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On Stylization of the Folk Narrator in Fiction Written at the Turn of the 1860s [PDF]

Slovenska Literatura, 2019
The paper prompted by the discussion on the apprehension of ordinary folk and folk character in the 19th century stems from long-term research into narrative techniques of fiction written in the period of time in question.
Alice Jedličková
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Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
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Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
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Retrogradation of Truth and Omniscience

Philosophies
Todd and Rabern have argued that assuming future contingents are untrue, together with accepting the principle of the retrogradation of truth (p→PF(p)), implies that it is metaphysically impossible that an omniscient entity exists.
Ciro De Florio, Aldo Frigerio
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Narrator, character, other: Kafka’s triangle in Fürsprecher

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Franz Kafka's protagonists are conspicuously featureless, and yet Kafka is persistently read as a fabulist of the plight of the individual before impervious, impersonal, and indifferent legal structures. How can Kafka champion the individual against such forces when his heroes do not have personalities to lose?
Lindsay O’Connor Stern
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Le strade nascoste del mesmerismo [PDF]

Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2015
[The hidden routes of mesmerism].The recent book Mesmer et mesmerismes. Le magnétisme animal en contexte (edited byB. Belhoste and N. Edelman, Montreuil, Omniscience, 2015) offers a new view on the history of animal magnetism.
Riccio, Monica
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The Belief–Desire Appraisal Theory of Emotion

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I introduce the Belief–Desire Appraisal Theory of Emotion (BDA). BDA makes three main claims: (a) Emotions are psychological episodes whose paradigmatic instances are constituted by coordinated changes in appraisals, action tendencies, bodily responses, and subjective feelings; (b) appraisals—which are rapid, low‐level evaluations of ...
Constant Bonard
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Room for Improvement: Why Finitist Arguments Do Not Check Out

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine several new and underexplored arguments for the finitude of the past and the impossibility of Hilbert's Hotel. The first argument concludes that Hilbert's Hotel is impossible due to an alleged contradiction arising from the causal powers of infinitely many guests.
Joseph C. Schmid, Troy Dana
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L'invraisemblable de la narration omnisciente

Voix Plurielles, 2014
Les problèmes du point de vue omniscient que l’on rencontre dans certains romans contemporains montrent l'invraisemblance de cette technique narrative qui a été introduite dans le genre romanesque par les romanciers réalistes du XIXe siècle.
Suzette Ali
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Clocks, Time and Omniscience [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī
I suggest there is no such thing as “time itself.” I use this term in the same sense that philosophers of time use it. One has said, “It is important not to confuse the actual physical clock that measures time with time itself, ….” This paper is ...
Russell Belding
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