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Tag Archives: Metaphysics
A Note on Metaphysics, in Partial Response to Peter Hacker’s “Why Study Philosophy?”
0. In “Why study philosophy?,” a note posted to his Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog, Brian Leiter points us to an article, also bearing the title, “Why Study Philosophy,” posted at iai news* and written by Peter Hacker, Emeritus research … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aristotle, Aristotle’s Greek, Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Being qua being, Biology, Brian Leiter, Chemistry, Contingent Truths, Empirico-Mathematical Science, Leiter Reports, Metaphysics, Necessary Truths, Ontology, Peter Hacker, Physics, Possible Worlds, Principle of Excluded Middle, Principle of Non-Contradiction, Reflexivity of Identity, Symmetry of Identity, Theory of Identity, Transitivity of Identity
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A First Reply to the Maverick Philosopher’s Replies to My “Seeing and the Existence of the Seen”
0. Bill Vallicella of Maverick Philosopher fame has published two posts in response to my “Seeing and the Existence of the Seen” of December 31, 2013, itself written in response to his “On Seeing: Intentionality without Aspectuality?” of December 30, 2013. … Continue reading →
Posted in Bill Vallicella, Intentionality, Maverick Philosopher, Seeing
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Tagged Avicenna, Bill Vallicella, Ghosts, Imagination, Intentionality, Maverick Philosopher, Metaphysics, Non-existent Objects, Object of Intentionality, Ontology, Operator Shift Fallacy, Seeing, Thomas Aquinas, Vision, Visual Experience
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Reading Alain Badiou’s Being and Event 5: Pluth on the Subject of Ontology
0. For all too many weeks now I have been kept away from posting by an upwelling of a variety of matters needing attention, some taken on willingly and some, well, not so much. They have not, however, quite kept … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aristotle, Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Being and Event, Being qua being, Ed Pluth, Metaphysics, Modal “Logic, Neo-Aristotelianism, Ontology, Qua, Reduplication, Reflexivity of Identity, The "Logic” of Identity, Theory of the Actual and the Potential, Theory of the Multiple
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After Aristotle 
Aquinas on the First Principles 1
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” 0. This post is the fourth in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Thomas … Continue reading →