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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... perceived by sense , entirely relates to reason . Phil . This point then is agreed between us , that sensible things are those only which are immediately perceived by sense . You will further in- form me , whether we immediately perceive ...
... perceived by sense , entirely relates to reason . Phil . This point then is agreed between us , that sensible things are those only which are immediately perceived by sense . You will further in- form me , whether we immediately perceive ...
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... perceived by sight ? Hyl . It should seem so . Phil . Again , is it your opinion that colours are at a distance ... perceived by the mind , yet it would not thence follow it existed out of the mind . For whatever is immediately perceived ...
... perceived by sight ? Hyl . It should seem so . Phil . Again , is it your opinion that colours are at a distance ... perceived by the mind , yet it would not thence follow it existed out of the mind . For whatever is immediately perceived ...
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... perceive him ( though not immediately ) by my senses . Phil . It seems , then , you will have our ideas , which alone are immediately perceived , to be pictures of external things : and that these also are perceived by sense , inasmuch ...
... perceive him ( though not immediately ) by my senses . Phil . It seems , then , you will have our ideas , which alone are immediately perceived , to be pictures of external things : and that these also are perceived by sense , inasmuch ...
Contents
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Of Identity Thomas Reid | 70 |
Rigid Designation Hugh S Chandler | 76 |
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1984 World Series A-properties actions agglomerativity Alice Anaximander Anomalous Monism Anselm's answer argue assumption Basileides believe Berkeley body brain causal causal role cause claim colours conceive conception consciousness consider continue deny distinction dualism Eiffel Tower entails exist experience false follows human idea identity theory imagination immaterial incompatibilism incompatibilist instance Inwagen J. J. C. Smart Jaegwon Kim Journal of Philosophy kill Grandfather knowledge laws logical matter mental events metaphysical mind modal logic modal principle motion nature necessity object obligation occur Oxford pain Passage Argument past perceptions personal identity Phil Philosophical physical events position possible worlds predicate premise present properties proposition pure passage Qualia question reason relation Richard Swinburne rigid designators seems sensation sense sensible qualities ship soft fact sort soul space spatial location substance suppose Sydney Shoemaker t₁ temporal thesis things thought time-dimension tion total freeze true truth University Press