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...Laws. The next article in this series analyses the Laws from a few vantage points: philosophy, artificial intelligence and some systems theories. ... ...e crown of creation with complete dominion over nature and the right to exploit its resources unreservedly. Similar, veiled, sentiments can be found... ...ul course of action. Utilitarians regard nature as a set of exhaustible and scarce resources and deal with their optimal allocation from a human po... ...ch as "sustainable development". Even the costs of replacing or repairing depleted resources and natural assets are difficult to determine. Effort... ...concept of observer is disputable – as modern physics, on the one hand and Eastern philosophy, on the other hand, have shown. Imagine that a mad ... ...ddle-class type. He is too late so save his Jewish friend, though (a not so veiled reference to the Holocaust). This is how Americans view themselv... ...t the mind itself. Intersubjectivity is defined thus by "The Oxford Companion to Philosophy"(1995): "(Intersubjectivity) refers to the status of ... ...ci-fi movie we tend to accept all of them as inescapable. They amount to a frame of reference and to a language without which we seem to be unable t...

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... my reasoning clear? If I take the vision of mankind that I believe in as a reference point, I can decide what Good is and what Evil is in every mome... ...at is pathological, again using our definition of humanity as our point of reference. Everything that causes violence to a human being, that keeps... ...you would see them and here you wouldn’t; you didn’t have a right frame of reference because in the city they are hidden away. COMMENT: I think th... ...situation is on a social and individual level, and then ask ourselves what resources we have available. It’s true that we are slaves of psychological... ...rue that we are slaves of psychological imperialism, but we also have many resources within us: we have will power and we have the power to love. At... ...we have the power to love. At this point, we must ask ourselves: can these resources help us overcome this difficult situation? My answer is that we... ...sonal and Cosmic SELF and not to God, to that God that has been created by philosophy and theology, in other words by other men like you and me. ...

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...ache himself finds out - in his play Antique Tragedy - paradoxes in the Greek philosophy, without fear or other resentments. The debate among the thr... ... it somehow limits the aprioric orientation of the reader within the field of reference), Titu Popescu synthesized that period with the inspired syn... ...m the affiliation to logic or aesthetics of this notion -”an old structure in philosophy and a matter of study in logic”(Titu Popescu), Smarandache ... ...beauty behalf, that could be framed within the general-positive principles of philosophy. The absolute reached by Smarandache belongs to the postmode... ... certain stabilization of the movement. It is not about an “exhaustion of the resources”(Constantin M. Popa), of course, but a true victory of the p... ... As in counterpoise with the construction of a fictious world that has its own reference, today man is talking about the abolishment of the reality (... ...he reality is present as a permanent obsession; from it he takes his creative resources. The irony and the parody have at him an intrisec, constructi...

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...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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.... But it is not clear whether it has a right to go on using the mother's body, or resources, or to burden her in any way in order to sustain its o... ...one have the right to use other people's bodies, their property, their time, their resources and to deprive them of pleasure, comfort, material pos... ...tain, or prolong them at SOCIETY's expense (no matter how major and significant the resources required are). Still, if a contract has been signed -... ...ssive, coercive, or bureaucratic." (Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) A... ...ed: Natural Selection IS the vital power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as ... ...onse in his viewers/readers/listeners, he is deemed successful. Every artist has a reference group, his audience. They could be alive or dead (for ... ...esentation from his original experience. Art criticism is impossible. Granted, his reference group (his audience, however limited, whether among th... ...pacity to pass judgement is, therefore, in great doubt. On the other hand, only the reference group, only the audience can aptly judge the represent... ...ors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for inst...

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...following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English scholars, there are few sources of information available to the student who wishes to make himself familiar wi...

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...ent times, especially, one may say, since the date of Herbart. There is much in the writings of Sextus that finds a parallel in the methods of modern philosophy. There is a common starting-point in the study of the power and limitations of human thought. There is a common desire to investigate the phenomena of sense-perception, and the genetic relations of man to the lower...

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...The Ninth Trope.—The Tenth Trope.—The five Tropes of Agrippa.—The two Tropes.—The Tropes of Aenesidemus against Aetiology.. 31 -- Aenesidemus And The Philosophy Of Heraclitus-Statement of the problem.—The theory of Pappenheim.—The theory of Brochard.—Zeller's theory.—The theory of Ritter and Saisset.—The theory of Hirzel and Natorp.—Critical examination of the subject.. 63...

