Derek Parfit was born in Chengdu, China, to Norman and Jessie Parfit (née Browne), both medical doctors who had moved to Western China to teach preventive medicine in missionary hospitals. The family ...
Biological processes are the processes vital for a living organism to live. Biological processes are made up of any number of chemical reactions or other events that results in a transformation.Regula ...
In physics and philosophy, a relational theory is a framework to understand reality or a physical system in such a way that the positions and other properties of objects are only meaningful relative t ...
Ontology, in analytic philosophy, concerns the determination whether some categories of being are fundamental and asks in what sense can the items in those categories be said to "be". It is the inquir ...
In mathematical logic, logical assertion is a statement that asserts that a certain premise is true, and is useful for statements in proof. It is equivalent to a sequent with an empty antecedent.For e ...
In classical Aristotelian terminology, a property (Greek: idion, Latin: proprium) is one of the predicables. It is a non-essential quality of a species (like an accident), but a quality which is never ...
This particular version of the paradox was first introduced in Greek legend as reported by the historian, biographer, and essayist Plutarch,"The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned f ...
Materialism belongs to the class of monist ontology. As such, it is different from ontological theories based on dualism or pluralism. For singular explanations of the phenomenal reality, materialism ...
If presuppositions of a sentence are not consistent with the actual state of affairs, then one of two approaches can be taken. Given the sentences My wife is pregnant and My wife is not pregnant when ...
The word "axiom" comes from the Greek word ?ξ?ωμα (axioma), a verbal noun from the verb ?ξι?ειν (axioein), meaning "to deem worthy", but also "to require", which in turn comes from ?ξι ...
Aristotelian logic identifies a proposition as a sentence which affirms or denies a predicate of a subject. An Aristotelian proposition may take the form "All men are mortal" or "Socrates is a man." I ...
Late 19th-century English philosophy was dominated by British idealism, as taught by philosophers like F. H. Bradley and Thomas Hill Green. It was against this intellectual background that the founder ...
The term "continental philosophy," in the above sense, was first widely used by English-speaking philosophers to describe university courses in the 1970s, emerging as a collective name for the philoso ...
Metaphysicians, and sometimes philosophers of language and mind, ask other questions:What does it mean for an object to be the same as itself?If x and y are identical (are the same thing), must they a ...
One may define identity as the distinctive characteristic belonging to any given individual, or shared by all members of a particular social category or group. Identity may be distinguished from ident ...
