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Ontological Opportunism: [PDF]
Understanding inanimate ‘nature-as-such’ is traditionally considered the object of physics in Europe. The discipline acts as exemplary discursive practice of scientific knowledge production. However, as my ethnographic investigation of doing and communicating high energy physics demonstrates, animist conceptions seep into the ontological understanding ...
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Bringing ontology to the Gene Ontology [PDF]
AbstractWe present an analysis of some considerations involved in expressing the Gene Ontology (GO) as a machine‐processible ontology, reflecting principles of formal ontology. GO is a controlled vocabulary that is intended to facilitate communication between biologists by standardizing usage of terms in database annotations.
Williams, Jennifer, Andersen, William
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A Critical Study of Stephen Hawking’s View of about the Inseparability Between “Cosmic Temporal of Beginningless” and “Atheism” Based on the Principles of Transcendent Theosophy [PDF]
The issue of the temporal beginning of the cosmos is one of the challenging issues which, in addition to philosophy and theology, has attracted the attention of contemporary physicists, so that some of them have expressed metaphysical-theological ...
Ahmad Mansouri Matak (gilani) +2 more
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There is room for considerable cooperation between archaeology and neuroscience, but in order for this to happen we need to think about the interactions among brain–body–world, in which each of these three terms acts as cause and effect, without attributing a causally determinant position to any one.
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METAPHORIC REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT ‘CRIME’ IN THE U.S. MEDIA DISCOURSE
This paper is a study of conceptual metaphors that represent the concept ‘crime’ in the contemporary U.S. media discourse. The theoretical background is based on Cognitive Theory of Metaphor by G.
Oksana Oliinyk, Liudmyla Naumenko
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Advancing the Field of Presencing
This article makes a case for developing emerging presencing approaches (EPAs) that build from, grow alongside of, and in some cases depart from Theory U-based approaches to presencing.
Olen Gunnlaugson
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Later life ICT learners ageing well
This article is based on a qualitative study of later life computer learners and their learning experiences in Sydney, Australia. Participants who undertook lessons from peer tutors in non-formal learning environments were aged between 63 and 86. Sixteen
Helen Russell
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Quantum prescriptions are more ontologically distinct than they are operationally distinguishable [PDF]
Based on an intuitive generalization of the Leibniz principle of `the identity of indiscernibles', we introduce a novel ontological notion of classicality, called bounded ontological distinctness.
Anubhav Chaturvedi, Debashis Saha
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Ontological Pluralism and Ontological Category
Ontological pluralism is the view that there are different ways of being. Historically, ways of being are aligned with the ontological categories.
Ataollah Hashemi, Davood Hosseini
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Ontological Pluralism and Multi-Quantificational Ontology [PDF]
AbstractThis paper explores some variants and aspects of multi-quantificational criteria of existence, examining these in the context of the debate between monism and pluralism in analytical philosophy. Assuming familiarity with the findings to date (summarized in broad terms at the outset), we seek to apply to these the newly introduced concepts of ...
Zbigniew Król, Józef Lubacz
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