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1. Process Studies: Volume > 41 > Issue: 2
Christine Holmgren, Leemon McHenry Quine and Whitehead on Ontological Reduction: Properties Reconsidered
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W.V.O. Quine and A.N. Whitehead shared a dualistic ontology of concrete and abstract objects but differed sharply on the status of properties. In this essay, we explore Whitehead’s reasons for admitting properties into his ontology and Quine’s objections. In the course of examining Quine’s position we demonstrate some deficiencies in his position and conclude that in spite of his claims, neither space-time coordinate systems nor classes can do all the ontological work of properties.
... abstract objects but differed sharply on the status of properties. In this essay, we ... concrete and abstract objects but differed sharply on the status of properties ... , a principle for individuating abstract objects was also needed. For, without ...
2. Process Studies: Volume > 51 > Issue: 1
Daniel A. Dombrowski The Dipolar Character of Being in Plato and Whitehead
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It has often been noticed that Platos metaphysical view of being is dipolar. The purpose of the present article is to detail what it means to say that being is dipolar in Plato. Further, I will explore the extent to which dipolarity in Whitehead is indebted to Plato and the extent to which Whitehead's dipolarity is different from Platos. In this regard I will concentrate on Whitehead's recently published Harvard Lectures.
... view is criticized. A more defensible view is that abstract objects cannot ... Aristotle that forms (or abstract objects or eternal objects) cannot exist in ... the world that embody eternal or abstract objects are dipolar (or bipolar ...
3. Process Studies: Volume > 40 > Issue: 1
Duane Voskuil Beyond Metaphysics? Explorations in Alfred North Whitehead’s Late Thought
... without simultaneously invoking both poles [abstract objects and particular ...
4. Process Studies: Volume > 37 > Issue: 1
Ronny Desmet Des événements aux objects: La méthode de l’abstraction extensive chez A. N. Whitehead
... nature, if we forget that even our most abstract objects are ultimately rooted in ...
5. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies: Volume > 23 > Issue: 1/2
Bruce N. Lundberg In Search of a Theology of Mathematics
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The subjects of mathematics are gifts of the mind which help humans house, heal lead, feed, comfort, protect, and inspire each other. They can facilitate faithful agreements about nature and action across ages and cultures. Since mathematics is often entangled with truth claims, technologies, and theories of reality, both trivializations and apotheoses of mathematics can deform science, degrade nature, and diminish humans. The love of life compels the search for a theology of mathematics: an understanding of mathematical activities, artifacts, and auras in their relations to existence. This essay proposes a theology of mathematics which can say both "yes " and "no" to the reign of mathematics, to guard the dignity and humility of human thought, and support the stewardship and enjoyment of nature, culture, and community. In theology, the doctrine of the Trinity reveals both aptness and limits in mathematical understanding. In mathematics, Plato's "no one ignorant of geometry enter here,can either support or subvert Christ's "no one comes to the Father except through me."
... it is hard to see how abstract objects of mathematics coxdd cause anything. It ...
6. Process Studies: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
Granville C. Henry, Robert J. Valenza Eternal Objects at Sea
... product o f sets. Thus as abstract objects, groups were there all the time insofar ... between abstract objects, and the same is true more generally in the ...
7. Lonergan Workshop: Volume > 25
Elizabeth A. Murray The Classical Question of Immortality in Light of Lonergan’s Explicit Metaphysics
... their matter [the realities it knows being abstract objects – forms], so it ...
8. Newman Studies Journal: Volume > 6 > Issue: 1
Matthew Briel John Henry Newman and Luigi Giussani: Similarities in their Conceptions of Reason
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This essay examines some aspects of the conceptions of reason in the thought of Luigi Giussani and John Henry Newman. Although the two writers have different approaches and emphases, their notions of reason display striking complementarities, especially in regard to the complex relationship of the reason and the will, converging probabilities, and the operation of reason in relation to faith (informal inference).
...’s operations in other matters. Newman distinguished between concrete and abstract ... objects and gave most of his attention in the Grammar to reason’s operations in the ...
