6. End Zone by Don DeLillo In DeLillo's absurd and beautiful second novel, a college football team somewhere in Texas is dissolving over problems of language and meaning.
Dissolving a problem means that you change the circumstances -- you adjust the process or system -- so that the problem can never happen again.
"Accra Option 4" aims at dissolving that problem by replacing activity-based accounting with mandatory land based accounting through combining KP Art.
But his question seemed to be suggesting that my self-awareness hadn't answered the question: it hadn't dissolved any problems, only illuminated them more fully.
Yet this would be merely to dissolve the problems, and Noë welcomes Nagel's book as a challenge to go further.
(3) Calculi, or syntactic systems, on the model of mathematical logic, have been developed by several 20th-century analytic philosophers, among them Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Rudolf Carnap, to represent and to explicate philosophical systems, as well as to solve and to dissolve metaphysical problems.
Russell's account similarly dissolves the problems generated by seemingly singular negative existentials like 'Ronald McDonald does not exist'.
In this way the theory of descriptions has been viewed as a paradigm of philosophical analysis of this "therapeutic" sort that seeks to dissolve logical problems.
Of the nominalist views discussed in this essay, deflationary nominalism is the view that comes closest to solving (or, in some cases, dissolving) the five problems that have been used to assess nominalist proposals.
Most famously, Ryle (1949) introduced the idea of the category mistake as a way of dispelling the confusions he thought to be rampant in the Cartesian theory of the mind, and thus of dissolving many apparent problems in philosophy of mind.
