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Plato's Theaetetus

This is an English translation of Plato's dialogue concerning the nature of knowledge.

Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith

Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith John D. Cox. Shakespeare Studies 6 (1970): 231 ... Pantheon Books, 1965), 25–66. 50 Harold Fisch also discusses sermo humilis ... 3.5.101, and 5.5.83. 54 Britain's refusal to pay the tribute it owes to Rome ...

An Analysis of Kant's Critick of Pure Reason

... thinking , it is thus empirical , and contains the determi- nateness of my existence , merely in respect of my representations in time . But as I again , for this , first , require something permanent , and such , so far as I think myself ...

Extracts from Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon

... injoy , not only to that of contemplation , but even to that which most men prefer of the very Senses themselves . And if they will please to take any incouragement from so mean and so imperfect endeavours as mine , upon my own ...

An analysis of Mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas in his Essay on human understanding (fold. tab.) ; Of human understanding

... æther itself ; and by how much the more evident it proves , that the parts of other bodies are held together by the external pressure of the æther , and can have no other conceivable cause of their cohesion and union , by so much the ...

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation

... chance whether A or B takes place . The fallacy has been stated thus . Suppose that either A or B must happen : and let the chance that A will happen be a : as certainty is represented by 1 , the chance ... perhaps 100000 the chance of my ...

Generalized Functions, Volume 5

... real unimodular group, Am. J. Math. 82, 1 (1960). J. Leray, Les solutions élémentaires d'une équation aux dérivées partielles à coefficients constants, Compt. rend. acad. sci. 234, 1112 (1952). See also this author's book “Hyperbolic ...

The Theory of Knowledge: An Islamic Perspective

... 108, 113 universal gravitation, 162, 168 Usul-e Falsafeh wa Rawish-e Realism (The Principles of Philosophy and the Method of Realism), 10 West, 139 wisdom (hikmah), 3, 5, 17, 41, 43,68 Ziyarat 'Ashura ',131 218 The Theory of Knowledge.

Knowledge and Inquiry: Essays on Jaakko Hintikka's Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

... kinds of definability , and try to prove theorems analogous to those in the ... two - person game , where the players are called ' the Inquirer ' and ... answers to the Inquirer's questions . In logical moves the Inquirer can make ...

Symbolism: Or, Mind, Matter, Language as the Elements of Thinking and Reasoning and as the Necessary Factors of Human Knowledge

... puzzle the conceptualists , who have not studied dynamics , and possibly all ... double motion means the passing over a double space in the same time , or passing over the same space in half the ... motion and to ORDER - MOTION - FORM . 253.

Algebraic Equations

... w20 + wB / 0 Зу - - C1 + w✪ + w2B / 0 = = .... By giving all its six values ... way for the general quartic ( a - B + y - 8 ) 2 is a three - valued function of the ... interchanging the roots in all possible ways , μ essentiall different ...

Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects, Viz., Space, Substance, Body, Spirit, the Operations of the Soul in Union with the Body ... with Some Remarks on Mr. Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding. To which is Subjoined, a Brief Scheme of Ontology ...

... power and agency of God , different from the original dictates , or laws of ... power . By this means God is as it were conftrained to exert a miraculous influence at the generation and ... fophical account 196 OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS .

Insight: A Study of Human Understanding

' The editors of the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan have established the definitive text for Insight after examining all the variant forms in Lonergan's manuscripts and papers.

Students' Problems of Philosophy

... force or principle to account for life . All forms of life including human ... guide and decide the destiny of the world or of the life . The creation is ... force , energy etc. and tries to explain not only life but also mind on purely ...

An Elementary Treatise on the Theory of Equations: With a Collection of Examples

... approximation is nearer to the true value of the root than the first approximation . Let ẞ1 = ß - 1 f ( B ) f ' ( B ) ; then ƒ ( ẞ , ) and ƒ ” ( ß1 ) have the same sign , and the approximation can be continued from ẞ ,. 226. The ...

An Inquiry Into the Human Mind,: On the Principles of Common Sense

... the quali- ty in the body called taste , is the same as be- fore , although the sensations he has from it are perhaps opposite . The vulgar are commonly charged by phi- losophers , with the absurdity of imagining the smell in the rose ...

El problema del conocimiento en Nicolás de Cusa: genealogía y proyección

... atributos de Dios , porque en el Corán son múltiples las representaciones que se hacen de Dios , a quien , además , se le atribuyen mu- chos nombres , los asmâ ' husnâ , esto es , " los más bellos nombres " . La cuestión se proponía en ...

Bacon: The Advancement of Learning

... Errata . [ 6 ] John vii . 49. [ 23 ] Osorius , bishop of Sylves in Algarve , died 1580 ; wrote De Rebus Gestis Emanuelis , 1574. On his redundant style see Ascham , The Scholemaster , pp . 110 , 129-131 , ed . Mayor . [ 24 ] Sturmius ...

Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography

From the lessons learned in "Paradise Lost" and the events which transpired in the tales of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Frankenstein" to unlocking the secrets of the atom, Shattuck's brilliant synthesis of history and literature is ...

Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography

From the lessons learned in "Paradise Lost" and the events which transpired in the tales of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Frankenstein" to unlocking the secrets of the atom, Shattuck's brilliant synthesis of history and literature is ...

Forbidden Knowledge: Things We Should Not Know

"This book examines the concept of "forbidden knowledge" in religion, science, government, and psychology.

The Life Divine

... translation or sense - transcript of the reality but looking through the sense - image to the reality . This adequacy is amplified too by the action of a reason which fathoms and understands the law of things sensed and can observe ...

Metaphor and Its Moorings: Studies in the Grounding of Metaphorical Meaning

... analogy . In the following section I show that the basic analogies which metaphors often un- cover are embedded in and indicative of the structural irreducibility and coherence of reality . ' Home Bases ' and Radial Analogies These ...

Knowledge Language and Subjectivities in a Discourse Community :ideas We Can Learn from Elementary Children about Science

... boys and girls . In Mr. K's class an opposite trend occurred . There were 9 ( 36 % ) girls and 16 ( 64 % ) boys in his class for conversation K1 and 11 ( 50 % ) girls and 11 ( 50 % ) boys for conversations K2 and K3 . Even though the number ...

The Imposition of Method: A Study of Descartes and Locke

An attempt to show that in the seventeenth century philosophers believed that if we apply one and the same method of the subject matter of any discipline in which we e4xpect to gain knowledge, we will be successful in that discipline.

Electronic Density of States: Based on Invited and Contributed Papers and Discussion

... A4V k = (. tor T = − iơ¿K ( where σ is the Pauli spin operator and K is the complex conjugation operator ) to a Bloch func- tion is another Bloch function - which is degenerate with and orthogonal to . Since TPT - 1 P one obtains k ( r ...

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation

... things shall be thought of in such groups , and those groups in such an ... called Natural Arrangements or Classifications , especially of the organized ... mental grouping of those objects ; and in our first attempts we are likely to ...

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