Tag: philosophy
group name: philiasophia
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February 28, 2007 12:48 PM EST --
Proposition: "Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses) is man's only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide . . . more
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November 16, 2006 01:02 PM EST --
We inquire as to the ontological grounds for asserting God as an entity within time and space. If we are to do this, we may—or may not—have sufficient reason to have God as an irreducible substance . . . more
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June 18, 2008 10:30 AM EDT --
"Sophists" is an Ancient Greek word for those who pursue wisdom, from the Greek sophos (wisdom). In philosophy it is applied to mainly to the ancient Greek teachers who wandered the country in . . . more
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May 02, 2008 09:18 AM EDT --
Socrates was a distinguished Greek philosopher. The son of a sculptor, and for some time followed that calling himself. He also spent time serving in the army.
Returning to Athens he devoted himself . . . more
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June 03, 2008 09:01 PM EDT --
At the age of 17 Aristotle joined Plato's Academy in Athens where he studied science and philosophy for 20 years. Shortly after Plato's death, Aristotle left the Academy and moved to Mytilene, . . . more
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March 18, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
A poem that feels like an expert
would need between the human tutor
and the generalized user driver
in one hand a glossary of embossed sensation
stroked by a digit of practised . . . more
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February 07, 2008 05:03 PM EST --
Can you tell your life story in six words? Here's mine:
Get a life! Yeah? What kind?
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October 08, 2006 04:44 PM EDT --
In his book, Primary Philosophy, Michael Scriven states that the equality principle (that "everyone has equal rights with you in moral matters until they prove otherwise") is the only principle . . . more
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March 10, 2007 10:44 PM EST --
"Accede gracefully to the inevitable." This is my motto. It is expressed at greater length in the Serenity Prayer:
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage . . . more
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April 06, 2007 01:40 PM EDT --
Faith is an internal desire motivating a person to accept certain propositions independent of the evidence supporting or denying the same. As a “basis or motive for action, decision, or conviction,” . . . more
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August 04, 2008 06:21 AM EDT --
Anaxagoras was an early Greek philosopher. He argued that change in matter does not occur, even though it appears to.
Anaxagoras assumed that all things are made up of an immense number of tiny "seeds" . . . more
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August 16, 2006 05:51 PM EDT --
As mentioned in my previous article, "What is the Essence of Life?", coded information that replicates is that essence. That is, the code must exist under conditions that allow indefinite replication. . . . more
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October 26, 2007 04:41 PM EDT --
Clive Thompson has a good piece in the latest issue of Wired magazine about the language of science. In it he points out that when a scientist refers to something as a theory he means it's absolutely . . . more
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December 01, 2005 10:55 PM EST --
Having been a photographer since the early eighties, I have made thousands of photographs of nearly every kind. These kinds of images include journalism, advertising, fashion, industrial, illustration, . . . more
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June 17, 2008 08:58 AM EDT --
Diogenes came to Athens with his father as an exile from his native city in the Black Sea region. Once in Athens, Diogenes studies philosophy. He developed his own ideas about how life should be conducted. . . . more
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July 24, 2008 07:55 PM EDT --
Anaximander was a Greek philosopher. Like other early Greek philosophers, he believed that all things come from one underlying substance. He called this substance the indefinite , probably to distinguish . . . more
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March 21, 2007 03:10 PM EDT --
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm
THOUGHT I WOULD RAISE A FEW PULSES AND MAYBE PROVOKE A FEW THOUGHTS...
Parallels between Jesus and Horus, an Egyptian GodQuotations:
"The . . . more
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April 06, 2007 11:26 AM EDT --
Shared Suspicion of Language Belies Two Views of Truth:
Confucius and Lao Tzu on language, truth, and justice
COMPARE:
“THE MASTER SAID, ‘IN ANTIQUITY . . . more
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November 19, 2007 10:26 AM EST --
H ere are two words you don't often see together: turkey and extraordinary. Nevertheless, about six Thanksgivings ago I enjoyed one of the best turkeys I've ever eaten. It was at my brother's . . . more
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April 16, 2007 09:14 AM EDT --
Most of what you've heard, read or been told about the End Times is wrong. We have come to accept a wide range of beliefs and teachings about the future, about the ultimate battle between good and . . . more
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