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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
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 Connection between M. A. Krapiec’s Existential Thomism and P. F. Strawson’s Analytic Philosophy [PDF]
Christian humanism in the III millennium from the perspective of Thomas Aquinas’s philosophy can be developed by finding the common area between Thomism and other current philosophy trends, for example analytic philosophy.
Besler, Gabriela
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La correspondance de Fénelon. Une œuvre dans l’œuvre
This research file’s object is Fénelon’s correspondence, the complete edition of which, achieved in 2007, has considerably enriched our knowledge of both the life and works of the archbishop of Cambrai, by shedding new lights on its multiple facets ...
Laurence Devillairs, Patricia Touboul
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Gas exchange and pulmonary stress variations during SCUBA and breath‐hold diving in open seawater
Abstract figure legend Healthy, trained divers were studied before, during and after diving in open seawater with different techniques. SCUBA divers (diving to 15 or 40 m with air; cycling at depth) and breath‐hold divers (BHDs; sled‐assisted dives to 15, 25 or 40 m) underwent underwater and surface arterial blood gas (ABG) sampling.
Matteo Paganini +11 more
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Despite having similar climatic niches, woody plant species can exhibit contrasting responses to climate change. Using MaxEnt and spatial prioritization, we evaluated Isoberlinia doka and I. tomentosa under future climate scenarios (2041–2060). Despite high niche overlap (D = 0.635; I = 0.788), I. doka experienced severe habitat contraction, whereas I.
Sessi Gilles Christian Adjahossou +8 more
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Small versus large scale soybean production systems' footprints. ABSTRACT Soybean is increasingly grown in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), produced mainly in small‐scale systems and supplied locally for human consumption. Prospects of large‐scale expansion and intensification, with potential environmental drawbacks, loom and call for a ...
Réussite Bugale Malembaka +4 more
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Jacques Maritain’s existential Thomism
J. Maritainas yra vienas kūrybingiausių ir originaliausių šiuolaikinių katalikybės filosofų, priklausančių neotomizmo krypčiai. Jis parašė per penkiasdešimt veikalų ir šimtus straipsnių šiuolaikiškai interpretuodamas Tomo Akviniečio filosofiją ...
Kuzmickas, Bronislovas
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The Thomism of Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Indians of the New World
This dissertation examines Bartolomé de Las Casas as a Thomistic political philosopher. It argues that Las Casas intentionally drew upon the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas in order to provide a robust philosophical anthropology that was able to defend ...
Varacalli, Thomas Francis Xavier
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ABSTRACT Epilepsy is the most disabling neurological disease that affects all economic classes, age groups, regions, and races. Although many antiseizure drugs are approved for epilepsy treatment, they fail to work in about 30%–40% of patients. Thus, there is a great need to identify better pharmacological agents to treat epilepsy.
Janakiraman Pillai Udaiyappan +3 more
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Combining paleoecology and modeling to explore cascading disturbances in forest ecosystems
Climate‐induced cascading disturbance interactions pose a major challenge to the sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services to society. Developing a deeper understanding and enhanced capacity to simulate these interactions is essential for identifying disturbance‐induced tipping points in forest ecosystems, and for improving management in ...
Cécile C. Remy +6 more
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