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  • Biography). He was a pioneer of modern philosophy, incorporating contemporary ... Space, Time and Deity was one of the last attempts by a British philosopher ...
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  • to the epistemological approach of his philosophy. Kant presents it as the ... objects. What is relevant here is that space and time, rather than being ...
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  • His paradoxes include questions concerning: concepts of space and ... * The Arrow: "If everything when it occupies an equal space is ...
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  • The term became significant in Greek philosophy when Plato used it to refer ... eternal world of Ideas, and the task of philosophy was to become aware of ...
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  • as other legal terms and concepts into philosophy. With the term "antinomy ... that the mind is equipped with such as space, time, quality, quantity ...
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  • While cyberspace itself is a neutral space that allows for the rapid ... The word "cyberspace" (from cybernetics and space) was coined ...
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  • In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free ... Free space is characterized by the defined value of the parameter ...
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  • philosopher on aesthetics and moral philosophy. Sometimes referred to ... numerous dialogues and essays on moral philosophy brought him into contact ...
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  • that which exists beyond the boundaries of space and time. His contribution ... him as a founder of Eleatic philosophy whose major thinkers were ...
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  • as a rabbi, Maimon studied German philosophy and raised important objections ... and devoted himself to the study of philosophy as it was presented by ...
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  • computational resources, including time, space, randomness, alternation ... Church-Turing Thesis], Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ...
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  • Ontology is a major branch of philosophy and a central part of metaphysics ... The conceptual division of this branch of philosophy was established ...
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  • Aristotle's works) is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining ... be little less than a history of all of philosophy. This article will, therefore ...
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  • trace of the mythical, which is rare in Greek philosophy. thought in the history of Greek philosophy. It is virtually impossible ...
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  • phones, television, internet, satellites; space travel and the first images ... global institutions, creating the space for global political discourse ...
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  • to a number of different areas in philosophy, but his primary contribution ... the Scholasticism, and the concept of philosophy as the study of consciousness ...
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  • him as “being equally at home in Space of 3, 4 or x dimensions.” ... == Ethics and Philosophy of Science == Clifford developed a Darwinian ...
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  • important work is on poetics and on the philosophy of science. To the latter ... before finally becoming interested in philosophy. He was a professor at ...
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  • without also thinking of an extension in space. He contrasts this example ... as 7+5=12, and certain statements of philosophy, as examples of synthetic ...
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  • dominant rationalist Leibnizian-Wolffian philosophy (this label, though dating ... on Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Sadly, there are no full ...
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  • role in the progression of German philosophy from Leibniz and Wolff ... part of Baumgarten's career, German philosophy was unambiguously dominated ...
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  • with a long tradition in the history of philosophy, which collectively prescribe ... a regular basis, ostensibly to discuss philosophy but in reality to recruit ...
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  • and author of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (1880), had ... soon left for the Professorship of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow (1866-1893) ...
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  • of an object (or collection of objects) in space is roughly defined as the ... a third dimension to two-dimensional (2D) space or a fourth dimension to ...
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  • In epistemology and the philosophy of perception, phenomenalism is ... of Immanuel Kant. According to Kant, space and time, which are the a ...
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  • In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, noumenon, thing in itself (German ... had a long history dating back to Greek philosophy and continuing with the ...
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  • Continental philosophy, as the phrase is used today, refers to a set ... The term continental philosophy originated among English-speaking ...
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  • , is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy (orthodox Vedic systems ... Vaisesika is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy. The word ...
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  • of the work). In John Locke's philosophy, tabula rasa was the theory ... of inborn mental structures. In classic philosophy, this amounts to the confrontation ...
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  • for his pursuit of natural theology and philosophy as he placed an emphasis ... and at Caius College, Cambridge. The philosophy of René Descartes was ...
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  • promoted what was known as "Oxford philosophy," or "ordinary ... #039;s College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. ...
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  • has been popular in the history of philosophy and has been developed ... In contemporary philosophy, epistemological dualism has come under ...
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  • with the formative period of Arab philosophy. He was the first to apply ... consistently tried to demonstrate that philosophy is compatible with orthodox ...
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  • developed a unique theistic existential philosophy. He began his career as ... Jaspers' theistic orientation of philosophy shows a sharp contrast ...
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  • She was best known for her 1942 book Philosophy in a New Key in which she ... she was interested in difficult works of philosophy from the start. "In ...