9. Process Studies: Volume > 17 > Issue: 1
Robert A. Gillies The Brightman-Hartshorne Correspondence, 1934-1944
... be adequate only to abstract objects." For Hartshorne, "perfect knowledge must ...
10. Process Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 1
Murray Code On Whitehead’s Almost Comprehensive Naturalism
... refers to a species-specific- faculty with a capacity for apprehending real abstract ... objects. is is because “an object is often known merely as an abstract relation not ...
11. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies: Volume > 32 > Issue: 1/2
Daniel W. Hollis III The Paradox of Kurt Gödel: A Response
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Miloš Dokulil’s dissection of Kurt Godel’s religious worldview generates questions among his conclusions. In part, the reader’s understanding is challenged by the turgid translation from the Czech language. Yet, the meaning still can be extricated. Because Gödel’s ontological argument for God’s existence was not published in his lifetime, there is doubt that he was satisfied by its method. Truly, since virtually all of Gödel’s writings on philosophy were unpublished, his rational Platonism leaves considerable room for speculation concerning his metaphysical system. Hence, Dokulil seeks alternative explanations for what seems to have been Gödel’s real faith in God. Framed by semantic-philosophical musings, Dokulil concludes that it was the influence of Gödel’s childhood exposure to the Bible mainly through his mother. Indeed, it seems at times that Dokulil is examining his own belief in God as well as Godel’s. In the event, there are several aspects of Göddel’s life and work which elucidate his religious belief through his pursuit of mathematical reasoning in a more intellectually engaging way than simply the maternal influence that is often most profound and Godly. These include his philosophy of Platonism, great contributions to metamathematics, and the relation of intellect and will.
...-79). Nominalism is either the denial of universals, or the denial of abstract objects ...
12. Process Studies: Volume > 48 > Issue: 2
Benjamin Andrae Three Ideas from American Pragmatism Interpreted in Terms of Whitehead's Metaphysics
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This article is an attempt to examine and clarify the truth theory of American pragmatism. Three central ideas of this truth theory will be considered in light of Whitehead's metaphysics: a rejection of the correspondence theory of truth, a defense of fallibilism, and a recognition of the temporality of truth.
... possibilities can be understood as ideas or abstract objects, but rather ...
13. Process Studies: Volume > 23 > Issue: 1
Granville C. Henry, Robert J. Valenza The Principle of Affinity in Whiteheadian Metaphysics
... objectified as abstract objects by conceptual valuation in entities that experience ...
14. Process Studies: Volume > 40 > Issue: 2
Daniel Dombrowski Inclusive Ends, Dominant Ends, and Politics: Was St. Ignatius Irrational?
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I have argued elsewhere that the overall method that is required in liberal political philosophy is that of reflective equilibrium and that this method can be best understood in processual terms. In the present article I try to show how neoclassical (and other) theists can bring their convictions to bear in a politically liberal society, within the confines of this method, in a rational (rather than irrational or mad) manner.
... might be right on this point, or at least that abstract objects ...
15. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies: Volume > 14 > Issue: 1/2
John Byl Naturalism, Theism and Objective Knowledge
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This essay proposes that various forms of relativism and naturalism are self-refuting. The rational defense of any worldview requires the prior acceptance of the existence of other rational minds, mental causation and free will, an objective language, and objective logical and rational standards, A worldview is self-refuting if its defense necessarily presumes entities that are explicitly denied by the worldview. In contrast, theism provides the epistemic and metaphysical basis to fully account for our diverse knowledge. Liberal arts education is in a crisis due to the fragmentation of knowledge and loss of purpose caused by the combined action of pragmatic deconstruction and scientific reductionism Only by regaining a full appreciation of the depth and comprehension of the Christian worldview can we recapture the cohesive unity in diversity of a genuine liberal arts education.
16. Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies: Year > 1992 > Issue: 2
Michael H. McCarthy The Critique of Reason
17. Thought: Volume > 29 > Issue: 2
James Collins Philosophy in 1953
... are valuable as components within social process, but they become mere abstract ... objects when taken separately and given pre-eminence. Two brief remarks nlay be ...
18. Process Studies: Volume > 26 > Issue: 3/4
C. Papatheodorou, Basil Hiley Process, Temporality and Space-Time