Search for dissertations about: "possibility"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 3659 swedish dissertations containing the word possibility.
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1. From Conceivability to Possibility : An Essay in Modal Epistemology
Abstract : This study deals with the thesis that conceivability implies possibility. Confronted with alleged counterexamples to this thesis, some philosophers have turned to what may be called “idealized” or “more demanding” notions of conceivability. READ MORE
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2. The Possibility of Discussion : Relativism, Truth, and Criticism of Religious Beliefs
Abstract : The dissertation seeks to address the issue of how fruitful discussion of religious beliefs is possible, i.e. how it is criticism of religious beliefs is possible. In the philosophy of religion, discussions of religious beliefs are often understood as starting from putative universal norms and rules for argumentation. READ MORE
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3. The science of imagining solutions : design becoming conscious of itself through design
Abstract : This dissertation addresses a paradox in design: we currently live in a day and age that is fundamentally conditioned by artifice on all scales, and principled by a deep sense of contingency and possibility. In this world, anything could always be something else. READ MORE
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4. God as Problem and Possibility : A Critical Study of Gordon Kaufman's Thought toward a Spacious Theology
Abstract : The study investigates the American theologian Gordon D. Kaufman’s (born 1925) work, and focuses on the concept of God reflected in his theological method and construction. The examination of Kaufman’s thought implies an inquiry of methodological issues in contemporary academic theology and leads into discussion of central Christian ideas. READ MORE
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5. Possibility-Space and Its Imaginative Variations in Alice Munro's Short Stories
Abstract : With its perennial interest in the seemingly ordinary lives of small-town people, Alice Munro’s fiction displays a deceptively simple surface reality that on closer scrutiny reveals intricate levels of unexpected complexity about the fundamentals of human experience: love, choice, mortality, faith and the force of language. This study takes as its main purpose the exploration of Munro’s stories in terms of the intricacy of emotions in the face of commonplace events of life and their emerging possibilities. READ MORE