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...Chapter 1. Zeno Skinny-dipping with Raylene’s friends was not Zeno’s idea of a fun night out. He’d only agreed because he wanted to seem tough, and hoped if he felt her up in the water and fucked her afterwards her mates would stop s...

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...Paradigms 37. Awesome Numb3rs 38. Some Sampling of Math Symbols 39. Computation of Consciousness 40. Auto-Didactic Ivy Leaguers 41. Zeno's Paradox in Time and Space 42. Needn't say Anymore 43. You can see the Past as it Were 44. Music: A Beautiful Triangulation 45. Mobius Strip: Assembly Required 46. e^(i*Pi) + 1 = 0 is Heavy Duty 4...

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...tion: Deutscher Hausschatz in Wort und Bild. 8. Jg. 1881/82. Heft 18. Regensburg, New York, Cincinnati (1882). Nr. 50, S. 795. (Summary by Wikipedia, Zeno & Wassermann)....

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... achieve happiness only by cultivating a calm acceptance of the vicissitudes of life. Among the Stoics of the Greek and Roman world were its founder, Zeno, the former slave Epictetus, and the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. George Stock discusses not only the Stoic ethics, but also less well-known aspects of Stoicism, such as its division of the branches of philosophy, its ...

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...nlanders were destroyed 45-58 CHAPTER III. Discovery of America by Zichmni and Zeno. -- Caught by a terrible storm and driven upon a strange shore -- ... ...6 The Geysers of Iceland................................................... 58 Zeno off the coast of Friesland........................................... ...ey to the savage Skrællings. CHAPTER III. DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY ZICHMNI AND ZENO. In about 1390, Nicolo Zeno, a distinguished and rich navigator of... ...y restrained, however, by their chief who, ordering them to retire, approached Zeno, and addressed him in Latin. This chief, whose name was Zichmni, p... ...s had established himself there as a ruling prince; and observing at once that Zeno, who was a skillful navigator, might be serviceable to him, Zichmn... ...inavian times, the authentic history of Arctic exploration is continued by the Zenoes of Venice, who in 1380 made voyages to Greenland and brought bac... ...ng; there were churches, warm baths and flower gardens; but the stories of the Zenoes received little credence, being regarded as the idle tales of go... ...nland and that he knew of the countries to the south that are mentioned by the Zenoes. After the discovery of America, Arctic voyages began to be made...

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...the love of the magnanimitie, and consideration of the exceeding vertue of Zeno, one of their fellow-citizens, who tooke the publike fault wholly upo... ...gitur, T. Coruncanium, P. Scipionem, P. Scævolam, Pontifices maximos, non Zenonem, aut Cleanthem, aut Chrysippum sequor: (1 CIC. De. Nat. 1. iii. c.... ...uncanium, Publius Scipio, P. Scævola, and the professors of religion, not Zeno, Cleanthes, or Chrysippus.' May God know it in our present quarell, w... ...t a good, they will follow a bad course: aswtouV ex Aristippi, acerbos ex Zenonis Schola exire (Cic. Deor. iii.). They proceed licentious out of the... ...ntious out of the Schoole of Aristippus, but bitter out of the Schoole of Zeno. In that excellent institution which Zenophon giveth the Persians, wee... ...nes at once they sharpened their wits, and learned the right. Astiages in Zenophon calleth Cyrus to an accompt of his last lesson. It is (saith he) ... ...e to bee plentifull in conceits than in language. And these are the best. Zeno was wont to say, 'That he had two sorts of disciples; the one he call... ... great with childe. Many also with those that have their monethly disease. Zenobia received her husband but for one charge which done, all the time o... ... and religion) than to roast and eat him after he is dead. Chrysippus and Zeno, arch-pillars of the Stoicke sect, have supposed that it was no hurt ...

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...e barrier at the speed of light. But the resemblance of that scenario to Zeno's puzzle "The Achilles" is inescapable; and the compounding of velocit... ... only one particular way that the speed of light cannot be exceeded. In Zeno's puzzle, Achilles' attempt to overtake the tortoise consists of an in... ... equivalent to an infinite compounding of velocity increments. One of Zeno's paradoxes argues that we cannot get from point A to point B, or go b... ... How long does it take to overcome that kind of mindset? In the case of Zeno's paradoxes it took nearly two thousand years. Risky business. At... ...unable to reach the rim, like Achilles inability to reach the tortoise in Zeno's famous puzzle, "The Achilles." Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1927): "But...

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...genes follows, probably one of the Sceptical writers, considers Xenophanes, Zeno, and Democritus, Sceptics, and also Plato, [2] while Sextus, in re...

