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Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the essence of things, of the fundamental nature of being and the world and the principles that organize the universe. Metaphysics is supposed to answer the question "What is the nature of reality?"
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What do we mean when we talk about Aristotelianism?
These systematizations encompasse a wide range of subjects, including logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, science, and epistemology. …
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Aquinas on the relation between essence, being, and existence
Well, I'm not sure if I understand your question. Thomas is equating essence with entity (ens, entis), not with being (esse).
Entities participate in the actus essendi (= what you call existence, alth …
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Talking about objects in mereological nihilism: correct but untrue?
Zimmerman (eds), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 8, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (Oxford, 2013; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Jan. 2014), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199682904.003.0006 …
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Can Husserl's impressions be mereologically expressible?
In Husserl's phenomenology, hyletic data (hylé, "matter") are the raw sensory impressions—such as colors, sounds, or textures—provided by "impressions" before being shaped by intentional consciousness …
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Can affirming infinite dependency relationships imply asserting it's independence?
If I take as a brute fact that a thing O1 existentially depends on another thing O2 that underpins it, and this in turn depends on O3, and so on ad infinitum (without delving into the types of depende …
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Is this universal dependency relationship a 'property'?
P1. Each thing, in order to exist, depends existentially on something else (universal dependence).
P2. The relation of dependence (between things) does not depend on any particular thing but is a gene …
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How is classical theism translated into mereology?
By classical theism, I mean the traditional scholastic Christian theism of figures like Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, Peter Abelard, Francisco Suárez, etc.
In contrast to panentheism (where creati …
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How can objects be nonexisting?
Suárez for instance discussed it in the 1st and 54th of his Metaphysical Disputations when he asks what the proper object of metaphysics is. …
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In what way do events imply a category of reality that is irreducible to substance?
Let's say that an event is a type of phenomenon such as smiles, walks, dances, weddings, hiccups, hand-waves, arrivals, departures, births, deaths, thunder, lightning, explosions, laughter, celebratio …
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What does Derrida mean by "presence"?
Derrida is known for arguing that phenomenology, despite its intentions, remains a form of metaphysics (cf. Derrida, J. (1982) [1972]. Margins of Philosophy, trans. A. … In traditional metaphysics, being is defined as identity in presence. Although Husserlian phenomenology tried to move beyond this idea, it ultimately did not succeed. …
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Aristotle's problem of the continuum and mereological nihilism
Aristotle explains that "it is impossible for something continuous to be made of indivisibles, such as, for example, a line being composed of points, if we take for granted that the line is a continuu …
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