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4. Athens: Socrates

open access: yes, 1958
Later Greek philosophers started with questions somewhat different from those of their predecessors. Instead of asking about the nature of the universe, they first concerned themselves with the nature of man, how he can know, and what he should do. These
Bloom, Robert L.   +6 more
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The Moral Force of Guidelines: How Surgeons Use Evidence‐Based Medicine to Curb Their Interventionism

open access: yesSociology of Health &Illness, Volume 47, Issue 8, November 2025.
ABSTRACT The epistemology of evidence‐based medicine (EBM) is said to clash with the culture of surgery: EBM demands contemplation, whereas surgeons prize decisive, and even heroic, action. How, then, have surgeons come to embrace EBM? To answer this question, I analysed evidence‐based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and interviewed 15 attending ...
Clay Davis
wiley   +1 more source

Socrates and the Story of Inquiry [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Argument and myth, historical figure and archetype, Socrates dominates our image of inquiry.
Kolb, David
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Argument-based inductive logics, with coverage of compromised perception. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Artif Intell, 2023
Bringsjord S   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Infinite majesty : disabled and athletic métis in David Foster Wallace’s tennis writing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
As John Jeremiah Sullivan remarks in his introduction to String Theory, a collection of David Foster Wallace’s essays on tennis, tennis “may be [Wallace’s] most consistent theme at the surface level.” As once an elite junior professional himself, Wallace
Rabe, Michelle Elizabeth
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Building together / buildings together [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
A discussion of the problem of creating unified places in a pluralistic multicultural ...
Kolb, David
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Sophistication

open access: yes
Sophistication is studied in relation to political messages and to individuals. As a property of political messages, sophistication indicates the level of complexity of a text, which can referto the semantic or syntactic dimension and can be defined both objectively and subjectively.
Gallina, Marta, Camatarri, Stefano
openaire   +3 more sources

“Ideas-Men” (Gnômotupoi Andres)

open access: yesHumanities
This paper addresses the fifth-century comic coinage gnômotupos, which has not otherwise received scholarly attention. Translators of Aristophanes and Aristotle have typically glossed it into English as “maxim-coining” (with equivalents in other ...
Christopher Moore
doaj   +1 more source

Relativization of justice through rhetoric: Plato's Gorgias as paradigm [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2020
Through analysis of the works of Plato, particularly his dialogue Gorgia, the authors attempt to perceive prospective of rhetoric as the art of persuasion which could relativize truth and justice.
Avramović Dragutin S., Jovanov Ilija D.
doaj  

Sophisticated Players and Sophisticated Agents [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
A sophisticated player is an individual who takes the action of the opponents, in a strategic situation, as determined by decision of rational opponents, and acts accordingly. A sophisticated agent is rational in the choice of his action, but ignores the fact that he is part of a strategic situation.
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