منابع مشابه
Understanding what was said
On the most prominent account, understanding what was said is propositional knowledge of what was said. I defend an alternative on which understanding is a distinctive form of engagement with what was said. The knowledge account has been supported by its capacity to explain testimonial knowledge transmission. I argue that my account provides a superior explanation.
متن کاملWhat Is (Was) Alchemy?∗
A serious scientific journal seems to be the wrong place for a paper on alchemy. However, we believe that the history of science includes knowledge of the complex relations between specific scientific disciplines and what is called the “world-view” (Weltanschauung): the image of the world corresponding to a given stage of cultural development. The world-view, born of the “marriage” of Aristotle...
متن کاملWas what ail'd ya what kill'd ya?
Making use of those Union Army veterans for whom death certificates are available, we compare the conditions with which they were diagnosed by Civil War pension surgeons to the causes of death on the certificates. We divide the data between those veterans who entered the pension system early because of war injuries and those who entered the pension system after the 1890 reform that made it avai...
متن کاملWhat Was Llull Up To?
In the histories of logic and of computer science which mention precursors and pioneers, we often find mention of Leibniz, the great l7th-century mathematician and philosopher, who was one of the first to try to build a mechanical calculator, and who tried to formulate a Mathesis universalis, a sort of scientific language which would permit any two disputants to settle their differences merely ...
متن کاملWas the Black Death yersinial plague?
Didier Raoult and Michel Drancourt argue that their recovery of DNAsequences specific to Yersinia pestis from skeletons believed to date from the mid-14th-century Black Death should put a stop to further “speculation” regarding the cause of the epidemic “unless our work is proved to be wrong.” There are several reasons to question the ancient DNA results reported for the Black Death pathogen by...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Literary History
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0896-7148,1468-4365
DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajy041