The modern revolution in physics

... tell something is going on by the way it interacts with other objects in its environment. In the same way, we can tell from the way electrons interact with other things that they have an intrinsic spin ... nothing to do with whether the electron is moving or not, and it does not come from any internal motion within the electron. Nobody has ever succeeded in finding any internal...

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 14:32

... and the next are specifically about Einstein’s theory of relativity, but Einstein also began a second, parallel revolution in physics known as the quantum theory, which stated, among other things, ... twin is not moving at all. It would then seem that the twin on earth is the one whose biological clock should tick more slowly, not the one on the spaceship. The flaw in t...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 16:53

... remembering, recognising, understanding, learning, proving, explaining, communicating, referring, describing, interpreting, imagining, creating, deliberating, choosing, acting, testing, verifying, and so ... can be changed in many ways. The invention of painting and drawing permitted new thoughts in the processes of creating and interpreting pictures. The invention of speaking and w...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20

... us of what they are intuitions; we make theminto intuitions of something, into representations by actively combining them according to the rules of judgment, of conceptual representation in general. ... the themes of “freedom” and the “thinking for oneself ” were indeed motivating the Critique, one could nonetheless excuse any reader who found themsomewhat hard to find in its openi...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... having his rights independently of whether others would actually grant him those rights or be sympathetic to his having them). Indeed, the most striking thing about Kant’s thesis was that there ... philosophy Kant thought the key to answering these questions lay in the prac- tical necessity for assuming that we are free. The independence of the normative from the factual in t...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... imagination and intellect (der Verstand, the understanding”) are in free play with each other – free in the sense that their interaction with each other is not constrained by any rule. When the ... might have the concept of a “rose” and then judge whether the flower we are observing is indeed a rose – is indeed an “instance” or “instantiation” of the more general concept.) In...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

. ceremony in the late afternoon, Soekarno was interred in a simple grave beside his mother in the Karang Mulyo general cemetery in the Bendogerit ward on the. barely distinguishable from the other graves. 9 The only sign that a distinguished person was buried there was the parasol shading the grave, an unintentional

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 09:20

... the science of gynecology around the world. An analysis of the origins of medical development in the South provides another locus in the larger discourse of colonial medicine in the late nineteenth ... discoveries, including the invention the Sims Speculum and the Sims Position, and the use of silver sutures to prevent internal infections. These innovations eventu...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20