The homunculus argument is an informal fallacy whereby a concept is explained in terms of the concept itself, recursively, without first defining or explaining...

modern times, it was thought that homunculus, an artificial humanlike being, could be created through alchemy. The homunculus first appears by name in alchemical...

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because of Ryle's regress and the homunculus argument. Recently, reliance on the private language argument and the "homunculus objection" has itself come under...

Look up homunculus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A homunculus is either an artificial man created through alchemy, or, in contemporean science,...

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particular instant, making the decisions and sending out commands (see Homunculus argument). The term "Cartesian theater" was brought up in the context of the...

incorporating the effect Chinese boxes Dream within a dream Fractal Homunculus argument Infinity mirror Infinite regress Matryoshka doll Infinity Quine Scale...

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1896. p. 367 Fischer 1970, pp. 4–8. Bunnin & Yu 2004, "Homunculus". "A List Of Fallacious Arguments". Retrieved 6 October 2012. Bennett, Bo. "Inflation of...

terms by W.V.O. Quine. Deduction theorem Homunculus argument Münchhausen trilemma Paradox Regress argument Rule of inference Gödel, Escher, Bach, a book...

regarding what constitutes science. Binding problem Change blindness Homunculus argument Philosophy of mind Physicalism Scientism Society of Mind The Conscious...

proposition that information metabolism has its control center (the homunculus argument) and the view that brain is only used in 30%. Nevertheless, as noted...

logic -- History of the function concept -- Hold come what may -- Homunculus argument -- Horn clause -- Hume's fork -- Hume's principle -- Hypothetical...

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input-output system. This is chiefly due to the problems presented by the Homunculus argument, which concluded that semantic meaning could not be derived from...

required – it is more like "kicking a kick". This explanation evades the Homunculus Objection, as adhered to by Gilbert Ryle, among others. Ryle was unable...

infinite regress of homunculi. Each explanatory homunculus is “stupider” or more basic than the homunculus it explains, but this regress is not infinite...

(potentially) infinite regress that emerges can be stopped. See also the homunculus fallacy. Immanuel Kant anticipated Ryle's regress when he wrote in The...

forcing reevaluation of perspective on one's own life. Searle's demon – Homunculus-like being that reproduces intentional behaviour in someone's brain without...

preformationist camp, spermists (who claimed the homunculus must come from the man) to ovists, who located the homunculus in the ova. Dutch microscopist Antonie...

is the problems of Ryle's Regress or the homunculus fallacy. Cognitivists have offered a number of arguments attempting to refute these attacks.[clarification...

helped. Arun and Raphael argue, with Ace in the middle, and argument awakens the Homunculus, which bursts free of its tank. As the creature rages about...

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Knight, who is later revealed to be Jenius. He is later revealed to be a homunculus created by Amis Germain in an attempt to turn him into the Son of Destruction...

the Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, an alchemically fabricated homunculus, destined to live forever in the flask in which he was made, endeavors...

under a microscope and the diagram he proposed for what sperm was, a homunculus in the head of the human sperm. A very little human was said to be observed...

Kiritsugu's wife. She is a homunculus prototype created by the Einzbern family with the idea of giving birth to an ultimate homunculus. Like many of the Einzberns...

life, and in medieval Jewish stories of the Golem, a magically animated homunculus built of clay. However, the possibility of actually constructing a conscious...

unlock Nazarick's doors. She likes cute things, and is idolized by the homunculus maids. Solution Epsilon (ソリュシャン・イプシロン, Soryushan Ipushiron) Voiced by:...