In metaphysics, extension signifies both 'stretching out' (Latin: extensio) as well as later 'taking up space', and most recently, spreading one's internal...

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science. Cosmology and ontology are...

the U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension (metaphysics), the property of stretching out or taking up space Extension (telephone), telephone line attached...

Thomas Carlyle, who contrasted dynamism with mechanism. Dynamism is the metaphysics of Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) that reconciles hylomorphic substance...

The Discourse on Metaphysics (French: Discours de métaphysique, 1686) is a short treatise by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in which he develops a philosophy...

particular instances of a database. There is an ongoing controversy in metaphysics about whether or not there are, in addition to actual, existing things...

ontological category in metaphysics, populated by nonmaterial mental objects, without physical extension (though possibly with mental extension as in a visual...

is two). The term has different meanings in metaphysics, ontology, epistemology and logic. In metaphysics, it is the view that there are in fact many...

Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger, who called it "the fundamental question of metaphysics". No experiment could support the hypothesis "There is nothing" because...

mass (spring–mass system) Effective mass (solid-state physics) Extension (metaphysics) International System of Quantities 2019 revision of the SI base...

extraordinary". Obsolete uses include "of, relating to, or dealing with metaphysics". As a noun, the term can mean "a supernatural being", with a particularly...

In metaphysics, Metaphysical solipsism is the variety of idealism which asserts that nothing exists externally to this one mind, and since this mind is...

In logic and philosophy (especially metaphysics), a property is a characteristic of an object; for example, a red object is said to have the property...

consciousness Extended mind thesis Extension (metaphysics) Extension (semantics) Extensional context Extensional definition Extensionality Externalism Externalization...

(Fall 2024 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2025-01-16 Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “Extensionality (n.)” December 2024...

higher-order, 4D (see four dimensionalism) ontology. It is extensional (see Extension (metaphysics)), using physical existence as its criterion for identity...

Father Battista Mondin, O.P. (2022). Ontologia e metafisica [Ontology and metaphysics]. Filosofia (in Italian) (3rd ed.). Edizioni Studio Domenicano. p. 59...

Whitehead's metaphysics. Neither is a countable sequence or array of points. A Whiteheadian process is most importantly characterized by extension in space-time...

In metaphysics, impenetrability is the name given to that quality of matter whereby two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time. The philosopher...

known as generalized Darwinism, universal selection theory, or Darwinian metaphysics, is a variety of approaches that extend the theory of Darwinism beyond...

philosophy spans nearly every area of philosophical discourse, including metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind, and...

Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 25 November 2021. Parent, Ted. "Modal Metaphysics". Internet Encyclopedia...

Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. Nobo, Jorge L. Whitehead's Metaphysics of Extension and Solidarity...

French intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics, having written on topics ranging from esotericism, "sacred science"...

German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political philosophy and the...

person. Metaphysical possibility has been thought to be more restricting than bare logical possibility (i.e., fewer things are metaphysically possible...

(philosophy) – Philosophical term denoting a group of things derived from extensional or intensional definition Formalism (philosophy) – Concept of focusing...

"on the table", "in the room" and "being bigger than other apples". Metaphysical frameworks also differ in whether they consider objects existing independently...

philosophy, especially the subjects logic, ethics and metaphysics, including treatises named Logic and Metaphysics. Most of his works were written in Arabic, then...

authored or edited over forty books. His areas of specialization included Metaphysics/Ontology, Philosophical Historiography, Philosophy of Language/Hermeneutics...