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...RICUS AND GREEK SCEPTICISM A Thesis accepted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY ... ...red to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaus... ...its historical development and the Scepticism of the Academy, with critical references to the French and German works existing on the subject. The ti... ...of the paragraphs are the same as those given by both Fabricius and Bekker. References to Diogenes Laertius and other ancient works have been carefu... ...r, Philosophie der Griechen, III. Auf., Leipzig, 1879—89. Lewes, History of Philosophy, Vol. I., London, 1866. Ueberweg, History of Philosophy, IV. ... ... without doubt that Sextus belonged to the Empirical School. [1] His other references are too strong to allow his fidelity to it to be doubted. He i... ...e it treats of unseen things. The second Trope states that although abundant resources exist by which to investigate the cause of a thing in question...

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...order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”. It was an inspired connection he made between literature/arts and science, philosophy....

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...Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations....

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... by Charles T. Le: 3 0. Introduction: 9 1. Neutrosophy - a new branch of philosophy: 13 2. Neutrosophic Logic - a unifying field in logics: 87 3.... ...nter Florentin Smarandache, especially because the treated subject was of philosophy - revealing paradoxes - and logics. He had generalized the fu... ...osophic statistics” and thus opening new ways of research in four fields: philosophy, logics, set theory, and probability/statistics. It was known t... ...f falsity is 0. That’s why it’s interesting to study the neutrosophics. References: [1] Howe, Denis, editor, “The Free Online Dictionary of Comput... ...for encouragement and invitation to write this and the following papers. References: [1] Loeb, Peter A.(ed.); Wolff, Manfred (ed.). “Nonstandard an... ...ks, various citations, aphorisms, some of them in a poetical form. (Main references are listed after several individual fragments.) It also introd... ...proof construction from intuitionistic logic. Assumptions are considered resources, and conclusions as requirements; A implies B means that the res... ...re intelligence means working and adopting with insufficient knowledge and resources. The inference mechanism (endowed with rules of transformation o...

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...ound, they might paint me! They were encourag, ing people to use whatever resources they have to beautify their world. Rozzell once said to me: "Wh... ...t." At that meeting on my first visit to St. Elmo, we were applying that philosophy by saving the cluster of ten houses that comprised St. Elmo Vil... ...ke control. It's been said we are what we eat. We are also what we think. References to the power of THE POWER IN YOU 146> the mind can be found e... ...the light bulb. Enthusiasm must have been the foundation of Henry Ford's philosophy that says: "Failure is not failure but the opportunity to begin... ...nk in terms of problems because the word problem carries with it a whole philosophy of defeat. We have come to believe THE POWER IN WORDS there m...

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... agreement. So I have substituted the word "(Nameless)" for the forbidden reference. I hope you will forgive and understand this substitution. I hav... ...pro­ moted to substitute secretary. In my new position, I again shared my resources before I was asked. If I saw that something needed attention, I ... ...I learned that service to others would bring the best to my own life. My philosophy evolved into one of production, promotion and service. I was se... ... with a dream. Prayer and visualization call up your limit­ less spiritual resources to move you towards your vision. An unlimited power to create li... ... discover it to be a well of good fortune in our lives. My experience and philosophy is that everything works out to enhance our lives, even if the ... ...ita­ ble involvement can never be lost. I have also committed my time and resources to a dropout prevention program, called Cities in Schools, that ... ...s Spunkrneyer, and their children. The owners had asked me to present my philosophy and experiences at an annual banquet they held for Otis Spunkrn...

