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Book Review: Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought: Toward a Fusion of Horizons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A review of Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought: Toward a Fusion of Horizons edited by Rita Sherma and Arvind ...
Pennington, Brian K.
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Philosophy, understanding and the consultation: a fusion of horizons [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Journal of General Practice, 2008
Early models of the consultation were ‘disease’ centred with little consideration of the patients perspective. Later models advised we should gain the ‘patients understanding’ or better ‘shared understanding’ as used by Pendleton, Schofield, Tate, and Havelock.1 The profession is now developing the idea of patient-centred medicine; it is gaining ...
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The Use of Sets (and Other Extensional Entities) in the Analysis of Hylomorphically Complex Objects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Hylomorphically complex objects are things that change their parts or matter or that might have, or have had, different parts or matter. Often ontologists analyze such objects in terms of sets (or functions, understood set-theoretically) or other ...
Evnine, Simon
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Modelling Deep Indeterminacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This paper constructs a model of metaphysical indeterminacy that can accommodate a kind of ‘deep’ worldly indeterminacy that arguably arises in quantum mechanics via the Kochen-Specker theorem, and that is incompatible with prominent theories of ...
Darby, George, Pickup, Martin
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Homunculi Are People Too! Lewis's Definition of Personhood Debugged [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
David Lewis defends the following "non-circular definition of personhood": "something is a continuant person if and only if it is a maximal R-interrelated aggregate of person-stages.
Gilmore, Cody
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Enhancement of Damage Detectability in Aircraft Structures Using the Fusion of NDT Results

open access: yesFatigue of Aircraft Structures, 2017
Following the damage tolerance philosophy in aircraft design and operation, one of the most significant stages of maintenance is non-destructive testing of structures.
Zapłotny Marcin   +2 more
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Philosophy of Weibel Instability in Laser Fusion Plasma [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Photonic Materials and Technology, 2018
In this work, have put forward a philosophy of the Weibel instability in laser fusion plasma; these instabilities generated by several mechanisms, namely: the heat transport, the expansion of the plasma and the inverse bremsstrahlung absorption (IB).
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Pancasila Perspective on the Development of Legal Philosophy: Relation of Justice and Progressive Law

open access: yesVolksgeist, 2022
The development of philosophical science spreads to aspects of the operation of law along with the dynamics of human civilization. However, this philosophical concept must be filtered with the essential values, including Indonesia.
Wawan Andriawan
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The Information Paradigm, Spanning All Levels of Human Knowledge

open access: yesComputer Sciences & Mathematics Forum, 2023
The revolutionary development of human knowledge and the fundamental change of human civilization are impelled by the transformation of the scientific paradigm.
Kun Wu, Zhensong Wang
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The Compatibility of Downward Causation and Emergence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this paper, I shall argue that both emergence and downward causation, which are strongly interconnected, presuppose the presence of levels of reality.
Gozzano, Simone
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