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Hace 2 días · In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Section 10), Hume defines a miracle as "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent".
Hace 2 días · The history of metaphysics examines how the inquiry into the basic structure of reality has evolved in the course of history. Metaphysics has its origin in speculations about the nature and origin of the cosmos that go back to ancient civilizations.
Hace 12 horas · Abstract. Character, this volume proposes, is a transmedia, overfreighted, and paradoxical concept that is fixed and yet ephemeral, and subject to different readings through different critical lenses. Considering the development of characters, this volume reappraises character as a precondition for caricature, addressing how the two merge and ...
Hace 3 días · Scientific inquiry generally aims to obtain knowledge in the form of testable explanations that scientists can use to predict the results of future experiments. This allows scientists to gain a better understanding of the topic under study, and later to use that understanding to intervene in its causal mechanisms (such as to cure ...
Hace 3 días · Those who feel the laudable ambition of acquiring the art of public speaking, will find this Society calculated to facilitate that useful and admired accomplishment. A free enquiry after truth, naturally tends to liberate the mind from pernicious prejudices; to expand and warm the heart with benevolence.
Hace 5 días · AI networks reveal how flies find a mate. Artificial neural networks that model the visual system of a male fruit fly can accurately predict the insect’s behaviour in response to seeing a ...
Hace 1 día · This essay presents a substantive Thomist response to neurophilosophy’s main experimental challenge to free will: the Libet-style experiments on the neural antecedents of conscious voluntary actions. My response to this challenge will disclose that Thomists are rationally justified in rejecting both the conclusions of neurophilosophy skeptics of free will, and more fundamentally, the rival ...
