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41Dialectic — The School of Athens, by Raphael. Dialectic (also dialectics and the dialectical method) is a method of argument for resolving disagreement that has been central to Indic and European philosophy since antiquity. The word dialectic originated in… …
42Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose — The sentence Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. was written by Gertrude Stein as part of the 1913 poem Sacred Emily , which appeared in the 1922 book Geography and Plays . In that poem, the first Rose is the name of a woman. Stein later used… …
43History of scientific method — The history of scientific method is inseparable from the history of science itself. The development and elaboration of rules for scientific reasoning and investigation has not been straightforward; scientific method has been the subject of… …
44Contest of Homer and Hesiod — The Contest of Homer and Hesiod (Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi ) or simply Certamen[1] is a Greek narrative that expands a remark made in Hesiod s Works and Days[2] to recount an imagined poetical agon between Homer and Hesiod, in which Hesiod bears …
45365 Crete earthquake — The 365 AD Crete earthquake was an undersea earthquake that occurred at about sunrise on 21 July 365 AD in the Eastern Mediterranean, [ [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/today/his 07 21.php Today in Earthquake History ] ] [… …
46Megarian school of philosophy — The Megarian school of philosophy was founded by Euclides of Megara, one of the pupils of Socrates.Two main elements went to make up the Megarian as a doctrine. Like the Cynics and the Cyrenaics, Euclides started from the Socratic principle that… …
47relativism — The permanently tempting doctrine that in some areas at least, truth itself is relative to the standpoint of the judging subject (‘beauty lies in the eye of the beholder’). The first classical statement is the doctrine of the Sophist Protagoras… …
48Isis (ship) — The Roman ship Isis was a very large ship that operated on the Mediterranean during the Roman Empire around 150 CE. The sophist Lucian described the Isis when he saw it in Athen s seaport Piraeus. The Isis apparently was 55 meters (180 feet) long …
49Plato: metaphysics and epistemology — Robert Heinaman METAPHYSICS The Theory of Forms Generality is the problematic feature of the world that led to the development of Plato’s Theory of Forms and the epistemological views associated with it.1 This pervasive fact of generality appears …
50Plato — /play toh/, n. 1. 427 347 B.C., Greek philosopher. 2. a walled plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon, having a dark floor: about 60 miles (96 km) in diameter. * * * orig. Aristocles born 428/427, Athens, or Aegina, Greece died… …
