Russell, Negative Facts, and Ontology

Russell and Logical Ontology

Mathematical Facts in a Physicalist Ontology

If physicalism is true, everything is physical. In other words, everything supervenes on, or is necessitated by, the physical. Accordingly, if there are logical/mathematical facts, they must be necessitated by the physical facts of the world. The aim of this paper is to clarify what logical/mathematical facts actually are and how these facts can be accommodated in a purely physical world.

Russell body gastritis in an Hp-negative patient.

To cite: Antunes AG, Cadillá J, Velasco F. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2016216717 DESCRIPTION A 79-year-old woman with a longstanding gastrooesophageal reflux disease was admitted to the emergency room for haematemesis without other symptoms. The patient presented hemodynamic stability and had a haemoglobin of 12.6 g/L. In the upper endoscopy t...

Walåyah and Islamic ontology

The present paper aims at clarifying the role of the concept “walåyah” in the philosophy of the unity of being in Islamic philosophy (waedat al-wujid). The concept “walåyah” is deeply built into the philosophic system of the Islamic theory of being, and moreover the dynamic aspect of this concept has always activated Islamic philosophy of existence and stimulated the thought of Islamic philosop...

Facts, Events, Things and the Ontology of Physics

The philosophical importance of notions like ‘facts’, ‘events’, and ‘things’ lies in the central role they play in ontology, the venerable branch of metaphysics which deals with the question of what there is. Depending on various philosophical options, reality is regarded as either constituted by things, or by events, or by facts, or by a pluralistic combination of these categories. But what, p...