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Wittgenstein appears to assert a form of metaphysical pluralism which is made of independent objects. However, these objects do not exist in isolation, and combine together to create situations or what he ca...

Substance dualists would assert that there is indeed a soul. Substance dualism is the belief that there are two distinct ontological substances which causally interact, the immaterial mind and material body....

Preformatism is the supposed existence of all the parts of an organism in rudimentary form in the egg or the seed and is inferred in the early writings of the Christian Church fathers. They made no developme...

Kant's 'Copernican Revolution' in epistemology suggested that cosmology, particle physics, theology and free will/determinism claims involve questions that are naturally raised by the structure of the mind, ...

In the Platonic dialogue Euthyphro, Socrates asks the greek prophet Euthyphro the question: "is the pious pious because it is loved by the gods or is it loved by the gods because it is pious?", tha...