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...It was known to me his setting up in 1980’s of a new literary and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”. It was an inspired connecti...

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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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...ying field in sets: 112 4. Neutrosophic Probability - a generalization of classical and imprecise probabilities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 116 ... ... in sets: 112 4. Neutrosophic Probability - a generalization of classical and imprecise probabilities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 116 5. Addenda... ...: Definitions derived from Neutrosophics: 120 2 Preface to Neutrosophy and Neutrosophic Logic by Charles T. Le 1 Introduction. It was a surpris... ...m. 2.1. Definition: PARADOXISM is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomie... ...aradoxes to paradoxism was documentarily described by Titu Popescu in his classical book concerning the movement: "Paradoxism's Aesthetics" (1994). ... ...untry. I started from politic, social, and immediately got to literature, art, and philosophy, even science. Through experiments one brings new lite... ...ower countries deliberately ignore the arts, literature, science, culture, traditions of third world countries. More, they even boycott, scorn them..... ...e but commerce and money". His attack against luxury: "those artists and musicians pursuing luxury are lowering their genius to the mediocre level ... ...s and inspire ideas. c) Sonorous Philosophy: a symphony melody, the jazz music, a sound, any noise are all ideas, or inspire ideas - because they d...

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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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... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ... – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining ... ... far future, research will unequivocally prove that listening to a certain kind of music or entertaining certain thoughts seriously hampers the emb... ... Yet, globalization, technology, (and capitalism) are as much in opposition to the classical, hermetic nation-state as is philosophical anarchism. ... ...fervent anti-Semites. Jews are not so much a race as a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, history and language. An... ... the will is there it can be done. The alternative is too horrible to contemplate. Art (as Private Language) The psychophysical problem is long sta... ... himself against past artists). They could be few or many, but they must exist for art, in its fullest sense, to exist. Modern theories of art spea... .... Space is a yarn. Einstein was the last classicist (relativity just means that no classical observer has any preference over another in formulatin... ...olution: the virtual collaborative ("Follow the Sun") modes. Examples: A group of musicians is able to compose music or play it - while spatially ...

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...erpreters as to which of the various subjects discussed in them is the main thesis. The speakers have the freedom of conversation; no severe rules of art restrict them, and sometimes we are inclined to think, with one of the dramatis personae in the Theaetetus, that the digressions have the greater interest....

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, h...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All ...

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...Excerpt: It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A m...

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