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  • quot; largely under the influence of the philosophy of Aristotle that was reintroduced ... Plato believed, are they located outside of space and time? Some assert that ...
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  • axiomatic geometry as a model of physical space, and obviously there could ... ===General Philosophy Sources=== *[http://plato.stanford.edu/ Stanford ...
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  • Abstraction in philosophy is the process of forming a concept by identifying ... to construction problems, to the use of space, and at its best, to the ...
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  • the most important and influential philosophy study and discussion group ... to problems of epistemology, the philosophy of science, and more general ...
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  • ethics and his intuitivism. His philosophy represents a Neoplatonism ... and subsequently Assistant Professor of philosophy at St Petersburg. Lossky ...
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  • Formen, 3 vol. (1923–29; The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms), Cassirer ... traditions of twentieth-century academic philosophy, the “analytic” and ...
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  • and relationships of such complexes as space, time and form. In many religions ... megaliths, monuments and churches; sacred space such as altars, temenos and ...
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  • matter as extension. The notion of infinite space defined by More and Cudworth ... of spirit. A pre-existing, infinite space apart from matter that fills ...
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  • have differed throughout the history of philosophy; hence a precise definition ... form and matter derive from classical philosophy, most significantly from ...
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  • who wrote a treatise on Natural Philosophy; and it begins thus: ... ideas about the lack of up or down in space to the Pythagorean community ...
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  • Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of ... influential in the history of western philosophy. He used both the terms ...
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  • his Gifford Lectures), and Essays on the Philosophy of Religion. ... for his work on epistemology and the philosophy of perception. In his first ...
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  • of a regard for the awe of the infinity of space ("Space astonishes, ... and Teleology], Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. *[http://www.iep ...
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  • beings. He believed that the purpose of philosophy was not to construct reality ... within the restrictions of time and space, and by the effect of will ...
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  • #039;, can be seen as a mandala of sacred space. Professor Miranda Shaw summarises ... that unfolds in many stages. The sacred space for the ceremony is demarcated ...
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  • (or "the Way") often refers to a space-time sequence, and is similarly ... * Guthrie, W.K.C. A History of Greek Philosophy, vol. 1. Cambridge: ...
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  • is that they are what corresponds in space to the yellow which we actually ... both of these assumptions in the philosophy of language over the course ...
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  • extended in time; the latter is extended in space). This is related to Lessing ... ===General Philosophy Sources=== *[http://plato.stanford.edu/ Stanford ...
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  • from usage data. One way of considering the space of grammars is to distinguish ... ===General Philosophy Sources=== *[http://plato.stanford.edu/ Stanford ...
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  • In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of ... as energy, forces, and the curvature of space, as well as dark matter and ...
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  • if not within a museum, is a smaller space for the exhibition of art ... Art museums and galleries provide a unique space where people can transcend ...
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  • of "natural and experimental philosophy" (that is, physics ... Rev. FitzGerald was professor of moral philosophy in Trinity and vicar of ...
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  • of the Inductive Sciences (1837) and The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences ... Whewell’s philosophy of science included the claim that through ...
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  • to find the secure point of departure in philosophy. A well known example is ... Philosophy is, in a certain sense, a series of attempts to disclose ...
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  • of an authentic self and society. In philosophy, the concept has also been ... although Kierkegaard respected the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. ...
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  • led to significant advances in science, philosophy, and mathematics. ... given by the ancient Greek School of philosophy at Elea. Parmenides (c ...
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  • African philosophy is a disputed term, used in different ways by different ... The study of African philosophy was taken up by West African universities ...
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  • works of astrology, astronomy, philosophy and mathematics into Latin ... (On Identity and Difference) defended philosophy against the pursuit of ...
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  • provided that sufficient time and storage space are available. This thesis ... Hypothesis] (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). ===General philosophy ...
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  • the most popular schools of Hellenistic Philosophy. He taught that happiness ... shown by the youth to me, and to philosophy" (Diogenes Laertius ...
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  • and wrote about both Western and Eastern philosophy, and was instrumental in ... Imperial University with a degree in philosophy. For his graduation thesis ...
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  • This human experience was developed in philosophy as perspectivism. Although ... of axiology, aesthetics, and his unique philosophy of life. After Nietzsche ...
