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Journal articles on the topic "Metaphysical qualities"

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Cherlin, Paul Benjamin. "The Metaphysical Grounding of Logical Operations: John Dewey’s Theory of Qualitative Continuity." Contemporary Pragmatism 17, no. 4 (2020): 311–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-17040005.

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Abstract In John Dewey’s logical theory, qualities or qualitative relations account for the capacity to distinguish and associate the objects of reflective thought; they are antecedent to reflective analysis and necessary for coherent processes of inquiry. In Dewey’s writings that are specifically “metaphysical” in orientation, he is much more vague about the function of qualities, but does call them “generic traits of existence.” As such, they appear to be central to his mature ontological theory. In order to more fully understand the metaphysical import of qualitative relations, I first exam

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Duchliński, Piotr, and Agata Płazińska. "Metaphysical and Cultural Nature of Sacrifice in the Life and Death of E. Stein and S. Weil." Perspektywy Kultury 27, no. 4 (2020): 13–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.35765/pk.2019.2704.03.

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The article explains the metaphysical, culture-making and creative act sacrificing one’s own life in the name of higher values. At the beginning we discuss the causes of a contemporary cultural crisis and the disappearance of metaphysical attitudes. We have formulated a thesis that the revival of metaphysics in contemporary culture can be grounded in the experience of metaphysical qualities that are present in heroic acts of offering one’s own life for another. The next step in our analysis was to identify the necessary and sufficient conditions for self-sacrifice, and then, on the examples o

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Papandreou, Marilù. "The Shape of the Statue." History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 23, no. 2 (2020): 398–422. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/26664275-02302006.

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Abstract This paper discusses the metaphysical status of artefacts and their forms in the ancient commentators on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Specifically, it examines the Peripatetic tradition and Alexander of Aphrodisias to then turn to the commentaries of the late Neoplatonist Asclepius of Tralles, and the Byzantine commentator Michael of Ephesus. It argues that Alexander is the pioneer of the interpretation of artefactual forms as qualities and artefacts as accidental beings. The fortune of this solution goes through Asclepius and Michael to influence Thomas Aquinas.

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Müller, Olaf. "A very brief history of colour metaphysics." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2877, no. 1 (2024): 012065. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2877/1/012065.

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Abstract These are five playfully pessimistic meditations on the metaphysics of colour, arguing that metaphysical thinking does not fit well with the beautiful universe of colours: Neither Platonism nor relativism nor reductionism nor the distinction between primary and secondary qualities nor the denial of the existence of some colours at the expense of others offers convincing ways of dealing with the phenomena of colour. In the final, sixth meditation the standard analysis of magenta is challenged with some unorthodox ideas that can be traced back to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s colour rese

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Tes, Agnieszka. "Wybrane dzieła współczesnego polskiego malarstwa abstrakcyjnego w świetle Ingardenowskiej koncepcji jakości metafizycznych." Argument: Biannual Philosophical Journal 9, no. 1 (2019): 81–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/20841043.9.1.5.

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Selected works of the contemporary Polish abstract painting in the light of Ingarden’s conception of metaphysical qualities: The main thesis of my article is that Roman Ingarden’s concept of metaphysical qualities can be adapted to analyze and interpret artworks that represent some tendencies in abstract painting. I start by summarizing this concept, taking into consideration the elements of its reconstructions that are present in the source literature, especially those aspects that concern art. Although Ingarden’s idea can be used with many examples, I employ it

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Baranov, G. "Society and the paradigm of social philosophy." Bulletin of Science and Practice 398, no. 10(11) (2016): 369–72. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.161142.

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Characterized by three paradigms of social philosophy; describes two of the many explanations of the nature and specifics of the society; explores the five metaphysical qualities of existence of society

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Dr., Savithri.A. "Ontological Conception of Anekantavada: The Relativistic Interpretation of Jainism." Kiranavali XV, no. I-IV (2023): 113–19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10645024.

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The question regarding the ontology is always curious, whether it is real or unreal, one or many, spiritual or material, etc. The concept of Reality is one of the most important problems in Jaina Metaphysics. Based on their pluralistic nature, Jainism describes the epistemological, and metaphysical doctrines as multidimensional. The theory of Anekanta deals with this multidimensional nature of reality. According to them reality is always incomplete, as there are innumerable modes of existence, and every mode is independent of the other. The essential and accidental qualities of an unchanging s

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Liu, Gang. "The Approaches of Cultivating and Improving Design Students’ DQ." Applied Mechanics and Materials 37-38 (November 2010): 1407–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.37-38.1407.

