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The Anthropic Argument against Infinite Past and the Eddington-Lemaitre Universe [PDF]
, 2000 This study in the philosophy of cosmology is a part of an ongoing effort to investigate and reassess the importance of the anthropic (Davies-Tipler) argument against cosmologies containing the past temporal infinity.
Cirkovic, Milan M.
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 4, April 2025.To establish and update the list of nesting sites in Sicily and its minor islands. To investigate the Sicilian distribution and nesting suitability using spatial distribution models (SDMs). Performing a gap analysis in a GIS environment considering the protected area network in Sicily.
Chiara Siddiolo +3 more
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Pseudo-intelectualismo y melancolía. La poética de la bilis negra en el Lexífanes de Luciano [PDF]
, 2019 En el mundo altamente competitivo y exhibicionista de Luciano, el hiper-aticismo, el (ab)uso de palabras recónditas y arcaicas a fin de impactar deviene en una especie de plaga.
Kazantzidis, George
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On the nature of ceramics technology: from Empedocles to Dawkins
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 55-71, February 2025.Abstract This contribution discusses salient aspects of the development of ceramics technology from its invention to the present, and the role ceramics have played during the cultural development and technological progress of ancient and modern societies. The conjecture is being advanced that the transformation of ceramic production modes from holistic,
Robert B. Heimann
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Equivocal and Deceitful Didactic Poetry. What Style matters can say about Empedocles' audience
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento OcidentalSince antiquity, Empedocles has been considered as an example of both successful and unsuccessful communication. Aristotle credits him with vividness of images, but blames him for failure of clarity, and eventually compares his obscureness to that of ...
Ilaria Andolfi
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As relações entre Poesia didática e Filosofia. Hesíodo, Parmênides e Empédocles
Heródoto, 2017 O projeto do presente trabalho consiste em recuperar certa função didática que verifica-se nos vínculos que podemos estabelecer entre poesia e filosofia. Em primeiro lugar, transitaremos por alguns tópicos que se encontram na função didática da poesia de
Maria Cecilia Colombani
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The young Leibniz's tentative acceptance of physical occasionalism
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 486-500, December 2024.Abstract In this article, I revisit Leibniz's early views on physical causation, more specifically, his relation to physical occasionalism focusing on the period from 1668 to 1676. An in‐depth analysis of the Confession of Nature against the Atheists taken together with the Catholic Demonstrations, Leibniz's correspondence with Jakob Thomasius from ...
Christian Henkel
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Simplicius on Empedocles: A note on his commentary in Phys. 157.25–161.20
ШагиThe present study attempts to show what influence a commentary can have on the formation of ideas about a preceding philosophical tradition. A case in point is Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s “Physics” and on fragments of Empedocles’ poem.
A. S. Afonasina
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Approaching Empedocles through PWL practices
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of CultureTo approach the poem-fragments of Empedocles as a discourse emerging from the drama of living, is to allow their performatively theorized snapshots to return from mere stills to moving images of practice in modulated stages of training.
Lucio Angelo Privitello
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The Concept of ‘Nature’ in Peripatetic Islamic Philosophers [PDF]
, 2018 In this study, lexical and terminological meanings of the term “nature” were analyzed and some Peripatetical Islamic philosophers’ opinions about this term were included.
Adıgüzel, Nuri
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