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  • I see him as the dominant figure in philosophy from the 1930s onward, ... a thesis setting out an axiomatic theory of space and time. The physics department ...
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  • In classical physics, space and time are assumed to be quite different ... Theorem, with x, y and z being the space components and "ict ...
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  • of thought that is broadly based on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The term ... taken over key elements from Kant’s philosophy. The renewal of Kantianism ...
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  • theology posits a God outside of time and space, who enters into time and ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: religion 131583110 ...
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  • Shestov was an irrationalist whose philosophy ran counter to the prevailing ... the teaching of Tolstoy and Nietzsche: Philosophy and Preaching; two authors ...
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  • of all areas of medieval science and philosophy. He wrote a detailed commentary ... to surpass, but even to equal him for the space of three centuries." ...
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  • T. Garner, and Bernard Rosen, Moral Philosophy: A Systematic Introduction ... four-sided triangle that exists outside of space and time, cannot be seen ...
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  • He also proposed that the role of philosophy was not to discover universal ... please his father, but he also studied philosophy, psychology, physics, and ...
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  • were refined and carried forward in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, and ... grips with this part of Nietzsche's philosophy by looking at it as death ...
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  • particularly between literature and philosophy. He began his career on ... Blanchot studied philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, where ...
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  • with vast implications for science and philosophy. Indeed, Albert Einstein ... * Book 11 generalizes the results of Books 1–6 to space: perpendicularity ...
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  • College in 1624 to study mathematics and philosophy until 1626, when he sent ... that a vacuum had been created in the space above the mercury. Furthermore ...
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  • of concepts are thus closely tied to the philosophy of language, philosophy ... learning and category formation. In the philosophy of Kant, any purely empirical ...
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  • confer academic degrees in theology and philosophy, thereby raising the school ... The university in its new space was able to augment the number of ...
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  • His legacy was rooted in the philosophy that dance should be made ... and began observing the moving form and the space surrounding it. At age 30 ...
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  • evocative of the movement of energy in space. In this context, the sky ... *Campbell, June. Traveler in Space: In Search of the Female Identity ...
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  • Analytic philosophy has been the dominant academic philosophical movement ... The main founders of analytic philosophy were the Cambridge philosophers ...
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  • for a homogeneous, isotropic expanding space. Although concepts underlying ... transformation that occurs in an expanding space. Light traveling through ...
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  • The Chatta Chowk leads to a large open space then crosses the large north ... Category:Philosophy and religion Category:Religion Category:Islam ...
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  • twentieth centuries; subsequently, his philosophy influenced the development ... are still the subjects of current debates in philosophy. ...
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  • one of the principal focal points of philosophy. Although the question ... to claim that even three-dimensional space and a universal, uniform ...
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  • of an integrated worldview. The Philosophy of Religion based on Kant ... or spirit presiding over a thing or space") to describe the unique ...
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  • In natural philosophy, atomism is the theory that all the objects ... atoms of physical science, and that of philosophy. Atomism is traditionally ...
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  • of the Center for Radio Physics and Space Research at Cornell. Sagan was a leader in the U.S. space program since its inception. ...
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  • He was interested in philosophy and was an expert on the art of memory; ... physical laws would operate everywhere. Space and time were both conceived ...
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  • he studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy. From 1924 he studied at ... 1964) where he was Stuart Professor of Philosophy and where taught alongside ...
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  • him at a banquet for devoting too much space to his rival, the Dioscuri ... to the development of ethical philosophy in ancient Greece. In general ...
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  • notion of the Magic Circle as a conceptual space in which play occurs. That ... within the book to define the conceptual space in which play occurs. Huizinga ...
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  • within the different Buddhist schools of philosophy which can easily lead to ... According the Madhyamika, or Middle Way philosophy, ordinary beings ...
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  • be viewed as a living organism that needs space to live (lebensraum) and ... From 1911 to 1913, Haushofer worked on his doctorate in philosophy ...
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  • esse; German, Sein; French, être), in philosophy, has been a central topic ... mathematical objects, quality, time, space, God, etc. For Plato the ...
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  • a major philosopher of the “philosophy of life” (“Lebensphilosophie” ... The rise of modern science made a strong impact on philosophy. Natural ...
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  • that would become fundamental to his philosophy of humanism. In 1327, Petrarch ... emotions and imagery all in the limited space of a mere 14 lines. In addition ...
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