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The Arrow of Time
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The Arrow of Time Many philosophers and scientists have claimed that time has an arrow that points in a special direction. The Roman poet Ovid may have referred to this one-way property of time when he said, “Time itself glides on with constant motion, ever as a flowing river.” However, understanding this arrow is not … Continue reading The Arrow of Time →
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Time
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Time Time is what clocks are used to measure. Information about time tells the durations of events, and when they occur, and which events happen before which others, so time plays a very significa ...
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Knowledge-First Theories of Justification
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Knowledge-First Theories of Justification Knowledge-first theories of justification are theories of justification that give knowledge priority when it comes to explaining when and why someone has ...
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What Else Science Requires of Time
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What Else Science Requires of Time This article is one of the three supplements of the main Time article. The two others are “Frequently Asked Questions about Time” and “Special ...
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British Empiricism
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British Empiricism ‘British Empiricism’ is a name traditionally used to pick out a group of eighteenth-century thinkers who prioritised knowledge via the senses over reason or the intellect and wh ...
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Susanne K. Langer
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Susanne K. Langer (18951985) Susanne Langer was an American philosopher working across the analytic and continental divide in the fields of logic, aesthetics, and theory of mind. Her work connects ...
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Aristotle: Epistemology
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Aristotle: Epistemology For Aristotle, human life is marked by special varieties of knowledge and understanding. Where other animals can only know that things are so, humans are able to understand ...
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History of Utilitarianism
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History of Utilitarianism The term “utilitarianism” is most-commonly used to refer to an ethical theory or a family of related ethical theories. It is taken to be a form of consequentialism, which ...
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Moral Perception
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Moral Perception It is a familiar thought that many of our beliefs are directly justified epistemically by perception. For example, she sees what looks to her to be a cat on the mat, and from this ...
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William Godwin
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William Godwin (17561836) Following the publication of An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice in 1793 and his most successful novel, Caleb Williams, in 1794, William Godwin was briefly celebrated ...
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