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21James G. Birney — Infobox Person name = James G. Birney image size = caption = birth name = James Gillespie Birney birth date = birth date|1792|2|4 birth place = Danville, Kentucky, USA death date = death date and age|1857|11|24|1792|2|4 death place = death cause …
22John Mair — (or Major) (also known in Latin as Joannes Majoris and Haddingtonus Scotus) (1467–1550) was a Scottish philosopher, much admired in his day and an acknowledged influence on all the great thinkers of the time. He was a very renowned teacher and… …
23Jerzy Łoś — c.1955 Jerzy Łoś (born March 22, 1920 in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) June 1, 1998 in Warsaw) (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈwɔɕ]) was a Polish mathematician, logician, economist, and philosopher. He is best known for his work on ultraproducts,… …
24Mind transfer in fiction — Mind transfer is a common theme in science fiction. The idea is very briefly mentioned in Isaac Asimov s 1956 short story The Last Question : One by one Man fused with AC, each physical body losing its mental identity in a manner that was somehow …
25Kantianism — [kan′tē əniz΄əm] n. the philosophy of Kant, who held that the content of knowledge comes a posteriori from sense perception, but that its form is determined by a priori categories of the mind: he also declared that God, freedom, and immortality,… …
26computer — computerlike, adj. /keuhm pyooh teuhr/, n. 1. Also called processor. an electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations. Cf. analog… …
27nature, philosophy of — Introduction the discipline that investigates substantive issues regarding the actual features of nature as a reality. The discussion here is divided into two parts: the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of biology. In this… …
28hallucinated pain syndrome — A term introduced in or shortly before 1968 by the American psychiatrist Gordon Forrer as an expansion of his concept of *hallucinated headache. Starting from the hypothetical construct hallucinated headache, Forrer reasons that pain can be… …
29Paris arts faculty (The): Siger of Brabant, Boethius of Dacia, Radulphus Brito — The Paris arts faculty: Siger of Brabant, Boethius of Dacia, Radulphus Brito Sten Ebbesen Throughout the thirteenth century Paris overshadowed all other universities in the arts as in theology. This chapter will deal almost exclusively with Paris …