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...he four fundamental forces that make up the history of humanity, Religion, Philosophy, Science and Art, in a single field of energy. This attempt c... ...– The I and history, both modern and ancient. The I and science, the I and philosophy, the I and religion, the I and art. The I and the West. The I a... ...ize the opus of our lives, not through alchemy or asceticism, sainthood or philosophy, but by transferring the principles of art to life itself and b... ...omplex; c) maintain the complexity of the human phenomenon as a constant reference point, and thus have a guide that is based on fact and not on u... ...omplex; c) maintain the complexity of the human phenomenon as a constant reference point, and thus have a guide that is based on fact and not on u... ... the feeling of being lost, the solitude of a person who no longer has the reference point of someone above them, no longer knows what is good and e... ...tify to the existence of humanity’s spiritual dimension and to the immense resources that it contains. This is a precious element, which can help hu... ...dating not the goods in Ulysses’ home but the planet earth’s most precious resources, and we have no intention to invert our mad race towards our own...

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... series of intricate and intertwined mechanisms: The Malthusian Mechanism Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in th... ...d: Natural Selection IS the vital power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as ... ...type invariably develop at different rates, thus preventing an all-out scramble for resources and maladaptive changes. This is known as "mosaic ev... .... It is reminiscent of the "invisible hand of the market" that allegedly allocates resources optimally among various players and agents. Martin Now... ... group) and, therefore, is external. Existence is bestowed by changing the frame of reference (from individual to group). But this is precisely how... ...t this is precisely how we attribute meaning to something!!! We change our frame of reference and meaning emerges. The death of the soldier is meani... ...e church are meaningful from the point of view of God. By shifting among frames of reference, we elicit and extract and derive meaning. If we bes... ...ent view of the scientific endeavor competes with a more modest, semantic school of philosophy of science. Many theories - especially ones with bre... ...dvantage, to tackle questions that once were the exclusive preserve of religion or philosophy. The scientific method is ill-built to cope with such...

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...rstanding ahead of time. The unexpected help is an expression of the deep resources of human beings, resources that we often do not utilize. U... ...ly by proposing what others dare not to do is a good way to get the hidden resources in human beings to jump to life and help us leap towards impossi... ...he age of one. (Od. I, 293-297) Athena’s strongest argument is made in reference to Orestes. Just as he killed his father’s assassin, Telemachus... ...those who praise you in future generations. (Od. I, 298-302) This last reference is very important for our purposes, because it is the central t...

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... said of one of his own writings, more than the author himself knew . For in philosophy as in prophecy glimpses of the fu ture may often be conveyed ... ...thagorean, Eleatic, or Megarian systems, and ‘t he old quarrel of poetry and philosophy’has at least a superficial reconcilement. (Rep.) An unknown pe... ...hese two customs—one the love of youth, the other the practice of virtue and philosophy— meet in one, then the lovers may lawfully unite. Nor is there... ...of Pausanias); like his fa ther he is bold and strong, and full of arts and resources. Further, he is in a mean between ig norance and knowledge:—in... ...spicion which hangs over other writings of Xenophon, and the numerous minute references to the Phaedrus and Symposium, as well as to some of the other... ...s weaving some intrigue or other , keen in the pursuit of wisdom, fertile in resources; a philosopher at all times, terrible as an enchanter, sorcerer...

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...tempt made to interweave life and speculation, or to connect politics with philosophy. The Republic is the centre around which the other Dialogues may... ...public is the centre around which the other Dialogues may be grouped; here philosophy reaches the highest point to which ancient thinkers ever attaine... ...to. The 3 greatest of all logical truths, and the one of which writers on philosophy are most apt to lose sight, the difference be tween words and t... ...same pursuits. Very true, he said. Next, we shall ask our opponent how, in reference to any of the pursuits or arts of civic life, the nature of a wo... ...ggle; in true oligarchical fashion he fights with a small part only of his resources, and the result commonly is that he loses the prize and saves his...

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... though this is a fact which is not generally known); and the soul of their philosophy is brevity, which was also the style of primitive antiquity an... ...perfect piece of art. There are dramatic contrasts and interests, threads of philosophy broken and resumed, satirical reflec tions on mankind, veils ... ... described as the true philosophers, and Laconic brevity as the true form of philosophy, evidently with an allusion to Protagoras’ long speeches. (3) ... ...ason for the introduction of, unless you suppose him to speak with a hostile reference to the words of Pittacus. Pittacus is saying ‘Hard is it to be ... ... always bad. So that when the force of circumstances over powers the man of resources and skill and virtue, then he cannot help being bad. And you, P... ...n the knowledge of when a man ought to choose the greater or less, either in reference to themselves or to each other, and whether near or at a distan...

