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Sacred Books

By: M. Winternitz

...g the last twenty years. But most of these books are more concerned with theories on the origin and development of religion than with what, in my h... ...an with what, in my humble opinion, should be the foundation of all such theories-a sct'entijic classijicatio1l of religious phenomena. Is it too p... ...like. May not this be a useful warning that these terms refer only to the theories and not to the facts of religion? On the other hand, the student ... ...SeealJo Incest, Sexual intercourse, and Woman (g, h). Advaita, t.t., non-duality or monism, taught both by Sailkara and Rama­ nuga, 34, xxx, cxxv. ...

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G-Dimensional Theory & the Smarandache Quantum Paradoxes : Comparative Logic and Modern Quantum Theory

By: L. Stephen Young

...ive analysis of the Smarandache quantum paradoxes within context of the two theories follows in Section 5. L. Stephen Young 7 Leslie Circle, Lit... ...scientific paradox is a valuable source of information in comparing physical theories or in demonstrating the need for revising or refining a given t... ...ive paradox analysis, i.e.: Given two otherwise equivalent physical system theories, each describing an area of physical behavior where non-project... ...g measurements of the Nordtvedt effect correlated closely to VSE, [45] those theories which lacked very strong equivalence appeared less convincing. ... ...al, we must assume the wave-aspect is physical as well. Thus, particle-wave duality indicates physically coexisting particles and waves and indicate... ... decay, based on the quark→lepton transformation predicted in grand unified theories (GUT)s. Thus far, the predicted proton decay has not been obser...

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I and Thou

By: Martin Bube

... we have known about the mutual relation oj persons has been relegated in theories of knowledge tc a position subordinate to the contemplation of th... ...hesis of the ultimate reality of personal relations in its application to theories of the State, of marriage, of family life, and of economics. xi ... ...y. -But what of mysticism ~ Does it not inform ua 85 how unity without duality is experienced ~ May we dispute the truth of its account ~ -I kno... ...account ~ -I know not of a single but of two kinds of happening in which duality is no longer experienced.. These are at times confused in mystioal... ...ose, as representing his experience, the 88 limiting words " absence of duality" ; he does not dare to call it unity,. But we with holy care wish...

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The Natural State, In the Words of U.G. Krishnamurti

By: U.G. Krishnamurti, Edited by Peter Maverick

...omething mysterious or mystical. You know that you are happy and you have theories about things. This is the knowledge we are talking about. You intr... ...who experiences what the sages have talked about is still in the field of duality, whereas the sages or seers are functioning in the undivided state... ... The mystics are trying to tell you, so they are always in the field of duality, whereas the sage, or seer, or whatever you want to call him, is i... ...ash! You can indulge in such absolute nonsense and build up philosophical theories but there is no subject there at all, at any time. So not only ... ...raditional food that is offered. With the burning away of that hunger the duality ceases, that is all. _______ My interest is not to knock off wh... ...d it is true that we have discovered quite a few of nature's laws and the theories are constantly changing. Thought is not the instrument for achiev... ...n. And thus we are maintaining this superficial, artificial, non-existent duality, division there between our life and the life around us. It is o... ... it. That is why it has turned us all into neurotics and has created this duality for us. You see, ambition is a reality, competition is a reality, b... ... to call it a traumatic experience and build up a tremendous structure of theories around it is something I am not concerned with. It cannot be a tr...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...ur theoretical exercise says a lot about the vigorousness and applicability of our theories – and a lot about the real world out there. The owner's... ...ws from a few vantage points: philosophy, artificial intelligence and some systems theories. An immediate question springs to mind: HOW will a rob... ...nscious processes. This is the emergent phenomenal (epiphenomenal) "wave- particle" duality. Unconscious brain processes are like a wave function wh... ...re often cloaked as reasoning and ratiocination. We feel that certain discoveries, theories, and works of art are the outcomes of our toil and rati... ...Dreams are no different: when we are in them we obey this or that logic; construct theories about our environment, events, and actors; and assume o... ...would not have understood it. Modern verificationist and referentialist linguistic theories seek to isolate the universals of language, so as to re...

