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Ontology is the study of the nature of being, existence or reality as such, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.
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Sets and typical elements [closed]
I tried to find an answer in a few books on metaphysics and ontology but couldn't find any discussion of them. …
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Davidson, events, and states
Davidson argues that events are individuals. According to him, the meaning of Brutus stabbed Caesar is ∃e.stab(e,Brutus,Caesar), that is, there was a stabbing, Brutus did it, and Caesar underwent it. …
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Quine's "to be is to be the value of a bound variable"
Quine's definition "to be is to be the value of a bound variable" seems uncontroversial and in fact quite natural as it's compatible with modern approaches to the semantics of natural language. My que …
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Another name for "non-events"
According to Davidson, a sentence like Brutus stabbed Caesar can be represented as ∃e.stab(Brutus,Caesar), where e is a reified event. Is there a term for something that's not an event? I first though …
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What is the difference between implication and causality?
Implication is said to be more general than causality since, for example, being a dog implies being a mammal, but it doesn't cause it.
Is there a formalization of the difference between implication an …
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