epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Aristotle

ZETA 9 This chapter is a kind of appendix to the argument of the previous two, and especially to the general account of composite production in chapter 7. In that ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jules Evans

LATE-AFTERNOON SESSION Politics 9. Diogenes and the Art of Anarchy IN FRONT OF THE SOLEMN PILLARS of St. Paul’s Cathedral, a multicolored mushroom patch of tents has sprouted. Businessmen hurrying ...

epub |eng | 2006-04-03 | Author:Norman Madarasz & Alain Badiou [Madarasz, Norman & Badiou, Alain]

5. The human intellect can also be defined by coupling. The immediate upshot of this is that the only points of truth are axiomatic and general. The singular is subtracted ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-02-27 | Author:Nikk Effingham

Chapter summary In this chapter, we have: introduced the reasons why philosophers talk about possible worlds. introduced the motivations for, not just talking about worlds, but including them in our ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:A. W. Moore

3. Modal Realism Aptly, the notorious view to which I referred towards the end of the previous section is a view about what there is. Lewis dubs it modal realism ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-19 | Author:L. Sprague De Camp

THE LATER ROMAN ENGINEERS SEVEN In the final century of the Republic, Rome expanded swiftly, gobbling up all the other nations of the Inner Sea. At the same time the ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-27 | Author:Tom Sparrow [Sparrow, Tom]

When we actually attempt to think the system of radical interdependence we find ourselves caught up in, we are forced to think what Morton calls “the ecological thought.” The ecological ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-07-08 | Author:Holt, Jim [Holt, Jim]

HAD IT DEEPENED my insight into the mystery of existence? Well, I was surprised that Weinberg, so bracingly skeptical and scientifically tough-minded, had declared himself open to a metaphysically extravagant ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Graham Harman

C. The Asymmetry of Contact A few words on asymmetry are now in order. Real objects cannot touch real objects, and in this respect Heidegger’s tool-analysis reawakens the occasionalist scenario. ...

mobi |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Ian Bogost

[ 4 ] Carpentry Constructing Artifacts That Do Philosophy As I drove home one sultry July afternoon, I listened to Tony Cox host an episode of National Public Radio’s Talk ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:David Horowitz

VI When we moved to the Santa Maria Valley, I was already approaching my sixty-ninth year. In a synchronicity of fate, my dogs had reached a similar point along their ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-09 | Author:Jim Baggott

But does this necessarily mean that, once my neural pathways have been formed, my thoughts are anything other than entirely my own, independent of the features of the world around ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Margolis & Laurence

194 Jean M. Mandler Figure 11.1. The models of birds and planes that 9-month-olds successfully categorize Fivush, and Reznick 1987). This test is a developmental precursor to the sorting tests ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1972-06-14 | Author:Jane Roberts

CHAPTER 12 REINCARNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS Throughout your reincarnational existences you expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions, your values. You break away from self-adopted restrictions, and you grow spiritually as you ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Josef Pieper

Chapter Two The Identity of Mind and Reality The same thing is expressed by another fundamental principle of the realist epistemology; it differs from the first one, which is more ...