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Kabbalah for the Student

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ledge of earlier books that dealt with this topic. Such writers fabricate theories of their own empty shells, and relate their words to the most exa... ...re but manifestations of the soul’s powers. 2) The Method of Believers in Duality Those who believe in duality think of the body as a complete creati... ...o concepts and virtues of the spiritual kind. Thus, while they believe in duality, in both methods together, they say that the soul is the reason fo... ...sions based on theory, but even prohibited us from being assisted by such theories, even by way of negotiations. 6 2 K a b b a l ... ...ed in the world. But you should know that the method of those who conceive duality came only to correct this above-mentioned wrong. For this reason, ... ... where Tzimtzum Bet occurred, became a world in and of itself, due to the duality that occurred in the Masach de Nekudot de SAG in its descent from ...

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Collected Papers, Vol. 2

By: Florentin Smarandache

...Abstract. The goal of this paper is to experiment new math concepts and theories, especially if they run counter to the classical ones. To prove that contradiction is not a catastrophe, and to learn to handle it in an (un)usual way. To transform the apparently unscientific ideas into scientific...

...la Studiul unor Functii §i Conjecturi in Teoria Numerelor .85 -- "The Function that You Bear its Name" .112 -- Smarandache Type Functions Obtained by Duality .113 -- Func!;ii Analitice .129 -- Funct;ii Prime §i Coprime .137 -- Asupra unor Conjecturi §i Probleme Nerezolvate Referitoare la 0 Funct;ie in Teoria l'\umerelor 138 -- K-Divisibility and K-Strong Divisibility .152 ...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...dical changes in our thought patterns. At the time, researchers believed that theories must be tested against experiments and observations. They als... ...s able to describe several phenomena that could not be explained by preceding theories. The most fa- mous of these was wave-particle duality, showing... ... explained by preceding theories. The most fa- mous of these was wave-particle duality, showing that microscopic objects such as electrons behave as ... ...t years, many scientists have become interested in various religions, new age theories, and mysticism. They are try- ing to find new tools and new wa... ... of the velocity, the stick will remain as it is. Thus, we have two competing theories. Some will say that Newton’s theory is completely false and t... ...ter is that this statement is false. The precise way to decide between the two theories is to say that Newton’s theory is a boundary case of Einstein...

...Kabbalah, Science & the Meaning of Life traces the milestones of the evolution of science with which we are familiar, such as Newton’s and Einstein’s theories but goes further to present the science of Kabbalah as the basis for understanding the hidden parts of reality which scientists are now discovering. While other sciences research the definable world around us, Kabbal...

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...f Measurement VI. The Quantum of Continuity VII. Quantum Mechanics and Superstring Theories SPE C U L A T I O NS I. Psychophysics ... ...Theodicy: The Problem of Evil IV. Miracles, Wonders, Signs V. Appendix: Scientific Theories The Author PHYSICS Time A... ...chophysics Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy Superstring and Membrane Theories Return Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy... ...d the convergence is precisely where concepts of order and disorder emerge. String theories, for instance, come in numerous versions which describe... ...theory. Dualities are the "translation mechanisms" that bind them together. The T- duality relates theories with dimensions compactified on a circl... ...ith the radius 1/R. Thus, one's curled dimension is the other's uncurled one. The S-duality relates the coupling limits of the various theories. On... ...ng) limit becomes another's weak coupling limit. The celebrated M Theory is also a duality, in a way. M Theory is not a string theory, strictly spe... ...acting five-branes (solitons) (Duff, Scientific American, February 1998). Later, a duality between solitonic and fundamental strings in 6 dimension... ... established and then dualities between strings from the 5 string theories. Duff's "duality of dualities" states that the T-duality of a solitonic ...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...nt, falsifiable, logically compatible, monovalent, and parsimonious. Psychological "theories" – even the "medical" ones (the role of serotonin and ... ... done in the name of the greater good, largely as a preventive policy. Conspiracy theories notwithstanding, it is impossible to ignore the enormou... ...der (justice), the development of the ability to hypothesize, predict and introduce theories and so on. We are all endowed with a sense of wonder. T... ...isciples (Adler, Horney, the object-relations lot) diverged wildly from his initial theories – they all shared his belief in the need to "scientify"... ...l part was missing: the ability to test the hypotheses, which derived from these "theories". They were all very convincing, though, and, surprisin... ...nce our brains. Endowed with the gift (or curse) of introspection, we experience a duality, a split, constantly being both observer and observed. M... ...nce our brains. Endowed with the gift (or curse) of introspection, we experience a duality, a split, constantly being both observer and observed. M...

