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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"The Cave"”.
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Socrates' Simile of the Cave
… understood as trying to find a master key to the world of Being, which is distinct from the world of appearances. His question is taken to be a request for a universal definition, which holds the key. However, the notions like "the other world" or "the universal definition" are highly …
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The Sophist In The Cave: Education Through Names In Plato's Republic
<p>The Cratylus is often considered an isolated dialogue in Plato’s corpus, and the major theses of the Cratylus are often seen as disposable and problematic elements in Platonic thought. When one carefully compares this dialogue, however, to Plato’s comments elsewhere about rhetoric and dialectic, …
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Light in the Cave: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature of Suhrawardī’s Illuminationist Philosophy
Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī (d. 1191), founder of the Islamic Illuminationist tradition, is one of the most controversial and misunderstood Arabic philosophers. Corbin cultivates Suhrawardī as a mystic who revived ancient Persian wisdom; Gutas reads him as a follower of Avicenna (d. 1037); scholars …
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Imani: Amplifying Whispers From the Cave. A Vision of Community in the Twenty-First Century
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998.
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In the Mouth of the Cave: Subterranean Site-Specific Writing Practices in Britain from William Wordsworth to Katrina Palmer
Visual art’s departure from the white cube in the mid-twentieth century precipitated what Lucy Lippard declares the ‘dematerialization’ of sculpture at the same moment poetic practices begin to query language as a situated medium. As sculpture becomes increasingly engaged with the absence of its …
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Musical perspectives on the Binding of Isaac story in the 20th century: Aharon Harlap and Menachem Zur's Akedat Ytzchak and Steve Reich's The Cave
Genesis 22 is among the most ideologically evasive stories in the Bible. Abraham is prepared to murder his favorite son to show his devotion to God. We, the audience, are left with questions about the disposition of God, the morals of Abraham, and the nature of faith. This dissertation will examine …
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Mathematical Modeling of Convective Heat Transfer in Mammoth Cave
<p>Around two centuries ago, changes were made to the entrances of Mammoth Cave and its passages. Today the Historic Entrance to Mammoth Cave is enlarged and the passage just beyond the entrance known as Houchins' Narrows has been cleared of rubble and filled with sediments. These enlargements have …
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Flow Reversal Events Increase the Abundance of Nontroglobitic Fish in the Subterranean Rivers of Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
Mammoth Cave National Park (MCNP) is home to the longest cave system in the World and is dissected by the Green River, one of the most speciose watersheds on the continent. Cave springs create a direct aquatic link between subterranean waterways and the Green River. The history of these …
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Improving design and manufacturing performance through advanced visualization
… is advancing at an impressive rate, and Raytheon is investing heavily in the technology to improve product performance and manufacturability. Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) has recently upgraded their visualization space, called a CAVE (Computer Aided Visualization Environment), to a state …
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Geoarchaeological Assessment of Horseshoe Cave (24RB1094, Rosebud County, Montana
Horseshoe Cave is located south of Ashland, Montana and at the northern end of the Powder River Basin. Its earliest documented human use and occupation dates to 2,000 years before the present. Evidence of that past use and occupation includes diagnostic bone and stone tools, hearth features and …
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Geoarchaeological Assessment of Horseshoe Cave (24RB1094, Rosebud County, Montana
Horseshoe Cave is located south of Ashland, Montana and at the northern end of the Powder River Basin. Its earliest documented human use and occupation dates to 2,000 years before the present. Evidence of that past use and occupation includes diagnostic bone and stone tools, hearth features and …
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Adaptive Tolerance to Ocean Acidification in the Marine Sponge: Chondrilla nucula
The dramatic increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide since the Industrial Revolution has led to a 30% increase in ocean acidification over pre-industrial levels. Although most ocean acidification research thus far has focused on calcifying organisms such as corals, the potential of this increase in …
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Cango Cave, Oudtshoorn District of the Cape Province, South Africa : an assessment of its development and management 1780-1992 : short title, Management problems at Cango Cave
… investigation has been previously made of the legal status, administration, history, management, finances, and conservation status of a show cave in South Africa. This study, using archival sources and field work, makes a thorough assessment of Cango Cave, a well-known show cave in the …
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Effects of Visual Displays on 3D Iteraction in Virtual Environments
In this thesis, we explore some of the effects of virtual environment displays, specifically the head-mounted display (HMD) and the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE), on 3D interaction tasks involving selection and manipulation. The motivation for this thesis comes from the lack of previous …
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ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΟΠΑΝΙΔΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ ΣΠΟΝΔΥΛΩΤΩΝ (CARNIVORA, PERISSODACTYLA, ARTIODACTYLA) ΤΟΥ ΣΠΗΛΑΙΟΥ ΤΩΝ ΠΕΤΡΑΛΩΝΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΧΑΛΚΙΔΙΚΗΣ
… ANIMAL BONES AND BONE-FRAGMENTS FROM PETRALONA CAVE HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AND ANALYSED. SKULLS, HORNS, TEETH AND POSTCRANIAL SKELETON FROM LARGE MAMMALS HAVE BEEN STUDIED TO THE PRESENT PAPER. THE STUDY OF THE FOLLOWING FAMILIES: URSIDAE, CANIDAE, HYAENIDAE, FELIDAE, EQUIDAE, RHINOCEROTIDAE, …
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Riding a broomstick out of Plato’s cave: Elements of Plato found in J.K. Rowling’s <i>Harry Potter</i> series
… has become a cultural phenomenon. An analysis of the <em>Harry Potter</em> series reveals that underneath the phenomenon status there is great depth. This paper looks at aspects of the novels that mirror elements found in Plato’s <em>The Republic</em>, specifically his allegory of the cave in Book …
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What Freedom Needs: Democracy and Philosophy in Plato's Republic
… an interpretation that, instead, argues that the Republic defends democracy in an important sense. My thesis is that, although offering serious criticisms of democracy and condemning the democratic soul for its appetitive indulgence, the Republic nonetheless locates in democracy the unique …
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Characterization of a black coating overlying rock paintings found in Little Lost River Cave, Idaho using THM-GC-MS
… rock paintings found within Little Lost Rive Cave, Idaho. A calibrated radiocarbon date of 1390-1040 B.C. was obtained by Steelman et al.1 However, this relies on the assumption that the black coating was formed by some human activity. For further characterization and to verify that the …
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The Effects of Land Use on Tumbling Creek Cave in Taney County, Missouri
This study examined the effect of current and historical land use on water quality. The study site is composed of Tumbling Creek Cave, the recharge area of the cave system, and surface streams linked to the cave system. This cave is of specific interest because of the karst nature of the area and …
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Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Small Mammals in South West Britain: Environmental and Taphonomic Implications, and their role in Archaeological Research
This project examines small mammal faunas from cave sites in south-west England and south Wales. The aims are threefold:<br/>- To examine the rapid environmental changes taking place in the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene:<br/>- To understand the processes by which small mammal remains were …
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