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...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many...

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...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...Not because they ascribe to the emperor a sanctity which he had not in the minds of men universally, or which even to the writer’s feeling was exagger... ...supernatural lies in the indefinite. That power, therefore, with which the minds of men invested the emperor, was vulgarized by this coarse translatio... ... next relation to su- perhuman modes of authority, must be invested by all minds alike with some dim and undefined relation to the sanctities of the n... ...h the brutal—are first read in their true meaning by an age learned in the philosophy of the human heart. Of this philosophy the Romans had, by the ne... ... other men, was the station from which the Roman speculators took up their philosophy of human nature. Tried by such standard, Mark Anthony would be f... ... mind; and at eleven years of age he professed himself a formal devotee of philosophy in its strictest form,—assum- ing the garb, and submitting to it...

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...y fairly claim to be the oldest treatise on logic; for that science originates in the misunderstandings which necessarily accompany the first efforts of speculation. Several of the fallacies which are satirized in it reappear in the Sophistici Elenchi of Aristotle and are retained at the end of our manuals of logic....

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... Euthydemus by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is f... ... sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ... but at the beginning of them; for they belong to the age in which the human mind was first making the attempt to distinguish thought from sense, and ... ...ords and things these were prob- lems not easy of solution in the infancy of philosophy. They presented the same kind of difficulty to the half-educat... ...f difficulty to the half-educated man which spelling or arithmetic do to the mind of a child. It was long before the new world of ideas which had been... ...and made ready for use. T o us the fallacies which arise in the pre-Socratic philosophy are trivial and obsolete be- cause we are no longer liable to ... ...ng and instructive for the light which they shed on the history of the human mind. There are indeed many old fallacies which linger among us, and new ... ...ts at the present time, and based chiefly on the methods of Modern Inductive philosophy. Such a science might have two legitimate fields: first, the r...

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...The author's motivating interest the past few years has been the development and dissemination of G-dimensional theory (GDT). K. Toshihara, from Japan, proposed the concept of a paper defining G-Dimensional theory in relation to the Smarandache quantum paradoxes. After reviewing a draft, Dr. M. L. Perez, Editor of the ...

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...y Table 1A. Elliptic Parameters of S'. {θ θ θ θ = arcsin(v)} S' a b f 1 v a / b σ σ σ σ e a 1 co... ...be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann A... ...31233-46-2 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 G-DIMENSIONAL THEORY & THE SMARANDACHE QUANTUM... ...ains constituting a "heap", however, as noted in the Stanford Dictionary of Philosophy, "The (sorites) argument certainly seems to be valid, employ... ... potential for structural projection to manifest at any time. This calls to mind the expression, 'if something can happen, it will.' Thus the quantu... ...msily tread, inclined to dismiss or take difference, to nonetheless bear in mind that posterity is able to distinguish between the trivial and fatal... ...maller than an atom,' and that, "physicists today adopt essentially the same philosophy as Hinton." [26] However, given the GDT atom, it is more than... ... Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1987, (p.33-34). [40] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sorites-paradox/ [41] Szab...

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...Opinions are like flare, which can turn either way: they can spread like wild fire or encapsulate themselves within the bounds of personal integrity, and thus illuminate. I started writing opinions in the late 2008 through my blogs. I admit at times I did go wild with unsubstantiated accusations and surmises, leading to risky speculations and irrespo...

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...HERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reaso...

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...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The...

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... 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on issues of The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents... ... Red headed League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 A Case of Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4... ...h the Twisted Lip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 The Adven... ...t one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machi... ...t. As I passed the well remembered door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarle... ...to be interesting. It would be a pity to miss it.” “But your client — ” “Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he comes. Sit down ... ...ry precise fashion.” “Yes,” I answered, laughing. “It was a singular document. Philosophy, as tronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. ...

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...ered his magnum opus. In The Ethics, Spinoza attempts to demonstrate a fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding -- moving fro...

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...A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Commonly called Treatise when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work by the Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. This book largely seeks to refute the claims made by his contemporary John L...

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...Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts,...

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...ics Series Publicaation Hard Times by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any ser... ...nds grasped it! Their father walked on in a hopeful and satisfied frame of mind. He was an affectionate father, after his manner; but 11 CHARLES D IC... ... enough to make one regret ever having had a family at all. I have a great mind to say I wish I hadn’t. Then what would you have done, I should like t... ...I thay to you, Thquire, make the betht of uth: not the wurtht!’ The Sleary philosophy was propounded as they went down stairs and the fixed eye of Ph... ... long accustomed to self suppression, thus torn and divided, the Harthouse philosophy came as a relief and justification. Ev erything being hollow an... ... do not know that I am degraded in my own esteem. All that I know is, your philosophy and your teach ing will not save me. Now, father, you have brou...

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...It was known to me his setting up in 1980’s of a new literary and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”. It was an...

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...Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations....

