The Economic Calculation Problem |
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- ECP
- socialist calculation problem
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The Error in Regarding the Metaphysically Given as Mutable |
- epistemology
- metaphysics
- philosophy
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The Error in Regarding the Man-Made as Immutable |
- epistemology
- metaphysics
- philosophy
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The Error of Conflating the Man-Made with the Metaphysically Given |
- epistemology
- metaphysics
- philosophy
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The Impossibility of Unlimited Senses |
- epistemology
- metaphysics
- philosophy
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All Knowledge is Either Perceptual or Conceptual |
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- all knowledge is either perceptual or conceptual
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Different Forms of Sense Perception does not Invalidate Sense Perception |
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Different Forms of Sense Perception Lead to Different Capabilities in Deducing Laws |
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Epistemology as Dependent Upon the Fallibility of a Conceptual Consciousness |
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Floating Abstraction |
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Focus as Antecedent to Any Choice |
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- focus is the logical antecedent of any other choice
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Hallucinations do not Negate the Validity of the Senses |
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Illusions are not Perceptual Errors |
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- illusions are not perceptual errors
- illusions do not prove that the senses distort
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Sense Perception |
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- Perception
- perception
- sense perception
- the senses
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Sensation |
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Sensory Subjectivism |
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The Epistemic Primacy of Sense Perception |
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- the perceptual stage is given
- direct experience is the perceptual level
- the fallacy of the primacy of sensation
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The Identity of Consciousness as the Root of Epistemology |
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The Invalidity of the Senses Implies The Invalidity of Knowledge |
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- if the senses are invalid then so is knowledge
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The Kantian Attack on Cognition |
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The Levels of Consciousness |
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- level of consciousness - level of awareness - levels of consciousness - levels of awareness
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The Objectivist Theory of Concepts |
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- the Objectivist theory of concepts - concept formation - the theory of concept formation
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The Primary Choice Being Focus or Drift |
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- the primary choice is whether to focus or drift - The primary choice is whether to focus or drift
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The Role of the Senses |
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The Senses as Condensing Complex Information |
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The Senses as Distorted Implies Non-Consciousness |
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- if the senses distort then man is not conscious of reality
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The Senses Do Not Distort |
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Epistemology |
- epistemology
- philosophy
- definitions
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Percept |
- epistemology
- philosophy
- definitions
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Empiricism |
- epistemology
- philosophy
- history-of-philosophy
- ideos
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Rationalism |
- epistemology
- philosophy
- history-of-philosophy
- ideos
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Sensualism |
- epistemology
- philosophy
- history-of-philosophy
- ideos
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The Validation of Sense Perception |
- epistemology
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- axiom
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A Consciousness Conscious Only of Itself |
- metaphysics
- epistemology
- philosophy
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- pure self-consciousness
- a consciousness conscious only of itself
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Forms of the Primacy of Consciousness |
- metaphysics
- epistemology
- philosophy
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- form of the primacy of consciousness
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Primacy of the Personal Consciousness |
- metaphysics
- epistemology
- philosophy
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- primacy of the personal consciousness
- Man is the measure of all things
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Primacy of the Social Consciousness |
- metaphysics
- epistemology
- philosophy
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- primacy of the social consciousness
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Primacy of the Supernatural Consciousness |
- metaphysics
- epistemology
- philosophy
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- primacy of the supernatural consciousness
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The Categories of Being |
- metaphysics
- epistemology
- philosophy
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- all action is action of entities
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The Primacy of Existence as an Objectivist Innovation |
- metaphysics
- epistemology
- philosophy
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A Baby-in-a-Womb as an Entity |
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Entity |
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Existence is Identity |
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Fire as a non-Entity |
