conceivability's Usage Examples:

David Braddon-Mitchell, and Robert Kirk; critics who assert mostly that conceivability does not entail possibility include Katalin Balog, Keith Frankish, Christopher.

physicalism in general is the "conceivability argument", or zombie argument.

At a rough approximation, the conceivability argument runs as follows: P1).

He agrees that conceivability (as used in the Zombie and inverted spectrum arguments) is flawed as.

concepts discussed in the Three Dialogues are perceptual relativity, the conceivability/master argument and Berkeley's phenomenalism.

Even if conceivability considerations do not establish that the mind is in fact distinct from.

he wrote: "At the beginning of the 20th century the question of the conceivability of other worlds with modified physics and mathematics will be highly.

epistemic and modal domains" in arguing from knowability or epistemic conceivability to what is necessary or possible (modalities).

(1992)[page needed] Joseph Levine's paper Conceivability, Identity, and the Explanatory Gap takes up where the criticisms of conceivability arguments, such as the inverted.

deny 2) in virtue of denying another relatively common intuition: that conceivability entails metaphysical possibility.

relies on the assumption that his Zombie argument (also known as the conceivability argument) is true.

concepts of artificial intelligence and the human mind, as well as the conceivability of some unconventional cosmological models.

exist, and the detailed argument does involve many assumptions about conceivability and possibility, which are open to criticism.

1007/BF00413713 abstract Robert Weingard: Discussion: General relativity and the conceivability of time travel, Philosophy of Science, vol.

Others have claimed that the conceivability of a scenario may not entail its possibility.

Wittgenstein explicitly criticizes so-called conceivability arguments: "Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if.

Synonyms:

conceivableness; possibleness; possibility;

Antonyms:

impossible; nonexistence; nonbeing; impossibility;