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...ace by Charles T. Le: 3 0. Introduction: 9 1. Neutrosophy - a new branch of philosophy: 13 2. Neutrosophic Logic - a unifying field in logics: 87 ... ... by Charles T. Le: 3 0. Introduction: 9 1. Neutrosophy - a new branch of philosophy: 13 2. Neutrosophic Logic - a unifying field in logics: 87 3.... ...nifying field in sets: 112 4. Neutrosophic Probability - a generalization of classical and imprecise probabilities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 11... ...painter Florentin Smarandache, especially because the treated subject was of philosophy - revealing paradoxes - and logics. He had generalized the... ...nter Florentin Smarandache, especially because the treated subject was of philosophy - revealing paradoxes - and logics. He had generalized the fu... ...osophic statistics” and thus opening new ways of research in four fields: philosophy, logics, set theory, and probability/statistics. It was known t... ...rstand all. That is the goal of the manifesto. Because Art is not for the mind, but for feelings. Because Art is also for the mind. Try to interpre... ..., neutrosophic statistics. This representation is closer to the human mind reasoning. It characterizes/catches the imprecision of knowledge or ... ...xpression <true in all possible world> is superfluous, derogatory, for our mind may construct impossible world as well, which become possible in our ...

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...The Theory Of Interpretive Relativity: A Unified Map Of Literary Theory is a comprehensive study organizing and mapping all literary interpretive theory, from classical philosophy to postmodern theory, into one formulaic model. Interpr...

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...“The long concatenations of simple and easy reasoning which geometricians use in achieving their most difficult demonstrations gave me occasion to imagine that all matters which may enter the human mind were interrelated in the same fashion.” -- Re...

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...TRATEGIES FOR GRAPHING LITERARY INTERPRETATION THEORIES INTO A VISUAL FIGURE, DEFINING TERMS 1 II. MAPPING LITERARY THEORY: DEFINING THE BODY OF LITERATURE, Ln, AND MESSAGE, EMBODIED IN ART, Ln 10 III. FORMING THE X AXIS: SETTING VALUES FOR X AS SIGN, SIGNIFICATION, AND SIGNAL (X1, X2, X3) 18 X1: Sign, Encoding Meaning 21 X2: Signification: Th...

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...In a world of chaotic alignments, traditional logic with its strict boundaries of truth and falsity has not imbued itself with the capability of reflecting the reality. Despite various attempts to reorient logic, there has remained an e...

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...ROSOPHIC COGNITIVE MAPS XIQUAN Phoenix 2003 CARE OF THE AIDS INFECTED PERSONS CREATION OF AWARENESS ABOUT AIDS PREVENT... ...E AIDS INFECTED PERSONS CREATION OF AWARENESS ABOUT AIDS PREVENTION OF SPREAD OF AIDS EPIDEMIC MEDICAL TREATMENT OF AIDS PATIENTS SOCIAL ... ...and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036, I... ...d its connected logic, Neutrosophic Logic. Neutrosophy is a new branch of philosophy that studies the origin, nature and scope of neutralities, as w... ...osite <Anti-A>, there is a continuum-power spectrum of Neutralities. This philosophy forms the basis of Neutrosophic logic. Neutrosophic logic g... ... the study or analysis of unsupervised data. Keeping these arguments in mind the reader is expected to build NM and Uncertainty Neuron Neutrosophi... ...vided into two NCMs both of which contain at least one circle. Keeping in mind an NCM is trivial if it has no circles we can see that NCM containing... ...odes of the range space R 1 – Fear of getting the disease R 2 – No mind to forgive the AIDS / HIV patient's "sin" R 3 – Social Stigma to ha... ... USA. He published over 60 books and 80 papers and notes in mathematics, philosophy, literature, rebus. In mathematics his research papers are in n...

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...As an alternative to the existing logics we propose the Neutrosophic Logic to represent a mathematical model of uncertainty, vagueness, ambiguity, imprecision, undefined, unknown, incompleteness, inconsistency, redundancy, contradiction. It is a non-classical logic. Eksioglu (1999) explains some of them: “Imprecision of the human sy...

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... Florentin Smarandache editor Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic L... ...phic Probability and Statistics University of New Mexico - Gallup 1-3 December 2001 (sec... ... (second printed edition) FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE editor PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEUTROSOPHY, NEUTROSOPHIC ... ...allup.unm.edu/~smarandache/Introduction.PDF • 1. Neutrosophy - a new branch of philosophy: http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/Neutrosophy.PDF •... ...ity, neutrosophic statistics. This representation is closer to the human mind reasoning. It characterizes/catches the imprecision of knowledg... ...S 1 }. 1. NEUTROSOPHY: 1.1 Definition: Neutrosophy is a new branch of philosophy that studies the origin, nature, and scope of neutralities... ...i, f [ 1); definition of <many-valued logic> from "The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy", general editor Robert Audi, 1995, p. 461: "propositions ... ...ually a photon holds both aspects which appears as a paradoxe for most of human minds. This notion has been accepted in modern physics only with great... ...cludes that any element of the space B° could be considered to be a model of a mind or even to be a mind itself. The thing that is the source of inco...