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...historical or being model of reality has been with us since Parmenides and Zeno, and is known as the Eleatic model. The becoming or processing model o...

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...ge. Philosophers used infinite regression to attack both the notions of finiteness (Zeno) and of infinity. Ryle, for instance, suggested the followi... ...ptable. Infinity leads to unacceptable conclusions is the not so hidden message. Zeno used infinite series to attack the notion of finiteness and...

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...ge. Philosophers used infinite regression to attack both the notions of finiteness (Zeno) and of infinity. Ryle, for instance, suggested the followi... ...ptable. Infinity leads to unacceptable conclusions is the not so hidden message. Zeno used infinite series to attack the notion of finiteness and...

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...irst philosophical school, and superintendent over all the rest, the great Zeno, forms this syllogism against death: “No evil is honourable; but death... ...toics which we find lying upon silken cushions.”—Horace, Epod., viii. 15.] Zeno, amongst his laws, also regulated the motions to be observed in gettin... ...od! of all oaths the most direct. They say that Socrates swore by the dog; Zeno had for his oath the same interjection at this time in use amongst the... ...s pleasure, the absurd, crack-brained, wild motions with which it inspires Zeno and Cratippus, the in- discreet rage, the countenance inflamed with fu... ...d rather to lose the succession of men, than to beget one. ’Tis said, that Zeno never had to do with a woman but once in his life, and then out of civ... ...the sex. [Diogenes Laertius, vii. 13.—What is there said, however, is that Zeno seldom had commerce with boys, lest he should be deemed a very misogyn... ...ve wished to have stayed. And why not, if Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Diogenes, Zeno, Antipater, so many sages of the sourest sect, readily abandoned their... ...for senti- ment, and not for patience, and evade the blows we cannot meet. Zeno, seeing Chremonides, a young man whom he loved, draw near to sit down ... ...ie down. Aristippus maintained nothing but the body, as if we had no soul; Zeno compre- hended only the soul, as if we had no body: both of them fault...

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...ome to bribery, said we, and there is an end to all morality,—Aristotle’s, Zeno’s, Cicero’s, or anybody’s. And, besides, of what use was it? For we br... ...songs, ‘Ça ira, ça ira, ça ira.’”— MASSON. 8 18 ALL MORALITY,—ARISTOTLE’S, ZENO’S, CICERO’S: Each of these three has a high place in the his- tory of ... ...pid indifference; etc.” (Ueberweg, History of Philosophy, Vol. I, p. 169). Zeno, who died about 264 B.C., founded about 308 the Stoic sect, which took...

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...er, inferred that the subscribers meant to profess themselves followers of Zeno. But I have been since assured that this is a mistake. 16 I here reck...

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...hou canst trample the Earth with its injuries under thy feet, as old Greek Zeno trained thee: thou canst love the Earth while it injures thee, and eve... ...it injures thee, and even because it injures thee; for this a Greater than Zeno was needed, and he too was sent. Knowest thou that ‘Worship of Sorrow’...

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...t, upon the single account of the virtue and magna- nimity of one citizen, Zeno,—[Plutarch calls him Stheno, and also Sthemnus and Sthenis]—who took t... ...tur, Ti. Coruncanium, P . Scipionem, P. Scaevolam, pontifices maximos, non Zenonem, aut Cleanthem, aut Chrysippum, sequor.” 170 Essays: Book the Firs... ...follow the high priests T . Coruncanius, P . Scipio, P . Scaevola, and not Zeno, Cleanthes, or Chrysippus.”—Cicero, De Natura Deor., iii. 2.] God know... ...d effeminate debauchees from the school of Aristippus, cynics from that of Zeno.”—Cicero, De Natura Deor., iii., 31.] In that excellent institution th... ...e fertility of speech; and these are 234 Essays: Book the First the best. Zeno used to say that he had two sorts of disciples, one that he called cy—... ...n with women with child, others also, with those who are in their courses. Zenobia would never admit her husband for more than one encounter, after wh... ... and religion), than to roast and eat him after he is dead. Chrysippus and Zeno, the two heads of the Stoic sect, were of opinion that there was no hu... ... his train. ’Tis said that Homer had never more than one, Plato three, and Zeno, founder of the sect of Stoics, none at all. Tiberius Gracchus was all...

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...n your wedding night, unless you have been brought up in the philosophy of Zeno, which puts up with anything, and there are many people obliged to be ...

