Ontology

No willpower required? You must be kidding! No. A simple shift in your mind is all it takes. Read on… Have you been trying to ‘willpower yourself thin’? Yes. Just like everyone else. Because you’ve been told that having the body you want is hard. You’ve been told it requires willpower, or sacrifice, or giving up all the foods you love forever. Or somehow those ideas have been fixed in your mind. Nothing could be further from the truth. Willpower is NOT the answer! Willpowering yourself…

3. What prompted the author to present the issue on what is normal and abnormal? Who is Peter Levin Shaffer? • Early Life: Peter Shaffer was born to Orthodox Jewish parents, Jack and Reka Shaffer, in Liverpool, England, on May 15, 1926, has a twin brother, Anthony. Another brother, Brian, was born in 1929. He was studying history and a scholarship at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Before the careen in playwriting, Shaffer was a coal miner during World War II, held various odd jobs,…

In his essay “Veridical Hallucination and Prosthetic Vision”, David Lewis uses a vignette called “The Censor” to demonstrate why a suitable pattern of counterfactual-dependence is required to for a subject to experience ‘genuine sight’. A subject’s experience of a scene has counterfactual dependence if, and only if, the subject is capable of distinguishing the scene from possible alternative scenes. This means that, for the subject, if the scene were different, the subject would have a different…

Descartes introduced metaphysical considerations: the immutability of the lawgiver God, whose action is always constant because otherwise would be imperfect, and imperfection is unthinkable in relation to divinity (Henry, 2004, p. 100). In other words, laws of nature are causal because they derive from God’s immutable character. This God, however, differed from the voluntarist God of Ockham’s tradition. In fact, when Descartes founded his laws of nature upon God’s immutability, guaranteed that…

Memories are figures that live in an unconcluded world. They are fragments of unrepeatable facts, that never happen twice. We don’t understand memory as a juvenile desire to go backwards, to replace the irreplaceable; memory is not repent for us. It is to look at the future knowing of the past. A Museum of Memory should be imagined from the non linear character of time and its images. And also how we can hold and transmit this knowledge in a broad and impartial way. A singular country,…

The most serious problem associated with metaphysical dualism is “mind over matter’. When we speak of mind and body, we are not speaking of two separate things but only one thing that is in question. Metaphysics is the knowledge of knowing what is real and how do you know it’s real? Knowing what is real is a serious problem because we as humans did not live back then so we don’t know what to believe when it comes to past existence, because we don’t know what happened back then, making logic to…

Kenneth Bounds kab4946 Carneades of Cyrene Academic Skepticism Carneades of Cyrene was a Greek philosopher who was known for his views on Academic Skepticism and refuting the sophists` views. This skepticism advocates the idea that knowledge is impossible. Since knowledge is not possible, ideas and notions are not true. People cannot rely on their perception for knowledge as senses are not always accurate, therefore are not completely reliable. As a result, someone cannot put forward ideas and…

take, it means that the man causes action. Having the freedom of choice could not have been caused or determined by any event that was not itself within the shooter’s power either to cause or not to cause. Even if the victim (second man) caused the shooting to occur, the results will be the same. If a man caused the act and people have the right to choose, then free will does exist. Chisholm then offers another hypothetical situation: under hypnosis, a man is unable to do anything other than…

Strict dualism was developed by René Descartes. This dualism represents the mental inferences between a person in which the mind and body are not the same. I think that in a way, these two co-exist with each other but work indifferently. there are different sub-components which are materialism, epiphenomenalism, idealism, occasionalism, and double-aspect theory. Descartes thought that the mind was the center control center of the entire body. That the mind is in control over the body but…

Mystery Book definition/examples: “‘The best things cannot be said”’ (Pearce, 1989, p. 84). “One aspect of the experience of mystery is an awareness of the open-endedness of the world” (Pearce, 1989, p. 84). “Evens and objects do not come ‘prepackaged’ with their own interpretation, and they are not incorporated into the human world until they are interpreted. Further, interpretation is an act by an interpreter, not an attribute of the event or object interpreted; as a result, there is no…