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Conceptual necessity

Conceptual necessity is a property of the certainty with which a state of affairs, as presented by a certain description, occurs: it occurs by conceptual necessity if and only if it occurs just by virtue of the meaning of the description. If someone is a bachelor, for instance, then he is bound to be unmarried by conceptual necessity, because the meaning of the word "bachelor" determines that he is. Alternatively, there is metaphysical necessity, which is a certainty determined, not by the meaning of a description, but instead by facts in the world described. Historically, Baruch Spinoza was a subscriber to this belief. (Wikipedia).

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What is Beauty in Design?: Understanding Design

Designers strive to fill up the world with beautiful environments, packaging, products and landscapes. These can be defined as aesthetic experiences wherein designers use the study of beauty to create pleasurable experiences for humans to interact with items and spaces. Join Prasad Borad

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The Importance of Atonement

The idea of ‘atonement’ sounds very old-fashioned and is deeply rooted in religious tradition. To atone means, in essence, to acknowledge one’s capacity for wrongness and one’s readiness for apology and desire for change. It’s a concept that every society needs at its center. For gifts and

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What is Sustainable Design?: Understanding Design

Sustainable design and development should meet the needs of people in the present without compromising the needs of future generations. According to serial entrepreneur John Elkington, organizations need to consider profit, people and the planet when thinking about new innovations. Join

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What Is Design?: Understanding Design

Design is the process of creating objects, systems, buildings and more. In this video, you’ll learn to answer the question, what is design, with broad definitions from a famous economist, philosopher and Swiss architect. Prasad Boradkar, a professor emeritus of industrial design at Arizon

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The law of logical honesty and the end of infinity | Data structures in Math Foundations 178

It is time to end the delusion which pervades modern 20th century style mathematics, and move towards a true mathematics for the new millennium. Infinity needs to go! We need to accept the actual reality of mathematics, rather than some fairy-tale wishful dreaming that allows us to prop

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We Need a Bigger Definition of Creativity

► Please Subscribe to My Channel Here - http://bit.ly/spencervideos When you the word “creative,” you might think of a painter or a playwright or an author or a photographer or a filmmaker or a chef. In other words, you might think of people who make things. I think it’s what we mean wh

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Seeing Design

In this video, you’ll learn how to broaden your definition of design through critical thinking, in order to see it in the world around you! Visit https://www.gcflearnfree.org/ to learn even more. We hope you enjoy!

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The Ideas of Quine - Bryan Magee & Quine (1978)

In this program, Willard Van Orman Quine discusses the nature of philosophy and some of his own work in philosophy with host Bryan Magee. This is from a 1978 series on Modern Philosophy called Men of Ideas. #Philosophy #BryanMagee #Quine

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The Nature of Causation: The Regularity Theory

What is causation? In this first lecture in this series on the nature of causation, Marianne Talbot discusses Hume's famous account of causation, which is a version of the so-called regularity theory. We have causal theories of reference, perception, knowledge, content and numerous other

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(Part 3) The Palamite Controversy: A Thomistic Analysis by Fr. Peter Totleben, O.P.

A reading of chapter 3 (Answers to Palamite Objections) and conclusion of "The Palamite Controversy: A Thomistic Analysis" by Peter Totleben, O.P. https://www.academia.edu/35580908/The_Palamite_Controversy_A_Thomistic_Analysis

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What Are Numbers? Philosophy of Mathematics (Elucidations)

What is mathematics about and how do we acquire mathematical knowledge? Mathematics seems to be about numbers, but what exactly are numbers? Are numbers and other mathematical objects something discovered or invented? Daniel Sutherland discusses some of these issues in the philosophy of ma

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6 Concepts, Judgment & Deduction of the Categories - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson)

Dan Robinson gives the 6th lecture in a series of 8 on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. All 8 lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_OdgqNgL0AJX9-gwr4tmLw Empiricists have no explanation for how we move from "mere forms of thought" to objective concepts. The

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Oxford 4d Of the Necessary Connection

A course by Peter Millican from Oxford University. Course Description: Dr Peter Millican gives a series of lectures looking at Scottish 18th Century Philosopher David Hume and the first book of his Treatise of Human Nature. Taken from: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/introduction-david

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Quentin Smith - Fallacies in Arguing for God?

Believers in God should be appalled when poor arguments are offered to 'prove' the existence of God. These arguments can be so bad that one might think the proponents are really atheists in disguise. Click here to watch more interviews with Quentin Smith http://bit.ly/1BRwSvf Click here

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Set Design: Putting the "Art" in "Architecture" by Betsy Haibel

We need new metaphors. We need metaphors that better respect the intelligence and creativity of every member of a software team. Theater stands out as a potential model especially the "technical" aspects, like set design. I used to work as a set designer and scenic artist. Like in software

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Is God Necessary? | Episode 607 | Closer To Truth

Whether God exists may depend on whether God is necessary. Even if God exists, would it have been possible for God not to exist? In other words, even if God does exist, could it have been otherwise? Featuring interviews with Alvin Plantinga, Peter van Inwagen, Richard Swinburne, Bede Rund

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Can Metaphysics Discern God II? | Episode 1705 | Closer To Truth

Can metaphysics discern God? How to think about God rationally, logically, profoundly, critically? Have no illusion that metaphysics can find God, but can a kind of progress be made? Featuring interviews with Brian Leftow, John Hawthorne, Robert Spitzer, John Cottingham, and Timothy O'Conn

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Reconciling Subjectivity & Substance: Hegel's Critique of Pure Personhood

This is a talk given by Jonathan Hand in 2019 at St. John's college. #Philosophy #Hegel

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The deep structure of the rational numbers | Real numbers and limits Math Foundations 95

The rational numbers deserve a lot of attention, as they are the heart of mathematics. I am hopeful that modern mathematics will (slowly) swing around to the crucial realization that a lot of things which are currently framed in terms of "real numbers" are more properly understood in terms

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