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• Quantity
  ...ine, breadth a surface, depth a solid. (Aristotle, book v, chapters 11-14, Metaphysics). ...rt of the subject to be predicated. Accordingly, there are existential and universal quantifiers. In relation to the meaning of a construct, quantity involves t
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• 115:3 Original, Actual, and Potential
  ...]], is the maximum [[paradox]] of [[creature]] [[philosophy]] and finite [[metaphysics]]. Though man's [[spiritual]] [[nature]] reaches up in the [[worship]] [[ex ...f the [[three Absolutes]] of [[potentiality]], the Deity, Unqualified, and Universal Absolutes. This triodity of [[existential]] [[potentiality]] [[constitutes]
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• 101:2 The Fact of Religion
  ...[[reality]] of a [[God]] who fosters [[personality]] [[survival]]. What [[metaphysics]] fails utterly in doing, and what even [[philosophy]] fails partially in d ...n]] confirms the experiential [[harmony]] of this [[triune]] approach to [[universal]] [[reality]].
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• Existence
  ...Plato's ''Phaedo'', ''The Republic'', and ''Statesman '' and Aristotle's ''Metaphysics'', though earlier fragmentary writing exists. Aristotle developed a compli ...he form "All A are B.", a form which logicians call [[universal quantifier|universal]]. It does not allow propositions of the form "Some A are B.", a form logi
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• Medieval Philosophy
  ...t developments in the field of Philosophy of [[religion]], [[Logic]] and [[Metaphysics]]. ...e of [[theology]] and metaphysics, and the problems of [[knowledge]], of [[universal]]s, and of individuation.[2]
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• Death of God
  ...an [[Objectivity (philosophy)|objective]] and [[universality (philosophy)|universal]] [[morality|moral law]], binding upon all individuals. In this manner, the ...che's words warn of its demise and that of any metaphysical world view. If metaphysics is dead that is, Heidegger warns, because from its inception that was its [
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• Cosmology
  ...nce]], stands the [[philosophy|philosophical]] perspective of [[cosmology (metaphysics)|metaphysical cosmology]]. This ancient field of study seeks to draw [[intu ...ewton provided a physical mechanism for [[Kepler's laws]] and his [[law of universal gravitation]] allowed the [[anomalies]] in previous systems, caused by grav
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• Judeo-Islamic philosophy
  ...he macrocosm). Just as the heavenly spheres receive their motion from the universal soul—which is a simple substance emanating from God—so man rece ...manation, and in the following sequence: (1) The active intellect; (2) the universal soul—which moves the heavenly sphere; (3) nature; (4) darkness—
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• Paper 103 - The Reality of Religious Experience
  ...impse the [[certainties]] and [[divinities]] of limitless [[Deity]], the [[Universal Father]]. 103:5.3 All men [[recognize]] the [[morality]] of this [[universal]] human urge to be [[unselfish]] and [[altruistic]]. The [[humanist]] ascri
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• Spirit
  The word is used in two related contexts, one [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] and the other [[metaphorical]]. ...ization|capitalized]]) refers to the theories of a unified spirituality, [[universal consciousness]] and some concepts of [[Deity]]. All "spirits" connected, fo
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• Common sense
  ...on]]s or [[belief]]s of mankind; e.g. in the theory of [[perception]], the universal [[belief]] in the existence of a [[material]] world. Applied to the Scotch .... In such a case, does it not become problematical to attempt [[logic]], [[metaphysics]] and epistemology absent original assumptions stemming from common sense?
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• 1997-04-01-Understanding Vortex
  ...are open to [[interpretation]] to anyone who would care to dally in such [[metaphysics]]. But you had indicated an interest, and so it seemed interesting to us al ...h the [[discussion]] beforehand, and it has to do with the [[fact]] that [[metaphysics]] have been highly stimulative of [[spirit]] [[reality]], but it has [[fail
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• Paper 115 - The Supreme Being
  115:2.3 The entire [[scheme]] of [[universal]] [[creation]] and [[evolution]] on all experiencing [[levels]] is apparent ...]], is the maximum [[paradox]] of [[creature]] [[philosophy]] and finite [[metaphysics]]. Though man's [[spiritual]] [[nature]] reaches up in the [[worship]] [[ex
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• Golden rule
  ...prison, so he should not do so to others. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Cambridge University Press 1997, p68, also his Critique of Pract ...nto account. Thus the "golden rule" might still expresss the essence of a universal morality ''even if no two men in the world had any needs or tastes in commo
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• Philosophy
  ...s from a higher order preeminent world, concepts more real, permanent, and universal than or representative of the ''things of this world'', which are only chan ...l notions of self-organization and intrinsic order from Goethe and Kantian metaphysics, and proceeded to produce a long elaboration on the tension between systema
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• African Philosophy
  ...hilosophers spend their time doing work in many different areas, such as [[metaphysics]], [[epistemology]], [[ethics|moral philosophy]], and [[political philosoph ...rue happiness, and true happiness is attained by grasping the [[universal (metaphysics)|universals]] through reason and philosophy, often outside the framework of
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• A Course in Miracles
  ...rian, non-denominational spirituality. A Course in Miracles therefore is a universal spiritual teaching, not a religion. ...erizes the metaphysics of the ''Course'' as [[nondualism]] and states “the metaphysics of A Course in Miracles is non-dualistic, as it expresses one pre-separatio
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• Paper 5 - God's Relation to the Individual
  ...able to [[comprehend]] how so great and so [[majestic]] a [[God]] as the [[Universal Father]] can [[descend]] from his [[eternal]] [[home|abode]] in [[infinite] ...ssibility]] ask for safe conduct into the [[Paradise]] [[presence]] of the Universal Father. Spiritually, man must be [[translated]] many times before he can at
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• 2006-02-19-Seasons Of The Soul
  ...would like to say is, Don’t feel like the Lone Stranger. This is much more universal than you can credit right now. This is part of being human in these first, ...thin yourself your personality and spirit are trying to unify much that is universal. Here I am referring to a whole heredity of evolution, millions of years of
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• Duality
  ...ity), according to "the standard interpretation" of Dharmakirti's Buddhist metaphysics. Typically in Western philosophy, dualism is considered to be a dualism bet ..."man's eternal [[destiny]] was everlasting union with Tao, Supreme God and Universal King." His comprehension of ultimate causation was most discerning, for he
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