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A Critical Analysis of the Arguments for Specific Forms (al-Ṣuwar al-Nawʿiyya) [PDF]
IntroductionMuslim Peripatetic philosophers believe that physical objects are composites out of matter and form, holding that each natural kind involves a form other than the physical form, with which physical objects turn into various kinds, hence the ...
Mahdi Azimi, javad soufi
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The Universe is Like a Hollowed Sphere. The Wave Concept of Time [PDF]
There is space for new ideas of the essence and the entity of time. The article refers to our time concept as a special wave type and presents results of our investigations on this subject.
Andrzej W. Głuszak, Franciszek Kluza
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The question of what everything around us is made from has fascinated humanity since ancient times. The development of ideas on what the building blocks of matter are, and how these building blocks come together to form materials, are discussed in this ...
Delia A. Haynes, Margaret A.L. Blackie
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Schreier graphs of the Basilica group [PDF]
With any self-similar action of a finitely generated group $G$ of automorphisms of a regular rooted tree $T$ can be naturally associated an infinite sequence of finite graphs $\{\Gamma_n\}_{n\geq 1}$, where $\Gamma_n$ is the Schreier graph of the action ...
D'Angeli, Daniele +3 more
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The article is based on the dual concepts of theoretical incompleteness in systems science and theoretical incomprehensibility in philosophy previously introduced in the literature.
Gianfranco Minati
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“It’s a matter of building bridges…” – feasibility of a carer involvement intervention for inpatients with severe mental illness [PDF]
Background Family and friends (carer) involvement in the treatment of people with mental illness is widely recommended. However, the implementation remains poor, especially during hospital treatment, where carers report being excluded from care ...
Conneely, Maev +2 more
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Taking Abstract Artifacts Seriously—The Functioning and Malfunctioning of Fictional Characters
This paper presents and discusses Simon Evnine’s hylomorphic account of fictional characters and proposes some amendments to it with the aim of explaining the functioning of fictional characters. The paper does so by relying on a case study, viz.
Enrico Terrone
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A scientific rationale for consciousness
Consciousness is a concept that can be easily experimented but not easily defined. We show that the same observation applies to information, entropy and even energy.
Marc Henry, Jean-Pierre Gerbaulet
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La matière et le son : considérations ethnomusicologiques sur les classifications instrumentales
Any given classification of musical instruments reveals that the very process of classifying such items does not depend on a simple mental operation. Many examples, in many different cultures and in societies with as well as without writing, show how ...
Alain Desjacques
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