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Paul Grice
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2013-9-10 12:10)
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[Revised entry by Richard E. Grandy and Richard Warner on September 9, 2013.
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Herbert Paul Grice, universally known as Paul, was born on March 13, 1913 in Birmingham, England and died on August 28, 1988 in Berkeley CA. Grice received firsts in classical honours moderation (1933) and literae humaniores (1935) from Corpus Christi College, Oxford. After a year teaching in a public school, he returned to Oxford where, with a nearly five year interruption for service in the...
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Tropes
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2013-9-10 11:26)
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[Revised entry by Anna-Sofia Maurin on September 9, 2013.
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According to trope theory, the world consists (wholly or partly) of ontologically unstructured (simple) abstract particulars or, as they are normally called, tropes. Tropes are abstract yet they are not universal, they are particular yet they are not concrete. In accepting the existence of entities characterized in this (unusual) way, the theory can be said to occupy...
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Numenius
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2013-9-7 13:09)
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[Revised entry by George Karamanolis on September 6, 2013.
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Numenius, a Platonist philosopher of the mid 2nd century CE, had considerable impact on later Platonism, most notably on Plotinus (3rd c.) and Porphyry (3rd-4th c. His work survives only in fragments, either as excerpts or in reports in later sources, mostly Platonists, both pagan and Christian (e.g. Porphyry, Proclus,...
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Monotheism
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2013-9-7 12:44)
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[Revised entry by William Wainwright on September 6, 2013.
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Theists believe that reality's ultimate principle is God - an omnipotent, omniscient, goodness that is the creative ground of everything other than itself. Monotheism is the view that there is only one such God. After a brief discussion of monotheism's historical origins, this entry looks at the five most influential attempts to establish God's uniqueness. We will consider arguments from God's...
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Continuity and Infinitesimals
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2013-9-7 12:41)
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[Revised entry by John L. Bell on September 6, 2013.
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The usual meaning of the word continuous is "unbroken" or "uninterrupted": thus a continuous entity - a continuum - has no "gaps." We commonly suppose that space and time are continuous, and certain philosophers have maintained that all natural processes occur continuously: witness, for example, Leibniz's famous...
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Bernardino Telesio
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2013-9-7 8:12)
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[Revised entry by Michaela Boenke on September 6, 2013.
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Bernardino Telesio (1509 - 1588) belongs to a group of independent philosophers of the late Renaissance who left the universities in order to develop philosophical and scientific ideas beyond the restrictions of the Aristotelian-scholastic tradition. Authors in the early modern period referred to these philosophers as 'novateurs' and 'modern'. In contrast to his successors Patrizzi and Campanella,...
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Markets
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2013-9-5 12:52)
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[Revised entry by Lisa Herzog on September 4, 2013.
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Markets are institutions in which individuals or collective agents exchange goods and services. They usually use money as a medium of exchange, which leads to the formation of prices. Markets can be distinguished according to the goods or services traded in them (e.g. financial markets, housing markets, labor markets), according to their scope (e.g. regional, national, international markets), or according to...
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Henri Poincaré
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2013-9-4 13:28)
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[New Entry by Gerhard Heinzmann and David Stump on September 3, 2013.]
Henri Poincare was a mathematician, theoretical physicist and a philosopher of science famous for discoveries in several fields and referred to as the last polymath, one who could make significant contributions in multiple areas of mathematics and the physical sciences. This survey will focus on Poincare's philosophy. Concerning Poincare's scientific legacy,...
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James Ward
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2013-9-4 9:38)
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[Revised entry by Pierfrancesco Basile on September 3, 2013.
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British idealism was the dominant philosophical movement in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. Its best-known representatives - philosophers of the like of Thomas Hill Green and Francis Herbert Bradley - held a version of Absolute idealism, the theory that reality is a single unified consciousness or cosmic experience. The doctrine has its roots in the philosophies of Spinoza,...
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Epistemology, Infinitism in
from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2013-9-2 13:47)
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Infinitism in Epistemology This article provides an overview of infinitism in epistemology. Infinitism is a family of views in epistemology about the structure of knowledge and epistemic justification. It contrasts naturally with coherentism and foundationalism. All three views agree that knowledge or justification requires an appropriately structured chain of reasons. What form may such a […]
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