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"John Wesley's Non-Literal Literalism and Hermeneutics of Love" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A thorough examination of John Wesley’s writings will show that he was not a biblical literalist or infallibilist, despite his own occasional suggestions to the contrary.
Edwards, Rem B.
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On an Aggregation Theory for Indicators Expressing Behaviors of Complex Systems With an Application to Sustainability

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certain attributes of large‐scale complex systems are often expressed through sets of indicators. For example, the sustainability of an entity, be it a nation, a city, an energy system, a corporation etc., can be effectively represented by indicators and corresponding data series.
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Horrible Imaginings: Jan Kott, the Grotesque, and “Macbeth, Macbeth”

open access: yesMulticultural Shakespeare, 2021
Throughout Jan Kott’s Shakespeare Our Contemporary, a keyword for the combination of philosophical, aesthetic and modern qualities in Shakespearean drama is “grotesque.” This term is also relevant to other influential studies of early-modern drama ...
James Tink
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Analogies and differences between the logic behind statistical hypothesis testing and proofs by contradiction: What can we learn from them?

open access: yesTeaching Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract Statistical hypothesis testing (SHT) is widely employed across numerous scientific disciplines, and a clear understanding of its underlying logic is essential for the broader scientific community. Here, drawing upon both epistemological and statistical perspectives, we aim to clarify—primarily for educational purposes—the logical relationship ...
Maria Cristina Amoretti   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimistic Naturalism and the Meaning of Life [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2016
Theories of the meaning of life can be classified into naturalistic and not-naturalistic ones. One of the most popular objections to the naturalistic ones is that they have no way to escape from the problem of the Absurd. But the optimistic naturalism as
Masud Tusi Saeedi
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Tragizm, absurd, paradoks – wokół słownika pojęć Waltera Hilsbechera

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2021
Artykuł stanowi próbę zdefiniowania pojęć tragizmu, absurdu i paradoksu, terminów kluczowych według niemieckiego eseisty Waltera Hilsbechera. Jest to zadanie trudne i ciekawe zarazem, głównie z uwagi na fakt, że pojęcia będące przedmiotem filozofii ...
Paulina Frankiewicz
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The Influence of Anton Chekhov on Samuel Beckett: Inaction and Investment of Hope Into Godot-like Figures in Three Sisters and Waiting for Godot [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Anton Chekhov has been very much influential on modern drama, especially on the Theatre of the Absurd; however, not much work has been done on his influence on the absurdist playwrights.
Ghasemi, P. (Parvin)   +1 more
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Tamed hell or topology of evil in early fiction by Miodrag Bulatović [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2019
This paper on the early fiction written by Miodrag Bulatović (his so-called homeland fiction) aims to analyse and show that the writer's insistence on representation of evil among people, in almost all of its forms, is not a goal in its own right, as is ...
Lazić Nebojša J.
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Solidarity and the Absurd in Kamel Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquête

open access: yesJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2016
This article examines Kamel Daoud’s treatment of solidarity and the absurd in Meursault, contre-enquête and posits that the question of how to live in solidarity with others is central to the novel, although the word ‘solidarity’ never appears in it ...
Sarah Horton
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Les avatars de l'absurde dans "Mendiants et orgueilleux" d'Albert Cossery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This article deals with the notion of the absurd and explores its interpretation from a non-Western point of view in a novel by the Egyptian writer Albert Cossery, 'Mendiants et orgueilleux'.
Hafez-Ergaut, Agnès
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