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Progress in Physics : The Journal on Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Including Related Themes from Mathematics

By: Florentin Smarandache

...ion (Grelling’s paradox), others show counter-intuitive features of formal theories (Material implication paradox, Skolem Paradox), others are self-co... ... [68]. For a discussions on the open problems of Double Special Relativity theories based on kappa-deformed Poincar´ e symmetries [63] and motivated b... ...classical phase space invariant. They are are fully consistent with Born’s duality Relativity symmetry principle [49] (Q,P)→ → (P,−Q). By inspection w... ...Once again, can verify as well that these transforma- tions satisfy Born’s duality symmetry principle: (T,X)→(E,P), (E,P)→(−T,−X) (2.7b) andb→ 1 b . T... ...y principle: (T,X)→(E,P), (E,P)→(−T,−X) (2.7b) andb→ 1 b . The latter Born duality transformation is nothing but a manifestation of the large/small te... ...y transformation is nothing but a manifestation of the large/small tension duality princi- ple reminiscent of the T-duality symmetry in string theory;... ...he T-duality symmetry in string theory; i. e. namely, a small/large radius duality, a winding modes/ Kaluza-Klein modes duality symmetry in string com... ...ations and the Ultraviolet/Infrared entanglement in Non- commutative Field Theories. Hence, Born’s duality principle in exchanging coordinates for mom... ...theory of all p-Branes in C-spaces . . . . 40 4. Generalized gravitational theories in curvedC-spaces: higher derivative gravity and torsion from the ...

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A Unifying Field in Logics : Neutrosophic Logic. Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability

By: Florentin Smarandache

...logic thus generalizes: - intuitionistic logic, which supports incomplete theories (for 0<n<100, 0<=t,i,f<=100); - fuzzy logic (for n=100 and i=0, a... ...t generalizes: 7 - the intuitionistic set, which supports incomplete set theories (for 0<n<100, 0<=t,i,f<=100); - the fuzzy set (for n=100 and i=0... ...hematization (neutrosophic logic, neutrosophic probability and statistics, duality), generalization, complementarity, contradiction, paradox, tautol... ...fied as neutrality. K) Delimitation from Other Philosophical Concepts and Theories: 1. Neutrosophy is based not only on analysis of oppositional pro... ... have a catastrophe! P) Neutrosophic Studies and Interpretations of Known Theories, Modes, Views, Processes of Reason, Acts, Concepts in Philosophy.... ...eality. In India's VIII-th - IX-th centuries one promulgated the Non-Duality (Advaita) through the non-differentiation between Individual Being... ...ainism were in a severe turmoil and India was in a spiritual crisis. Non-Duality means elimination of ego, in order to blend yourself with the Supre... ...s), and the Upanishads (principles of Hindu philosophy) concluding in Non-Duality. Then Special Duality (Visishta Advaita) follows, which asser... ... And later, to see that the neutrosophic scheme perfectly functions, Duality (Dvaita) ensues, through whom the Individual Being and Supreme Bei...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...hor A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existen... ... the surface." Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British writer I. Overview of Theories of Anarchism Politics, in all its forms, has failed. Th... ...o the right. Anarchism is an umbrella term covering disparate social and political theories - among them classic or cooperative anarchism (postulat... ...fellow humans (the only ones possessed of moral significance). These are called the theories of indirect moral obligations. Thus, it is wrong to tor... ...issions. Rights and duties are two sides of the same Janus-like ethical coin. This duality confuses people. They often erroneously identify rights ... ...issions. Rights and duties are two sides of the same Janus-like ethical coin. This duality confuses people. They often erroneously identify rights ... .... Each of the aforementioned phenomena has a collectivist aspect or parallel. This duality permeates the experience of being human. Humans are tor... ... a cohesive social unit and the emphasis should be on the word "social". Again the duality is there : the technologies that separate - unite. This... ... knows, always has negative and positive sides to it. Information exhibits the same duality: properly provided, it is a positive power of unequalled...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...hor A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existen... ... the surface." Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British writer I. Overview of Theories of Anarchism Politics, in all its forms, has failed. Th... ...o the right. Anarchism is an umbrella term covering disparate social and political theories - among them classic or cooperative anarchism (postulat... ...fellow humans (the only ones possessed of moral significance). These are called the theories of indirect moral obligations. Thus, it is wrong to tor... ...issions. Rights and duties are two sides of the same Janus-like ethical coin. This duality confuses people. They often erroneously identify rights ... ...issions. Rights and duties are two sides of the same Janus-like ethical coin. This duality confuses people. They often erroneously identify rights ... .... Each of the aforementioned phenomena has a collectivist aspect or parallel. This duality permeates the experience of being human. Humans are tor... ... a cohesive social unit and the emphasis should be on the word "social". Again the duality is there : the technologies that separate - unite. This... ... knows, always has negative and positive sides to it. Information exhibits the same duality: properly provided, it is a positive power of unequalled...

