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A Belief Expressionist Explanation of Divine Conceptualist Mathematics 神性概念主义数学的信仰表现主义解释
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Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/mp-2021-0011
David M. Freeman
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Collocation and Constitution 搭配与构成
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Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/mp-2021-0009
David-Hillel Ruben
{"title":"Collocation and Constitution","authors":"David-Hillel Ruben","doi":"10.1515/mp-2021-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2021-0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Many philosophers accept the view that, when one object constitutes a second (say a tree and an aggregate of wood molecules), the two objects can be entirely in the same place at the same time (collocated). But what of two objects such that neither constitutes the other (a non-constituting pair)? Can they be collocated? If there can be such a pair of objects, they would have to share the same material constituents. To show that there are two collocated objects and not just one object at a specific time and place, one has to show that one of the objects has some property that the other fails to have. I claim that the properties I use in my example are legitimate substitution instances in the Law of the Indiscernibility of Identicals. I offer a metaphysically possible example that illustrates such collocation, a possible case from ‘raw nature’, two trees.","PeriodicalId":43147,"journal":{"name":"Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42531945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
The Implantation Argument: Simulation Theory is Proof that God Exists 植入论：模拟理论是上帝存在的证明
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Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/mp-2020-0014
Jeffrey Grupp
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Frontmatter Frontmatter
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Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/mp-2021-frontmatter2
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Metaphysical Foundations of Causation: Powers or Laws of Nature? 因果关系的形而上学基础：权力还是自然法则？
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Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/mp-2020-0032
D. Sepetyi
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Quantum Entanglement Undermines Structural Realism 量子纠缠破坏了结构现实主义
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Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics Pub Date : 2021-08-30 DOI: 10.1515/mp-2021-0001
Seungbae Park
{"title":"Quantum Entanglement Undermines Structural Realism","authors":"Seungbae Park","doi":"10.1515/mp-2021-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2021-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Quantum entanglement poses a challenge to the traditional metaphysical view that an extrinsic property of an object is determined by its intrinsic properties. So structural realists might be tempted to cite quantum entanglement as evidence for structural realism. I argue, however, that quantum entanglement undermines structural realism. If we classify two entangled electrons as a single system, we can say that their spin properties are intrinsic properties of the system, and that we can have knowledge about these intrinsic properties. Specifically, we can know that the parts of the system are entangled and spatially separated from each other. In addition, the concept of supervenience neither illuminates quantum entanglement nor helps structural realism.","PeriodicalId":43147,"journal":{"name":"Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48835517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Proving God without Dualism: Improving the Swinburne-Moreland Argument from Consciousness 不用二元论证明上帝:从意识角度改进斯威本-莫兰德论证
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Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics Pub Date : 2021-03-26 DOI: 10.1515/mp-2020-0035
Ward Blondé, Ludger Jansen
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An Ontology for ‘The Universe of Being’ “存在的宇宙”的本体论
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Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics Pub Date : 2021-03-22 DOI: 10.1515/mp-2020-0029
G. Frizzera
{"title":"An Ontology for ‘The Universe of Being’","authors":"G. Frizzera","doi":"10.1515/mp-2020-0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2020-0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Attempting to provide an ontological framework for the notion of the non-personal Universe of Being proposed elsewhere, this paper – after some basic definitions – focuses on substances, one pillar of that notion. It recognizes only to individual substances a material (vs. formal) existence, viewed as the entire complex of the properties instantiated in each of them. It then examines features of the general essence of substances (in primis their independence). While such essence can be comprehended via abstract definitions, their individual essence (‘this-ness’) cannot, I argue, because it is not a concept but a reality, which I refer to as Being. This manifests powers, is inexhaustible growth and is one, although expressed differently in each individual. The possible connection of the human being with this reality is the second pillar of the notion of the non-personal Universe of Being, which I summarize and compare to other scenarios at the end.","PeriodicalId":43147,"journal":{"name":"Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/mp-2020-0029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46607210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Holism Resurfacing: How Far Should We Go With It? 整体论重新浮出水面:我们应该走多远?
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Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics Pub Date : 2021-03-19 DOI: 10.1515/mp-2020-0033
Márta Ujvári
{"title":"Holism Resurfacing: How Far Should We Go With It?","authors":"Márta Ujvári","doi":"10.1515/mp-2020-0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2020-0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The recent holistic trends in metaphysics are surveyed here and a tentative typology is offered. The non-linear mode of composition is suggested as the key feature of holism, apart from its familiar non-reductionism and emergentism. It is argued that those holistic views are promising that refrain from extreme relationalism based on the denial of there being self-subsistence particulars; also, those refraining from the postulation of an unarticulated all-embracing whole where both relations and terms are denied to be genuine ontological items. The further suggestion is that a trade-off between the holistic perspective and the limits imposed upon it in the form of built-in confinements may help in making this metaphysics go.","PeriodicalId":43147,"journal":{"name":"Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48597182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Modest Dualism and Individuation of Mind 适度二元论与心灵个体化
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Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics Pub Date : 2021-03-19 DOI: 10.1515/mp-2020-0019
Alireza Mazarian
{"title":"Modest Dualism and Individuation of Mind","authors":"Alireza Mazarian","doi":"10.1515/mp-2020-0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2020-0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A persistent tradition in metaphysics of mind insists that there is a substantial difference between mind and body. Avicenna’s numerous arguments, for a millennium, have encouraged the view that minds are essentially immaterial substances. In the first part, I redesign and offer five versions of such arguments and then I criticize them. First argument (indivisibility) would be vulnerable in terms of two counterexamples. Second argument (universals) confuses existence with location. Third argument (bodily tools) is less problematic than the first two, though I will say a few words about why it may also not be convincing. Fourth argument (infinity) may not support substance dualism, because, I think, abundance is very different from infinity. Fifth argument (senescence) depends on empirically incorrect premises. Hence, it seems that no Avicennian argument can reasonably save substance dualism.","PeriodicalId":43147,"journal":{"name":"Metaphysica-International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/mp-2020-0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48524884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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