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4 giorni fa · A premise of the Leibnizian cosmological argument from contingency says that no contingent fact can explain why there are any contingent facts at all. David Hume and Paul Edwards famously denied this premise, arguing that if every fact has an explanation in terms of further facts ad infinitum, then they all do. This is known as the Hume–Edwards Principle (HEP). In this paper, I examine the ...
2 giorni fa · Rational psychology restricts itself to exploring metaphysical foundations and problems concerning the mind, such as its relation to matter and the freedom of the will. Natural theology studies the divine and its role as the first cause.
4 giorni fa · water. Thales of Miletus (born c. 624–620 bce —died c. 548–545 bce) was a philosopher renowned as one of the legendary Seven Wise Men, or Sophoi, of antiquity. He is remembered primarily for his cosmology based on water as the essence of all matter, with Earth a flat disk floating on a vast sea.
5 giorni fa · Kant's view has some further implications for his general epistemology, since it implies that there is no clear disambiguation between a mathematical picture and a sensible picture in his writings (e.g. his Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science are concerned with schematizing the pure empirical concepts of matter and motion ...
1 giorno fa · Philosophy of science focuses on metaphysical, epistemic and semantic aspects of scientific practice, and overlaps with metaphysics, ontology, logic, and epistemology, for example, when it explores the relationship between science and the concept of truth.
2 giorni fa · René Descartes ( / deɪˈkɑːrt / day-KART or UK: / ˈdeɪkɑːrt / DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ⓘ; [note 3] [11] 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) [12] [13] [14] : 58 was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathematics was ...
2 giorni fa · Metaphysics has been around since the dawn of humanity and covers a wide field of study including everything from theoretical mathematics to quantum physics to cosmology to psychic phenomena. Metaphysics is a valid field of study both in and outside of the scientific community.
