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Showing posts with label Rescher. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

A Thomistic argument for the Principle of Proportional Causality

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The Principle of Proportionate Causality (PPC) defended by Aquinas and other scholastics says that a perfection P can only be caused by som...
Friday, March 2, 2018

Wishful thinking

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Start with this observation: Commonly used forms of fallacious reasoning are typically distortions of good forms of reasoning. For insta...
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Friday, June 16, 2017

Optimalism about necessity

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There are many set-theoretic claims that are undecidable from the basic axioms of set theory. Plausibly, the truths of set theory hold of ne...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Nicholas Rescher

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Nicholas Rescher was just awarded the Aquinas Medal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Here is the introduction I gave for ...
Friday, November 9, 2007

The scholarly life: Two views

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The pessimist: I HAVE, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labour, studied through. And here...
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