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The Notion of Being as Act in Neoplatonism and Its Transmission in the Translatio Studiorum [PDF]
, 2012 The problem related to the origin of the concept of actus essendi constitutes one of the central themes in the history of ancient philosophy, and is one of the most important in the process known as Translatio studiorum.
Salis, RITA MARIA GAVINA
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HEIDEGGER AND INDIAN THINKING: THE HERMENEUTIC OF A “BELONGING-TOGETHER” OF NEGATION AND AFFIRMATION [PDF]
, 2015 : According to Heidegger the questioning of Being is unique to western philosophical tradition, however we see that the hermeneutic of Being is explicit in inter-cultural context of thinking. Understanding Brahman as “one ” and “the same ” Śankara speaks
VALLOORAN, Jaison D.
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Negative findings in electronic health records and biomedical ontologies: a realist approach [PDF]
, 2007 PURPOSE—A substantial fraction of the observations made by clinicians and entered into patient records are expressed by means of negation or by using terms which contain negative qualifiers (as in “absence of pulse” or “surgical procedure not performed”).
Ceusters, Werner +2 more
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On the Semantics and the Ontology of the Mass‐Count Distinction
Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2025.ABSTRACT The mass‐count distinction is a morpho‐syntactic distinction among nouns in English and many other languages. Tree, chair, person, group, and portion are count nouns, which come with the plural and accept numerals such as one and first; water, rice, furniture, silverware, and law enforcement are mass nouns, which lack the plural and do not ...
Friederike Moltmann
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The Silence of Socrates: The One and the Many in Plato’s Parmenides
Studia Gilsoniana, 2020 Parmenides was not a metaphysician (he was a materialist), so there is no such thing as Parmenidean metaphysics. Plato’s Parmenides, however, offers metaphysical insights otherwise overlooked by readers unfamiliar to what St.
Steven Barmore
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On locational sensory individuals and spacetime
Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 40-52, February 2025.Perception not only registers property instances, but also connects with and attributes properties to individual entities—so‐called sensory individuals, or SIs. But what are SIs? The most‐discussed answers are: (i) SIs are ordinary material objects—cohesive, temporally persistent objects extended and bounded in space, and (ii) SIs are locations or ...
Jonathan Cohen
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Lügen die Dichter? Poetische und diskursive Er-Kenntnis
Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik, 2019 The article considers the question whether poets lie against the background of the possible difference between poetical and discursive knowledge. Starting from Plato’s thesis, namely that poets lie, the article refers to Rorty, who, in contrast to Plato ...
Rainer Grübel
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The Reception of Hesiod by the Early Presocratics [PDF]
, 2018 The early Presocratics’ major speculative and critical initiatives—in particular, Anaximander’s conceptions of the justice of the cosmos and of the apeiron as its archē and Xenophanes’s polemics against immorality and anthropomorphism in the depiction of
Miller, Mitchell
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Dialectical critical realism, complexity and the psychology of blame
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 384-401, December 2024.Abstract This essay considers the question of how to frame social complexity from the point of view of critical realism as it was developed in the direction of dialectics by Roy Bhaskar. One of the main objectives of dialectical critical realism (DCR) was to see dialectics as offering a more open and flexible way of handling social reality.
Alan Norrie
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The Science of Philosophy: Discourse and Deception in Plato’s Sophist [PDF]
, 2018 At 252e1 to 253c9 in Plato’s Sophist, the Eleatic Visitor explains why philosophy is a science. Like the art of grammar, philosophical knowledge corresponds to a generic structure of discrete kinds and is acquired by systematic analysis of how these ...
Olof, Pettersson
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