Dialectical Strategic Planning in Aristotle [PDF]
, 2015 The purpose of this paper is to give an account and a rational reconstruction of the heuristic advice provided by Aristotle in the Topics and Prior Analytics in regard to the difficulty or ease of strategic planning in the context of a dialectical ...
Drehe, Iovan
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Il constante progredire della frontiera tra teologia e scienza. Parte 2º: Metafisica
Scientia et Fides, 2016 On constant movement of frontiers between Science and Theology. Part 2: MetaphysicsIn the first part (Karwasz, Scientia et Fides, 3(1) 2015) entitled “Physics” we showed how discoveries of modern sciences do not contradict Bible: neither in the subject ...
Grzegorz Karwasz
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Aristotle's square of opposition in the light of Hilbert's epsilon and tau quantifiers [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Aristotle considered particular quantified sentences in his study of syllogisms and in his famous square of opposition. Of course, the logical formulas in Aristotle work were not modern formulas of mathematical logic, but ordinary sentences of natural language.
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Philosophy of Intellect and Vision in the De anima and De intellectu of Alexander of Aphrodisias [PDF]
, 2010 Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. 198–209) was born somewhere around 150, in Aphrodisia on the Aegean Sea. He began his career in Alexandria during the reign of Septimius Severus, was appointed to the peripatetic chair at the Lyceum in Athens in 198, a ...
Hendrix, John S
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Aristotle on Identity and Persistence [PDF]
, 2008 In Physics 4.11, Aristotle discusses a sophistical puzzle in which "being Coriscus-in-the-Lyceum is different from being Coriscus-in-the-market-place." I take this puzzle to threaten the persistence of changing entities.
Bowin, John
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Aristotle, projectiles and guns [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 When guns were developed in Europe in the 14th century, the theory of projectile motion was not the one we are familiar with today due to Galileo and Newton but the one taught by Aristotle approximately 1700 years earlier. In addition to Aristotle's wide-ranging philosophical concerns, his theory arose from the observation in everyday life that if an ...
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The Limits of Eudaimonia in the Nicomachean Ethics [PDF]
, 2016 In Book I of his Nicomachean Ethics (NE), Aristotle defines happiness, or eudaimonia, in accordance with an argument he makes regarding the distinctive function of human beings.
Daniel, Schwartz
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Aristotle's Cognitive Science: Belief, Affect and Rationality
, 2014 I offer a novel interpretation of Aristotle's psychology and notion of rationality, which draws the line between animal and specifically human cognition.
Ian C. McCready-Flora
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Separate Material Intellect in Philosophy of Averroes
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2016 The Explanation of the De Anima of Aristotle is the most important issue for Scholastic Philosophers. Averroes as the Commentator of Aristotle, explains De Anima of Aristotle in three works: Short Commentary, Middle Commentary and Long Commentary on de ...
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The significance of Nathanson's 'boss' factor in legitimising Aristotle's particularisation: Why we need to revise current interpretations of Cantor's, Goedel's, Turing's and Tarski's formal reasoning [PDF]
arXiv, 2009 I show--contrary to common beliefs tolerated by the 'bosses'--that any interpretation of ZF that admits Aristotle's particularisation is not sound; that the standard interpretation of PA is not sound; that PA is consistent but omega-inconsistent; that a sound finitary interpretation of PA is definable in terms of Turing-computability; and that PA ...
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