Prospect for Metaphysics: Essays of Metaphysical ExplorationIan T. Ramsey |
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... suppose that its upholders would agree with me that you cannot derive moral obligations from descriptions of human behaviour by any process of abstraction , conceptualization and deduction ; but that most of them would not agree that ...
... suppose that its upholders would agree with me that you cannot derive moral obligations from descriptions of human behaviour by any process of abstraction , conceptualization and deduction ; but that most of them would not agree that ...
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... suppose that the being with which ontology deals is a portmanteau- term covering the real , the merely possible and the merely logical . There is no such unitary concept ; there are only the analogies by which we are led to think of the ...
... suppose that the being with which ontology deals is a portmanteau- term covering the real , the merely possible and the merely logical . There is no such unitary concept ; there are only the analogies by which we are led to think of the ...
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... suppose we should have to answer as follows . A creature's power is limited because it does not possess powers that other creatures have ; God's power is unlimited because , being the Creator , he possesses not only all the powers that ...
... suppose we should have to answer as follows . A creature's power is limited because it does not possess powers that other creatures have ; God's power is unlimited because , being the Creator , he possesses not only all the powers that ...
Contents
METAPHYSICAL SCHEMES AND MORAL PRINCIPLES | 15 |
THE AUTONOMY OF ETHICS | 33 |
WHAT ARE THE LIMITS OF METAPHYSICS? | 50 |
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