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extrinsic properties. Intrinsic properties are fundamental in understanding Kantian deontological ethics, which is based upon the argument that an action should...

is more probable. (An opinion is probable when, because of intrinsic or extrinsic arguments, it is able to gain the assent of many prudent men.) It was...

The Chinese room argument holds that a computer executing a program cannot have a mind, understanding, or consciousness, regardless of how intelligently...

physical terms for subjective, intrinsic, first-person, what-it's-like-ness experiences. Proponents of philosophical zombie arguments, such as the philosopher...

original coordinate system, which is assumed to remain motionless), or intrinsic (rotations about the axes of the rotating coordinate system XYZ, solidary...

distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic value is central to axiology. One conceptualization holds that something is intrinsically valuable if it is...

In moral philosophy, instrumental and intrinsic value are the distinction between what is a means to an end and what is as an end in itself. Things are...

value 2 is the argument of the function. Loosely, a parameter is a type, and an argument is an instance. A parameter is an intrinsic property of the...

§ Intrinsic value Bradley's regress Chicken or the egg Cosmological argument Droste effect First cause Fractal Gunk (mereology) Homunculus argument Münchhausen...

Other ways to respond to this argument include rejecting the claim that these pleasures really have no or negative intrinsic value or rejecting that these...

problem of evil and the evidential problem of evil. The logical form of the argument tries to show a logical impossibility in the coexistence of a god and evil...

is "just how it is" distorts the argument by opting out of it entirely: the claimant declares an issue to be intrinsic and immutable. The Latin form of...

omitted. All intrinsic procedures can be used with keyword arguments: CALL DATE_AND_TIME (TIME=t) and many have optional arguments. The intrinsic procedures...

otherwise it is intrinsic. For example, the property of being an aunt is extrinsic while the property of having a mass of 60 kg is intrinsic. If the identity...

improper education, sin, or predestination. Intrinsic finality provides the basis for the teleological argument for the existence of God and its modern counterpart...

claims that these moral properties, if they did exist would need to be intrinsically motivating by being in some primitive relation to our consciousness...

argument widely held to favor the concept of temporal parts arises from these points (Sider, 2001): David Lewis' argument from temporary intrinsics,...

extension of the former argument, a space of three or more dimensions can be intrinsically curved. The curvature is intrinsic in the sense that it is...

second edition was released under the same title. Swinburne discusses the intrinsic probability of theism, with an everlastingly omnipotent, omniscient and...

of linear algebra to multilinear algebra. In differential geometry, an intrinsic[definition needed] geometric statement may be described by a tensor field...