... between them, the tortoise will have created a new gap, and while Achilles is closing that one, the tor- toise will have created another. However fast Achilles runs, all that the tortoise has to do, ... 193 4 he was forced to emigrate, first to Oxford, then in 193 8 to New York. His thought was permanently marked by the rise of fas- cism, and by the failure of *Marxism both...
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... is dependent. The truth of the house lies in its conformity to the plan, and the truth of the passer-by’s idea of the house lies in its conformity to the house. In each case there is truth where there ... of other figures of the syllogism to the first uses the negated conclusion with one of the original premisses to yield a valid first-figure syllogism whose conclusi...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 9 pot
... (‘Lectures on the Philosophy of Logical Atomism’ ( 191 8), 1 79) , together with the facts composed of these atoms. Atomism as a theory of matter dates back to the ancients. Hume’s atom- ism is psychological: ... Danto, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace (Cam- bridge, 198 3). C. Freeland, Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2003). Charles Harrison and Paul Wood (e...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 10 pptx
... them. For example, our access to the physical world seems to be only via our own sense-data, to the minds of others via their behaviour, and to the past via our memories. There are four types of possible ... from the translation and commen- tary on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics ( 197 5) to Aristotle ( 198 2) and many papers. Barnes is also one of the editors of the ser...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 19 ppt
... Rule-Consequentialist Theory of Morality (Oxford, 2000). D. McNaughton and P. Rawling, ‘On Defending Deontology’, Ratio ( 199 8). D. Parfit, Reasons and Persons, part 2 (Oxford, 198 4). P. Pettit, The Consequentialist ... are in the hands of the state. As part of his ignorance thesis, the conservative must support autonomous institutions and the freedom of indi- viduals to make...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 23 ppt
... Kenny (Cambridge, 199 1). ——Descartes (Oxford, 198 6). ——(ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Descartes (Cambridge, 199 2). D. Garber, Descartes’ Metaphysical Physics (Chicago, 199 2). S. Gaukroger, ... which tends to make one motivated to produce the end.) According to the less widely held hedonic theory of desire, to desire some end is to tend toward feeling pleasure if one...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 25 pptx
... arranged as to enable him to fulfil this role. In such a society the rulers will possess the wisdom to guide the rest in the light of the good and the true. In the good city there will be all the usual ... Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy (Oxford, 199 3). John Broome, Weighing Goods (Oxford, 199 1). Iain McLean, Public Choice (Oxford, 198 7). Philip Pettit...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 43 pptx
... agreeable to the person himself or to others’; and he invokes sympathy, probably the central notion of his whole moral theory, to explain their operation. Qualities that are useful or agreeable to others will ... He helped to found the University of Berlin in 1811. In The Limits of State Action (1 791 ; pub. 1851; tr. Cambridge, 196 9), he argued that the sole purpose of...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 45 ppt
... controversial cases they give answers to the questions of law in dispute which they claim to be, at least in their opinion, the right ones. Either the judges are lying to the public, or they are themselves ... A Theory of Determinism (Oxford, 198 8). R. Kane (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Free Will (New York, 2001). Jan Łukasiewicz, ‘On Determinism’, in Storrs McCall (ed.), P...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 51 pptx
... to the idealist H. H. Joachim’s The Nature of Truth ( 190 6) or to the pragmatist William James’s The Meaning of Truth ( 190 9) as they do to the founding works of analytical philosophy. s.w.b. There ... using them. But the story is entirely schematic, rem- iniscent of the Stoic doctrine of lekta, and Frege tells us nothing of the nature of this grasp, nor how to answe...
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