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Neutrosophic Dialogues

By: Florentin Smarandache

...inate aspect of the same world, such as the universality of wave-corpuscle duality as a basic form of metabolism in the nature. This results in the i... ...s a catastrophe?) P) Neutrosophic Studies and Interpretations of Known Theories, Modes, Views, Processes of Reason, Acts, Concepts in Philosophy.... ... knowledge to quantum: Every quantum is of the property of wave-corpuscle duality.) The essence of a thing may never be reached. It is a symbol, a... .... Either matter or spirit, and even everything in the universe, is of the duality of “form” [r ūpa] and “emptiness” [ śūnya]. However, to come to th... ... an unifying field to all matter, like the universality of wave-corpuscle duality. How should we start? Only by abandoning all concepts of so called... ... If someone points to the truth, can we reach it by holding fast his theories? Because in this way, we are merely holding fast such pointers... ... reality with one’s own imaginations), and although there are millions of theories, ideas or thoughts: I know what I cannot. Therefore, I would rathe... ... how they can be the same; however, when there is no thought, there is no duality in short or long life. “Upon careful analysis, there is also no du...

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Progress in Physics : The Journal on Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Including Related Themes from Mathematics, Volume 2

By: Florentin Smarandache

...avity in these ex- pressions (besides the holographic bulk/boundaryAdS/CFT duality correspondence [13]) stems from the MacDowell- Mansouri-Chamseddine... ...,2) instantons solutions of a non-linear sigma model obeying a double self duality condition. Therefore, the Geometric Probability α EM for an elec- t... ...olume 2 It is not known whether this procedure would work for Grand Unifed Theories based on the groups SU(5),SO(10),E 6 ,E 7 ,E 8 . (30) Beck [6] has... ...Xiv: hep-th/ 9911027. 13. Maldacena J. The large N limit of superconformal theories and supergravity. arXiv: hep-th/9711200. 14. Bars I. Twistors and ... ...e proper radius R p (r 0 )≡0 is singular, as I have previously shown. Both theories therefore share the non-physical nature of the idealized case of t... ...cross an intervening void (“action-at-a- distance”). The failure of modern theories to provide solutions to the foundational problems of Classical Mec... ...ionism. 6.2 From cause-free motion to gravitation The hypothesis about the duality of space-time just put for- ward is next examined in the context of... ...onclusion: According to the Universal Dialectic the unity is manifested in duality and the duality in unity. “Thus, Unmatter (unity) is experienced as... ...uality and the duality in unity. “Thus, Unmatter (unity) is experienced as duality (matter vs anti- matter). Ungravity (unity) as duality (gravity vs ...

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The Kaluza Concept

By: Keith Young

...beings like ourselves. The greatest human minds have woven elaborate theories explaining, to the best of our ability, the laws of gravity, the... ...nk with the views of quantum mechanics, with its associated wave-particle duality. In fact, de Broglie suggested that even macroscopic objects suc... ... Many people believe that a person’s consciousness possesses a certain duality in a higher and a lower sense, a sort of Jekyll and Hyde, if you...

