the god of metaphysics jun 2006
... in the Judaeo-Christian or Muslim way). Whether the God of one philosopher is the same individual as the God of some other philosopher, or of some theology, or some sacred book or other form of ... work, the Ethics, has five parts: 1. Concerning God; 2. Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind; 3. Concerning the Origin and Nature of the Emotions; 4. Of Human...
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the vicar of wakefield jun 2006
... of Parliament. Their evening debate on the subject of politics and the best form of social order is interrupted by the unexpected return of the gentleman who turns out to be the true master of ... voice throughout the novel itself. It is further typical of The Vicar of Wakefield that even the central title of the novel is deliberately misleading. How many of...
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... particular, whether the freedom of the will hinges on the effects of external forces, such as the divine, nature, history, or the passions. 4 With the aim of identifying the religious sig- nificance of contemporary ... virtue of the attraction of the consumma- tions but also in virtue of the kind of life and kind of subject that these desires properly belo...
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... a measurement of something, that is, the numerical value of some variable or other. It might be the temperature at a weather station, the speed of a gas molecule, or the height of a randomly- selected ... and there should be a large number of them. Note also that the distribution of the sum of a large number of a independent Gaussian variables is exactly Gaussian....
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a theory of political obligation membership commitment and the bonds of society jul 2006
... terms of a gradual widening of the extension of the term. What is important is not the proper use of a word, but rather the nature of, in a broad sense, a ‘thing’. Namely, an obligation of the ... that they are tied in a special way to their government While they complain loudly and often, and not without justification, of the short- comings of government, they feel...
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words and thoughts subsentences ellipsis and the philosophy of language oct 2006
... SOME BACKGROUND Introduction 21 genuine there is an important gap between the meaning of the things used in the act and the nature and content of the act itself. The issue of the truth of P2, i.e. what implications ... important for the larger lessons of the book, even when they are not essential to the point at hand. One result of these competing forces is tha...
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the origin of speech jun 2008
... new species. Hence the Wrst part of the original title of Darwin’s book: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). In broad compass, the sequence of events in the histor y of life forms ... regard, then, the body inXuenced the evolution of the structure of the mind. This contention perhaps becomes more plausible if we note both the Wnal...
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the cradle of language jun 2009
... ages close to the limit of the method. Furthermore, when dates obtained with other methods are available they often diV er from the 14 C dates and from each other. At present, the most parsimonious ... phenomena. On the basis of what body of theory, then, might archeologists (e.g. Henshilwood et al. 2004) connect them with language? Why does the wearing of pierced shells s...
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