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Children's metalinguistic activity in the construction of linguistic existence [PDF]
, 1999 In this paper we examine the construction of first entities in narratives produced by children of 5, 7, 10 years and adults1 . The study demonstrates that when children reformulate they try to construct entities detached from the situation of ...
Sousa, Otília
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Neo-Darwinists and Neo-Aristotelians: how to talk about natural purpose [PDF]
, 2016 This paper examines the points of disagreement between Neo-Darwinian and recent Neo-Aristotelian discussions of the status of purposive language in biology.
Woodford, P
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Completeness of the Present System of Creation from the Perspective of Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra [PDF]
حکمت صدرایی, 2012 The best possible system of creation is one of the issues discussed by different scholars.Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra are among those raising this issue in a comprehensive way.
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, 2018 The paper starts with the proposal that the cause of the apparent insolubility of the free-will problem are several popular but strongly metaphysical notions and hypotheses. To reduce the metaphysics, some ideas are borrowed from physics.
Hájíček, P.
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Teleology in the Ayala’s F. J. biophilosophic thought
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2015 Teleology is today one of the most important issues on Biology debate. Prof. F. J. Ayala strongly supports the uses of teleological explanations in Biology.
Diego Cano Espinosa
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The Misappropriation of Teleonomy
, 1987 The word “teleonomy” has been proposed to refer to the study of goal-directed processes without the encumbrances of teleological explanations. Those who have proposed the new term have disagreed about which of the encumbrances of teleological thought they were seeking to avoid.
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Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Critique of Darwin [PDF]
, 2011 Despite his position as one of the first philosophers to write in the ‘post-Darwinian’ world, the critique of Darwin by Friedrich Nietzsche is often ignored, for a host of unsatisfactory reasons.
Pence, Charles H.
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Semiosis as a Source of Providing Empirical Phenomena with a New Type of Cohesion. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2023 Matsuno K.
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Out of the Metazoic?:animals as a transitional form in planetary evolution [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper I situate the topic of animals in the Anthropocene within a larger set of questions. Firstly, I locate it against a longer timescale than might ordinarily be the case.
Szerszynski, Bronislaw
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