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Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability and Statistics

By: Florentin Smarandache

...y Theory is proximal to the Fuzzy Set Theory, the difference between these two theories is the way the fusion operators are defined. One uses the... ...ophic logic generalizes: - the intuitionistic logic, which supports incomplete theories (for 0 < n < 1 and i=0, 0 [ t, i, f [ 1); - the fuzzy logic... ...ophic set generalizes: - the intuitionistic set, which supports incomplete set theories (for 0 < n < 1 and i = 0, 0 [ t, i, f [ 1) and incomplete kn... ...lf of the 20th century has became very prolific for the development new original theories dealing with uncertainty and imprecise information. Mainly th... ...theories dealing with uncertainty and imprecise information. Mainly three major theories are available now as alternative of the theory of probabiliti... ... mathematization (neutrosophic logic, neutrosophic probability and statistics, duality), - generalization, complementarity, contradiction, paradox, ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ed to separate these two inseparable aspects into different phenomenon, using theories of Gravity, and Friction, and Magnetism, and Centrifugal forc... ...id three things; 1. It split the Totality of Formlessness into a separated Duality of Everythingness and ... ...en coming around to slit her apart again. After it split her Totality into a Duality of Everythingness and Nothingness, Formlessness tried to rejoi... ...ied to do this an Infinite number of times until she finally became a swirled Duality of Everythingness and Nothingness. Then Impetus had to choos... ...d Linear Dualities to be created by the Path of Splitness. The first was the Duality of Everythingness and Nothingness. This infinitely repeate... ...was how Everythingness and Nothingness was turned into a 1-dimensional linear Duality. The Impetus of Splitness organically turned the Medium of T... ...clever deception, scientists began to find crucial flaws in almost all of his theories. Accepting his explanation that light curved around the moon... ...ally; it studies it mechanically. This is a basic weakness in all scientific theories, models, knowledge and exploration. It was also Einstein’s ba... ...act that Science has been able to gather so far. Not by mathematics. Not by theories, Not by models. By actual facts that have been verified. Th...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

... Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1973. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 2 claims are theories rather than established facts. I would like to invite you to accom... ...jects vanish likewise. The mind sinks into the great “Emptiness” where the duality of the knower and the object perceived does not exist any longer. I... ...lly been pointed out that Sigmund Freud’s formulation of his psychological theories, in particular his “trini- ty” of ego/superego/id might be brought... ...neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away. I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I kn... ...tionize our view of the reli- gious dimension as much as Albert Einstein’s theories of relativ- ity did physics? Strangely enough, the answer is yes. ... ...with large eyes but no mouth, and robed and haloed. (This dress has raised theories of shipwrecked Arabic or Asian sailors.) It was the Wandjinas who ... ...ursuit of unity which bal- ances the dualities created by consciousness. A duality of the material and spiritual world is a mental construct which, fo... ...rced ideas and behaviors which are based on the assumption that there is a duality of the spiritual and the material worlds. In contrast, for Aborigin... ... importance of religions to us, along with their close cousins, scientific theories. The two “native” religious cultures, of the American Indi- ans an...

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Modelling of Rationality...and Beyond the Physics

