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Translation as a Factor of Social Teleonomy [PDF]
This article considers translation as a factor in the genesis of social macro-formations—ethnoses and superethnoses. The research combines Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory, Lem Gumilev’s theory of ethnogenesis and the concept of teleonomy borrowed from evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr in order to demonstrate the ethnogenetic
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The main feature of an act of volition is its teleonomy. In a given situation (Sit1), a state of things (X) is not actual or valid but its actualisation is judged necessary by a source of judgment (Si).
Merle, Jean-Marie
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Introductory notes to a grammar of Cahuilla : [to appear in Linguistic Studies offered to Joseph Greenberg on the occasion of his 60th birthday] [PDF]
These notes grew out of my preoccupation with writing a grammar of a particular language, Cahuilla, which is spoken in Southern California and belongs to the Uto-Aztecan family. [...] The Introduction to the Grammar as a whole – of which two sections are
Seiler, Hansjakob
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Is there a purpose in the biological evolution of living beings? [PDF]
An unquestionably important biological question is whether human beings are the product of chance or of purpose in the evolutionary process. Charles Darwin did not accept purpose in biological evolution, a view not shared by his colleague Alfred Russel ...
Aznar Lucea, Justo
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Teleosemantics without etiology [PDF]
The aim of teleosemantics is to give a scientifically respectable, or ‘naturalistic’ theory of mental content. In the debates surrounding the scope and merits of teleosemantics a lot has been said about the concept of indication (or carrying information).
Nanay, Bence
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What renders dreams more or less narrative? A microstructural study of REM and Stage 2 dream reports upon morning awakening [PDF]
A microanalysis of fourteen dream reports was conducted with the aim of understanding which features of these reports rendered them more or less narrative.
Cavallero, Corrado, Montangero, Jacques
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Extending Epigenesis: From Phenotypic Plasticity to the Bio-Cultural Feedback [PDF]
The paper aims at proposing an extended notion of epigenesis acknowledging an actual causal import to the phenotypic dimension for the evolutionary diversification of life forms.
A Bouaïchi +134 more
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Active noise and vibration control (ANVC): current trends, permanent aims and future possibilities
The main purpose of this report is to provide a deaper and more adequate understanding of ANVC. A, literature of about 500 papers is now available and has been analysed: ANVC is now developed in many directions; many experiments have been done, proving ...
Maurice JESSEL
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Tadeusz Garbowski i filozofia jednorodności
Tadeusz Garbowski (1869-1940) was an original thinker, preoccupied with zoology and ethology, and also the philosophy of nature. First, he worked in Vienna where he got his PhD and then (1898) he moved to Cracow and continued his studies at the ...
Maciej Kociuba
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Machina ex Deus? From Distributed to Orchestrated Agency [PDF]
In this chapter, the author draws on a historical case study of the Australian wine industry to explore variations in collective agency. The inductively derived process model illustrates the emergence of a new profession of scientific win- emaking, which
Abbott A. +79 more
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