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David Malet Armstrong AO FAHA (8 July 1926 – 13 May 2014), [4] often D. M. Armstrong, was an Australian philosopher.He is well known for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and for his defence of a factualist ontology, a functionalist theory of the mind, an externalist epistemology, and a necessitarian conception of the laws of nature.
Armstrong looks at Gilbert Ryle's refinement of Behaviourism, Dispositional Behaviourism. Armstrong illustrates Ryle's idea with a description of glass - brittleness is the disposition of materials such as glass to shatter under certain circumstances. Whether or not the glass shatters in a particular instance, it has the disposition to do so.
Metaphysical naturalism is the philosophical basis of science as described by Kate and Vitaly (2000). "There are certain philosophical assumptions made at the base of the scientific method – namely, 1) that reality is objective and consistent, 2) that humans have the capacity to perceive reality accurately, and that 3) rational explanations exist for elements of the real world.
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Powers: A Study in Metaphysics is a philosophical book written by George Molnar and published posthumously in 2003. After Molnar's death, the book was completed by Stephen Mumford who had been contacted by Molnar's former partner to finish the book.
[4] However, Plato's theories on this topic further explored the idea that art imitates the objects and events of ordinary life. [4] In other words, it is a copy of a copy of a form. [ 4 ] Therefore, works of art are either for the joy of entertainment or an illusion. [ 4 ]
Philosophy began to move away from the metaphysics of categorisation towards the linguistic problem of trying to differentiate between, and define, the words being used. Ludwig Wittgenstein ’s conclusion was that there were no clear definitions which we can give to words and categories but only a "halo" or "corona" [ 53 ] of related meanings ...
Right at the beginning of this article, one could find many subjective statements, such as that the metaphysics is basically an updated version of Plato's theory of forms. This view is now outdated as it belongs to a debate that stretches back to Warner Jaeger's "Aristotle" (1923) and to Ingemar During's reply to it (1966).