... Berkeley.
And finally, I would like to express my gratitude to Larry Cohen and Clay
Morgan of The MIT Press for the welcoming home they provided the idea that
became this book.
The Love of Nature and the ... common love of the land, of the same
mountain and river, the same fields, the same prevailing wind and the sun and
the stars rising and...
... its treatment of artifact talk in biology, in terms
of the constitution of organic nature and the processes of survival and
reproduction, is an explanation of the use of language admittedly laden
with ... well versed
in the theory in question the intuitions of biologists and well-informed
philosophers of biology—could be essential to recovering the role of...
... excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of
the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world
out of hatred for the other? He sacrifices the very existence of hu-
manity ... signifier And what if this is the fundamental mes-
sage of monotheism—not the reduction of the Other to the One,
but, on the contrary, the acceptance...
... critical
theorists deconstruct the actions of the avant-garde not as radical breaks, but as part of
the cultural and economic structure of the art world. They point out the function of these
gestures ... precisely expressed in the language of mathematics); and the continu-
ous testing and refinement of hypotheses.
The underlying assumptions of the scienti...
... cord. The
dendrites and soma (cell body) constitute the ma-
jor part of the input surface of the neuron. The
axon is the “output line.” The tips of the branches
of the axon form synapses upon other ... cross-references to other articles in the Handbook. These may occur
either in the body of the article in the form T
HE
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ITLE OF THE
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... about the nature of reality, for
example concerning the existence of the external world,
other minds, and God.
Chapter 5 shows the relevance of coherence to philo-
1 Coherence in Philosophy and ... activation of all the units in parallel. The
updated activation of unit is calculated on the basis of its
current activation, the weights on links to other units...
... upon all of the evil in the world
mixed with all the good in the world, the thought of a perfect
God, all-powerful and perfectly benevolent, would never
suggest itself. The reasonable hypothesis ... on there. I have the sensation of pain.
The question is not whether their visual sensations and my
pain sensation are sensations of the same thing. It is rather
wh...
... cat on the housesill, the chickadee, the
prarie-dog,
The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,
The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings,
I see in them and myself ... possible!
C) For the investigation of nature, the method of empirical science is superior
to any other.
D) Nature (the world, the universe, the real) is,...
... communication. The World Wide Web had just 50 pages
in 1993; by the end of the decade there were 50 million.
6
The number
of Internet users went from 25 million in 1995 to 400 million by the end
of 2000. The ... better understand-
ing of your own assumptions and arguments. Moreover, if you then
decide to reject the arguments of others, you will do so with a gen...