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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Fundamentality"”.
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Ground and Relative Fundamentality
… analyze ground partly in terms of relative fundamentality. This analyzed notion of ground can not only do the work that a primitive notion can, but it is better equipped to respond to a number of objections and challenges that the notion faces. The dissertation ends by demonstrating this is …
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Ideology, Truthmaking and Fundamentality
… two versions of truthmaking as a theory of fundamentality. I argue against the first and defend the second against various objections and problems. I argue that if we adopt truthmaking as a theory of fundamentality, then we should believe in the second version.</p>
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Powers and the Metaphysics of Fundamentality
<p>In this dissertation, I address the question of whether ground, the relation that obtains between entities e1...en and a further entity e when e ontologically depends on, and is metaphysically explained by, e1...en, should be understood causally and, if so, whether this has any substantive …
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Are Grounding and Naturalness Related?
… They are both used to cash out the notion of fundamentality; that is, proponents of both concepts propose certain criteria for counting a property/fact as more fundamental than another. In this paper, I will explore whether there is any plausible systematic connection between the criteria the …
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Defending Deflationary Heuristics Against Hyperintensional Manoeuvres
… can be disagreement about some matter of \textit{fundamentality}. Different variants correspond to different analyses of fundamentality: for example, naturalness or grounding-variants. I seek to defang these hyperintensional manoeuvres. I argue that naturalness and grounding should be interpreted …
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On the Intelligibility of Grounding Autonomy
… to other attempts to analyze the nature of fundamentality, e.g., dependence, supervenience, identity, conceptual analysis, etc. Still, a number of commentators note a bevy of issues facing the notion of grounding, leading some to believe it cannot perform the relevant work it has been tasked …
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Rational Foundationalism
… new way of thinking about absolute and relative fundamentality. If what is fundamental is identified with God, certain Scholastic doctrines about the divine nature, such as absolute simplicity, will have to be abandoned—a consequence that I argue is a virtue rather than vice of the proposal.
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Philosophy and the professional Image of philosophy
… one that focuses on philosophy's formality, fundamentality, and the widespread use of intuitions, showing that it is partly determined by the history of the professionalization of the discipline. I argue that readings of historical philosophers that are informed by this image tend to obscure …
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Determining the effects of alloy composition, forging technique, and flux on the strength of forge welds
… these industries, the process of welding remains fundamentality the same, and the effectiveness of these processes to securely join metal is always characterized by the material properties of the metal after welding. The tensile test performance of forge welds when made with different iron alloys, …
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Theological Essentialism at the Enlightenment: The Doctrine of Fundamental Articles of the Faith in Daniel Waterland (1683-1740)
… relevant contemporary discussions of doctrinal “fundamentality,” it breaks with a precarious historiography which often cites Waterland as its sole primary source on the early Hanoverian reception of Protestantism’s Post-Reformation doctrine of fundamental articles of the faith (i.e., the …
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Mažųjų valstybių suartėjimas su didžiosiomis galiomis: kaip Lietuvai pavyko įtvirtinti strateginę partnerystę su Japonija? /
… Lithuanian decision-makers is based on the fundamentality of like-mindedness and the long-term perception. What helped Lithuania achieve strategic partnership was the mutual knowledge and common values - like-mindedness - in a changed security situation in a world where values are becoming …
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Mulla Sadra and the mind-body problem: A critical assessment of Sadra’s approach to the dichotomy of soul and spirit
… about the soul. One of Sadra‟s principles, the fundamentality of existence, is explained. This principle aims to prove the reality of the external world and the soul as one of these realities. The topics of motion and time and the views of philosophers about these are cited. In addition, another …
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Comparative Assessment of Network-Centric Software Architectures
… studied here were selected on the basis of their fundamentality and generality. The frameworks were chosen on the basis of their popularity and representativeness to build solutions in a particular architecture. The criteria used for comparative assessment are derived from a combination of two …
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Grounding, Causation and the Unity of Ontological Structure
<p>Unity is enchanting. That is, it is an enchanting idea that although reality seems to be fragmented in various ways, this apparent fragmentation belies a fundamental <em>unity</em>. This dissertation is an attempt at theoretically capturing such unity via the theoretical unification of causation …
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Metaphysical Coherentism
<p>I defend metaphysical coherentism, according to which reality is an interdependent network, system, or web, held together by a relation philosophers call "metaphysical explanation" or "grounding". If coherentism is true, nothing is ungrounded, things ground each other, and understanding what it …
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The Proscriptive Principle and Logics of Analytic Implication
… systems and logical multilattices supports the fundamentality and naturalness of these logics and, additionally, allows us to extend epistemic interpretation of bilattices in the tradition of artificial intelligence to these systems.</li> <li>Finally, the correspondence between the present …