History & Philosophy
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

CHAPTER XII: SELECTIONS AND THE MULTIPLICATIVE AXIOM [page 117] In this chapter we have to consider an axiom which can be enunciated, but not proved, in terms of logic, and ...
( Category: Logic March 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-29 | Author:Alfred North Whitehead [Whitehead, Alfred North]

* * * CHAPTER VI CONGRUENCE The aim of this lecture is to establish a theory of congruence. You must understand at once that congruence is a controversial question. It ...
( Category: General Surgery March 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Daniel Cloud

Fortunately, however, the people who study cultural evolution already have thought about the question of what sort of cognitive capabilities are needed for the evolution of a human cumulative culture, ...
( Category: Linguistics March 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-26 | Author:George Johnson [Johnson, George]

Before Nancy’s chemo had ended her doctors began discussing the next stage of her treatment and what kind of particles they should use to irradiate her. Alpha particles are too ...
( Category: Oncology March 8,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

From the measured tones of this statement, Draper descended into virulent anti-Catholicism and a near proclamation of war: Will modern civilization consent to abandon the career of advancement which has ...
( Category: Philosophy March 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 1982-03-01 | Author:Morris, Henry [Morris, Henry]

Statue of Thomas Chalmers Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) was a leader in the Church of Scotland and professor of theology in the University of Edinburgh. He authored the first two Bridgewater ...
( Category: Religious March 8,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2004-11-29 | Author:Henry Morris

Mayr’s New Book And that book is the subject of this section. Its title is intriguing — What Evolution Is[13] — for if anyone could speak authoritatively on such a ...
( Category: Theology March 8,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Charles C. Mann

Sugar mills were smoky, steamy places that required many workers, as shown in this engraving of a Sicilian mill around 1600 (it is based on a painting by Jan Van ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 7,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-08-30 | Author:Gitt, Werner [Gitt, Werner]

They could then also have gone to Bethlehem to convince themselves of the correctness of their conclusion that the expected Christ had come to this world. They could have worshiped ...
( Category: Apologetics March 6,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-03-19 | Author:Popper, Karl [Popper, Karl]

There appears to be a comparatively simple crucial experiment for deciding between the 'theory of indeterminacy' (described above) and the quantum theory. According to the former theory, photons would arrive ...
( Category: Philosophy March 6,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-08-30 | Author:Gitt, Dr. Werner [Gitt, Dr. Werner]

When only material causes may be considered, as in evolution, even as a source for information, then one has a point of departure which fails when it comes to the ...
( Category: Philosophy March 5,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gabrielle Walker [Walker, Gabrielle]

In 1947, three years after Midgley's death, his former boss Charles Kettering made a similar point during an address to the National Academy of Sciences. Kettering recalled the words of ...
( Category: Rivers March 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:George Pendle

Amidst the chorus of celebration sounded a few dissonant notes. Ever since the military had stepped in as the Suicide Squad’s main benefactor, levels of security had soared and a ...
( Category: Scientists March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Shachtman [Shachtman, Tom]

In his maturity, James Dewar claimed that his most formative early experience was the long illness brought on by his falling through the ice of a pond in 1852, when ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 4,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:David R. Montgomery [Montgomery, David R.]

9 Recycled Tales CENTURIES BEFORE GEORGE SMITH discovered that the opening chapters of the Bible were reworked Babylonian tales, controversy over the authorship of the Bible centered on how to ...
( Category: Hydrology March 4,2015 )