By: Gh. C. Dinulescu

...stein said, in connection with the validity of a new hypothesis: < Of all theories, the one that meets the criterion of ″internal perfection and ex... ...the evolution of the MESER concept can be identified in the philosophical theories worked out in time. The first and the most resolute assertion on t... ... gravitation, one of the most plausible, and at the same time most modern theories would be that gravitation is the consequence of a continuous and ... ... endowed, through the divine project, with the possibility of substantial duality whose result is the Being embodied within one of the vegetal, anim... ...ossible, closely connected domains of definition. From among all involved theories for substantiating the thesis on time irreversibility, the one th... ...e between the theory of universal expansion and its contrary, though both theories are evolutionary; the former has an eschatological-apocalyptical ...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...its that people do not behave in accordance with the predictions of basic economic theories, such as the standard theory of utility and the theory ... ...lain, seeking to perpetuate and increase its power ruthlessly, as per public choice theories. Both views are caricatures of reality. Governments in... ...hould be amenable to scientific treatment. "Prospect theory", "bounded rationality theories", and the study of "hindsight bias" as well as other co... ...id rigid reactions to attacks from within and from without. Many current economic theories do not meet these cumulative criteria and are, thus, me... ...glorified narratives. But meeting the above conditions is not enough. Scientific theories must also pass the crucial hurdles of testability, veri... ... knows, always has negative and positive sides to it. Information exhibits the same duality: properly provided, it is a positive power of unequalled...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...y beauty or performance, or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering ideals or political theories. 3. The group as a whole, or members of the group - a... ...ge of phenomena associated with the Nazi regime - from industrial murder to racial theories, from slave labour to the forcible annexation of territ... ...ht on European soil. Moreover, Nazi Germany innovated by applying prevailing racial theories (usually reserved to non-whites) to the white race itse... ...tes go to pieces. "Earth shattering" and "revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited. Social experiments end in mayhem. It ... ...nt, falsifiable, logically compatible, monovalent, and parsimonious. Psychological "theories" – even the "medical" ones (the role of serotonin and ... ...ize that the dominant emotional background of this people's existence would be the duality of unresolved anger and unrelieved state of narcissistic...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...ic, cultural and military. In an echo of defunct Soviet and Euro-left conspiracy theories, the paper insists that expansion was "triggered by com... ...der Israel the darling of the Turkish street, though. Turks, addicted to conspiracy theories, fully believe that the second Iraq war is being instig... ...s denounced the invasion and called it, ominously, a "war on Islam". Aware of this duality, Donald Rumsfeld, the American Defense Secretary, recent... ...itality and decadence of "Old Europe". The foes of the West, steeped in conspiracy theories and embittered by centuries of savage colonialism, will... ...ge of phenomena associated with the Nazi regime - from industrial murder to racial theories, from slave labour to the forcible annexation of territ... ...over, Nazi Germany innovated by applying to the white race itself prevailing racial theories, usually reserved to non-whites. It first targeted the ...

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The Purse

By: Honoré de Balzac

...upposed to be a freak of the brush, but which to him suddenly realized the theories of the ideal beauty which every artist creates for himself and whe... ...ce within, while attending to a conversation or to read- ing? An admirable duality which often helps us to tolerate a bore! Hope, prolific and smiling...

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God the Invisible King

By: H. G. Wells

...e Actual, all these oppositions express a certain structural and essential duality in the activity of the human mind. From an imperfect recognition of... ...y in the activity of the human mind. From an imperfect recognition of that duality ensue great masses of misconception. That was the substance of “Fir... ...hat it has any more bearing upon the essentials of religion, than have the theories we may hold about the relation of God and the moral law to the sta... ...e Sabellian or the Trinity of the Arian, any more than one thinks of those theories made stone, those gods with three heads and seven hands, who sit o... ... dead as the lore of the Druids. The emancipation of mankind from obsolete theories and formularies may be accompanied by great tides of moral and emo...

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First and Last Things : A Confession of Faith and a Rule of Life

By: H. G. Wells

.... There is more excuse for one here than for the amateur maker of chemical theories, or the man who evolves a system of surgery in his leisure. These ... ... small but definite ways bad. One thing I claim, I have got my beliefs and theories out of my life and not fitted them to its circumstances. As often ... ...eme. This movement is Socialism. Socialism is to me no clear-cut system of theories and dogmas; it is one of those solid and extensive and syn- thetic... ...is conqueror of the valley. The val- ley is his for the taking. There is a duality in life that I cannot express except by such images as this, a dual...

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Louis Lambert

By: Honoré de Balzac

...n as child- ish. I at once spent several months in recalling the principal theories discovered by my poor schoolmate. Having collected my reminiscence... ... Reaction. When I subsequently read the observations made by Bichat on the duality of our external senses, I was really bewildered by my recollections... ...vity of his spirit feeding on it- self. Louis had sought for proofs of his theories in the history of great men, whose lives, as set forth by their bi... ...o each chapter in the form of demonstrations, so as to give to many of his theories an almost mathematical certainty . The works of Cardan, a man gift... ...le work of nature. He had too much good sense to dwell among the clouds of theories which can all be expressed in a few words. In our day, is not the ...

