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Is It Essential to Change the Term “Essential Hypertension”? [PDF]
Hypertension, 2004 To the Editor: Barry Materson in the September issue of Hypertension proposes to change the term “essential hypertension” to “primary hypertension.”1 Is it right to correct one wrong with another? The clinical and scientific communities undoubtedly agree with Dr Materson, who agrees in turn with Dr Kaplan,2 that the term “essential” to describe ...
Yoram, Yagil, Chana, Yagil
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Aesthetic Investigations, 2017 Treating exceptional cases as marks of an essence is as bad as essentialism. I suggest we understand art as a practice, not as something we could, or should find the eternally necessary and sufficient conditions of.
Rob van Gerwen
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Paradoxical Nature of Language in Terms of its Acquisition and Learning (Based on Plato’s “Cratylus”) [PDF]
Философия и космология, 2021 The process of learning is analogous to the process of motion, as well as it resembles the progress from less to more perfect. Plato, combining two opposites, attempts at reconciliation of the theories of Heraclitus and Parmenides, providing us with his ...
Pavlo Sodomora, Oleh Yerchenko
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PLoS ONE, 2020 In this article, we present the development and validation of an implicit association test for measuring secondary school students' associations between genetics concepts and teleology concepts on the one hand, and between genetics concepts and ...
Florian Stern +3 more
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RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2023 The ideas of Chandra Talpade Mohanty, a leading postcolonial feminist scholar, are explored. Attention is drawn to the criticism of Western feminist scholarship by postmodern and postcolonial feminists for its tendency to assume that the experiences of ...
Nadeem Ahmad Rather
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Antirealist Essentialism [PDF]
, 2014 This project is an investigation into the prospects for an antirealist theory of essence. Essentialism is the claim that at least some things have some of their properties essentially.
Livingstone-Banks, Jonathan
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Is L.A. Paul’s Essentialism Really Deeper than Lewis’s?
European Journal of Analytic PhilosophyL.A. Paul calls “deep” the kind of essentialism according to which the essential properties of objects are determined independently of the context. Deep essentialism opposes “shallow essentialism”, of which David Lewis is said to be a prominent advocate.
Cristina Nencha
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Étienne Gilson, Duns Scotus, and Actual Existence: Weighing the Charge of ‘Essentialism’ [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2017 Étienne Gilson juxtaposes what he calls Aquinas’s “existentialism” to what he calls Scotus’s “essentialism.” For Gilson, “existentialism” is philosophical truth, the only view compatible with an authentically Christian metaphysic, while “essentialism” is
Andrew C. Helms
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PLoS ONE, 2018 It has been argued that gender essentialism impedes progress towards greater gender equality. Here we present a new gender essentialism scale (GES), and validate it in two large nationally representative samples from Denmark and Australia.
Lea Skewes, Cordelia Fine, Nick Haslam
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Love and the Necessity of the Trinity: An A Posteriori Argument
Religions, 2021 This article aims to provide an a posteriori argument from love for the Trinity. A reformulation of the argument from love is made by proposing a novel version of the argument that is situated within an objective, empirical, natural theological framework.
Joshua Reginald Sijuwade
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