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# The metaphysical thesis: Moral propositions are true when actions and other objects of moral assessment have the relevant moral properties ( so that the relevant moral facts obtain ), where these facts and properties are robust: their metaphysical status, whatever it is, is not relevantly different from that of ( certain types of ) ordinary non-moral facts and properties.
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# and metaphysical
# That, while the theological dogma of predestination is a barren hypothesis beyond the province of knowledge, and the metaphysical dogma of free will rests on an erroneous belief in the infallibility of consciousness, it is proved by science, and especially by statistics, that human actions are governed by laws as fixed and regular as those that rule in the physical world
# That the mental laws that regulate the progress of society cannot be discovered by the metaphysical method, that is, by the introspective study of the individual mind, but only by such a comprehensive survey of facts as enable us to eliminate disturbances, that is, by the method of averages
Various List of symbols # Religious, esoteric, metaphysical and mystical symbols | religious symbols Religious studies is the academic field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religious beliefs, behaviors, and institutions.
# The lesson of the last revolutionary wave is not that the working class can do without organised leadership, nor that the party is the class ( a metaphysical abstraction they attribute to latterday Bordigists ).
#: Analysis of the dhatūs (" constituents " or " strata " ( in the sense of metaphysical substrata ))
# While there may also be a cultural connection between the southern deluge cycle and the cosmogonic scenario of the cosmic egg ( i. e., via the " thunder-egg ," " origin of ancestors hero from egg or gourd ," and " origin of agriculture and mankind from gourd " myths ), the fundamental linkage for all these typologies is the early Taoist, innovative perception of a shared symbolic intention that accounts for, and supports, a particular cosmogonic, metaphysical, and mystical vision of creation and life.
# There should be maximum utilization of physical, metaphysical and spiritual potentialities of unit and collective bodies of human society.
# There should be a proper adjustment amongst these physical, metaphysical, mundane, supramundane and spiritual utilizations.
# It illustrates an educational article about the metaphysical art movement, of which the artist who created this painting was one of the founders.
# Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it is a famous and historically significant example of metaphysical art.
# fallibilism ( the view that there are no metaphysical guarantees against the need to revise a belief );
# and thesis
# Socrates ' interlocutor asserts a thesis, for example " Courage is endurance of the soul ", which Socrates considers false and targets for refutation.
# Socrates then argues, and the interlocutor agrees, that these further premises imply the contrary of the original thesis, in this case it leads to: " courage is not endurance of the soul ".
# Socrates then claims that he has shown that his interlocutor's thesis is false and that its negation is true.
# Socrates ' interlocutor asserts a thesis, for example " Courage is endurance of the soul ", which Socrates considers false and targets for refutation.
# Socrates then argues, and the interlocutor agrees, that these further premises imply the contrary of the original thesis, in this case it leads to: " courage is not endurance of the soul ".
# Socrates then claims that he has shown that his interlocutor's thesis is false and that its negation is true.
# The semantic thesis: The primary semantic role of moral predicates ( such as " right " and " wrong ") is to refer to moral properties ( such as rightness and wrongness ), so that moral statements ( such as " honesty is good " and " slavery is unjust ") purport to represent moral facts, and express propositions that are true or false ( or approximately true, largely false, and so on ).
James Madison made this recommendation in a letter to Thomas Jefferson of 24 October 1787, which summarized the thesis of The Federalist # 10: " Divide et impera, the reprobated axiom of tyranny, is under certain qualifications, the only policy, by which a republic can be administered on just principles.
# Krige, D. G, A statistical approach to some mine valuations and allied problems at the Witwatersrand, Master's thesis of the University of Witwatersrand, 1951
# The thesis that our intuitive awareness of value, or intuitive knowledge of evaluative facts, forms the foundation of our ethical knowledge.
# and Moral
# The Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Condition of Man, by Thomas Chalmers, D. D.
# Moral law of karma: Every action ( by way of body, speech, and mind ) will have karmic results ( a. k. a. reaction ).
# David Hume – Treatise on Human Nature ; Essays Moral and Political ; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
# The Moral Reflection – Rumi supports his voice of morality by including quotations from the Quran and various hadith stories of events in the life of the Prophet Mohammed.
# Sex is Wrong ( September 27, 1987 ) – Piers Fletcher-Dervish, Alan's aristocratic and mentally challenged officemate, joins the Campaign for Moral Regeneration, a group dedicated to battling pornography, but Alan ( who proclaims himself a libertarian on the subject ) is uninterested in joining, until Piers tells him that they regularly view samples of the material they are fighting.
# David Hume – A Treatise of Human Nature ; Essays Moral and Political ; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; History of England
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