The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European Part 7 doc

... is dependent. The truth of the house lies in its conformity to the plan, and the truth of the passer-by’s idea of the house lies in its conformity to the house. In each case there is truth where there ... of other figures of the syllogism to the first uses the negated conclusion with one of the original premisses to yield a valid first-figure syllogism whose conclusi...

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... stable dispositions to feel and to act at the right time, towards the right people, etc. (this is Aristotle’s ‘doctrine of the *mean’). A virtuous character develops out of the reflective performance ... justified. Chisholm’s commitment to the second of these pre- suppositions caused him to devote a great deal of time to the ‘Gettier problem’. His commitment to the thi...

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... refers to the great Strasbourg clock of 15 47. In addition to showing the time and the day of the week, this clock had a marvellous series of moving forms, to represent Death, Christ, the planets, the ... and the gods that gave their names to the seven days of the week. The ‘gazing Country-man’ who only observes the ‘outward appearances’ of the clock has a very...

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... cover- age of philosophical topics: the Britannica (from 176 8 to the present), Brockhaus ( 179 6 to the present), Larousse (1866 to the present). The first works explicitly claiming to be encyclopaedias of ... (‘All things belong to the gods; the gods are friends to the wise; friends hold in com- mon what belongs to them; so all things belong to the Diogenes...

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... sense-data of the kind required by the theory can exist. They are usually supposed to be things that are exactly as they appear. Since their being just consists in their appearing to some mind they can ... Hales (c.1 178 –1245), the teacher of Bonaventure, who led the anti-Aristotelian movement in France, Robert Gros- seteste (c.1 175 –1 273 ), the first major Oxford philosophe...

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... ones. The esoteric works were intended for more advanced pupils. Their obscurity gave rise to the story that they concealed Aristotle’s true doctrines, which were a secret to be revealed only to ... to me just now. If this last were true, we are thrown back to two questions. The first is whether, and how, the belief about how things seem to me just now is justified. The se...

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... accepted the benefits that the other party conceived of your accepting the bene- fits as the first stage of an exchange, then you are not required to pay up, since you didn’t actually agree to the exchange. ... chiefly with the name of Karl Marx, who gave the name ‘rate of exploitation’ to the ratio of the labour time in which the worker produces the capitalist’s surpl...

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... certain way, the meaning of a sentence can be given by stating the conditions the world has to meet for things to be as the sentence says they are. These are *truth- conditions. To give the meaning ... rational support. The maxim *credo quia absurdum est encapsulates the former view; the slogan *credo ut intelligam epitomizes the latter. There being no reason to pref...

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... interpreted. Thinkers turn to the great philoso- phers of the past—in particular Plato and Aristotle—for inspiration. A halt is called to the conflict between Platon- ists and Aristotelians that had prevailed ... from the Christian creed. Parallel with this, he endeavours to assimilate the scientific findings of his time and to synthesize them into a unified theory of the co...

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... begins. The outcome of the conflict is the transformation of the relations of production to bring them into line with the productive powers so as to facilitate the further expansion of these powers. ... conformed to the same logical model as those characteristic of other domains of empirical inquiry. None the less, the original claims made on behalf of the autonomy...

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