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Beyond the causal theory? Fifty years after Martin and Deutscher [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
It is natural to think of remembering in terms of causation: I can recall a recent dinner with a friend because I experienced that dinner. Some fifty years ago, Martin and Deutscher (1966) turned this basic thought into a full-fledged theory of memory, a
Michaelian, Kourken, Robins, Sarah
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PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
wiley   +1 more source

The study of solidarity and the social theory of Alain Touraine [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
This chapter is a critical assessment of the study of Solidarity carried out by Alain Touraine and his research team in 1981 and first published in French in 1982 and in English in 1983. The book (Touraine et al.
Martell, Luke, Stammers, Neil
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
wiley   +1 more source

The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
wiley   +1 more source

Reconstruction of Late Miocene and Early Pliocene diachronous infill of Mura and Drava Depression

open access: yes, 2023
The Upper Miocene to Pliocene sediments, referred to as Pannonian Stage in the Central Paratethyan regional chronostratigraphic terminology, were initially deposited in an underfilled lake basin displaying gradual a lake level rise. It was followed by a powerful lake level fall characterized by prograding and aggrading clinothems visible on seismic ...
Baketarić, Tomislav   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Land use reconversion in the drought-and aridity-affected areas in SW Romania (Bechet, Dolj County) [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of the University of Bucharest: Geography Series, 2017
In the terms of current climate change, reconversion of land use in the drought-and aridityaffected south-western Romania, is an issue of utmost priority.
IULIANA VIJULIE   +4 more
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Los fonemas segmentales del protolenca: Reconstrucción comparativa

open access: yesRevista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015
El propósito de este artículo es reconstruir los fonemas segmentales de Proto-Lenca utilizando el material disponible en Honduras y El Salvador Lenca (las dos lenguas que componen la familia Lenca) como base para la comparación. El estudio consiste en:
Gilda Rosa Arguedas Cortés
doaj   +1 more source

The Stoics and the State: Theory – Practice – Context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
How did the Stoics conceive of a polis and statehood? What happens when these ideas meet different biographies and changing historical environments? To answer these questions, 'The Stoics and the State' combines close philological reading of original ...
Wildberger, Jula
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