MetaphysicsThis classic, provocative introduction to classical metaphysical questions focuses on appreciating the problems, rather than attempting to proffer answers. |
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absurdity accordingly antecedent conditions argument argument from design assert ball becoming older believe bodily changes body causal cause conception consider course deliberate deny depends Descartes determinism is true difficulties DOUBLE ASPECT THEORY doubt effects epiphenomenalism epiphenomenalist everything example existence express fact false fatalist feel future happen hypothalamus idea identical inferred inner instance interactionism kind law of excluded least less logically matter means mental merely metaphysical mind acts mind or soul MONROE BEARDSLEY motions move my finger mysterious nature naval battle occurred necessary nervous system neuron never nonphysical one's passage past perfectly perishable person philosophical physical object possible problems pure becoming Q is true reason receding ever farther Richard Taylor Roderick Chisholm seems sense Sidney Hook simply sometimes spatial statements stones sufficient suppose surely sympathetic nervous system temporal theory of determinism things Thomas Aquinas thought tion volitions