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You could look it up, I'm not joking. murdock what-if, not what-is
Trivia: Matt Damon and Jake Gyllenhaal Turned Down Avatar | /Film 2010
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The biggest what-is in movie history: O. J as the Terminator.
Trivia: Matt Damon and Jake Gyllenhaal Turned Down Avatar | /Film 2010
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Here he admits that if "what-is were actually to be posited" we would "discern in it the conflict of those inner principles that we must recognize in everything that is."
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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For Heidegger at the beginning of his quest for its meaning, then, Being is experienced, so to speak, as the "is" of what-is, precisely inasmuch as it is different from what-is, the difference being designated the "ontological difference."
Archive 2008-07-01 enowning 2008
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For Heidegger at the beginning of his quest for its meaning, then, Being is experienced, so to speak, as the "is" of what-is, precisely inasmuch as it is different from what-is, the difference being designated the "ontological difference."
enowning enowning 2008
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Parmenides marks a sharp distinction between being (what-is and must be) and becoming, and between knowledge and perception-based belief or opinion.
Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007
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The routes are methods of inquiry: keeping on the correct route will bring one to what-is, the real object of thought and understanding.
Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007
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After laying out the arguments about what-is, the goddess turns to the route of mortals, in an account which she calls
Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007
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Ours is a universe where consciousness is possible, where morality is feel-able, where beauty is appreciable, where freedom is conceivable, and evolution by itself can't explain the very possibility that the world could evolve such remarkable faculties and capabilities, except by a decrepit para-scientific appeal to the finite plausibility of the infinite improbability of what-is.
Evolving Design - A third way between evolution and creation 2007
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Melissus, dismissed as a simple-minded thinker by Aristotle, expands Parmenides 'arguments about the nature of what-is.
Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007
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