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As we all know everyone has IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and EQ (Emotion Quotient), but for designers DQ (Design Quotient) is much more important than the IQ and EQ. In this paper first the DQ situation of students major in Product Design in China is analyzed, and then the qualities required for studying design are explained in depth. There are two design qualities, one is Innate Quality (character factors), and the other is Acquired Quality (study factors). Finally the approaches of cultivating and improving design students’ DQ are discussed in detail from two levels—Concrete level and Metaphys

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Paul, Sandeep. "Assessing the Degree of Publicness in Streets." Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA 7, no. 1 (2024): 23–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.38027/iccaua2024in0302.

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Streets have always been a vital source of public life in Indian cities. The advent of virtual technologies and changingurban realities, have impacted its publicness and activation. Additionally, increasing degree of publicness in privatelyowned public spaces poses significant reduction in street life. Hence, it is important to assess the street qualities whichcontribute to public life. The physical, non-physical and metaphysical qualities of street assessments will bring out theessential qualities of streets that contribute to public life in contemporary streets. This paper enquires socio-cul

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Hucker, Jacqueline. "“Battle and Burial”: Recapturing the Cultural Meaning of Canada's National Memorial on Vimy Ridge." Public Historian 31, no. 1 (2009): 89–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2009.31.1.89.

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Abstract The Vimy Memorial commemorates Canadians who fought and died in the First World War. In honoring the ordinary soldier, it departs from earlier traditions of celebrating victory or paying tribute to military leaders. The memorial is remarkable for its aesthetic qualities, as well as for its relationship to its battle landscape. This presentation examines the original conception of the monument and memorial park as a sacred site. It traces the gradual deterioration of the site, and the consequential challenges to its management and presentation, attributable to an under-appreciation of

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Metaphysical qualities"

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Haynes, Martin. "The subjectivity of secondary qualities and sensations." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240863.

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Dunand, Stéphane. "La réalité des couleurs." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX10119.

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Ce travail cherche à défendre une théorie objectiviste des couleurs en conciliant deux thèses tenues habituellement pour incompatibles : le physicalisme, selon lequel les couleurs sont des propriétés physiques décrites par la science, et la thèse de la révélation, selon laquelle la nature des couleurs est révélée par l’expérience. Ces deux thèses sont tenues pour inconciliables parce que les couleurs se présentent comme des qualités, alors que la science traite de quantités. Après être revenu sur l’histoire du problème en montrant comment on peut comprendre la controverse moderne sur les quali

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Books on the topic "Metaphysical qualities"

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F, Strawson P., and Chakrabarti Arindam, eds. Universals, concepts, and qualities: New essays on meaning of predicates and abstract entities. Ashgate, 2005.

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The Woman With Qualities. Dandelion Books, LLC, 2002.

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Stroud, Barry. Are the Colours of Things Secondary Qualities? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809753.003.0015.

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This chapter challenges the notion that the colours we believe to belong to the objects we see are ‘secondary’ qualities of those objects. Such a notion is endorsed by John McDowell, who has explained why he thinks the author is wrong to resist it. McDowell recognizes that the author’s focus on the conditions of successfully unmasking the metaphysical status of the colours of things is a way of trying to make sense of whatever notion of reality is involved in it. However, the author argues that the notion of reality he is concerned with is ‘independent reality’, not simply the general notion o

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Bolton, Martha Brandt. Modes and Composite Material Things According to Descartes and Locke. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815037.003.0006.

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This chapter deals with the ontology of bodies in Locke’s Essay. In Descartes’s ontology, a created substance, or its principal attribute, unifies the many modes that belong to that substance; by contrast, Locke’s ontology includes not only substances and their qualities, but also composite entities which contain substances but are unified by modes. Locke, it is argued, seeks to adapt the apparent unity of living things, e.g. oaks, horses, and human beings, to the (Cartesian) mechanistic doctrine that matter is a substance. His concepts of inner constitution and identity are designed to give a

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Tugby, Matthew. Putting Properties First. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855101.001.0001.

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Abstract This philosophical work is about the metaphysical preconditions of natural science. It develops and defends a new metaphysical theory of natural modality called ‘Modal Platonism’, which puts properties first in the metaphysical hierarchy. According to this theory, natural properties—such as mass and charge—are ontologically fundamental entities which ground the laws of nature and the dispositions of things. The theory differs from other ‘properties-first’ approaches in two main ways. First, it views properties as Platonic universals, which exist even if they are not instantiated. Seco

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de Harven, Vanessa. The Unity of Stoic Metaphysics. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198930181.001.0001.