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God as Infinite |
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How Much Time Has There Been |
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Infinity as a Floating Abstraction |
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Metaphysically Given |
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Miracles are a Metaphysical Impossibility |
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- miracles are a metaphysical impossibility
- miracle
- miracles
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The Characteristics of Entities |
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- the characteristsics of entities
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The Error of Mechanistic Causality |
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The Fundamental Axioms of Metaphysics |
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The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle as a Refutation of Causality |
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The Metaphysical Status of Sensory Qualities |
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- The Mind-Object Qualia False-Dichotomy - the mind-object qualia false-dichotomy - qualia - quality
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The Metaphysically Given as Absolute |
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- the necessary/contingent dichotomy
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The Universe as Eternal |
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The Primacy of Consciousness as the Fundamental Error |
- metaphysics
- philosophy
- epistemology
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- the primacy of consciousness is the fundamental error
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Nominalism |
- metaphysics
- philosophy
- history-of-philosophy
- ideos
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The Psychological Effects of Regarding the Metaphysically Given as Mutable |
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Axioms as Irreducible Primaries |
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Axioms as Undeniable |
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Bundled Philosophy |
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Common Bromides |
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The Grand Canyon Argument |
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Corollary |
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Philosophy |
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Validation |
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- validation
- validated
- validate
- invalidate
- validity
- valid
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Abstraction |
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Concepts of Consciousness as Involving Measurement-Omission |
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Conceptual Common Denominator |
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- conceptual common denominator
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Conceptual Order |
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- Levels of Concepts
- Orders of Concepts
- order of concept
- level of concept
- higher-order concepts
- higher-level concepts
- higher-order concept
- higher-level concept
- smaller is not more fundamental
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Epistemic Authoritarianism |
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- epistemic authoritarianism
- authoritarianism (epistemology)
- appeal to authority
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Epistemic Units as Objective |
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Evasion |
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Innate Knowledge as a Violation of Causality |
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- the denial of reason is a denial of knowledge
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Libertarian Free Will |
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- indeterminism
- indeterminist
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Mental Focus as Having Degrees |
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- degree of focus
- degrees of focus
- Mental Focus as Non-Binary
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Mental Focus |
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- focus
- drift
- Focus is volitional
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Mysticism as Invalid |
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Mystics of Spirit |
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- spirit mysticism
- mystics of spirit
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Naive Realism |
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- Naïve Realism
- naïve realism
- naive realism
- naïve realists
- naive realists
- naïve realist
- naive realist
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The Attack on the Senses by Being Effects |
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The Attack on the Senses by Eddington's Two Tables |
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- two tables - Two Tables - Eddington's Two Tables - Eddington's Two Tables Paradox - two tables paradox
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The Attack on the Senses from their Limitation |
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- The Mirror Theory of Consciousness - The Attack on the Senses from Not Providing Primaries - Consciousness has Identity - Consciousness as Possessing Identity - The Attack on the Senses from their Identity
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The Epistemic Sense of Objectivity |
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The Epistemic Role of Measurement |
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- the epistemic role of measurement
- the epistemic purpose of measurement
- the epistemic role of measurement is that it relates quantities that are within immediate perceptual grasp to those that are not
- crow epistemology
- the crow
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The Impossibility of Gaining Omniscence |
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The Interrelation of Evasion and Drift |
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The Locus of Human Free Will |
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The Pre-Requisites of Epistemology |
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The Objectivist Theory of Concept Formation as Valid |
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- Plato's Problem of Concepts - Where do Concepts Come From?