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...izens to him at that time, he called Aollius, but after ages Abillius. But Zenodotus the T roezenian, in giving this account, is contra- dicted by man... ...efore all those who have written well on politics, as Plato, Diogenes, and Zeno, have taken Lycurgus for their model, leaving behind them, however, me... ...nce you’re the Chiron who taught Pericles. Pericles, also, was a hearer of Zeno, the Eleatic, who treated of natural philosophy in the same manner as ... ...nt; as Timon of Phlius describes it, — Also the two-edged tongue of mighty Zeno, who, Say what one would, could argue it untrue. But he that saw most ... ...f tragedies, include some comic scenes, we shall not altogether rely upon; Zeno used to bid those who called Pericles’s gravity the affectation of a c... ..., plundered the goods, and sold the inhabitants. The Greeks call this city Zenodotia, upon the taking of which, he permitted the army to salute him 8...

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...morality than that of the Epicureans, and a sterner sense of man’s duties, Zeno and the Stoic philoso- phers prescribed suicide in certain cases to th...

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...ts, but admitted no em- bellishment to its austere and commanding brevity. Zeno said a philosopher should never speak till his words had been steeped ... ...tructing the youth. 405 Plutarch’s Lives Sphaerus was one of the first of Zeno the Citiean’s scholars, and it is likely enough that he admired the ma... ...m that the wise man only is a true general, “Indeed,” he replied, “none of Zeno’s maxims once pleased me better than this, but I have been converted t... ...harged the bearer to hand it to the king, if possible, by the mediation of Zeno the Cretan or Polycritus the Mendaean (the former being a dancing-mast...

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..., Sir, how many appropriate characters are open for your selection. Plato, Zeno, Epicurus, Pythagoras— all founders of clubs.’ ‘I know that,’ said Mr....

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... of their obscene Ashtaroth, and the un- worthy successors of Socrates and Zeno, found there a pre- carious subsistence by administering, under the na...

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...ore sunrise, from various points of the city, bearing toward the Palio and Zeno gates, and the people turned out to see them, for it was a march that ...

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...e on human nature as was the stoicism of the an- cients? The philosophy of Zeno was built on true laws, but on true laws misunderstood, and therefore ...

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... or whether he is propounding consequences which would have been admitted by Zeno and Parmenides them selves. The contradictions which follow from th... ...the reciter on the effect produced by them. Thus we are informed by him that Zeno and Parmenides were not altogether pleased at the request of Socrate... ...e are glad to be told that Parmenides was ‘aged but well favoured,’ and that Zeno was ‘very good looking’; also that Parmenides affected to decline th... ... also that Parmenides affected to decline the great argu ment, on which, as Zeno knew from experience, he was not unwilling to enter. The character o... ...ome from a distance, with a rehearsal. Respecting the 5 Parmenides visit of Zeno and Parmenides to Athens, we may observe—first, that such a visit is... ...an be placed on the circum stance as determining the date of Parmenides and Zeno; fourthly , that the same occasion ap pears to be referred to by Pl... ...ing to ‘lay hands on his father Parmenides.’ Nothing of this kind is said of Zeno and Parmenides. How then, without a word of explanation, could Plato... ...heard that Antiphon remembers a conversation of Socrates with Parmenides and Zeno, of which the report came to him from Pythodorus, Zeno’s friend.’ ‘T... ...old us that Pythodorus had described to him the appearance of Parmenides and Zeno; they had come to Athens at the great Panathenaea, the former being ...

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..., into the hands of wicked men, to be lifted up, according to the words of Zenock, and to be crucified, ac- cording to the words of Neum, and to be bu... ...ords of Neum, and to be buried in a sepul- chre, according to the words of Zenos, which he spake con- cerning the three days of darkness, which should... ...1 Nephi 19:12 12 And all these things must surely come, saith the prophet Zenos. And the rocks of the earth must rend; and because of the groanings ... ...l, will I gather in, saith the Lord, according to the words of the prophet Zenos, from the four quarters of the earth. 1 Nephi 19:17 17 Yea, and all ... ...old, my brethren, do ye not remember to have read the words of the prophet Zenos, which he spake unto the house of Israel, saying: Jacob 5:2 2 Hearke... ... prophesy , behold, this is my prophecy—that the things which this prophet Zenos spake, concerning the house of Israel, in the which he likened them u... ..., ye do not understand them. Alma 33:3 3 Do ye remember to have read what Zenos, the prophet of old, has said concerning prayer or worship? Alma 33:4... ...tten by them of old? Alma 33:13 13 Behold, if ye do, ye must believe what Zenos said; for, behold he said: Thou hast turned away thy judgments be- ca... ...ye disbelieve on the Son of God? Alma 33:15 15 For it is not written that Zenos alone spake of these things, but Zenock also spake of these things— A...

