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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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Sapiens ubique civis, 2021 This paper endeavours to demonstrate that certain strands of ancient and modern cosmological thought are not as dissimilar as one might initially believe.
David Preston
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, 1986 For most people, Empedocles' comments on vision represent a curiosity at best, where scholars' attempts to render them less subject to ridicule have often only made them more so.
Caston, Victor, 1963-
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The four elements: living beings or inert matter? Plato’s Timaeus against Empedocles’s On nature
Journal of ancient philosophy. In this paper, I argue that Empedocles’s peculiar expression according to which the roots – living entities, each endowed with thought and desires – “are themselves” forces the reader to think of them not solely as the principles of generation, never ...
Federico Casella
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The Value of Time for Daharis [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2014 Dahar’ is the Arabic word for time and means age or eon. The term ‘Dahari’ was coined by Arabs, near the end of the Sassanid era, to refer to the followers of Zorvanism.
Yahya Solati Cheshmemahi +1 more
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Relaciones entre Poesía didáctica y Filosofía. Hesíodo, Parménides y Empédocles
Heródoto, 2017 El proyecto del presente trabajo consiste en recuperar cierta función didáctica que parece darse en los vínculos que podemos establecer entre poesía y filosofía.
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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ChemPlusChem, Volume 89, Issue 7, July 2024.The alchemical symbols for metals, acids, bases and salts were still in everyday use in much of the 18th century. The modern notation, which we use today, is due to Berzelius, but the transition was long and arduous and took place between ca. 1775 and 1820 roughly simultaneously with but distinct from the Chemical Revolution.
Curt Wentrup
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Des racines empédocléennes chez Platon ?
Études Platoniciennes, 2014 The way Plato constructs his concept of psukhè appears to be inscribed in a controversy against Empedocles. A plethora of echoes to the agrigentine poem can be read in the Timaeus, the Phaedo and the Phaedrus, such as references to the harmonic summetria
Anne-Laure Therme
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Aristotle's tyche (τύχη) and contemporary debates about luck
Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 401-414, July 2024.Abstract This paper proposes an interpretation of Aristotle's understanding of tyche (τύχη), a Greek term that can be alternatively translated as luck, fortune, or fate. The paper disentangles various threads of argument in the primary sources to argue for a realist understanding of what we moderns call “luck.” In short, it contends that Aristotle's ...
Louis Groarke
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