Vague Certainty, Violent Derealization, Imaginative Doubting

Doubting Free Will: Three Experiments

This moral presumption against infliction of suffering has particular relevance in the field of criminal law because, as a system of retribution, the criminal justice system is institutionally committed to the infliction of human suffering. Simply put, suffering is inflicted to make people “pay” for the crimes that they commit. Of course, the criminal justice system often has other goals as wel...

Doubting the Object World

Object oriented approaches (OO) may be placed within functionalism. It is argued why we should not use OO for analysing human worlds. OBJECTs are neither presentations of humans nor equal to humans as the literature often likes to suggest. 1 The ontological structure of the OBJECT world The OBJECT is the basic unit in a description of an OBJECT world, which functions as a script for an 'interac...

The imaginative mind.

The astounding capacity for the human imagination to be engaged across a wide range of contexts is limitless and fundamental to our day-to-day experiences. Although processes of imagination are central to human psychological function, they rarely occupy center stage in academic discourse or empirical study within psychological and neuroscientific realms. The aim of this paper is to tackle this ...

VAGUE RINGS AND VAGUE IDEALS

In this paper, various elementary properties of vague rings are obtained. Furthermore, the concepts of vague subring, vague ideal, vague prime ideal and vague maximal ideal are introduced, and the validity of some relevant classical results in these settings are investigated.

Vague Existence Implies Vague Identity