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“Motivated Signs”: Some Reflections on Phonosemantics and Submorpheme Theory in the Context of Democritus’ and Epicurus’ Traditions

Hyperboreus, 2019
The article attempts to trace how the difference in approaches to the question of language origin in the Democritus’ and Epicurus’ traditions is reflected in modern linguistics. According to the monograph by Alexander Verlinsky (2006), Democritus insisted
Elena Zheltova, Alexander Zheltov
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Schrödinger's Doctrine of Identity: On the Role of Advaita Vedānta in Erwin Schrödinger's Thought

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 48, Issue 1-2, Page 44-71, August 2025.
Ever since Erwin Schrödinger learned about Indian thought through Arthur Schopenhauer, it occupied a visible role in both his published writings and personal books. Schrödinger called for a “blood transfusion” of Indian thought into the West and, in one notebook, construed the Upaniṣadic slogan “Brahman = Atman” as the “closest thing to the truth ...
Thijs M. K. Latten
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Epicurus\u27 Scientific Method [PDF]

, 1976
I argued that Epicurus sought to infer all truths about what cannot be perceived (what is non-apparent , adêlon) by using what is perceived (the phenomena ) as signs of what is non-apparent.
Asmis, Elizabeth
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The Gold‐Maker of Animal Oil and Prussian Blue Fame — The Chemical and Medicinal Science Philosophy of Johann Conrad Dippel

The Chemical Record, Volume 25, Issue 7, July 2025.
The radical Pietist Johann Conrad Dippel was a self‐proclaimed adept – a maker of gold and the philosophers’ stone. He was also a magister of theology, a doctor of medicine, and a self‐taught chemist, who coinvented the pigment Prussian Blue together with Johann von Diesbach, became known for his animal pyrolysis oil, his wonder‐wound balm, his ...
Curt Wentrup
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Le « renouveau » de l’épicurisme en Angleterre au milieu du dix-septième siècle de Walter Charleton à Margaret Cavendish – une histoire franco-britannique

Etudes Epistémè, 2008
In a pioneering study of 1934 Thomas Franklin Mayo was among the first to suggest the idea of an Epicurean « Renaissance » in England from the year 1650 onwards.
Line Cottegnies
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Hedonisme dalam Pandangan Epicurus [PDF]

Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa: 1) konsep filsafat hedonisme Epicurus ini menekankan bahwa tujuan utama dari kehidupan adalah untuk mencapai kebahagiaan atau kesenangan, tetapi bukan dalam arti hedonisme yang sering diartikan sebagai kesenangan
Destiari, Nur
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Lucretius on Imagination and Mental Projection

Aitia, 2020
Lucretius sometimes speaks of the mind ‘projecting’ itself, echoing the Epicurean Greek technical term epibolē. The way in which he and other first-century BCE Epicureans use this concept, however, elevates it beyond anything we can find in Epicurus, and
David Sedley
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The Unity of the Ideal Virtues

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 1, Page 67-79, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Even though the virtues may be interconnected, it seems obviously possible to have one of the virtues without having them all. Some have defended the unity thesis against this concern by arguing that the virtues are still unified in their ideal forms.
Robert Weston Siscoe
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Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and ArtPhilip Hardie. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2022. xi + 361 pp. ISBN 13: 9780691197869. $49.95 (cloth).

Milton Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 37-41, March 2026.
Maggie Kilgour
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The question of a right to life in animal ethics

ALTEX: Alternatives to Animal Experimentation, 2006
In animal ethics a Right to Life has been postulated repeatedly, but no valid argument has been produced yet. Thus the question of a Right to Life in animaI ethics remains unanswered.
Jörg Luy
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