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Are Potency and Actuality Compatible in Aristotle? [PDF]
The belief that Aristotle opposes potency (dunamis) to actuality (energeia or entelecheia) has gone untested. This essay defines and distinguishes forms of the Opposition Hypothesis—the Actualization, Privation, and Modal—examining the texts and ...
Sentesy, Mark
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Les auteurs ont étudié les effets de la privation d'eau (25 jours) sur trois dromadaires (une femelle et deux mâles), alimentés avec du foin, près de Mogadiscio (Somalie) de mars à mai 1983.
Mahamud Hagi Mohamed +2 more
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Anselm’s Metaphysics of Nonbeing [PDF]
In his eleventh century dialogue De Casu Diaboli, Anselm seeks to avoid the problem of evil for theodicy and explain the fall of Satan as attributable to Satan’s own self-creating wrongful will.
Jacquette, Dale
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Privatizing the Privatized [PDF]
In the first part of this paper we argue that three reforms must be implemented if privatization is to increase efficiency. First, establishing unitary control rights within the firm. Second, making privatized firms face hard budget constraints. Third, establishing a non-corruptible judicial system and transparent bankruptcy procedures.
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The chief aim of this article is to show that St. Thomas Aquinas’s Fourth Way of demonstrating God’s existence can only be made precisely intelligible by comprehending it as a real, generic whole in light of its specific organizational principles ...
Peter A. Redpath
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Le bien-être psychologique des francophones et des anglophones : le rôle des points tournants de l’histoire du Québec [PDF]
La privation relative temporelle est le sentiment de menace ressenti par les individus suite à des comparaisons négatives entre la situation actuelle de leur groupe d'appartenance et la situation de leur groupe dans le passé.
de la Sablonnière, Roxane
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Evil as Privation in Neoplatonism. Simplicius and Philoponus in Defense of Matter
The aim of this paper is to highlight the decisive contribution of Simplicius and Philoponus to the resolution of the problem of evil in Neoplatonism.
R. Loredana Cardullo
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Se describen las desigualdades socioeconómicas en la mortalidad por secciones censales en el País Vasco y en sus tres capitales durante el período 1996-2003. Se realizó un estudio ecológico transversal de áreas pequeñas.
Santiago Esnaola +7 more
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Objectives: Arterial hypertension is a cardiovascular disease defined as a sustained high blood pressure, constituting an important risk factor for the development of heart diseases, such as coronary heart disease and heart failure.
Alécio Vinícius Sá Gomes e Farias +3 more
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On procedures for measuring deprivation and living standards of societies in a multi-attribute framework [PDF]
When a society's overall deprivation or living standard is assessed in a multi-attribute framework, the following procedure is often used. First, for each attribute, a summary index is constructed to reflect a society's performance in relation to this ...
Prasanta K. Pattanaik +2 more
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