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Unrestricted Composition: the argument from the semantic theory of vagueness?
I’ve seen the following claim made quite a lot in and out of print, so I’m wondering if I’m missing something. The claim is that Lewis’s argument for unrestricted composition r… more →
Possibly Philosophy
The Whole of me, is a Part of the Whole.
wrote 3 days ago: I recently came across a science and metaphysical idea that has been growing in the past twenty year … more →
Reductionism and Infinite Descent
wrote 1 month ago: Reductionism is the attempt at ontological explanation from parts to wholes; that is, wholes are com … more →
Mereological Ontological Arguments: A Brief Exposition
wrote 1 month ago: There is an obscure, though interesting form of ontological argument that almost never gets discusse … more →
On What Things Exist
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wrote 7 months ago: The dilemma of What Things Exist, which I might also call the dilemma of fundamental existents, is o … more →
Robo Law
wrote 8 months ago: How the law should deal with technologies that blur man and machine Philosophers at the Humboldt Uni … more →
Identity Between Worlds
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wrote 9 months ago: This is a follow up to my post A Purpose of Suffering, where I would like to analyze the possibility … more →
I learned something new today
wrote 10 months ago: And it was because of Graham Oppy, of course. I asked him a question on Facebook, and here’s w … more →
Capstone Paper - A Critique of 'Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience' - On Brains, Human Beings, and the Use of Words
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wrote 11 months ago: For those who would prefer to read the paper in a word processor or simply print it off, the file ca … more →
Shortbread, Shortbread, Everywhere
wrote 11 months ago: I’ve been on the hunt for a perfect shortbread recipe. Alas, I’ve not found thee perfec … more →
355: "Your mind makes it real" : Morpheus
wrote 1 year ago: Kant held that the mind understands the raw experience of the world by imposing categories of space, … more →
Part-whole relations, mereotopology and the OntoPartS tool
wrote 1 year ago: Part-whole relations are considered essential in knowledge representation and reasoning and, more pr … more →
Fallacies of Composition, Up and Down
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wrote 1 year ago: The fallacy of composition is an interesting logical move which I think we usually tend to avoid, an … more →
On going artist now.
wrote 1 year ago: “Delays are Revolutions,” quoted Hans-Ulrich Obrist.1 Generative “posthastism … more →
Fuzzy Holistic Hermeneutics
wrote 2 years ago: So it is that I find myself on a mission to understand, interpret (and communicate) holism. Hermeuti … more →
Husserl's Synthetic A Priori Argument From Mereology
wrote 3 years ago: A Response to Kant’s Metaphysical Challenge By: Jay Dyer Modern philosophy since Immanuel Kant … more →
Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Civilization
wrote 3 years ago: Monday For a more theoretical exposition of synchrony and diachrony you can read my more recent post … more →
Constituency neither is nor requires Parthood
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wrote 3 years ago: At the Central APA, I attended a presentation by Greg Fowler and Chris Tillman in which they showed … more →
Constituency neither is nor requires Parthood
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wrote 3 years ago: At the Central APA, I attended a presentation by Greg Fowler and Chris Tillman in which they showed … more →
Oops
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wrote 3 years ago: I’ve been cleaning up my “Indefinite Divisibility” paper from last year. One of my arguments in it c … more →
