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Clare Mac Cumhaill

transparent without remainder. To begin, I draw on C. B. Martin’s ontology of absence so as to generate some terminology that makes talk of nothingness more tractable. I set out the plan for the article at the end of the first section. Absences and Absential

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Jean-Paul Gagnon

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2,234 Descriptions of Democracy: An Update to Democracy’s Ontological Pluralism

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Jean-Paul Gagnon

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2,234 Descriptions of Democracy: An Update to Democracy’s Ontological Pluralism

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Jean-Paul Gagnon

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2,234 Descriptions of Democracy: An Update to Democracy’s Ontological Pluralism

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Jaap Westbroek, Harry Nijhuis, and Laurent van der Maesen

uncovering truth about reality in mathematical formulas. Because the ontology of physics is grounded on the reversibility of time, it is able to reproduce experimental research without the influence of events in time. All other sciences, however, are based on

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Daniel O'Shiel

This article argues that although Jean-Paul Sartre is widely acknowledged as an atheist, a closer look at his phenomenological ontology in Being and Nothingness (1943) demonstrates a more complicated picture. I explicate three concepts of God at

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Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You

Sartre on Pure Reflection in Response to Husserl & Levinas

Curtis Sommerlatte

's book, Sartre likely came to Husserl's texts by viewing them as having a concrete ontology at its foundation, whose keystone is the identification of the being of consciousness with intentionality. This concrete ontology, furthermore, takes priority over

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The Algebra of Souls

Ontological Multiplicity and the Transformation of Animism in Southwest China

Mireille Mazard

deceased. Through transformations enacted in death and fire, the deceased and his or her belongings become ontologically other. This process of metamorphosis entails a geographical movement as well, as they set off for the land of the dead ( mhade ). Lañi

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Beyond Oracular Ambiguity

Divination, Lies, and Ontology in Early Greek Literature

Olaf Almqvist

, infallibility is a contingent idea closely associated with specific styles of divination and ontological assumptions. In particular, I will argue that infallibility is a phenomenon associated with ‘calculatory’ methods of divination. As William Matthews explores

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Totemic Outsiders

Ontological Transformation among the Makushi

James Andrew Whitaker

of animism and totemism provided a starting point for the development of the broader theory of ‘perspectivism’, which levels the ontological ground of ‘personhood’ between humans and non-humans ( Costa and Fausto 2010 ; Viveiros de Castro 1998 ). It