Hasil untuk "Metaphysics"

Emmanuel Ofuasia

Abstract African conceptions of reality have been judged by some African scholars to be starkly different from the mainstream and dominant substance metaphysics that operates in the Euro-American philosophic tradition. These scholars stress relationality and becoming with the understanding that reality is a web of interconnected activities. In addition, some of them also articulate how classical logic and laws of thought are not helpful for properly understanding the concepts of reality in African thought. In this article, I limit my assessment to four of these African scholars: Innocent Asouzu, Mogobe Ramose, Sophie Oluwole, and Ada Agada. I uncover how the two chief contentions among them—emphasis on reality as becoming and the limitations of classical logic—for expressing reality are neither entirely unheard of nor limited to African metaphysics, as these two themes are also present in Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of organism. But none of these thinkers are familiar with Whitehead and his works. I argue for why process metaphysics and African metaphysics share a similar history of misrepresentation and rejection as well as how an alternative system of logic is central for making sense of the contentions of these traditions.

S. Ya. Serovaisky

A constructive definition of natural, integer, rational, and real numbers is given, based on the concept of a quotient set. It is shown that generalizations of these constructions are procedures for constructing a Grothendieck group and completion of metric spaces, which in turn out to be special cases of some free functors.

Nicholas Stang

Mingjun Lu

V. A Kolombet, V. N Lesnykh, V. A Panchelyuga

Many researchers reported the observation in various systems of different nature of the phenomenon, which we now call the universal periods-tripling system. The most significant contribution to the study of the system was made by S. Puetz, who gave its mathematical description and demonstrated numerous examples of the system in the range from 57.3 to 1.64 billion years. In our studies, “shortwave” part of the system was investigated. The article provides a brief overview of S. Puetz's research, as well as brief descriptions of our research.

Anna Marmodoro

The conclusion brings together the interpretative results argued for in the preceding chapters, and highlights the main original claims of the book, concerning Plato’s metaphysics of objects and properties, and of causation, and its (hitherto underinvestigated) dependence on Anaxagoras’s metaphysics. It focuses on Plato’s metaphysics of participation by overlap; his conception of constitutional causation; his account of relationality as qualification, rather than as relatedness; and his account of necessity and the normativity of transcendent Forms.

Andrew Janiak

Steven Crowell

This chapter considers Heidegger’s attempt to construct a phenomenological metaphysics between the years 1927 and 1934. It begins with some reflections on the relation between transcendental phenomenology and metaphysics in order to clarify Heidegger’s definition of metaphysics as “metontology” in contrast to then-current philosophical anthropology. Reflection on the concept of world, at issue in both, shows the stress fractures in Heidegger’s understanding of metaphysics. The chapter considers Heidegger’s Leibnizian way of negotiating these fractures in his reflection on the animal, which provides the basis for his understanding of the Volk, which, the chapter argues, is the target toward which his attempt at a phenomenological metaphysics aims. The collapse of Heidegger’s intervention in German politics and the collapse of his metaphysical project are thus intimately related.

Juha Saatsi

Arianna Betti

Jens Timmermann