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    Part two‚ the other side: Like I said before freewill is a topic that philosophers have argued about over the years. Most times when the question ‘do you have freewill?’ is asked‚ a lot of individuals usually say they are free even without thinking twice. Although there are a lot of philosopher that believe we all have freewill and there are also other philosopher who have spoken up and tried to prove their point that humans have no freewill. Philosopher that argue that humans have no freewill are

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    Bramante and the Aesthetics of High Renaissance Valerie Griffin Thesis: Bramante an Italian architect and painter whose work centered around the classical style of the ancients (www.wga.hu/index_co.html). Because Bramante is also attributee to the drawing of The Interior of the Church(www.wga.hu/index_co.html) The engraving was done by Bernado Prevedari.(www.wga.hu/index_co.html). Continuing to analyze the Church of Santa Maria‚ Bramante added the tribune to east end of the large church. The

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    center‚ called the nucleus. Nucleus is composed of protons and neutrons c. Planetary- electrons orbit the nucleus like planets d. Quantum-atom is found inside a blurry electron cloud 11. Scientists – Thomson‚ Rutherford‚ Millikan‚ etc. Democritus- He believed that atoms were

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    Facts of the periodic table While Dmitri Mendeleev is most often cited as the inventor of the modern periodic table‚ his table was just the first to gain scientific credibility‚ and not the first table that organized the elements according to periodic properties. There are 90 elements on the periodic table that occur in nature. All of the other elements are strictly man-made. Technetium was the first element to be made artificially. The International Union of Pure Applied Chemistry‚ IUPAC‚ revises

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    The pre-Socratic philosophers Urstoff Change Soul Connections to others Anaximenes Milesian- Ionia Air The condensation and rarefaction of air. The soul is air. Hold us together So air Encompass’s the world Similar to Thales because he believed there’s a tangible source for everything Anaximander Milesian-Ionia Indeterminate (Primal matrix) Believed our world was a multitude of worlds that evolved and dissolved into something infinite or boundless The primary elements neither

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    Greek philosophers are sometimes called NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS because they were mainly concerned with the natural world and it’s processes - Pythagoras (570 B.C)‚ Heraclitus (500 B.C)‚ Empedocles (490 B.C.)‚ Zeno (490 B.C.)‚ Parmenides (470 B.C.)‚ Democritus (460 B.C.) = Pre-Socratic - All the earliest philosophers shared the belief that there had to be a certain basic substance at the root of all change Pythagoras - Basic Beliefs: • He held the soul to be immortal • Transmigration of the soul

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    located a mile off of the western coast of Turkey. In 306 he moved to Athens for the required two years of military training that every Athenian did. When he finished the training he stayed in Athens absorbing the philosophies of Plato‚ Aristotle‚ and Democritus. He eventually returned to his home in Samos where he started his own school‚ The Garden. The reason the school was called The Garden is because its location was‚ believe it or not‚ his own garden. It is there where he taught philosophy to his

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    will come when we shall come across the smallest particles beyond which further division will not be possible. He named these particles Parmanu. Ancient Greek philosophers – Democritus and Leucippus suggested that if we go on dividing matter‚ a stage will come when particles obtained cannot be divided further. Democritus called these indivisible particles atoms (meaning indivisible). How and why elements combine and what happens when they combine. Antoine L. Lavoisier laid the foundation of

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    the cambridge companion to EPICUREANISM This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school’s history from the early Hellenistic Garden to the Roman Empire and its later reception in the early modern period‚ introducing the reader to the Epicureans’ contributions in physics‚ metaphysics‚ epistemology‚ psychology‚ ethics and politics

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    Revolution of Science

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    Philosophy” before “Science” * Science was first used in 1830 by William Whewhell Bacon’s Inductive Method 1. Ancient 2. Medieval 3. Renaissance 4. Modern 5. Contemporary Pythagoras: universe was made up of numbers Lenappus Democritus: The universe was made up of atomos The revolution of science * Historical background * Ancient and Medieval Science in the Western World * Empedocles: He was first formulated the notion that the universe was made up of 4 elements

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