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The Reef

By: Edith Wharton

...t of its significance through all the artificial accretions with which his theories of art and the conventions of the stage had clothed it, and saw it... ...us irony, the boy was not unlike a boisterous em- bodiment of his father’s theories. It was as though Fraser Leath’s ideas, accustomed to hang like ma... ... take in the one face without the other, and that re- newed the disturbing duality of the impression. Suddenly Owen broke off with a crash of chords a... ...She’s not an adventuress.” “Y ou mean that she professes to act on the new theories? The stuff that awful women rave about on platforms?” “Oh, I don’t... ...iction in such matters? But what did she care for his con- victions or his theories? No doubt he loved her now, and be- lieved he would always go on l...

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The Bostonians

By: Henry James

...sh, and that if she chose to sacrifice a beautiful nature to her antediluvian theories and love of power, a vigilant daily press—whose business it was ... ...uld have little to teach her, in spite, in short, of the severe and constant duality of our young women, it must not be supposed that their life had n... ...ntradiction. With the things she had heard him say about his convictions and theories, his view of life and the great questions of the future, she sho...

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Sandra Belloni Originally Emilia in England

By: George Meredith

...aper before he arrived. Happily, on questions of religion, they coincided. Theories of education occupied them mainly. In these contests Mr. Barrett d... ...s battle is thoroughly fought out in approving daylight. The period of our duality should be one as irresponsible in your eyes as that of our infancy....

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The abstract of the book: Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an written by Harun Yahya : Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

By: Pooya Azizi

...l miracles of the Muslims holy book (Quran). By reading this book, you will notice that the many biggest recent century’s discoveries and scientific theories invented by humans have been mentioned in Quran that was descended to the prophet Muhammad by Allah 1400 years ago. Discoveries and scientific subjects such as: the creation of the universe by Big Bang, expanding un...

... the Semen The Sex of the Child The Alaq Clinging to the Uterus The Wrapping of Muscles over the Bones Three Dark Stages of the Baby in the Womb DUALITY IN CREATION THE WEIGHT OF CLOUDS WINDS THAT FECUNDATE THE SEPARATES SEAS THE DARK DEPTHS OF THE SEAS AND INTERNAL WAVES THE REGION RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR MOVEMENTS THE FEMALE HONEY BEE THE MIRACLE OF HONEY THE D...

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The Analysis of Mind

By: Bertrand Russell

...h recent work, in various fields, has tended to show the necessity of such theories as those which I shall be advocating. Accordingly in this first le... ...ying that we are possessed of “con- sciousness.” Before considering modern theories, let us look first at con- sciousness from the standpoint of conve... ...182-272 (1899), especially pp. 185-8. 13 The Analysis of Mind which other theories can be stated. In the remainder of the present lecture I shall sta... ...he knower, the other becomes the object known”(p. 4). After mentioning the duality of subject and object, which is supposed to constitute consciousnes... ...ield of “unconscious” phenomena which does not depend upon psycho-analytic theories. Such occurrences as automatic writing lead Dr. Morton Prince to s... ...e I shall begin the arguments for this view. Corresponding to the supposed duality of matter and mind, there are, in orthodox psychology, two ways of ... ...But the objective reference differs from the meaning of a word through the duality of truth and false- hood. You may believe the proposition “to-day i... ...egards the opposition of positive and nega- tive, three different sorts of duality, according as we are deal- ing with facts, image-propositions, or w... ...e-propositions, which may be believed or disbelieved, but do not allow any duality of content corresponding to positive and negative facts; (3) Word-p...

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Parmenides

By: Plato

...teaching of Socrates came into 16 Parmenides conflict with the metaphysical theories of the earlier philosophers, and he sought to supple ment the o... ... that thought, like digestion, will go on much the same, notwithstanding any theories which may be entertained respecting the nature of the process. P... ...cise attain ment of truth. The same remark applies to the second of the two theories. Plato everywhere ridicules (per haps unfairly) his Heracleitea... ...d has no parts, and therefore the others have no unity , nor plurality , nor duality , nor any other number , nor any oppo sition or distinction, suc... ... sort of ‘critics or divin ers’ of the truth of his own, and of the Eleatic theories. In the Theaetetus a similar negative dialectic is employed in t...

