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Taking Abstract Artifacts Seriously—The Functioning and Malfunctioning of Fictional Characters
Philosophies, 2023 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
Substantia, 2019 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
Methodos, 2011 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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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016 Karl Jaspers’ Axial Age concept is used to depict the way humans interact with their environment. The first Axial Age (800-200 BC) can be typified among others as the age in which humans started to objectify nature.
Cornel W. du Toit
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There are no Extinctions in Relations without Bodies. On the Violence of Flat Relational Ontologies
Parse Journal, 2023 This essay considers violence and extinction to articulate the limits of relational, and to a degree also non-relational, flat ontologies. It suggests that relational ontologies cannot register violence because they privilege relations over bodies. Given
Silke Panse
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Momentum and Matter Matter for axion Dark Matter matters on Earth
Journal of High Energy PhysicsA bstract We investigate the implications of matter effects to searches for axion Dark Matter on Earth. The finite momentum of axion Dark Matter is crucial to elucidating the effects of Earth on both the axion Dark Matter field value and its gradient.
Abhishek Banerjee +7 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen +23 more
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On Bergson's Reformation of Philosophy
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2016 In this essay I focus on the text Creative Evolution (1907) and show that although Bergson intended to make a contribution to the science of biology and to the philosophy of life, the primary aim of the text is to show the need for a fundamental ...
Keith Ansell-Pearson
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“My Heart is sore”: Rethinking the Human Condition Through Yeats’s “The Wild Swans at Coole”
Comparative Literature: East & West, 2023 This article probes into W. B. Yeats’s 1917 poem “The Wild Swans at Coole” to illumine how sorrow becomes an ineluctable trait of human experience. In the poem, a fictitious visitor to Coole Park articulates his feelings on descrying fifty-nine wild ...
Biswarup Das
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) face multiple acute and chronic medical complications that may impact their quality of life as reported by patients themselves. Health‐related social needs (HRSNs), such as food and housing insecurity, are common in people with SCD, but the association between HRSNs and patient‐reported ...
Sarah J. Marks +5 more
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