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...In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and significant moments, the strongly affirmative stages - then the imposition of the optimizing novelties - have depended on the name and prestige of a personality. R...

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...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and also perturbs a new tension). Therefore, the...

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...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2... ...) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, ... ... ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ...etensions to amateurism. Ion Barbu, isn’t it?, comes to you first in your mind and it is enough to discourage the velleities in this field. The infor... ...Smarandache, trying my structural weakness for unpredictable curls of his mind and my tolerant Transylvanian character in front of his southern hurry... ...erwards - has been conceived to integrate Paradoxism in a larger family of mind comprising the whole of the artistic modernism, in a theory of creati... ...icule, the grotesque, the absurd). Although it is an old construction of philosophy and an object of study for logic, the paradox has remained an i... ...us underlines the enormous modern importance, in scientific knowledge, in philosophy and in art of the paradox (gr. para: contrary to; doxa: opinion... ...imension: the pleasure of knowledge, a scholarly delight that involves a “philosophy”. In a similar mode, his compatriot Khalil Raiss discovers a we...

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...st Boole (1832-1916) was born Mary Everest in England and spent her early years in France. She married mathematician George Boole. She was the author of several works on teaching and teaching mathematics in particular. This short book, Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, is meant to be read by children and introduces algebra and logic. She uses the word “algebra” broadly, defin...

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...works heavily in both math and computers, I can truly appreciate the role that logic plays in our modern world. One cannot understand the foundations of mathematics while lacking knowledge of the basics of logic and how proofs are constructed. Two of the first classes I took as a graduate student in mathematics were in the foundations of mathematics, and hardly a day goes ...

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... Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ... 3) Professor Emeritus C. Corduneanu Texas State University Department of Mathematics Arlington, Texas 76019, USA. ISBN: 1-931233-60-8 ... ...33-60-8 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 Foreword As someone who works heavily in both ma... ... journals. He is truly a Renaissance man, I have books of his art, poetry, philosophy and mathematics among my collection. Yes, the plural can be app... ...istics. This representation is closer to the reasoning of the human mind. It characterizes/catches the imprecision of knowledge or linguistic... ...tatistics. This representation is closer to the reasoning of the human mind. It characterizes / catches the imprecision of knowledge or linguist...

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...For most of the 20th century, both relativity and star travel fascinated this writer. The reasons Albert Einstein concluded there is an absolute barrier at the speed of light seemed at first clear, then later not so clear upon closer...

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...ceed one's grasp. Thus we reach for Alpha Centauri with a round-trip manned and womanned mission as the proposed overarching goal under a clear plan of exploration - a grand experiment described in later chapters. Whether or not we succeed in grasping the goal under this or under any plan is not as important as it is to set a definite plan and work towards its goal. The...

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...- Ch.7. The Phase One Experiment: The First Starship. 37 -- Ch.8. The Phase Two Experiment: Alpha Centauri or Bust!. 45 -- Ch.9. Voyage to the Center of the Galaxy. 50 -- Ch.10. An Hypothesis: There is no Speed Barrier in the Universe. 52 --...

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...D. 2070 Homer B. Tilton Florentin Smarandache 2 To the memory of Benjamin E. Tilton (1876-1955), a close contemporary of Albert Einstein ... ... Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ...ovora, Romania. More science books can be downloaded from the E-Library of Science: www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooks-otherformats.htm Pr... ... a slippery concept, and it is expected that the reader will keep that in mind. Towards clarifying that concept insofar as it applies herein, a work... ...t it as gospel; one recent book written by Zimmerman & Zimmerman comes to mind.[1] Actually, only the tenth chapter deals directly with the light bar... ...iattelli-Palmarini, Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds, 1994, ISBN 0-471-58126-7. 18 Chapter 3 An Overview Ein... ...and editor of 70 books and 90 papers in mathematics, physics, literature, philosophy. In November 2004 he was invited to lecture at NASA Langley Re...

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...The introduction to Hegel's lectures on the philosophy of world history is often used to introduce students to Hegel's philosophy, in part because Hegel's sometimes difficult style is muted in the lectures, and he discourses on accessible themes such as world events in...

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...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ........................................................................................................... 79 THE HYPOTHETICAL STRUCTURE OF OUR MINDS ... ...dy. Wanda and I go way back. We got our doctorates at the same time at your alma mater Commander. Of course I was in psychology and she was in philos... ... in a maze. ―Oh, if I only had infinite knowledge and could tell the world my plan! But, unfortunately, I do not. I have neither an infinite mind n... ...nately, I do not. I have neither an infinite mind nor infinite knowledge so I cannot approach certainty. My only hope is to clarify in my own mind w... ...g between our conscience and our more basic sensual pleasures. ―As you know, one of the basic questions in psychology, anthropology and philos... ...rdained!‖ —―I get the pun. I‘m sure Thomas Aquinas is turning over in his grave seeing you using language for frivolity rather than for philos...