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The Forged Coupon, And Other Stories and Dramas

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...nius whose greatness has been obscured from us rather than enhanced by his duality; a realist who strove to demolish the mysticism of Christianity, an... ...e and preoccupied myself with religion, but it did not adjust itself to my theories and so I broke with it. Without it I was able to live quite conten... ...ya Polyana, gave additional strength to Tolstoy’s conviction that in these theories lay the elements essential to the trans formation and rejuvenatio... ... But to in oculate the landed proprietors of Russia as a class with those theories was a task which even his genius could not hope to accomplish. He ... ... be constantly borne in mind. He attained a splendid fulfilment of his own theories, em ploying the moujik’s expressive vernacular in portraying his ... ...often to the village to talk with the men, and devel oped his socialistic theories, insisting particularly on the nationalisation of the land. After ...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...likes, on the sense of virtue and the sense of propri- ety, on beliefs and theories that, indestructible in themselves, always change their form—often... ...eld. These warlike images come by themselves under the pen; since from the duality of man’s nature and the com- petition of individuals, the life-hist... ... work so simple and human, so independent of the transi- tory formulas and theories of art, belongs as you point out in the Preface to Smoke “to all t... ...and is not forced, ruled by a dynasty of uncertain future, weakened by her duality, can only speak to her in an uncertain, bilingual phrase. Prussia, ... ...ngely vague, had lost its definite character, was rendered doubtful by the theories and the claims of the spoliators who, by a strange effect of uneas...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

.................................................... 330 Chapter Twenty-five: Theories of Knowledge ........................................................ ..................................................... 340 Chapter Twenty-six: Theories of Morals............................................................ ...73 John Dewey of growth which has been set forth. But as worked out in the theories of Froebel and Hegel, it involves ignoring the interaction of pres... ...onstant interaction and change. The same principle of criticism applies to theories which find the primary subject matter of study in the cultural pro... ...he re- maining portions of this chapter, we shall consider the educational theories which have been evolved in three epochs when the social import of ... ... in experience, by a flight to some transcen- dental realm. And in denying duality in name such theo- ries restore it in fact, for they end in a divis...

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Sophist

By: Plato

...ceives to be even older than Xenophanes (compare Protag.). Still older were theories of two and three principles, hot and cold, moist and dry, which ... ...hesis first of all. (1) If we suppose the universal separation of kinds, all theories alike are swept away; the pa trons of a single principle of res... ...ike have the ground cut from under them; and all creators of the universe by theories of composition and 36 Sophist – Plato division, whether out of ... ...determination is ne gation. Plato takes or gives so much of either of these theories as was necessary or possible in the age in which he lived. In th... ...HEAETETUS: How so? STRANGER: To distinguish the name from the thing, implies duality . THEAETETUS: Y es. STRANGER: And yet he who identifies the name ...

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

... is a paganism whose ardor, by a contrast which brings up the ever present duality of his nature, ends in an inexpressible shiver of scorn: “We l... ...s, so paralyzed by his health, by 11 Selected Writings his family, by his theories even, and so rich in re- flections, for the most part solitary. Am... ... even, and so rich in re- flections, for the most part solitary. Among the theories of the anatomist of “Ma- dame Bovary,” there are two which appear ...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

... or morbid, that has not some organic process as its condition. Scientific theories are organi- cally conditioned just as much as religious emotions a... ...it would be at the theatre.’ I was then fourteen years old. “This horrible duality has often given me matter for reflection. Oh, this terrible second ... ... consciousness.[227] They bring a sense of mystery and of the metaphysical duality of things, and the feeling of an enlargement of perception which se... ...ought: that he has known the oldest truth, and that he has done with human theories as to the origin, meaning, or destiny of the race. He is beyond in... ...ferent as to what purpose may be shown forth by them, and con- structs her theories quite careless of their bearing on human anxieties and fates. Thou... ...m James dhist saints are practically indistinguishable in their lives. The theories which Religion generates, being thus variable, are secondary; and ...

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