plotinus' attempt to counter the aristotle critiques on plato's theory of ideas, leads to his theory of emanation, which is called double act doctrine. plotinus is influenced by aristotle, not only in raising the problem of emanation quality, but the language and terms (including reasonable matter, indefinite dyad and activity) that are used to describe his theory. also, the theory of...

A platonist in mathematics believes that arithmetic has a subject matter, i.e., that the statements of arithmetic are about certain objects – the natural numbers. For a platonist, the language of (first-order) arithmetic La is referential and he is licensed to speak of true and false sentences of La and to endorse Tarski’s analysis of truth. It follows from this Tarskian analysis plus the fact ...

fardid is an iranian contemporary philosopher who grows up in iran's inflamed political atmosphere. he is a verbal philosopher who is interested in iran's past history. having scattered speech and don't having any written document result to make a difficulty in finding his philosopher's ideas. fardid's philosophy isn't out of history and never be an abstract philos...

Professor Goldworth takes up the cudgels in defence of the contemporary moral philosopher, who, he says, should indeed have a role in helping doctors to make clinical decisions based on philosophical theory; Mr. Thompson in his reply says that Professor Goldworth has misinterpreted his earlier argument. Mr. Thompson reiterates his view that the practice of medical ethics must begin with the pro...