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Officium auditoris: rudiments of a history of hearing
Redescriptions, 2015 Rhetorical discourse involves two parties, or two roles, the speaker and the hearer, stereotypically characterized as active and passive respectively. The history and theory of rhetoric concern themselves almost exclusively with the active side of the ...
Pantelis Bassakos
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Topology and biology: From Aristotle to Thom [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Ren{\'e} Thom discovered several refined topological notions in the writings of Aristotle, especially the biological. More generally, he considered that some of the assertions of the Greek philosophers have a definite topological content, even if they were written 2400 years before the field of topology was born.
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Aristotle on Perceiving Objects
, 2014 Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 - The metaphysical foundations of perception Introduction 1.1 Aristotle's power ontology 1.2 The nature of causal powers 1.3 Causal powers in actuality 1.4 Relations and relatives 1.5 Causation without glue 1.6 The
Anna Marmodoro
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arXiv, 2022 According to Aristotle "time is the number of change with respect to the before and after". That's certainly a vague concept, but at the same time it's both simple and satisfying from a philosophical point of view: things do not change along time, but they do change and the measurement of such changes is what we call time.
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Aristotle on Good and Bad Actualities [PDF]
, 1993 This paper is a discussion of one of the more neglected passages in the central books of Aristotle\u27s Metaphysics, Θ 9 105la4~19. In this passage Aristotle makes some assertions concerning relations that hold among potentialities and actualities, both ...
Goldin, Owen
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, 2009 Aristotle’s account of time in Physics is at once fascinating and frustratingly obscure. In it, he discusses time’s relation to the present, to change, and to the mind. Aristotle starts out with a puzzle about whether there can be such a thing as time. Time seems to be divided into two parts, neither of which exists. The past is something that was, but
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, 2018 It has become somewhat of a platitude to call Aristotle the first epigenesist insofar as he thought form and structure emerged gradually from an unorganized, amorphous embryo. But modern biology now recognizes two senses of “epigenesis”.
Henry, Devin
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Studia Gilsoniana, 2019 Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action is a seminal work of Austrian economics. It sets forth Mises’s theory of the acting person and lays the groundwork for a liberal economic order.
Jason Morgan
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Special Relativity and possible Lorentz violations consistently coexist in Aristotle space-time [PDF]
arXiv, 2008 Some studies interpret quantum measurement as being explicitly non local. Others assume the preferred frame hypothesis. Unfortunately, these two classes of studies conflict with Minkowski space-time geometry. On the contrary, in Aristotle space-time, Lorentz invariance, interpreted as a physical property applying to all phenomena actually satisfying ...
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