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objective
“reproduce 20 years from now. That's exact. That's not subjective. That's perfectly objective. You and I can disagree about how pleasant it is, how comfortable it is, how warm or cool it is, but we'll…” (Lee Braver)
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Odysseus
“giants once roamed the Earth. Everyone knows Odysseus met the Cyclops who lived in the big cave, and grabbed sheep and men with his hands and ate them whole. And also, in the times of” (Joel David Hamkins)
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Oliver Sacks
“And he will play it continuously, remember the whole thing, it might last five minutes. And so music, Oliver Sacks describes him among others, music is the one thing that gives him temporal…” (Richard Polt)
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omnibenevolence
“God is the being with all possible perfections. Perfect power is a perfection. God is omnipotent. Omnibenevolence, perfect goodness. Possible perfection, God has it. Perfect existence.” (Lee Braver)
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omnipotence
“Perfect knowledge is a perfection. God is the being with all possible perfections, therefore God is omniscient. Omnipotence, perfect power. God is the being with all possible perfections. Perfect…” (Lee Braver)
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omniscience
“So, what are some possible perfections? Well, omniscience, knowing everything. Perfect knowledge. Yep, okay. Perfect knowledge is a perfection. God is the being with all possible perfections,…” (Lee Braver)
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omniscience, omnipotence, omnibenevolence
“We saw Descartes take God as a subject, and then take a whole bunch of predicates, omniscience, omnipotence, omnibenevolence, and existence, and Descartes combined those. God has omniscience.” (Lee Braver)
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omniscient
“God wanted us to obey the, the rules, and therefore, he gave the, gave us the rules. If you have a book written by an omniscient being, all-knowing, who is the creator of the universe, the creator of…” (Lee Braver)
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On the Mind-Body Problem
“new age industry where it still flourishes. Wigner wrote a famous essay called On the Mind-Body Problem, okay? In which the thought was the following.” (David Albert)
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one-to-one correspondence
“Well, of course, it's simple, because he just observed that at every place setting there was one plate and one knife, and so we can make a kind of one-to-one correspondence between the plates and the…” (Joel David Hamkins)
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one-to-one function
“should move to room N plus 1,000. So if everyone shifts up 1,000 rooms, then they still have their own private room. Yes? Because that's a one-to-one function from the natural numbers to the natural…” (Joel David Hamkins)
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ontological
“That is, maybe one thinks that potentialism is sort of an epistemological phenomenon versus an ontological phenomenon. In other words, epistemology is the study of knowledge and the nature of…” (Joel David Hamkins)
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ontological proof
“Descartes basically plagiarized. It's known as the ontological proof. It was created by a 12th century,” (Lee Braver)
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ontologically light
“I think of it as, philosophically, it's very ontologically light, because I mean, it's sort of deflationary in a way, because it's saying, "Look, we don't have to give a robust...... heavy meaning to…” (Joel David Hamkins)
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Ontology
“And nobody regarded this as some kind of solution to the puzzle about the non-locality of these forces. Like I say, there's a purely formal sense, there's a purely mathematical sense here, in which…” (David Albert)
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order infinite
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ordinals
“for omega plus one many steps, and so on. And so you see, in fact, in the Cantor Bendixian process, this was the birth of the ordinals for Cantor. Cantor invented the ordinals precisely to make sense…” (Joel David Hamkins)
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orientation
“It's science itself that has taken away our orientation in the world, literally. Orientation comes from the word orient, because you would face east where Jerusalem is, because you take your…” (Lee Braver)
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our essence to be more than any essence
“And this drive to surpass what we have been, to be more than what we are, is what we are. It is our essence to be more than any essence that we find ourselves to be. This is how the history of…” (Lee Braver)
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owner's manual for human life
“For a long time, uh, throughout the whole Middle Ages, the picture of the universe was that it was cr- the universe was created by God for us, and God, uh, wants what's best for us, so he gave us an…” (Lee Braver)
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