Metaphysics: Aristotle and Plato’s Views Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that tries to answer a few questions by looking at the fundamental nature of the world. What is appearance? What is real? And ultimately what is the nature of reality? It helps us to try and see past the physical things and determine for ourselves whether something actually exists and the ultimate reason for why it exists. Although a single term‚ metaphysics covers a wide array of topics‚ including Plato’s idea of individual
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Aaron Feizet Metaphysics Paper 2 Why Mereological Universalism and Nihilism Are Not Mutually Exclusive In Function 1. Introduction In the following paper‚ I ’ll attempt to argue that the Mereological Universalism championed by James Van Cleve‚ and metaphysical nihilism‚ are more or less reconcilable. What’s more‚ I’ll argue that the functional understanding of the world occupied by universalists is more or less identical to that which is necessarily employed by all nihilists (or at least all
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Philosophy as Metaphysics ABSTRACT: Philosophy works with special types of objects: the totalities. The basic characteristics of this type of object are their metaphysical‚ transcendental‚ and total character. The character of these objects determines the specificity of language and the methods of philosophy. The language of philosophy represents symbolic language; speculation is the basic method of philosophy. On the one hand‚ objects of this type emphasis homo sapien as essences capable of
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Metaphysics shares a breadth of problems concerning ‘universals’. One view that addresses these problems is nominalism. Nominalism is the position that universals do not exist outside the mind. There are different sects of nominalism that expresses various stances about the problem at hand. Austere nominalism‚ metalinguistic nominalism‚ and trope theory are the various types of nominalism that refute the claim of realism. Each of these types of nominalism contain their own respective views towards
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Metaphysics Aristotle considered the most fundamental features of reality in the twelve books of the Μεταφυσικη(Metaphysics). Although experience of what happens is a key to all demonstrative knowledge‚ Aristotle supposed that the abstract study of "being qua being" must delve more deeply‚ in order to understand why things happen the way they do. A quick review of past attempts at achieving this goal reveals that earlier philosophers had created more difficult questions than they had answered: the Milesians over-emphasized
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Philosophy has dozens of subdivisions within it‚ one being metaphysics. Metaphysics is the study of the nature of reality‚ and within metaphysics there are three more divisions materialism‚ idealism‚ and hylemorphism. Each philosopher fits into one category more then others. I have chosen to write about Aristotle‚ Plato‚ and Histories because I feel they each fit into a category with little confusion as to where they belong in metaphysics. Materialism falls all the way on the left of the spectrum
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G. E. Moore’s Response to Skepticism Patricia Baiyewu PHI 472/ Introduction to Metaphysics & Epistemology October 20‚ 2012 Professor John Barker G. E. Moore’s main contributions to philosophy were in the areas of metaphysics‚ epistemology‚ ethics‚ and philosophical methodology. In epistemology‚ Moore is remembered as a stalwart defender of commonsense realism. Rejecting skepticism on the one hand‚ and‚ on the other‚ metaphysical theories that would invalidate the commonsense beliefs
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As we delve deeper into Kant’s Metaphysics we begin to get a comprehension of how Kant believes that knowledge of the world can be possible. In this essay‚ I hope to explain clearly the way Kant believes that to be able to understand the world‚ humans’ project certain rules and regulation that objects must conform to so that they can be understood. I also intend to explain that it is through these rules and regulations that we will see two forms of human understanding that will appear with three
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What is the relationship between epistemology and metaphysics In many ways epistemology clears the way for metaphysical construction or hypothesis. By adhering to the principles of one branch of philosophy‚ it allows us to become better at searching within the other. It is true that epistemic ideas are often knocked down by metaphysics‚ but when one considers that it is entirely possible to base metaphysical ideas on epistemology‚ it becomes clear that the branches of philosophy are very
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Metaphysics has been given many definitions over the years‚ Aristotle says that it is the science of being as being‚ or the study of everything that can be. Another definition given to metaphysics is the science of the most universal conceptions. My personal favorite would be metaphysics is the science of the most abstract conceptions. This‚ to me‚ is saying that metaphysics is the study of ideas real physics does not solve‚ things that cannot be measured by a gauge. Aristotle also said "The first
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