actuality
71ac·tu·al·i·ty — /ˌækʧəˈwæləti/ noun, pl ties 1 [noncount] : the quality or state of being actual or real It was hard to accept the actuality [=reality] of the disease. 2 [count] : something that is actual or real the actualities [=realities] of war The …
72Allan King — Allan Winton King (b. February 6, 1930, Vancouver, British Columbia) is a celebrated Canadian film director. LifeDuring the Depression he attended Henry Hudson Elementary School in Kitsilano, Vancouver.… …
73Philosophical Explanations — is a wide ranging metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical treatise written by Robert Nozick and published in 1981. The Parthenon Model and non coercive philosophy Nozick makes a case for a Parthenon model of philosophical ambition rather than… …
74Aristotle — /ar euh stot l/, n. 384 322 B.C., Greek philosopher: pupil of Plato; tutor of Alexander the Great. * * * born 384, Stagira died 322 BC, Chalcis Greek philosopher and scientist whose thought determined the course of Western intellectual history… …
75Michael Paraskos — Michael Paraskos, FRSA (born 1969, Leeds, Yorkshire) a writer on art, the son of the Cypriot artist Stass Paraskos. He has written several books, essays and articles on art, literature and politics, and has taught in universities and colleges and …
76Neo-Platonism — Eyjólfur K.Emilsson GENERAL INTRODUCTION Neo Platonism is usually defined as the philosophy of Plotinus, who lived in the third century AD, and his followers in the pagan Graeco Roman world in late antiquity. The most significant philosophers… …
77Hegel’s logic and philosophy of mind — Willem deVries LOGIC AND MIND IN HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY Hegel is above all a systematic philosopher. Awe inspiring in its scope, his philosophy left no subject untouched. Logic provides the central, unifying framework as well as the general… …
78Peirce, Charles Sanders — American pragmatism Peirce Cheryl Misak INTRODUCTION Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), one of America’s greatest philosophers, mathematicians, and logicians, was a difficult and not altogether pleasant character. That, combined with what the… …
79Existence (Philosophy of) 1 — Philosophy of existence 1 Heidegger Jacques Taminiaux At the very outset and up to the end, the long philosophical journey of Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) remained oriented by a single question, the question of Being, the Seinsfrage. This does… …
80existence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) State of being Nouns 1. existence, life, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence, presence; ontology, existentialism. 2. (fact of existence) reality, actuality, authenticity; positiveness, fact, matter of… …
