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A Critical Analysis of the Arguments for Specific Forms (al-Ṣuwar al-Nawʿiyya) [PDF]
حکمت معاصر, 2023 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]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2015 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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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 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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Philosophies, 2021 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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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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