BURIDAN’S IMPETUS HYPOTHESIS Carol Skrenes Program for the History and Philosophy of Science Department of Philosophy University of California at Irvine BURIDAN’S IMPETUS HYPOTHESIS Winner‚ 1998 Humanities Graduate Essay Award Abstract: I interpret the concept of impetus in the writings of the Paris Terminist‚ Jean Buridan (14th c.) as an accidental form that functions as a motive force according to Aristotle’s fundamental law of motion. I suggest how Buridan may have come to develop his particular
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Essay #1: Empires/Civilizations-“Golden Age” Rome( Republic: the new form of government the Romans made where the people chose officials. Senate: the most powerful governing body in the republic. Patricians: upper class. (The senate was mostly made up of them) Plebeians: farmers‚ workers‚ artisans‚ and traders. Made up most of the population. Had little power (lower class.) [Later on in the empire‚ they gained more power and were allowed t elect their own officials and serve in government
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A fifteenth-century Persian manuscript depicts pilgrims praying at Mecca in the mosque surrounding the Ka’ba. C H A P T E R 1 4 THE EXPANSIVE REALM OF ISLAM I In 632 C.E. the prophet Muhammad visited his native city of Mecca from his home in exile at Medina‚ and in doing so he set an example that devout Muslims have sought to emulate ever since. The hajj—the holy pilgrimage to Mecca—draws Muslims by the hundreds of thousands from all parts of the world to Saudi Arabia. Each year Muslims travel
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University of New Orleans ScholarWorks@UNO University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations Dissertations and Theses 8-8-2007 Geoffrey Chaucer ’s The Canterbury Tales: Rhetoric and Gender in Marriage Andrea Marcotte University of New Orleans Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td Recommended Citation Marcotte‚ Andrea‚ "Geoffrey Chaucer ’s The Canterbury Tales: Rhetoric and Gender in Marriage" (2007). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
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Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime‚ as well as all related concepts‚ including energy and force. More broadly‚ it is the general analysis of nature‚ conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves. Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines‚ perhaps the oldest through its inclusion of astronomy. Over the last two millennia‚ physics had been considered synonymous with philosophy‚ chemistry‚ and certain branches of mathematics and biology
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[pic][pic] [pic] [pic][pic] Herbert Spencer | | |Biography: Herbert Spencer | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher‚ scientist‚ engineer‚ and political economist. In his day his works were important in popularizing the concept
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PHILOSOPHY The History of Philosophy is often divided into three periods: Ancient philosophy‚ Medieval philosophy‚ and Modern philosophy. Philosophy is the discipline concerned with questions of how one should live (ethics); what sorts of things exist and what are their essential natures (metaphysics); what counts as genuine knowledge (epistemology); and what are the correct principles of reasoning (logic). The word is of Ancient Greek origin (philosophía)‚ meaning love of wisdom. Definition
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Artificial intelligence From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search "AI" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Ai (disambiguation). For other uses‚ see Artificial intelligence (disambiguation). Artificial intelligence (AI) is technology and a branch of computer science that studies and develops intelligent machines and software. Major AI researchers and textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents"‚[1] where an intelligent agent is a system that
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Jurisprudence From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For the "jurisprudence" of courts‚ see Case law. "Concept of law" redirects here. For the book by H. L. A. Hart‚ see The Concept of Law. Philosophers of law ask "what is law?" and "what should it be?" Jurisprudence is the study and theory of law. Scholars of jurisprudence‚ also known as jurists or legal theorists (including legal philosophers and social theorists of law)‚ hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law‚ of legal reasoning
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The Coherence Theory of Truth First published Tue Sep 3‚ 1996; substantive revision Tue Sep 9‚ 2008 A coherence theory of truth states that the truth of any (true) proposition consists in its coherence with some specified set of propositions. The coherence theory differs from its principal competitor‚ the correspondence theory of truth‚ in two essential respects. The competing theories give conflicting accounts of the relation between propositions and their truth conditions. (In this article‚ ‘proposition’
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