Ontology

argument. I will start by giving the history of this argument and how it was built, and then I will be giving my own personal opinion on the ontological argument. 2.1 What is an ontological argument? The ontological argument is an argument that uses ontology to prove the existence of God; ontological arguments use the nature of existence to argue in favor of certain conclusions. They start with an “a priori” theory about the nature of existence, and then…

As Russell reconstructs the idea of co-presence in the light of physics, mathematics, and cosmology, he appeals to the examples of non-Hausdorff manifolds and Cantor’s threefold concept of the finite, the transfinite, and the infinite in mathematics and to the non-locality of quantum mechanics. Thereby, he renders co-presence as an infinite fractal-like character. To be more specific, gleaning from Pannenberg the idea of the dialectical mutual indwelling of the finite and the infinite,…

Philosophy is the study of ideas. Philosophy has four main branches: Ontology, study of reality: Epistemology, study of knowledge: Ethics, The study of moral: Aesthetics, study of art and beauty. Many Philosophers like Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle etc. contributed their own knowledge so we can use their philosophy in our life. According to Sir David, Humanism focuses on personal freedom, choice and responsibility. Achievement motivation towards highest levels. Control of own Destiny. Child…

existence. I feel that Anselm has an ontological basis of proof to stand on through definition, but it is still heavily theoretical. From an ontological point of view, Anselm has proven the existence of god physically and through basis of idea. Since ontology is the study of how things exist, it would stand true to god’s existence through ideas. I feel that this is not a fair argument because of the definition used to explain who god is. I also feel that Anselm is biased in this argument. For…

In Totality and Infinity, in “Philosophy and the idea of infinity” and in Otherwise than Being, Levinas is problematizing time and its relation to being. Time, in one sense, is alluded when the word “before” or “anterior” is used many times, but also “present,” a time that seems to be out of phase or dislocated; how can it be anterior and present? Here are a couple of quotes (that I already worked) where time is treated by Levinas: The differing of the identical is also its manifestation. But…

status of this 'god ' for Kant. The necessity of freedom cannot be acquired through experience, but it is excercised through sensory experience. In this regard, he argues along with Hume that identity is not a portion of the soul with a different ontology. It is not a problem of metaphysics, and so Kant is a true champion of the Enlightenment. At least in his goals and attempt. However, he knows that it fails nonetheless. To fall short of perfection or to negate identity, is to know the very…

Paria Esmaeil Khorasani Student #: 500475999 CPHL 709 Religion, Science and Philosophy Mon/Wed June 5, 2016 1671 words A Discussion About Philip K. Dick’s Exegesis Philip K. Dick’s exegesis, above being a theological exploration, is a philosophical and cosmological investigation into the world and being. Philip K. Dick attempts to understand his own being and his surrounding world by alluding to the existing knowledge of the past while arriving at something new on his own. My Focus on…

That is, we can quantify over non-existent things using the particular quantifier. They also hold that "there is" is like "exist", rather than like the particular quantifier. The ontology of the non-actual possible objects is an anchoring point of the possibilist view that uses quantifiers in quantified modal logic range over all the possible objects (non-actual as well as actual). Whereas Lewis’s theory which holds the fundamental…

Armstrong’s theory that the mind is the inner cause of a certain behaviour and his idea that it is associated with a physicalist view of human beings, is a complex idea that is also the result of a complex philosophical ‘problem’, one that philosophers from millennia ago tried to solve but it can be said that it is still not solved yet. It is known as the body mind problem and the term physicalism, is by itself an approach to how this problem has been interpreted by different philosophers. The…

INTRODUCTION: The following are argument analysis of arguments that mainly comprises the “Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous” and “Treatise concerning the principle of Human Knowledge” both written by George Berkley , who is an Irish philosopher and coined the philosophical concept called “immaterialism” which denies that materials exist in the world and are the fundamental building blocks of reality , indeed it says that it is the ideas which really exist in the minds of the…