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Protestant Prince of Orange; later he served in the army of the Catholic
Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, who was then at war with the Palatine ... practical application
of physics, and magic is the practical application of metaphysics.
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centuries, and the pattern of thematic chapters has varied accordingly. The
first two volumes began the thematic section with a chapter on logic and
language, but there was no ... made discoveries about the nature of volcanic islands
and the formation of coral reefs. He published a popular account of his
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Anaximenes. After the end of the wars between Persia and Greece, he came
to Athens and ... origin of the Wrst human being, for instance,
we a re told that the eYcient cause was God, that the material cause was the
dust of the earth, that the forma...
... was not only the last philosopher of the old Latin philosophical
tradition: his Consolation can be read as an anthology of all that he valued in
classical Greek philosophy. It was perhaps as a ... in
the later books in the course of a search for an analogy of the heavenly
Trinity in the hearts and minds of men and women.2
Augustine on History
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only words to appear on the banknotes would be
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hot-stamped holograms on banknotes.
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test banknotes underwent exhaustive laboratory
checks. For example, the banknot...
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all of reality is encompassed by the natural numbers.
Pythagoras’s metaphysical mathematics embodied an
aesthetic appreciation for beautiful arguments. Some of the
Pythagoreans’ lovely proofs are ... horizon? Aristotle’s eyes
said yes, but his astronomical theory said no. After gazing at
a waterfall, Aristotle saw the bank of a river apparently
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... PREDICAMENT
An individual, assumed to be the standard
exemplar of an invariant humanity, faces his world.
How can he think it, conceptualize it, comprehend
it? … In the end, the greatest classics ... the end, the greatest classics articulating
this vision will remain David Hume’s Treatise
of Human Nature and Kant’s three Critiques.
IAN HACKING (1975) ...