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The Role of Definition for a Conceptual Being |
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The Secondary Choice as Being Motivated |
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The Role of Language for a Conceptual Being |
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- the role of language in concept-retention
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The Secondary Choice Being The Choice to Think or Evade |
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The Sensory-Perceptual Level as Automatic |
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The Stolen Concept Fallacy |
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The Validation of Free Will |
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- The Epistemic Self-Defeat of Determinism - Volition as Axiomatic - Man has volition - epistemology depends upon volition
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Concept |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- definitions
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Conscious Action |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- definitions
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Conscious Content |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- definitions
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Consciousness |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- definitions
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Definition |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- definitions
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Differentiation |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- definitions
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Free Will |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- definitions
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- free will
- freedom
- free
- volition
- volitional
- choice
- chosen
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Innate Ideas |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- definitions
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- innate ideas
- innate knowledge
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Integration |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- definitions
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Mysticism |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- definitions
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Omniscience |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- definitions
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Unit (Epistemology) |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- definitions
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Naive Anarchism as a Package Deal |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- law
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- Naïve Anarchism
- naïve anarchism
- proto-anarchism
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Commensurability |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- mathematics
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- commensurability - commensurable - incommensurable
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Concept-Formation as an Algebraic Process |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- mathematics
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The Differing Challenges of Explicating a Standard of Measurement |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- mathematics
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The Requirements of a Standard of Measurement |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- mathematics
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- requirements of a unit - requirements of a standard of measurement
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Measurement |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- mathematics
- definitions
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The Determinist-Indeterminist False-Dichotomy |
- philosophy
- epistemology
- metaphysics
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- compatibilism
- Compatibilism
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Companions in Guilt |
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- is/ought gap
- Hume's Guillotine
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The Conflation of Empiricism and Nominalism-Sensualism |
- philosophy
- history-of-philosophy
- metaphysics
- epistemology
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Scientism |
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- "trust the science"
- scientism
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Objectivism |
- philosophy
- ideos
- definitions
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Argumentative Soundness |
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Argumentative Validity |
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A Physical Explanation for Consciousness or Free Will does not Negate Their Existence |
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- a physical explanation for consciousness does not negate its existence
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Arguments from Defining God into Existence |
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- Ontological Arguments for God
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Does Omnipotence Include The Ability to make Contradictions True |
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Examples of Entities |
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God as a Pure Self-Consciousness |
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God as a Miracle-Worker |
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God as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
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God as Omnipotent |
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God as the Creator |
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God as the Designer |
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Materialism as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
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Objectivism does not Hold that Consciousness is an Entity |
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Rejections of the Basic Axioms |
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- rejection of the basic axioms
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Spiritual vs Material |
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The Error of Conflating the Potential with the Actual |
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The Law of Causality |
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- The Law of Cause and Effect - the law of causality - cause - every entity has only one action available to it at any given time - causality
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The Metaphysical Sense of Objectivity |
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The Mind-Body Conflict |
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Existence Exists |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- axiom
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- existence exists
- existence axiom
- existence
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The Axiom of Consciousness |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- axiom
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- man is conscious of reality
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The Law of Identity |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- axiom
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- the law of identity - A is A - identity - nature
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Metaphysics |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- definitions
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Omnipotence |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- definitions
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- omnipotence
- omnipotent
- supernatural
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Consciousness as a non-Entity |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- epistemology
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Consciousness as Naturalistic |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- epistemology
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Consciousness as Unscientific Because it Cannot be Defined |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- epistemology
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Epistemology as Dependent Upon the Primacy of Existence |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- epistemology
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- the pre-suppositions of epistemology
- the requirements of epistemology
- epistemology depends on the primacy of existence
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Idealism as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- epistemology
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Nominalism iff Sensualism |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- epistemology
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- Nominalism-Sensualism
- nominalism-sensualism
- nominalism iff sensualism
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The Meaning of Objectivity |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- epistemology
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- objective - objectivity - objectively
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The Materialist-Idealist False Dichotomy |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- epistemology
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- the materialist-idealist false dichotomy
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The Metaphysical Status of Concepts |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- epistemology
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- the metaphysical status of concepts - what concepts refer to
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The Primacy of Existence vs The Primacy of Consciousness |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- epistemology
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- the primacy of consciousness - the primacy of existence
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The Timaeus on the Imperfection of Reality |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- history-of-philosophy
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Idealism |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- ideos
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A Physical Description of Entities does not Negate The Metaphysical Status of Sensory Qualities |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- physics
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A Physical Description of Entities does not Negate Their Existence |
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- physics
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A Physical Description of Entities is the Realm of Physics, not Philosophy |
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Economics |
- praxeology
- economics
- definitions
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Psychological Inertia |
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Skyscrapers as the True Dimensions of Man |
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