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...or him of an Eleatic stranger, who is described as a pupil of Parmenides and Zeno, and is supposed to have descended from a higher world in order to c... ...ea had sunk deep into the intellect of man. The ef fect of the paradoxes of Zeno extended far be yond the Eleatic circle. And now an unforeseen cons... ...mi nalists, asserting the One Good under many names to be the true Being of Zeno and the Eleatics, and, like Zeno, employing their nega tive dialect... ...d we bring with us a stranger from Elea, who is a disciple of Parmenides and Zeno, and a true philosopher. 72 Sophist – Plato SOCRATES: Is he not rat...

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...ation, under which are included both the rules of Gorgias and the eristic of Zeno. But it is not wholly devoid of truth. Superior knowledge en ables ... ...HAEDRUS: That is true. SOCRATES: Have we not heard of the Eleatic Palamedes (Zeno), who has an art of speaking 95 Phaedrus by which he makes the same...

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...f our duty seem to thee Discourteous rudeness. In Verona I Was abbot of San Zeno, when the hand Of Barbarossa grasp’d Imperial sway, That name, ne’er... ...Pompey, at Ilerda (Lerida) in Spain. v. 118. abbot.] Alberto, abbot of San Zeno in Verona, when Frederick I was emperor, by whom Milan was besiege... ...rto della Scala, lord of Verona, who had made his natural son abbot of San Zeno. v. 133. First they died.] The Israelites, who, on account of the...

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... of war, he utters not a song but the wailings of a dove. We mourn, too, for Zeno, who lest he should betray his secret bit off his tongue and fearles...

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...nfutes error, assigning to Diogenes the royal office of high reproof, and to Zeno that of positive instruction. Whereas you would fain set up for a ph...

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...I. The paradox of the one and many originated in the restless dialectic of Zeno, who sought to prove the abso- lute existence of the one by showing th... ... that are involved in admitting the existence of the many (compare Parm.). Zeno illustrated the contradiction by well-known examples taken from outwar...

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... Diogenes, With Heraclitus, and Empedocles, And Anaxagoras, and Thales sage, Zeno, and Dioscorides well read In nature’s secret lore. Orpheus I mark’d... ...f our duty seem to thee Discourteous rudeness. In Verona I Was abbot of San Zeno, when the hand Of Barbarossa grasp’d Imperial sway, That name, ne’er... ...Pompey, at Ilerda (Lerida) in Spain. v. 118. abbot.] Alberto, abbot of San Zeno in Verona, when Frederick I was emperor, by whom Milan was besiege... ...rto della Scala, lord of Verona, who had made his natural son abbot of San Zeno. v. 133. First they died.] The Israelites, who, on account of the...

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... thou canst trample the Earth with its injuries under thy feet, as old Greek Zeno trained thee: thou canst love the Earth while it injures thee, and e... ...e it injures thee, and even because it injures thee; for this a Greater than Zeno was needed, and he too was sent. Knowest thou that ‘Worship of Sorro...

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...n, if thou holdest our obligation for churlishness. I was Abbot 17 of San Zeno at Verona, under the empire of the good Barbarossa, of whom Milan, sti...

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... Diogenes, With Heraclitus, and Empedocles, And Anaxagoras, and Thales sage, Zeno, and Dioscorides well read In nature’s secret lore. Orpheus I mark’d...

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...d to chance; Diogenes, Anaxagoras, and Thales, Empedocles, Heraclitus, and Zeno; and I saw the good collector of the qualities, Dioscorides, I mean; a...

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...-murder, which they call “A reasonable exit.”—[ Diogenes Laertius, Life of Zeno.]—For though they say that men must often die for trivial causes, seei... ...at confirm us in it; and the philosopher Chrysippus said, that he would of Zeno and Cleanthes, his masters, learn their doctrines only; for, as to pro...

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...ritus, who puts the world on chance, Diogenes, Anaxagoras, and Thales, Zeno, Empedocles, and Heraclitus; Of qualities I saw the good collector, ... ...herefore pardon us, If thou for churlishness our justice take. I was San Zeno’s Abbot at Verona, Under the empire of good Barbarossa, Of whom st...

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...e knowledge,—all blab. Can a cook, a Chiffinch, an Iachimo be mistaken for Zeno or Paul? Confucius ex- claimed,—”How can a man be concealed? How can a... ...n spo- ken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sym- pathy with Zeno and Arrian than with persons in the house. This is the law of moral an...

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...but were obliged to travel about from place to place. In this manner lived Zeno of Elea, Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias, and many oth- ers. As the deman... ...assigned the Academy to Plato, the Lyceum to Aristotle, and the Portico to Zeno of Citta, the founder of the Stoics. But Epicurus bequeathed his garde...