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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 conjunction with our ...

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, but despite this ...

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 cabinet.

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 discussion of monads.

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 maintain synchronicity ...

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 questions (What is ...