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...d, not with the original Sophist, but with the soph- istry of the schools of philosophy , which are mak- ing reasoning impossible; and is driven by th... ...onscious of the realities of human life. Yet the ideal glory of the Platonic philosophy is not 4 Statesman extinguished. He is still looking for a ci... ...ut a name. The dramatic character is so completely forgotten, that a special reference is twice made to discussions in the Sophist; and this, perhaps,... ...er but with the animals, they had em- ployed these advantages with a view to philosophy , gathering from every nature some addition to their store of ... ...two arts of measuring—one is concerned with relative size, and the other has reference to a mean or standard of what is meet. The difference between g... ...mythology and figures of speech. And we observe that while employing all the resources of a writer of fiction to give credibility to his tales, he is ... ...ge, whether he happens to be a ruler or a private man, when regarded only in reference to his art, be truly called ‘royal’? YOUNG SOCRATES: He certain...

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... which men can acquire of women, even as they have been and are, with out reference to what they might be, is wretchedly imperfect and superficial, a... ...nk these shadows the proper objects of the highest, the most transcendant, philosophy. Hardly anything can be of greater value to a man of theory and ... ...nsider, can collect additional evidence; he is not obliged to complete his philosophy at once, lest the opportunity should go by. The power of drawing... ...e best conclusion possible from insufficient data is not indeed useless in philosophy; the construction of a provisional hypothesis consistent with al... ...nditions both of individual prosperity and of social virtue— this waste of resources and of be nevolent feelings in doing harm instead of good, is im... ...warted vocations, and activities which are not suffered to expand—the only resources, speaking generally, are religion and charity. But their religion...

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...eadth at the widest part, painted green below, with a border of blue, with reference to the two elements in which it was to spend its existence. It ha... ...heir floating there was a beautiful and successful ex periment in natural philosophy, and it served to ennoble in our eyes the art of navigation; for... .... The matutine intellect of the poet, keeping in ad vance of the glare of philosophy, always dwells in this au roral atmosphere. As we said before, ... ...nipiseogee, one of the head waters of this river. It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be re minded of these shoals of migratory fishes, ... ...e from them, and the flight of the crow and the gyrations of the hawk have reference to their roofs. Still the ever rich and fertile shores accompanie... ...ersons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources. No matter what imprudent haste in my career; I am permitted to b... ...childhood, and had accustomed myself to look at objects, as they did, with reference to art.” And this was his practice to the last. He was even too ...

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... very strangely—” Her jaw dropped. She was silent. Mr. Beebe, whose social resources were endless, went out to order some tea, and she continued to Lu... ...lergyman, praised his liberal-mindedness, his enlightened attitude towards philosophy and science. “Where are the others?” said Mr. Beebe at last, “I ... ...she would pay the rent in advance. As if one cares about that! And several references I took up were most unsatisfactory—people swindlers, or not resp... ... a chance of scoring off Sir Harry!’ and I took their address and a London reference, found they weren’t actual blackguards—it was great sport—and wro... ...” “I say, what about this bathe?” murmured Freddy, appalled at the mass of philosophy that was ap- proaching him. “I believed in a return to Nature on... ... time the voice of old Mr. Emerson pursued them dispensing good wishes and philosophy. It ceased, and they only heard the fair wind blowing the bracke...

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...ts a definite plan for the betterment of that particular family out of the resources that they have. Such a student, if he be bright, will profit more... ...he country. Education is not a thing apart from life—not a “system,” nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work. To say that ... ... later into the night. Most of the verses of the plantation songs had some reference to freedom. True, they had sung those same verses before, but the... ...r to allow the laying of the foundations. When we seemed at the end of our resources, so far as securing money was concerned, something occurred which... ...is address at Madison I took the ground that the policy to be pursued with references to the races was, by every honourable means, to bring them toget... ...dress in full, and for months afterward there were complimentary editorial references to it. Mr. Clark Howell, 138 UP FROM SLAVERY the editor of the ...

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...th the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do. I did not, when a slave, understand the... ... possessed all the disposition to deceive, but wanted the power. Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and b... ...to apply to the —slaveholding religion— of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this lan...