethe) became full-blown evolutionists. In the spi...

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... the theory of the four humours. The Kingly Crown’, his Neoplatonic poem on the descent and destiny of the soul, is included in the Sephardic liturgy of the Day of Atonement. l.e.g. *Neoplatonism. Solomon ... Kant’s critical philosophy to the totality of what is. The triadic arrangement of Kant’s table of categories and the synthetic resolution of the Third Antinomy in...

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... well as between many of their ideas—especially about the role of the emotions in the best human life.) Towards the end of the Tokugawa period a movement arose in reaction to the dominance of Buddhist ... The attempt to fix a rigid, stultified version of Islam as the ideal is to fail to grasp the ways in which sci- ence and technology can improve the life-style and mo...

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... and people should ‘meet together … to own to the world that they worship God’ (32). He is not allowing, either, that there are many, equally good ways to eternal happiness: there is ‘one only narrow ... to the state and its members ‘ought not to be permitted to the churches in their sacred rites’ (37); nor are ‘opinions contrary to human society, or to those moral rules...

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... and the herd’, and through Zarathustra proclaimed the ‘over-man’ (Übermensch) to be the meaning of the earth’, representing the overcoming of the ‘all too human’ and the attainment of the fullest ... neither mental nor physical. The mind consists of these entities under one aspect, and matter consists of them under another. The theory was intended to preserve the adva...

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... what the good is, will form the ruling élite. From time to time they will be required to give up their intellectual delights and go back into the cave to govern it. They will govern with a view to ... modification to his theory. The second part of the Parmenides is a riddle. It draws a bewil- dering array of contradictory conclusions, first from the hypothesis The One i...

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