This article deals with Ibn Sīnā’s criticisms of Aristotle regarding what the place God should be in science metaphysics. From Aristotle’s point view, existence is proved by proof motion physics and held as a subject matter that comes after physics, which According to him, metaphysics most sublime because its matter. The striking criticism against conception was put forward Sīnā. important prob...

This work argues that partition semantics can be extended to cover whyquestions and their answers, and then develops such an extension. Building on Jeroen Groenendijk’s Logic of Interrogation and incorporating a theory of why-questions initially put forward by Bas van Fraassen, it provides a unified notion of contextual answerhood for both why-questions and constituent questions. Non-constructi...

the topic of how cost-effectiveness information informs priority setting in healthcare remains important to both policy and practice. this commentary considers the study carried out by eckard and colleagues in sweden. in it we distinguish between the conditions at national and local levels and put forward some recommendations for research into local priority setting in particular.

The persistent vegetative state (PVS) is one of the most iconic and misunderstood phrases in clinical neuroscience. Coined as a diagnostic category by Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and American neurologist Fred Plum in 1972, the phrase "vegetative" first appeared in Aristotle's treatise On the Soul (circa mid-fourth century BCE). Aristotle influenced neuroscientists of the nineteenth and ...