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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"transcendental argument"”.
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BASIC LOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND ITS JUSTIFICATION
… analysis of logical concepts which facilitates a transcendental argument in support of basic logical knowledge. I arrive at this theory by radically readapting methods and insights from the theories of geometry of Kant and Helmholtz, and from Frege’s logicist explanation of the basis of our …
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Reforming Counseling: The Adaptation of Van Tilian Concepts by Jay Adams
… understanding of presuppositions and the transcendental argument for the existence of God, and critiquing Adams’s adaptation of presuppositional analysis into a discernment tool for pastors. Chapter 6 overviews Van Til’s understanding of the antithesis and critiques Adams’s employment of …
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Self -Awareness and Self -Interpretation
… neither defensible when presented with counter-arguments, nor fits the phenomenological data of our own experience. I next develop a positive account of what our basic sense of self is like when we have shed the distorting quasi-Cartesian preconceptions. I argue that in basic experience, we …
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The Power of Reason: Kant’s Empirical Study of the Mind
… reason is essential to Kant’s discussion in the Transcendental Dialectic and prompts the primary question of this thesis: how does Kant justify such an infinitely demanding faculty? How does he think we come to know that we have reason, so understood? Traditionally, Kant scholars have held that …
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The Drivers of Government Megapolicies: Internal Settler Colonisation in Indonesia
… I use the critical realist method of transcendental argument to adapt this intuition to the megapolicy puzzle. I propose a model where governments, as situated in specific forms (states, nations, and regimes), depend on several sublimes (statehood, national community, regime stability) …
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Prescriptions and universalizability: a defence of Harean ethical theory
… account of moral judgement and discourse. The argument for expressivism draws on Hare’s thought that the main error of moral realism is to think of moral objectivity as requiring objects, moral properties which are really there in the world. It is shown, using an argument based on the Euthyphro …