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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Pre-Socratics"”.
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Sense-making in theory and practice: a metatheoretical foundation and application for health information seeking
… and etymological heritage that dates back to the Pre-Socratics. After exploring sense-making’s Greek roots, I examine sense-making’s philosophical undercurrents found in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), where he also returns to the simplicity of the Greeks for his concept of sense. With …
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A cybernetic model for the unified explanation of human behavior
… to the materialistic theories of mind of the pre-Socratics. Despite its antiquity, however, mechanism has never gained undisputed ascendancy as a psychological model. The “mental” side of behavior, viz., sensations, cognitions, intentions, and so forth, have proven to be particularly resistant …
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The Tension between Art and Science in Historical Writing.
… differences.</p><p>Major similarities—narrative presentation, emplotation, and the selective nature of historical evidence—between history and fiction are critiqued. A word study of the Greek word ίστοριά will show the essential difference between history and literature. The essential nature of …
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Karl R. Popper lettore dei presocratici
Can we evaluate Popper's attention to Presocratics in a broader and varied interpretative framework than that claimed so far by the critics? This work provides arguments to support a general reconsideration of this research question, mainly through a study of the sources used by Popper in reading …
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The environment and natural rights
The argument advanced is this thesis is that the entities that make up the environment are those that do not owe their origin to any willful creative activity but have evolved through accidental natural processes. This fact of not being willfully created makes the environment ontologically …