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2014
For John Dewey, the “spectator theory of knowledge,” which is the main casualty of his reconstruction in philosophy, is a vestige of a prescientific, pretechnological, and predemocratic culture. Specifically, it was the product of the hierarchical society of ancient Greece: “The actual conditions of life in Greece, particularly in Athens, when classic ...
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For John Dewey, the “spectator theory of knowledge,” which is the main casualty of his reconstruction in philosophy, is a vestige of a prescientific, pretechnological, and predemocratic culture. Specifically, it was the product of the hierarchical society of ancient Greece: “The actual conditions of life in Greece, particularly in Athens, when classic ...
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Medical Hypotheses, 1998
It is proposed that cortisol's primary purpose is to mobilize the body's defenses against water-losing intestinal diseases and corticosterone's against serum diseases. They do this by inversely controlling those immune cells, enzymes, and hormones, etc. that affect survival during infection.
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It is proposed that cortisol's primary purpose is to mobilize the body's defenses against water-losing intestinal diseases and corticosterone's against serum diseases. They do this by inversely controlling those immune cells, enzymes, and hormones, etc. that affect survival during infection.
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2015
All human conduct is purposive and dynamically regulated. In psychology the notion of purpose has been rejected as a notion that might bring religious moments into psychology. In biology the acceptance of purposefulness becomes inevitable as the new genetic science concentrates on the pre-adaptation of the genome to the expected possible future ...
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All human conduct is purposive and dynamically regulated. In psychology the notion of purpose has been rejected as a notion that might bring religious moments into psychology. In biology the acceptance of purposefulness becomes inevitable as the new genetic science concentrates on the pre-adaptation of the genome to the expected possible future ...
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Philosophy of Science, 1942
Most of man's organs can be utilized in more than one way. His hands can be used to grip and to push, his throat can serve to swallow and to expel, he uses his tongue to taste and to talk, his nose to breathe and to smell.If each mode of activity required the use of a different organ, a man would have to be much more cumbersome than he now is, or he ...
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Most of man's organs can be utilized in more than one way. His hands can be used to grip and to push, his throat can serve to swallow and to expel, he uses his tongue to taste and to talk, his nose to breathe and to smell.If each mode of activity required the use of a different organ, a man would have to be much more cumbersome than he now is, or he ...
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Purposeful and Non-Purposeful Behavior
Philosophy of Science, 1950In a recent essay (1) Professor Taylor criticizes the criteria used by Rosenblueth, Wiener and Bigelow in 1943 (2) to distinguish purposeful from non-purposeful behavior. He also criticizes our definition of behavior, our concept of the vague as opposed to the general, our use of the word correlation, and our statement that a system may reach a final ...
Arturo Rosenblueth, Norbert Wiener
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