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“At the end of the days”: Francis Bacon, Daniel 12: 4, and the possibility of science
Cahiers François Viète, 2019 Francis Bacon took his inspiration from the Bible. Specifically, from the vision of the apocalypse in the book of Daniel. This Bacon interprets via the circumnavigations of the 15th and 16th centuries.
James D. Fleming
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Journal of Personality, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Does virtue benefit its possessor, or is it beneficial for others but not the self? We tested two highly influential theories that offer contradictory answers. In particular, we focused on three “hard cases” for the theory that virtue promotes well‐being—that is, three virtues that aren't obviously enjoyable (compassion, patience,
Michael M. Prinzing +3 more
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Sumwords: Record Scores and Anagrams [PDF]
, 1990 I first present a list of just over a hundred sumgrams (words with equal numerical value) of the longest words I was able to conquer. Note that one pair of reasonably common words could be construed as opposites: EXTRAORDINARINESS and ...
Francis, Darryl
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Machiavelli, the Aristotelian Problem of Tyranny in Giles of Rome and Marsilius of Padua
Scienza & PoliticaThis article investigates Machiavelli’s relationship with the treatment of tyranny in scholastic Aristotelianism. More specifically, it analyzes Machiavelli’s omissive analysis of tyranny against the backdrop of the Vernacular translated texts of two ...
Alessandro Mulieri
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Kant's Metaphysics of Race, Its Distinctiveness, and Its Normativity
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on the contemporary taxonomy of the metaphysics of race, this paper shows that Kant's theory of race occupies a distinct metaphysical position on race. Second, it argues that Kant's metaphysics of race inherently produces racist claims.
Reza Mosayebi
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Logic Teaching at the University of Oxford from the Sixteenth to Early Eighteenth Century
Noctua, 2015 This paper considers the nature of the changes that took place in logic teaching at the University of Oxford from the beginning of the sixteenth century, when students attended university lectures on Aristotle’s texts as well as studying short works ...
E. Jennifer Ashworth
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On Epistemology of Construction Engineering and Management [PDF]
, 2017 In philosophy of science, there have been two different starting points for epistemology: Platonism and Aristotelianism. These two alternative starting points have played a major role also in the formation of fundamental ideas of engineering and ...
Dave, Bhargav +4 more
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Aristotelian Logic and the Arabic Language in Alfarabi [PDF]
, 1996 Tony Street, Shukri B. Abed
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Medical Education, EarlyView.Abstract Background In the English National Health Service, and other health care systems internationally, there have been growing numbers of doctors working on a short‐ or long‐term temporary basis as ‘locums’. Social environments and professional relationships are fundamental to learning in clinical contexts; however, locums are often positioned at ...
Jane Ferguson +6 more
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The Problem of Christ’s Acquired Knowledge
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Thomas Aquinas is universally applauded for his “courage and perspicacity” in eventually admitting an acquired knowledge in Christ. According to this doctrine, Christ, through the experience of his senses, came to know what he previously did not know.
Joshua H. Lim
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