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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Material Constitution"”.
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The Theoretical Usefulness of Pluralistic Constitution Theory
In this paper, I argue that pluralism about material constitution (i.e., holding that the relata of constitution can be non-identical) is a theoretically useful notion. First, I propose a principle whose denial is sufficient and, to my knowledge, necessary for pluralism to be true. Then I formulate …
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The wear of materials in an ash conditioner
… power stations results in unacceptable material and maintenance costs in ash-water mixing plant. Wear testing has been carried out in situ using a variety of generic materials. A ranking order of wear performance has been established both as a function of material and operating costs, …
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The unity of action: reviving a neo-Aristotelian case for hylomorphism
… of human action using Aristotle’s theory of material constitution. According to these neo-Aristotelian accounts, material objects serve as the paradigm cases for analysing the concept of action. As composites of matter and form, material objects—and, in particular, biological …
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Celebratory Insurgency. The Art of Peripheral City-Making
… remains a paucity of studies on the social and material dynamics through which specific cultural initiatives shape specific neighborhoods, especially in smaller cities in Latin America. Through the story of Santa Cecilia—a community-led music school situated in a settlement in southern Mexico’s …
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Daring Trade: An Archaeology of the Slave Trade in Late-Seventeenth Century Panama (1663-1674)
… written sources in order to examine the material constitution of European slave traders' social life in the last years of existence of the Spanish colonial city of Panama, burnt down to the ashes following a piratic attack in 1671. It is based on the well-established and widely recognized …
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Matron, Ruin and New Mineral: A Thesis of Iconic Materiality
… of Architecture. These gestures confront the materiality of Architecture to reveal the imprints beyond what makes the material exist according to the law of its nature, the imprints that reveal the material as an imprint for the human desire, the human will, and the human wish, for the …