The Way Things are: Basic Readings in MetaphysicsThis anthology of classic and contemporary readings addresses the major areas of metaphysical inquiry: personal identity and responsibility; free will and determinism; change and time; existence and non-existence; the mind-body problem; and causal determinism and free will. |
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... assumption : that a substance S2 is the same substance as an earlier substance S1 at t1 only if S1â2 is made of some of the same stuff as S1 ( or stuff obtained therefrom by gradual replacement ) . Given the quasi - Aristotelian assumption ...
... assumption : that a substance S2 is the same substance as an earlier substance S1 at t1 only if S1â2 is made of some of the same stuff as S1 ( or stuff obtained therefrom by gradual replacement ) . Given the quasi - Aristotelian assumption ...
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... assumption that if one can't falsify a law of nature L and can't falsify a proposition about the past Po , one can't render false the conjunction of L and P. And this just is an agglomerativity assumption for the necessity expressed by ...
... assumption that if one can't falsify a law of nature L and can't falsify a proposition about the past Po , one can't render false the conjunction of L and P. And this just is an agglomerativity assumption for the necessity expressed by ...
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... assumptions about God's nature . These assumptions reflect central features of the standard Judeo - Christian conception of God . Pike explicitly adopts the assumption that if God exists , then God is essentially om- niscient and God is ...
... assumptions about God's nature . These assumptions reflect central features of the standard Judeo - Christian conception of God . Pike explicitly adopts the assumption that if God exists , then God is essentially om- niscient and God is ...
Contents
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Of Identity Thomas Reid | 70 |
Rigid Designation Hugh S Chandler | 76 |
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