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On the Two Abstractions of Social Information and Plato’s Theory of the Separation of Particulars and Universals

open access: yesComputer Sciences & Mathematics Forum, 2023
The authors propose that the theoretical framework of Western philosophy is supported by metaphysical ontology through the differentiation and analysis of two different kinds of “particulars-universals” in Plato’s “world visible to the naked eye” and ...
Wei Yan, Xia Wang, Zongrong Li
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The Universals of Human Nature: A Method of Their Detection through Scientific Evidence and Literary Fiction

open access: yesProfil
With the arrival of biological evolutionism and behaviourism, the concept of human nature has become very unstable. The proposed method for detecting the features of human nature based on discomfort allows us to reconsider human nature and regard the ...
Tomáš Károly
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A Modest Proposal for Resolving the Apparently Never-Ending Evolution Debate: Reconsidering the Question

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2019
The author makes an attempt to show why (1) Darwin’s teaching in The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection and The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex cannot be “scientific” in a modern, classical, or any, sense and that ...
Peter A. Redpath
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LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS AND UNIVERSAL INPUT CONDITIONS (SIUSANA KWELDJU)

open access: yesGetsempena English Education Journal, 2016
This essay discusses about human language, human have the common system in their language. The same system of the languages is called as Language Universals.
Maulizan ZA
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Relativity, linguistic variation and language universals

open access: yesCogniTextes, 2010
Language universals are usually thought of as properties holding of all languages. But very few, if any, such universals exist, due to the extreme structural diversity of languages.
William Croft
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Basic Verbs of Possession

open access: yesCogniTextes, 2010
Verbs of possession such as HAVE and GIVE have been extensively studied both typologically and from a cognitive linguistic perspective. The present study presents an analysis of possession verbs as a semantic field with a focus on the most basic verbs ...
Åke Viberg
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A comparative syntax of internally-headed relative clauses in Gur

open access: yesGlossa, 2017
Gur (or Mabia) languages which are spoken in West Africa have so-called internally-headed relative clauses (IHRCs), but they have not received serious attention in syntactic and typological research on IHRCs.
Adams Bodomo   +5 more
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Does Ockham’s razor matter to the problem of universals?

open access: yesGriot
This paper investigates how Ockham’s Razor can be applied to compare and evaluate solutions to the Problem of Universals. Initially, I discuss three formulations of this principle.
Valdetonio Pereira de Alencar
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Materia i przyczynowość - konkrety czy uniwersalia?

open access: yesZagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2011
Humean doctrine on causality is well known. Since all our knowledge comes from experience, we are able to know that “B follows A” (B propter A) but not that “B is caused by A” (B propter A). All the rest comes from our mental habits.
Michał Heller
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What in the World is Universe? : A Prime Example [PDF]

open access: yesФилософия и космология, 2016
This writing attempts to capture mind and matter to rational description by focusing on disparity between scientific method as it extracts concepts and discards particulars and ordinary cognitive functioning that extends from proximal experience ...
Marvin E. Kirsh
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