@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {McGinn,Colin}, subject = {Ontology}, note = {I 14 Ontology/reality/existence/understanding/realism/McGinn: e.g. steam engines are not inconceivable, if the possible world in which they exist, happens to contain no living beings with the intellectual ability to understand their function. Neither the transformation from a secret to a problem involves a sudden attack of ontological purity. >Functions, >Reality, >Understanding, >World/Thinking. I 92 The term "home" does not appear in the relevant physical theories, but it does not follow that there are no homes. >Theory. I 99 Ontology/explanation/McGinn: There is no ontological dependence without ontological explanation because results have a certain relationship to what produces these results. >Explanation.}, note = { McGinn I Colin McGinn Problems in Philosophy. The Limits of Inquiry, Cambridge/MA 1993 German Edition: Die Grenzen vernünftigen Fragens Stuttgart 1996 McGinn II C. McGinn The Mysteriouy Flame. Conscious Minds in a Material World, New York 1999 German Edition: Wie kommt der Geist in die Materie? München 2001 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=252690} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=252690} }