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Plato, 2017 The paper examines different approaches to key metaphysical and conceptual claims in Plato’s dialogues. It explores how different readers of Plato, beginning with Aristotle, make sense of the status of and the relations between some of the key Forms ...
Allan Silverman
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On the SHELX, PLATON and IUCr/checkCIF crystal structure validation platform
Acta Crystallographica Section C, EarlyView.With checkCIF the IUCr has created a unique platform for the validation and archiving of the result of a small‐molecule crystal structure study.With checkCIF the IUCr has created a unique platform for the validation and archiving of the result of a small‐molecule crystal structure study.
Anthony L. Spek
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Philosophy of name in P. Florensky's creativity: platonism or palamism
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2010 P.A. Florensky is considered as the ancestor of Philosophy of Name in Russia, supporter of Onomatodoxy. At the same time his «Christian Platonism» remains a subject of sharp discussions even today. In Florensky's creativity enter inconsistent interaction
S A Nizhnikov
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Fictionalism and mathematical explanations
Filosofia Unisinos, 2019 In this paper, I place Mary Leng’s version of mathematical instrumentalism within the context of the debate in mathematical realism/anti-realism as well as within the context of the platonism/nominalism debate.
Pamela Ann Jose Boongaling
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Platonism as a Philosophical Method [PDF]
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2018 The concept of Platonism has shown variations throughout history, but generally it has been associated with those thinkers who have accepted, with different permutations, the so-called Theory of Ideas, a theory defended by those who have advocated for ...
Ignacio García Peña
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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante +3 more
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Gödel and the language of mathematics [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2015 The aim of this paper is to challenge Hao Wang's presentation of Gödel's views on the language of mathematics. Hao Wang claimed that the language of mathematics is for Gödel nothing but a sensory tool that helps humans to focus their attention on some ...
Kostić Jovana
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Retrieving Your Concepts: Iris Murdoch on Original Sin
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract In The Sovereignty of Good, Iris Murdoch argues that our moral thinking will be impoverished until it possesses a secular conception of original sin. Such a notion would need to remove unacceptable Christian baggage while retaining a genuine claim to be a descendant of the original Christian concept.
Samuel Filby
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