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The Reality of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology and Logic of Fiction (thesis)
This paper will begin by outlining and explaining David Lewis's argument for the existence of possible worlds. In Lewis's extreme form of modal realism, all worlds are equally as real as the actual world. I will then address ... -
Redefining 'Lying' (thesis)
My definition of 'lying' is better able than the prevailing definition to capture common intuitions about what is a lie and what is not. It does so specifically by making novel inclusions to the definition, such as the ... -
To Live Gratefully: The Grateful Response to the Gift of Life (thesis)
To evaluate the proper response to receiving the gift of life, we must ask what constitutes proper gratitude. I claim that there are two fundamental parts to gratitude: the mental state and the return. While this return ... -
Transcendental Idealism: An Original Interpretation (thesis)
As Paul Guyer and Allen Wood note in the preface to their translation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, "within a few years of the publication of his Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was recognized ... -
Vocabulary Pedagogy: A Wittgensteinian Approach (thesis)
My claim in this thesis is that we do not need to rely solely on studying dictionary definitions as the exclusive means of learning new words. Rather, there are far more powerful ways to increase students' vocabularies — ...