If English were a causal ontology, you could not say or write I ate my house, because you cannot eat a house.
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Object-oriented ontology — (OOO) is a metaphysical movement that rejects the privileging of human existence over the existence of nonhuman objects.[1] Specifically, object oriented ontology opposes the anthropocentrism of Immanuel Kant s Copernican Revolution, whereby… … Wikipedia
Object-centered high-level reference ontology — The Object Centered High level REference ontology (OCHRE) is an upper ontology (top level ontology, or foundation ontology), a formal ontological framework whose purpose is to describe very general concepts that are the same across all knowledge… … Wikipedia
Ockham’s world and future — Arthur Gibson PHILOSOPHICAL BIOGRAPHY Ockham was born in about 1285, certainly before 1290, probably in the village of Ockham, Surrey, near London. If his epitaph is accurate, he died on 10 April 1347. Yet Conrad of Megenberg, when writing to… … History of philosophy
metaphysics — /met euh fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology. 2. philosophy, esp. in its more abstruse branches. 3. the… … Universalium
De Broglie–Bohm theory — Quantum mechanics Uncertainty principle … Wikipedia
Occasionalism — Daisie Radner The seventeenth century doctrine known as occasionalism arose in response to a perceived problem. Cartesian philosophy generated the problem and provided the context for the answer. In the Cartesian ontology, mind and matter are… … History of philosophy
Anomalous monism — is a philosophical thesis about the mind body relationship. It was first proposed by Donald Davidson in his 1970 paper Mental events . The theory is twofold and states that mental events are identical with physical events, and that the mental is… … Wikipedia
Psychology (The separation of) from philosophy — The separation of psychology from philosophy Studies in the sciences of mind 1815–1879 Edward S.Reed THE IMPOSSIBLE SCIENCE Traditional metaphysics The consensus of European opinion during and immediately after the Napoleonic era was that… … History of philosophy
Biological naturalism — is a monist theory about the relationship between mind and body (i.e. brain), and hence an approach to the mind body problem. It was first proposed by the philosopher John Searle in 1980 and is defined by two main theses: 1) all mental phenomena… … Wikipedia
Wesley C. Salmon — (1925 ndash;April 22 2001) was a contemporary philosopher concerned primarily with the topics of causation and explanation. Salmon taught in the History and Philosophy of Science programs at Indiana University Bloomington, where he was one of the … Wikipedia
