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Abstract In this paper, we examine the behaviour of so‐called passive and middle aorist forms in the Greek reflected in the Genesis of the Septuagint. The Septuagint, and Biblical Greek more generally, displays a considerable aberration with respect to other varieties of Ancient Greek regarding the relative frequency of passive vis‐à‐vis middle aorist ...
Eystein Dahl, Liana Tronci
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Simon of Tournai's Stroke: The Image of an Irate Unbeliever
For centuries after his death in the late twelfth century, Simon of Tournai, a master of theology in the Parisian schools, had a reputation for being an unbeliever punished by God with a stroke. This article gathers the eight known medieval sources for his stroke and examines them from a mythogenetic perspective to demonstrate how different authors ...
Keagan Brewer
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The Beginning of Hegel's Logic
Abstract This article discusses two topics, both commonly referred to using the label “the beginning of Hegel's Logic”: (1) Hegel's justification for the claim that a science of logic must begin by considering the concept of “pure being”. (2) Hegel's discussion of the concepts “being”, “nothing”, and “becoming” in the first chapter of his Logic ...
Robb Dunphy
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Abstract Conservation conflicts are complex and can be deep‐rooted, with stakeholders holding entrenched policy positions. The actors involved producing verbal interconnected interactions that form policy debates. Thus, conservation debates can be viewed as network phenomena with stakeholders forming coalitions in support of, or opposition to, certain ...
Filippo Marino +4 more
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The concept of relation and the explanation of the phenomenon of Entanglement
Abstract We investigate from a philosophical point of view the concept of relation that is used to explain the physical phenomenon of Entanglement. If the concept of relation is understood in the ordinary sense of the mono‐dyadic construct, which requires a middle term between the two extremes, it is aporetic and, thus, incapable of explaining the ...
Aldo Stella +2 more
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Invertebrate traits, diversity and the vulnerability of groundwater ecosystems
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Groundwater comprises the largest freshwater ecosystem on the planet. It has a distinct regime of extreme, yet stable environmental conditions that have favoured the development of similar morphological and functional traits in the resident invertebrate fauna ...
Grant C. Hose +9 more
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Drivers and facilitators of hunting behaviour in domestic cats and options for management
Abstract Domestic cats Felis catus are distinct from other domesticated animals because their phenotype and genotype are relatively unchanged. While they live with people as pets or pest controllers, they retain capacity for survival independent of human support and readily persist as feral animals.
Martina Cecchetti +2 more
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On the Philosophical Roots of the Naïve and Axiomatic Set Theories: Determinatio est Negatio
The principle determinatio est negatio—that determination is achieved through negation—has philosophical roots extending back to Plato and Aristotle, and it later influenced early modern thinkers such as Francisco Suárez and Spinoza.
Osman Gazi Birgül
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Cosmopolitanism and Human Reason [PDF]
Over and above the modalities with which it is expressed in the domains of Kant’s system, the theme of cosmopolitanism embodies the meaning of a philosophy seen as a plan to build on the connection between man, polis and reason; an essential connection ...
cicatello a
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Dirty hands and commissions of inquiry: An examination of the independent local government review Panel in NSW, Australia [PDF]
© 2015 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. We utilise the problem of dirty hands to consider the ethical dimensions of commissions of inquiry, particularly commissions of inquiry conducted for the purposes of public policy.
Alex, L, Bligh, G, Roberta, R
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