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2010
Abstract There are various motives for refining the notion of cause. Aristotle's was an interest in providing the most informative and illuminating method of explaining the central natural phenomena of his universe. A different sort of motive is created by problems of free will and responsibility, of which readers may have been reminded ...
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Abstract There are various motives for refining the notion of cause. Aristotle's was an interest in providing the most informative and illuminating method of explaining the central natural phenomena of his universe. A different sort of motive is created by problems of free will and responsibility, of which readers may have been reminded ...
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On the acoustics of ancient Greek and Roman theaters
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2008The interplay of architecture and acoustics is remarkable in ancient Greek and Roman theaters. Frequently they are nowadays lively performance spaces and the knowledge of the sound field inside them is still an issue of relevant importance. Even if the transition from Greek to Roman theaters can be described with a great architectural detail, a ...
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2004
The ancient Greeks established the very blueprint of Western civilization—our societies, institutions, art, and culture—and thanks to remarkable new findings, we know more about them than ever, and it's all here in this up-to-date introductory volume. Ancient Greecechronicles the rise, decline, resurgence, and ultimate collapse of the Greek empire
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The ancient Greeks established the very blueprint of Western civilization—our societies, institutions, art, and culture—and thanks to remarkable new findings, we know more about them than ever, and it's all here in this up-to-date introductory volume. Ancient Greecechronicles the rise, decline, resurgence, and ultimate collapse of the Greek empire
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Relativism in ancient Greek philosophy
2019This chapter is intended to trace variants of relativism in the early modern period from Bacon to Hume. Many philosophers in this period presuppose a distinction between divine and human knowledge. Divine knowledge counts as perfect, providing an absolute standard, in relation to which human cognition is seen as deficient.
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Case Attraction in Ancient Greek
2007Case attraction has stood as a puzzling, and elusive, oddity of older Indo-European languages. This paper focuses on attraction in Ancient Greek, establishing both the regularity of the operation and its underlying motivation. A novel method is proposed for grounding case in terms of a feature-based representation of agentivity properties, loosely ...
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From Learning to Read Ancient Greek to Understanding Ancient Greek Literature
2020This chapter is a didactic proposal for the teaching of Ancient Greek language and literature under an innovative and interdisciplinary approach. The history of teaching Ancient Greek shows different language acquisition methods that respond to the demands of their times, each of them with its advantages and disadvantages.
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