Introduction of The Works of Archimedes

... captures the varia. There are generally speaking two types of issues involved: the shape of the figure, and the assignment of the letters. I try to discuss first the shape of the figure, starting from the ... representation of the pattern of configuration holding in the geometrical case studied. This pat- tern of configuration is what can be reliably “read” off t...

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... left blank The Works of ArchimedesArchimedes was the greatest scientist of antiquity and one of thegreatest of all time. This book is Volume I of the first fully fledgedtranslation of his works into ... contained> by the <lines> AB, B” (the morphology of the word the determines, in the original Greek, the iden-tity of the elided expressions, given...

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... meaning thereby just that they feel,see, think, reason and so forth. According to this view of thematter, the philosophy of mind is the philosophical study ofminded things just insofar as they are ... concep-tion of the whole of reality, we cannot hope to render compat-ible the theories and observations of the various differentsciences: and providing that conception is not...

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... possible. And the provision of just such a conception is one of the principal tasks of metaphysics. 3 The point of these remarks is to emphasise there cannot be progress either in the philosophy of mind ... concep- tion of the whole of reality, we cannot hope to render compat- ible the theories and observations of the various different sciences: and providing tha...

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... that these notions can then be used, without circularity, as the basis of a natur- alistic account of the origin of mental content. 16 The key idea here is to appeal to the biological theory of ... forget that the theory is also beset by other problems. The prob- lem of the specificity of content is one of these, which afflicts proposal (2) quite as much as proposal...

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... parts of those bodies, such as their brains. The other was the question of whether the mental states of persons, such as thoughts and feelings, are identical with certain physical states of their bodies, ... justice in the present book. An introduction to the philosophy of mind50 suitable pattern of causal relationships, as may the states of a bundle of human neu...

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... somehow, from the state of the sys- tem’s sensors, which in the case of the human visual system are the retinal surfaces of our eyes. At this level of abstrac- tion, then, we may describe the task ... experience. Indeed, neither of them really has any use for the notion of perceptual experience at all. Perhaps that will be a point in their favour as far as adherents...

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... were profoundly implicated in the more pressing conflicts of the age. The complex intersection of these two histories – the political turmoil of the 1790s and the broader hegemonic shift towards the ... an important part of the recent rise of interdisciplinary approaches has been the exploration of the historical evolution of the academic disciplines themsel...

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... suggests that it is the construction of the brain Why dream? The functions of brain activation in sleep itself that is one of the functions of brain activation in sleep. There is no reason ... sleep, as are the recurrent dreams of post-traumatic stress. Together with the arousal from NREM sleep, there is intense activation of the heart, the breath- ing rate in...

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