Cause and essence

رابطه وجود و ماهیت در رساله ‏‎"on being and essence"‎‏

هدف عمده ای که من در رساله خود تعقیب می کنم بررسی رابطه وجود و ماهیت از نظر توماس آکوئینی در رساله معروف خود تحت همین نام، است، که نام لاتین آن ‏‎de ente et essentia‎‏ می باشد و ترجمه انگلیسی آن تحت عنوان ‏‎"on being and essence"‎‏ است که ترجمه معمول آن به فارسی ((وجود و ماهیت)) می باشد. البته بهترین ترجمه فارسی واژه ‏‎ente‎‏، ((موجودیت)) است ولی ما مطابق رسم آنرا رساله ((درباره وجود و ماهیت)) ...

The Overdetermination Argument versus the Cause-and-Essence Principle—No Contest

Scott Sturgeon has claimed to undermine the principal argument for Physicalism, in his words, the view that “actuality is exhausted by physical reality” (Sturgeon 1998, p. 410). In noting that actuality is exhausted by physical reality, the Physicalist is not claiming that all that there is in actuality are those things identified by physics. Rather the thought is that actuality is made up of a...

Essence and Modality

The concept of essence has played an important role in the history and development of philosophy; and in no branch of the discipline is its importance more manifest than in metaphysics. Its significance for metaphysics is perhaps attributable to two main sources. In the first place, the concept may be used to characterize what the subject, or at least part of it, is about. For one of the centra...

Essence, Plenitude, and Paradox

Confounding: essence and detection.

Confounding is examined from first principles. In follow-up studies a confounder is a predictor of diagnosing the illness--by being either a risk indicator or a determinant of diagnostic errors; in addition, it shows different distributions between the exposed and nonexposed series. In case-referent studies confounding can arise in two ways. A priori confounders are correlates of exposure in th...