the suppression of color is a common mood in the far eastern aesthetic experience, which is best represented by the brush-ink chinese painting. influenced by the taoist and confucian philosophical doctrines, it reflects the traditional principles of loneliness, poverty, and simplicity. visualizing the chinese traditional dualism, the black and white system goes beyond an artistic style and rese...

Lack of consideration of the complex European scientific scene from the late 18th century to the mid-decades of the 19th century has produced partial and often biased reconstructions of priorities, worries, implicit and explicit philosophical and at times political agendas characterizing the early debates on species. It is the purpose of this paper firstly to critically assess some significant ...

Our writing is intended, on the one hand; expose categories and doctrines of a metaphysical order that basis for cosmology Plotinian thought. Some those philosophical notions are; Double logos, Providence, Contemplation, Sensible World Intelligible World. On other hand, we want to describe in general way conception Earth as self-regulating living mega-organism prosed by British scientist; James...

Since the 1860s, biologists have repeatedly referred to Lamarck as one of the founding fathers of modern evolutionary doctrines, a claim hotly denied by most of their colleagues. Lamarck’s name has often been evoked to contrast his insistence on acquired individual variations with the mainstream interpretation of the Darwinian doctrine, which stresses the constant presence within a population o...

Two radical neuron doctrines must be distinguished--strong and weak. G&S direct much of their attack at the former--but the Churchlands only hold the latter. The weak radical neuron doctrine remains a serious possibility. G&S describe the radical neuron doctrine in a number of slightly different ways, and we think this hides an important distinction. On the one hand, the radical neuron doctrine...

Statements of degree appear to falsify basic doctrines in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. I offer a fresh formulation the challenge and assess solution proposed on Wittgenstein’s behalf by Sarah Moss. find that Moss’s proposal fails. The rides part novel interpretations pronouncements Wittgenstein nature elementary proposition. cannot be sustained but textual case hints at important overlooked ...

Hume presents two definitions of cause in his Enquiry which correspond to his two definitions in his Treatise. The first of the definitions is ontological and the second is psychological; indeed, the definitions are extensionally and intensionally distinct. The critical mistake of the skeptical interpretation is the assumption that the two definitions are equivalent, and the critical mistake of...