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Playing simplicity: polemical stupidity in the writing of the French Enlightenment [PDF]
, 2002 Polemical stupidity - a critical concept drawn from Bakhtin – denotes the strategic refusal to understand. It appears most familiarly in the character of the Fool (like Candide), who genuinely does not understand the world, thus unmasking its ...
Howells, Robin
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How Rights Became "Subjective" [PDF]
, 2015 What is commonly called a right has since about 1980 increasingly come to be called a subjective right. In this paper the origin and rise of this solecism is investigated. Its use can result in a lack of clarity and even confusion. Some aspects of rights-
Mautner, Thomas
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Descartes on Place and Motion: A Reading through Cartesian Commentaries**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 179-214, September 2024.Abstract This paper offers a reconstruction of the interpretations of Descartes's ideas of place and motion by Dutch Cartesians (Henricus Regius, Johannes de Raey, Johannes Clauberg, and Christoph Wittich). It does so by focusing on the reading of Descartes's Principia philosophiae (1644) offered, in particular, by the dictated commentaries on it.
Andrea Strazzoni
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Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 34, Issue 2, January 9, 2024.The sintering of thiophosphate solid electrolytes (Li3PS4 amorphous) is far from trivial. By combining morphological, structural, and electrochemical properties, it is demonstrated that the porosity/ionic conductivity is not the most relevant parameter to investigate and that in‐depth characterization of microstructures can reveal important parameters ...
Patrice Perrenot +7 more
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Skeptical Fideism in Cicero’s De Natura Deorum [PDF]
, 2019 The work of Richard H. Popkin both introduced the concept of skeptical fideism and served to impressively document its importance in the philosophies of a diverse range of thinkers, including Montaigne, Pascal, Huet, and Bayle.
Ribeiro, Brian
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Maty's Biography of Abraham De Moivre, Translated, Annotated and Augmented
, 2007 November 27, 2004, marked the 250th anniversary of the death of Abraham De Moivre, best known in statistical circles for his famous large-sample approximation to the binomial distribution, whose generalization is now referred to as the Central Limit ...
Bellhouse, David R., Genest, Christian
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Spatial genetic structure in the saddled sea bream (Oblada melanura [Linnaeus, 1758]) suggests multi-scaled patterns of connectivity between protected and unprotected areas in the Western Mediterranean Sea [PDF]
, 2016 Marine protected areas (MPAs) and networks of MPAs are advocated worldwide for the achievement of marine conservation objectives. Although the knowledge about population connectivity is considered fundamental for the optimal design of MPAs and networks ...
Calo A. +4 more
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WIREs Mechanisms of Disease, Volume 16, Issue 1, January/February 2024.Cannabis extract acts synergistically with biological treatment to reduce migration and inflammation, and increase cytotoxicity to melanoma cells. Abstract Melanoma is one of the leading fatal forms of cancer, yet from a treatment perspective, we have minimal control over its reoccurrence and resistance to current pharmacotherapies. The endocannabinoid
Ava Bachari +5 more
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Hubert Bost, Pierre Bayle [PDF]
Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 2006 Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) jouit d'une position centrale dans le protestantisme français, et, plus généralement, dans les réseaux des Églises issues de la Réforme. Bien au-delà de ces assignations, il est surtout l'une des figures majeures de l'histoire culturelle de l'Europe au seuil des Lumières, et des bouleversements qui accompagnent l'émergence d ...
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The Dustbin of the Republic of Letters: Pierre Bayle's "Dictionaire" as an encyclopedic palimpsest of errors [PDF]
, 2012 International audiencePierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, a landmark in intellectual history, is a curious text. Originally intended as a collection of all errors, it became an encyclopedia of everything, enfolding rampantly growing ...
Vermeir, Koen
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