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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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causality
Philosophy; General philosophy
To philosopher David Hume, it is an inference made by our minds that we project to make our minds make things make sense. To Wegner, Hume's inference of causality is in ...
the problem of evil
Philosophy; General philosophy
In Descartes' Meditation IV he discusses how evil can exist if God does. His argument is that if God is a perfect being he must logically be omnipotent, omniscient and beneficent, ...
tabula rasa
Philosophy; General philosophy
A term coined by philosopher John Locke, translated to blank slate, referring to how ideas start. Other ways of thinking of this are a white paper void of characters, or an empty ...
identity of indiscernables
Philosophy; General philosophy
Leibniz came up with this postulate that if there is no discernable qualitative difference between two things, then they are identical. This is an important postulate for his ...
appetition
Philosophy; General philosophy
For Leibniz, appetition is spontaneous "motion" or unfurling; mirroring or representation. Or, as each monad changes multi-qualitative states it does so in a manner so as to ...
apperception
Philosophy; General philosophy
Simply, it is self-conscious reflection. It is the awareness we mirror through perception, and is recursive. This is part of Leibniz's argument for pre-established harmony.
regulative role of reason
Philosophy; General philosophy
This requires us to think of ourselves as autonomous self-regulating (ie: possessing free will) and unlimited persons, in reference to answering the four major metaphysical ...
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