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Chicken or Egg. Does anything begin Or is the idea of start/first origin. A misunderstanding of language
The existence of beginning. Origin/start/begin. All require something before. Are all just arbitrary measurements of traits we find of interest. Mapping how they change over time? The global Idea of ...
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What is the difference in concrete things between being and existing, or is there none?
I am supposing that being and existence must correspond to principles in concrete things, else the notions of being and existence are false precisely because they are attributed to things. So what ...
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Aquinas on the relation between essence, being, and existence
In Summa Contra Gentiles 2.9.4, Aquinas writes
Just as active power is something acting, so is its essence something
being [Sicut potentia activa est aliquid agens, ita essentia eius est aliquid ens]....
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What are some logically equivalent formulations of “uniqueness”?
A monoid is a mathematical structure with an associative law of composition and an identity element. It can be proven that if an element of a monoid has an inverse, then the inverse is unique:
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Does all the existence have a will to remain existing? [closed]
First of all: i am a layman.
Body/bodies: Material Being/Has mass and volume
And what i mean by the title: Everything that exists (that is composed by any chemical element) has the will/determination ...
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What do you think about all existence following the very same laws? [closed]
So, i was wondering: Planets, Stars, etc. Have a similar behavior to us, humans. I mean, they consume energy to stay "alive" and when this energy ends up they "die". And in the end ...
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Certainty for the existence of tomorrow?
The title might not be the best but it was the best I could do. The question presses on the matter of continuity of time and the necessity of existence as a connected metaphysical phenomena.
Just like ...
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Is it true that no philosopher disagrees that everything exists?
I am baffled by what Quine claims here:
A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, ...
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How does the claim that existence is not a predicate of objects interact with abstract objects?
It's occured to me that Kant's famous argument that "existence" is not a predicate whatsoever, which eventually became the prevailing position on the subject due to Frege and Russell, seems ...
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What's the least amount of things that can possibly exist?
Suppose there only ever existed one indecomposable, irreducible object.
What could distinguish it from nothingness? From not existing, as there is nothing besides it that could deduce its information?
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In analytic philosophy, what's the difference between something existing and being real?
In analytic philosophy, the dominant view has it that things are real iff they exist mind independently (i.e. they exist apart from our beliefs, concepts, cultural practices etc.).
So there are two ...
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How void and time originates matter?
- I'm a layman so i may seem confused and not even know what I’m talking about, but that’s why I’m here asking. Please explain this to me, it captivates me so much.
If something exists it's affected ...
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What kinds of physical things exist mind independently?
Generally, it's said that a thing exists mind independently if it exists apart from our beliefs, concepts, cultural practices, etc.
Do door knobs exist mind independently? They're collections of ...
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Circularity in definition of Real
I'm having a hard time understanding the adjective 'real'.
In some sense, we get that x is real iff x is in reality. So to say that y is a real boy, is to say that y is a boy, and y is in the ...
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Is there a law stating impermanence of machines?
All livings beings take birth, age, and die. This is well understood as a Truth in philosophy through inductive argumentation. That begs a follow up question: is there any formulation of a Law based ...
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