Thought, necessity, and existence : metaphysics, and epistemology for lay philosophers : written in the spirit of Parmenides of Elea / Claro R. Ceniza.
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TextPublisher: Malate, Manila, Philippines : De La Salle University Press, c2001Description: xviii, 153 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeOther title: Metaphysics, and epistemology for lay philosophersSubject(s): Metaphysics | Knowledge, Theory of| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Filipiniana | 110 C33 2001 (Browse shelf) | Available | 3UCBL000022508 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: 1 The questions -- 2 Basic assumptions -- 3 Basic premises or postulates -- 4 The corollaries of p1 and p2 -- 5 Contingent entities cannot exist -- 6 The logic of the question why? -- 7 Modality: the logic of possibility, impossibility, contingency and necessity -- 8 Categories: compatible and incompatible classes -- 9 Categories and the contingent -- 10 Contingency and causality -- 11 Critique of the humean and kantian analyses of causality -- 12 Vertical causality and the unity of causes: the arche -- 13 The third basic premiss: general criterion for existence -- 14 A note on epistemology -- 15 Generic and numerical identity -- 16 Generic identity and universals -- 17 Concrete universals -- 18 Numerical identity: the referent of causality -- 19 Real existence: form and matter -- 20 The arche and the cosmological argument -- 21 The arche and the teleological argument -- 22 The arche and the moral argument -- 23 The necessary being and the epistemological order -- 24 Parmenides on "non-being" and the ontological argument -- 25 Our basic premisses and common sense space -- 26 A critique of common sense space -- 27 More on space: concepts of space and their significance for ontology -- 28 More on space: why the problems of real being could not be solved before -- 29 More on space: more recent concepts -- 30 More on space: toward solving the problems -- 31 Is there a necessary being?: something that is compossible with all that are possible -- 32 Contingency and time: the problem -- 33 Time: some imperfect solutions -- 34 Time and modern physics: the solutions -- 35 Modern physics: an ordering universe -- 36 Mind and body: Consciousness -- 37 Mind and body: do all things "have minds" ? -- 38 Mind and body: a modern solution -- 39 What is self? the numerical self? -- 40 What is self? the generic self? -- 41 What is self? the transcendental self? -- 42 Is the universe self-thinking thought? -- 43 Is the arche pure form? -- 44 Metaphysics: the true, the good and the beautiful -- 45 What is the source and validity of p2.
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