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Abstract Everything is Something is a book about Stoic metaphysics. It argues that the Stoics were sophisticated metaphysical thinkers responding to Plato’s Sophist and forging a bold new path between materialism and idealism, with a one-world metaphysics best characterized as non-reductive physicalism. The book is divided into five sections. Section I, Something, develops the suggestion that the Stoics arrived at the genus Something and their two ontological criteria for being Something by careful reflection on Plato’s Sophist, finding new depth to Plato’s challenges as well as to the Stoic r

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Levine, Joseph. Quality and Content. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198800088.001.0001.

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The papers presented in this volume cover topics, such as the “phenomenal concept strategy,” to defend materialism from anti-materialist intuitions, the doctrine of representationalism about phenomenal character, the modal argument against materialism, the nature of demonstrative thought, and cognitive phenomenology. On the one hand, I argue that the phenomenal concept strategy cannot work and that representationalism has certain fatal flaws, at least if it’s to be joined to a materialist metaphysics. On the other, I defend materialism from the modal argument, arguing that it relies on a quest

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Miller, Elizabeth. Local Qualities. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828198.003.0007.

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For Humean atomists, cosmic contents supervene on a spatiotemporal mosaic of modally insulated, freely recombinable local qualities. One piecemeal subspecies of Humean atomism promises more than global supervenience—somehow or other—on a separable base; it constrains how exactly elemental inputs yield everything else. Roughly, the distribution of basic local qualities across elements in one part of our cosmos metaphysically suffices for the complete local physical state of that part: anything sharing this part’s basic elemental decoration should share its more complete contents, regardless of

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Strawson, Galen. Stuff, Quality, Structure. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198903680.001.0001.

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Abstract This book argues for identity metaphysics. It argues, in other words, for categorial monism in metaphysics: the view that there is, so far as concrete reality is concerned, only one truly fundamental metaphysical category: stuff. The use of the word ‘stuff’ is an attempt to escape some of the problematic connotations of more traditional terms like ‘substance’. That said, the meaning of ‘stuff’ may be considered to be close to the meaning of ‘substance’ once ‘substance’ has been completely detached from any ideas of substance as something that ‘bears’ or ‘has’ properties or qualities o

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Chase, Michael. Metaphysics of Thought: Four Tiers of Qualities with Transcendence. Michael Tony Chase, 2022.

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Book chapters on the topic "Metaphysical qualities"

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McCormick, Peter. "Literary Truths and Metaphysical Qualities." In On the Aesthetics of Roman Ingarden. Springer Netherlands, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2257-0_8.

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Livanios, Vassilis. "Meet the Powerful Qualities." In The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032636887-3.

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Livanios, Vassilis. "Introduction." In The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032636887-1.

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Livanios, Vassilis. "The Higher-Order Properties Theory and the Dual Aspect Account." In The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032636887-7.

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Livanios, Vassilis. "The Compound View." In The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032636887-6.

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Livanios, Vassilis. "The Grounding View." In The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032636887-5.

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Livanios, Vassilis. "Powerful Categoricalism." In The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032636887-12.

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Livanios, Vassilis. "The Identity Theory." In The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032636887-4.

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Livanios, Vassilis. "Powerful Categoricalism." In The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032636887-10.

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Livanios, Vassilis. "The Dualist Model of Laws and Powers." In The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032636887-9.

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Conference papers on the topic "Metaphysical qualities"

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Korab-Karpowicz, Prof W. Julian. "The World Is the Totality of Values: On How to Challenge Wittgenstein’s Positivism." In 5th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. Eurasia Conferences, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.62422/978-81-968539-1-4-002.

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What is reality? In a narrow positivistic or empirical vision, whose expression can be found in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, facts are the whole reality. He declares: “The world is the totality of facts …”. These declarations can serve as an example of how positivism, which declares itself an antimetaphysical program, formulates a metaphysical thesis. For the positivists, reality, what-exists, is sensible facts, denoting what can be observed. Values and other qualitative attributes of the world that cannot be observed and classified as facts, are considered the domain

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Kimishima, Margaret Hiro KIMISHIMA. "Shifting Beyond the World of Duality." In Online Symposium „For an international transdisciplinary chair” organized by the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies (CIRET). ADJURIS – International Academic Publisher, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.62768/adjuris/2024/4/08.

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This world is made up of two polarities. These polarities often represent opposing qualities that exist in harmony. In the academic realm, the concept of duality can be found in a variety of disciplines, and the exploration of the duality can lead to a more complex understanding of the world and can assist researchers to explore the complexities of human nature more profoundly. Many problems nowadays in the real world are multifaceted and cannot be tackled by a single discipline. In particular, the 21st century is characterized by rapid technological progress such as data-driven technologies,

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