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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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Filling the metaphysical landscape
Currently a gap exists between the regulatory, technocratic approach to managing a municipal landfill and the unofficial narratives of the people who live near the landfill and face a multitude of unpleasant effects in their everyday lives. This fracture between "official" truth and empirical …
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Descartes' Slight and Metaphysical Doubt
The goal of my dissertation is to argue that Descartes arrives at his account of self-knowledge by grappling with skepticism about introspection. As I interpret him, Descartes has his meditator attempt to undermine introspection so that he can replace his former beliefs about his mind's nature and …
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Modern Theories of Metaphysical Poetry
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Metaphysical issues in Halakic process
… whereby the employment of variant philosophical, metaphysical, or theological data emanating from biblical or aggadic sources, yields variant practical halakic results. The extent to which the cogitative assimilation of these data directly affects one and influences one's actions in practice is …
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Emily Dickinson: New England Metaphysical Poet
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The Content and Metaphysical Significance of Atheism
<p>The purpose of this paper is to answer two questions. First, what is atheism? Second, what is the significance of atheism? I contend that atheism should be understood as the absence of theistic belief and that atheism is significant only insofar as it denotes the absence of theistic belief. …
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Metaphysical balm and the poet as legislator
This essay was born of a desire to understand the relationship between poetry and politics in a meaningful and current way. The twentieth century has seen atrocities that have taken place on an unprecedented scale: times of historical and social extremity, states of exile, censorship, military …
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A Series of Collage Drawings Expressing Metaphysical Moods
… normal conditions or events in life which form a metaphysical reality. Procedure. To develop a large group of representational images and settings taken from the artist's past experiences, his subconscious and his dreams with the intention to experiment, interchange and unite into a particular …
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Aristotle on the metaphysical status of mathematical entities
… dissertation is to provide an account of the metaphysical status of mathematical entities in Aristotle. Aristotle endorses a form of realism about mathematical entities: for him as well as for Platonists, anti–realism, the view that mathematical objects do not exist, is not a viable option. …
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Some mechanical and metaphysical characteristics of form deciphered
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1985.
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The metaphysical and poetical universe of A. A. Fet
"The previously-neglected metaphysical aspect of Fet's poetry discussed in this thesis mainly concerns itself with the philosophical, ontological and aesthetical basis of his lyrics. Fet's Memoirs (1890) and correspondence with friends, such as L. Tolstoi, Iakov Polonskii, and I. Turgenev, his …
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A study in the metaphysical poetry of the seventeenth century
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Kant's Metaphysical Deduction and the Intellectual Origin of the Categories
… connections between existents. But in his metaphysical deduction of the categories, Kant seeks to vindicate our right to use the categories to think of such connections. Kant holds that certain acts of the understanding make judgments possible. For example, the judgment “If the sun shines, …
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Storytellers in fallen worlds: the metaphysical longings of crime fiction detectives
… I might deploy the postmodern approaches of the metaphysical detective novel to represent a divided society’s quest to understand itself in the context of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Wary of the pitfalls of applying the certainties of traditional detective fiction to these complex historical …
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Phenomenology and Blindness: Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and an Alternative Metaphysical Vision
… from ocularcentrism. Offering an "alternative metaphysical vision," his ethics is founded on relation to the Other as a metaphysical reality beyond comprehension, beyond experiencing with the senses, and beyond definition. Vision, in this case, doesn't reveal truth. Using the work of Levinas, …
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Dylan Thomas and the Metaphysical Mode: A Study of Shared Sensibilities
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