Spinoza’s Argument for Substance Monism and Common Objections Spinoza’s Ethics is widely thought of as Spinoza’s greatest work. One noteworthy claim that he makes in his Ethics is his argument for substance monism‚ or the existence of only one substance. In Proposition 14‚ Part I of his Ethics‚ Spinoza states that “There can be‚ or be conceived‚ no other substance but God.” This statement amounts to saying that everything else in this world‚ whether it is extended or not‚ is a mere image of God
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Chapter 4 Categorical Propositions Categorical Proposition- a proposition that relates two classes or categories of entities together in some way. (sentence with truth value) -The classes in question are denoted respectively by the subject term and predicate term (S) (P) Quantifiers (S) (P) -All Ex. All Snow is White -None No Snow is Green -Some Some
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Of all the plays by William Shakespeare‚ Hamlet deals the most with what lies beyond this terrestrial sphere. In the words of Michael Neil‚ "Hamlet [is] a prolonged meditation on death." It is a study of life beyond death‚ in the metaphysics of the eternal soul‚ the afterlife‚ and the eternal consequences of temporal causes. Characters in the play are obsessed by the afterlife. Hamlet ’s fixation on suicide is possibly the most obvious example of this. In one of his soliloquies‚ he confesses
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1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. BASIC CONCEPTS OF LOGIC What Is Logic? ................................................................................................... 2 Inferences And Arguments ................................................................................ 2 Deductive Logic Versus Inductive Logic .......................................................... 5 Statements Versus Propositions......................................................................... 6 Form
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and didn’t imply that there was a God who had really passed on‚ rather that our concept of one had. After the Enlightenment‚ the possibility of a universe that was administered by physical laws and not by divine provision was presently reality Metaphysics- Perspectivism is the view that our insight and comprehension are adapted by how we are seeing it. To see something‚ one must be specifically put and a specific time and view it from a specific point. One
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Reading Response Epistemology is a philosophy that specifically focuses on the scope of knowledge. In a sense the questions is asked “what we know” or “What we can be sure of”. These are the basic fundamentals that surround how we think. In this paper‚ I will discuss views presented by philosophers that relate to me and my profession. In addition‚ I will explore the similarities and differences in epistemology. Perception as it relates to epistemology focuses on our perpetual knowledge
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an integral part in his metaphysics and philosophy of being. Aquinas is not interested in the problem of objective as we have it in modern thinking and today rather‚ he is much more interested in how we acquire our knowledge and put them to use. Simply put‚ he investigates the process of knowledge. He identified three levels of acquiring knowledge namely: sense-experience‚ imaginations or ideations and intellection. Aquinas thus made an important contribution to epistemology‚ recognising the central
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Metaphysics Aristotle considered the most fundamental features of reality in the twelve books of the Μεταφυσικη(Metaphysics). Although experience of what happens is a key to all demonstrative knowledge‚ Aristotle supposed that the abstract study of "being qua being" must delve more deeply‚ in order to understand why things happen the way they do. A quick review of past attempts at achieving this goal reveals that earlier philosophers had created more difficult questions than they had answered: the Milesians over-emphasized
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Epistemology can be difficult to understand and maybe even harder to say. The short answer is that epistemology is the theory of knowledge. Perhaps that is too short of an answer‚ allow me expand. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with questions concerning the nature‚ scope‚ and sources of knowledge. Even these concepts can be foreign to the common public. The nature of knowledge is basically the qualities that constitute knowledge. One would find this answer by asking "What is
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The main credited "father of logic" is widely considered to be the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. Interested in every area of human knowledge about the world‚ Aristotle aimed to unify all of them in a coherent system of thought by developing a common methodology that would serve equally well as the procedure for learning about any discipline.(Hurley 5) For Aristotle‚ then‚ logic is the instrument (the "organon") by means of which we come to know anything. He proposed as formal rules for correct
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