The history of Western philosophy, at least as reflected in university curricula in the English-speaking world, is standardly divided into three major periods: ancient philosophy, early modern philosophy, and modern philosophy. Ancient philosophy is seen as inaugurated by Socrates, and the subsequent writings of Plato and Aristotle undoubtedly set much of the agenda for the development of Weste...

that directs and is the cause of everything.” [1] With moments to expire before Athens would execute him, Plato’s Socrates was exploring the meaning of a few lines by another philosopher. To the last minute of Socrates’ dramatic life, Plato has him making important criticism on vital literary texts. Textual criticism is found throughout Plato’s works, making it his main philosophical methodolog...

Sound symbolism is the term for a hypothesized systematic relationship between sound and meaning (Hinton, Nichols, & Ohala 1994). The idea that there might be a non-arbitrary relationship between the physical aspect of a speech signal and its meaning is quite an old idea, dating back at least to the time of Plato who, in his work Cratylus, had Socrates debating with two pupils the issue of whet...

When dealing with hierarchical systems that are selfreferential and display inter-level effects, the notion of causality must be reconceptualized in terms other than that of the billiard ball, collision conception that is the legacy of mechanism. Understanding all cause as collision like, and the explanatory ideal as deduction from deterministic laws, are part of a trend that has characterized ...

This research discusses the implementation of Socratic method in modern education. The purpose this is to improve critical thinking skills eighth grade students when they study Pythagorean content mathematics through use approach. technique one them. dialogue learning strategy based on idea that knowledge and higher-order can be developed collaborative question answer sessions between instructo...

A distributed graph processing system that provides locality control, indexing, graph query, and parallel processing capabilities is presented. Keywords—graph, distributed, semantic, query, analytics

Dalam matematika peserta didik akan lebih baik jika diajarkan proses berpikir. Sehingga tujuan dari pembelajaran dapat tercapai. Salah satu mempelajari yaitu berpikir kritis. Berpikir kritis terbentuk kemampuan dan disposisi. Disposisi sediri cara mengambil keputusan untuk menyelesaikan suatu permasalahan. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui karakteristik studi analisis disposisi matematis. Met...

A good deal of Donald Davidson's important and widely influential paper, `The Logical Form of Action Sentences',1 is taken up with demonstrating the failure of the Kenny-Chisholm-von Wright style 2 account of the syntax of agency to adequately cope with a varied collection of problems. The approach repudiated by Davidson enjoins partitioning an action-sentence into an agent, a state of affairs,...

Over the last decades a divide seems to have emerged in the cognitive sciences between embodied and symbolic approaches to language understanding. Embodied approaches argue that language comprehension requires activation of our experiences with the world, whereas symbolic approaches argue that language comprehension relies on interdependencies of words. The current paper argues that language co...