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‘Pushing Through’ in Plato’s Sophist: A New Reading of the Parity Assumption [PDF]
, 2020 At a crucial juncture in Plato’s Sophist, when the interlocutors have reached their deepest confusion about being and not-being, the Eleatic Visitor proclaims that there is yet hope.
Rodriguez, Evan
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Pico della Mirandola and the Presocratics [PDF]
, 2018 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) decided to study all the ancient and medieval schools of philosophy, including the Pre-Socratics, in order to broaden his scope. Pico showed interest in ancient monists.
Steiris, Georgios
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F1000Research, 2016 Background: The fact that surplus connections and neurons are pruned during development is well established. We complement this selectionist picture by a proof-of-principle model of evolutionary search in the brain, that accounts for new variations in ...
András Szilágyi +4 more
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Fitness Landscapes of Functional RNAs
Life, 2015 The notion of fitness landscapes, a map between genotype and fitness, was proposed more than 80 years ago. For most of this time data was only available for a few alleles, and thus we had only a restricted view of the whole fitness landscape.
Ádám Kun, Eörs Szathmáry
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The Whole-Part Dilemma: A Compositional Understanding of Plato’s Theory of Form [PDF]
Organon F, 2022 In this paper, I suggest a way of resolving the whole-part dilemma suggested in the Parmenides. Specifically, I argue that grabbing the second horn of the dilemma does not pose a significant challenge. To argue for this, I consider two theses about Forms,
Seong Soo Park
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Search and Coherence-Building in Intuition and Insight Problem Solving
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Coherence-building is a key concept for a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms of intuition and insight problem solving. There are several accounts that address certain aspects of coherence-building.
Michael Öllinger +3 more
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Sadness is unique: Neural processing of emotions in speech prosody in musicians and non-musicians
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 Musical training has been shown to have positive effects on several aspects of speech processing, however, the effects of musical training on the neural processing of speech prosody conveying distinct emotions are yet to be better understood.
Mona ePark +26 more
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More than a Reductio: Plato's Method in the Parmenides and Lysis [PDF]
, 2019 Plato’s Parmenides and Lysis have a surprising amount in common from a methodological standpoint. Both systematically employ a method that I call ‘exploring both sides’, a philosophical method for encouraging further inquiry and comprehensively ...
Rodriguez, Evan
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Erga-Logoi, 2023 The advances that have taken place in recent decades in the investigation of the ritual and topographical structure of the Sanctuary of Delphi have brought to light strong correspondences with the narrative structure of the Proem of Parmenides.
David Hernández Castro
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In the jungle of time: The concept of identity as a way out
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 What could be a unifying principle for the manifold of temporal experiences: the simultaneity or temporal order of events, the subjective present, the duration of experiences, or the impression of a continuity of time?
Bin eZhou +8 more
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