Traditional inflationary approaches that specify the nature of truth are attractive in certain ways; yet, while many of these theories successfully explain why propositions in certain domains of discourse are true, they fail to adequately specify the nature of truth because they run up against counterexamples when attempting to generalize across all domains. One popular consequence is skepticis...

Abstract In this paper, we challenge a wide-spread assumption among philosophers that contemporary physics supports physical state monism . This is the claim causal powers of system supervene upon ‘lower-level’ laws and lower-level cosmos (as represented by our ‘best physics’). On view, it makes sense to ignore macroscopic system’s higher-level properties in determining its powers, since any ar...

The present paper is an attempt to discuss monism in Tommy Orange’s There by using selected concordance occurrences. Monistic philosophy rejects the post-modern concept of pluralism and instability. Using Antconc toolkit, terms such as story, history its plurals too were found relation these words signs, situations, characters themes was tested for textual monism. In addition, if help make nove...

1 Introduction According to Spinoza, 'In Nature there cannot be two or more substances of the same nature or attribute' (IP5). 1 Call this the 'No Shared Attribute' thesis, 2 hereafter NSA. It is widely recognised (indeed, virtually undeniable) that NSA plays a crucial role in Spinoza's argument in The Ethics for his version of substance monism—for the view that there exists only one substance,...

A review is given of the status of hypotheses about various undiscovered particles. Magnetic monopoles, intermediate bosons, heavy leptons, scalar particles, quarks, tachyons and gravitons are discussed, along with speculations about the newly discovered neutral mesons. This review was completed in December 1974. Rep. Prog. Phys. 1975 38 731-770

This paper uses (tele)presence concepts to explore the practical and philosophical implications of the simulation argument: the notion that individuals may be trapped within manufactured realities. After describing a series of hypothetical simulation scenarios, key distinguishing dimensions of the scenarios are considered and implications for epistemology, religion and morality, mortality, and ...