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January 11, 2024

Denying Existence The Logic, Epistemology and Pragmatics of Negative Existentials and Fictional Discourse

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Free Download Denying Existence: The Logic, Epistemology and Pragmatics of Negative Existentials and Fictional Discourse By Arindam Chakrabarti (auth.)
1997 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 9048147883 | PDF | 8 MB
This book tries to explore, in language as non-technical as possible, the deepest philosophical problems regarding the logical status of empty (singular) terms such as `Pegasus’, `Batman’, `The impossible staircase departs in Escher’s painting `Ascending-Descending’+ etc., and regarding sentences which deny the existence of singled-out fictional entities. It will be fascinating for literary theorists with a flair for logic, to students of metaphysics and philosophy of language, and for historians of philosophy interested in the fate of the Russell-Meinong debate. For teachers of these aspects of analytic philosophy this will provide a textbook which goes beyond the Western tradition (without plunging into any mystical Eastern `Emptiness’, which is what some previous comparative philosophers did!).

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January 10, 2024

Meaning and Existence in Mathematics

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Free Download Meaning and Existence in Mathematics by Charles Castonguay
English | PDF | 1972 | 168 Pages | ISBN : 3709171156 | 24.2 MB
The take-over of the philosophy of mathematics by mathematical logic is not complete. The central problems examined in this book lie in the fringe area between the two, and by their very nature will no doubt continue to fall partly within the philosophical re mainder. In seeking to treat these problems with a properly sober mixture of rhyme and reason, I have tried to keep philosophical jargon to a minimum and to avoid excessive mathematical compli cation. The reader with a philosophical background should be familiar with the formal syntactico-semantical explications of proof and truth, especially if he wishes to linger on Chapter 1, after which it is easier philosophical sailing; while the mathematician need only know that to "explicate" a concept consists in clarifying a heretofore vague notion by proposing a clearer (sometimes formal) definition or formulation for it. More seriously, the interested mathematician will find occasional recourse to EDWARD’S Encyclopedia of Philosophy (cf. bibliography) highly rewarding. Sections 2. 5 and 2. 7 are of interest mainly to philosophers. The bibliography only contains works referred to in the text. References are made by giving the author’s surname followed by the year of publication, the latter enclosed in parentheses. When the author referred to is obvious from the context, the surname is dropped, and even the year of publication or "ibid. " may be dropped when the same publication is referred to exclusively over the course of several paragraphs.

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January 10, 2024

Anthropologies of Entanglements Media and Modes of Existence

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Free Download Anthropologies of Entanglements: Media and Modes of Existence (Thinking Media) edited by Lorenz Engell, Christiane Voss, Tim Othold
English | September 21, 2023 | ISBN: 1501375148 | True EPUB/PDF | 328 pages | 6.5/41.6 MB
Media and human modes of existence are always already intertwined and interdependent. The notion of the anthropocene has further stimulated a new examination of ideas about human agency and responsibility. Various approaches all emphasize relational concepts and the situatedness and embodiment of human-and also non-human-existences and experiences. Their common interest has shifted from any so-called ‘human nature’ to the multitude of cultural, topographical, technical, historical, social, discursive, and media formats with which human existences are entangled.

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January 8, 2024

The Existence Principle

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Free Download The Existence Principle By Quentin Gibson (auth.)
1998 | 197 Pages | ISBN: 9401061270 | PDF | 6 MB
When we ask whether something exists, we expect a yes or no answer, not a further query about what kind of existence, how much of it, whether we mean existence for you or existence for me, or whether we are asking about some property which it might have. In this book, this simple requirement is defended and pursued into its various and sometimes surprising implications. In the course of this pursuit, such questions arise as `Do appearances exist?’ `Do unknowable things exist?’ `Do past and future exist?’ `Does God necessarily exist?’ This novel and non-technical approach to important philosophical questions will be of interest to senior students of philosophy and, indeed, to all general readers with philosophical interests.

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January 7, 2024

The Meaning of Human Existence [Audiobook] (2024)

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Free Download The Meaning of Human Existence (Audiobook)
English | October 06, 2014 | ASIN: B00NI2E5Z8 | M4B@64 kbps | 5h 6m | 140 MB
Author: Edward O. Wilson | Narrator: Jonathan Hogan
How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?"
In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the rainbow colors" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Wilson takes his readers on a journey, in the process bridging science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence―from our earliest inception to a provocative look at what the future of mankind portends.

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