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| Independence, philosophy: the concept of independence is relevant in the context of the countability of events. It is thus a question of whether an event is a condition, a sequence or a side effect of an event, or whether it is to be counted as a separate event. See also epiphenomenalism, cause, effect, dependency, relations, overlap, autonomy, overlap._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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P. Simons on Independence - Dictionary of Arguments
I 301 Absolutely independent/independence/Simons: an object is independent, if it is not generically dependent. God/Simons: problem: is god independent of its own thoughts? In any case, he must be a monad, because the real parts of an object are separated from him. The extreme strength of the concept of absolute independence limits its usefulness. >Dependence, >Ontological dependence, >God. I 302 E.g. weak independent: a continuant may still be dependent on a process in its interior. The process must be separated from the continuant (because of the category difference). E.g. (s) a body that is not identical with its metabolism (or unity of all its processes or life story). >Continuants, >Process. Process and object can never be identical. Event/continuant: event and continuant are categorically different, and can therefore have no common part. >Events. I 325 Independence/nature/world/reality/Simons: there are things in nature that do not interact: e.g. separate point events. SimonsVsSchlick/SchlickVsSum: if the sum should not have internal relations, there are no sums in nature. SimonsVsSchlick: yes (Popper pro Schlick). Therefore, difference in shape (with internal relations) is meaningless (PopperVsShape Theory). >Reality, >World, >Forms, >Nature._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Simons I P. Simons Parts. A Study in Ontology Oxford New York 1987 |
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