Analogy as Higher-Order Metaphor in Aquinas [PDF]
, 2009 At a Thomas Instituut conference in 2000, Otto-Hermann Pesch suggested somewhat enigmatically that the sharp distinction in scholastic Thomism between analogy and metaphor can no longer be maintained since on closer examination analogous statements are ...
Masson, Robert
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Beaver dam analogues increase amphibian breeding occupancy and bat activity
Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Beavers are ecosystem engineers that can create ponds, increase stream complexity, and enhance biodiversity. To mimic these and other effects, restoration practitioners increasingly install beaver dam analogues (BDAs) in degraded streams.
Julianna Hallza +6 more
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Artificial Intelligence-Augmented Propensity Score, Cost Effectiveness and Computational Ethical Analysis of Cardiac Arrest and Active Cancer with Novel Mortality Predictive Score. [PDF]
Medicina (Kaunas), 2022 Monlezun DJ +8 more
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Knowledge and Love of God in Ramanuja and Aquinas [PDF]
, 2007 A major characteristic of Catholic Christian intellectual encounter with Hinduism in the 20th century is the meeting of Thomism and the Vedanta. Thomism is the tradition of Christian thought which is based on the work of the scholastic and Dominican ...
Ganeri, Martin
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Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Tidal wetland restoration is critical for reversing habitat loss and enhancing resilience under sea‐level rise and climate variability. Dutch Slough in the San Francisco Estuary served as a living laboratory for adaptive management.
Joseph E. Merz +5 more
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St. Thomas Aquinas’s Teaching on Love as a Component of Karol Wojtyła’s Project of Finding an Adequate Interpretation of the Love Between a Man and a Woman [PDF]
Studia GilsonianaThe article presents a hitherto unknown lecture by Karol Wojtyła in 1954, discussing St. Thomas Aquinas’ teaching on love. Wojtyła juxtaposes this teaching with the philosophy of Max Scheler and unequivocally argues for a Thomistic understanding of love.
Karol Petryszak
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Catholic Theology and the Enlightenment (1670–1815) [PDF]
, 2015 This chapter examines the Catholic Church’s engagement with the Enlightenment from 1670–1815. It considers Catholic philosophies of the Enlightenment and new conceptualizations of natural law.
Lehner, Ulrich
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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The Modern Semantic Principles Behind Gilson’s Existential Interpretation of Aquinas (part 2) [PDF]
Studia GilsonianaPart one of this two-part paper looked at the modern semantic developments underlying Gilson’s innovative and highly influential semantic theory in Being and Some Philosophers (BSP)—the existential neutrality of the copula, the distinction between ...
Elliot T. Polsky
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