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  • In philosophy, an aporia is a philosophical puzzle or a seemingly irresoluble impasse in an inquiry, often arising as a Contemporary academic studies of the term further characterize its usage in philosophical discourses. In "Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsisten ...
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  • ...haic" concepts of "human nature" to develop ones which constantly adapt to contemporary [[technoscientific]] knowledge.<ref name="Badmington 2000">{{cite book| aut ...ess-date=18 December 2019}}</ref> that draws on cultural posthumanism, the philosophical strand examines the ethical implications of expanding the circle of moral c ...
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  • | name = ''Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry'' | image = Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life A Philosophical Inquiry.jpg ...
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  • |title = Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic |url-id = paradoxes-contemporary-logic ...
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  • ...antism of the [[critical philosophy]] of [[Immanuel Kant]] and of modern [[philosophical skepticism]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] said that: "The essential element in In contemporary discussions of [[virtue ethics]], [[Aristotle]]'s ''[[Nicomachean Ethics]]' ...
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  • ...ies are to be grouped into categories. One approach sometimes found in the literature is to distinguish between [[fallacies of ambiguity]], which have their root The traditional approach to fallacies has received a lot of criticism in [[contemporary philosophy]]. This criticism is often based on the argument that the allege ...
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  • ==Philosophical overview== ...Jain āgamas suggest that Mahāvīra's approach to answering all metaphysical philosophical questions was a "qualified yes" (''syāt'').{{sfn|Matilal|1990|pp=301–305}}{ ...
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  • ...pplication of information-theoretic and computational methodologies to its philosophical problems.<ref>Luciano Floridi, [http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pci/down ...istory of science]], beginning with publication of the first issues of ''[[Philosophical Transactions]],'' generally considered the first scientific journal, in 166 ...
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  • ...the impact of technology on [[society]] and [[culture]]. Some of the most contemporary theories of technological change reject two of the previous views: the [[Li Perhaps the most developed contemporary critical theory of technology is contained in the works of [[Andrew Feenber ...
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  • {{Expert needed| anthropology|reason=This article covers contemporary fashion far more than it covers human history and behaviour|date=December 2 ...own for her writings on Mesopotamia, has compared these individuals to the contemporary Indian ''[[Hijra (South Asia)|hijra]]''.<ref name="Leick"/>{{rp|158–163}} I ...
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  • ...ions and challenges among scientists. Scientific skepticism differs from [[philosophical skepticism]], which questions humans' ability to claim any knowledge about ...us spelling differences|British spelling]]: '''sceptical movement''') is a contemporary [[social movement]] based on the idea of scientific skepticism. The movemen ...
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  • Compare various contemporary definitions given in the [[Oxford English Dictionary|OED]] (2nd edition, 19 ...y|Bibliographies]] are a form of metaknowledge. Patterns within scientific literature is another. ...
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  • ...Robert |last1=Boyle |first2=M.A. |last2=Stewart |year=1991 |title=Selected Philosophical Papers of Robert Boyle |series=HPC Classics Series |publisher=Hackett |isbn ...''ex hypothesi,'' violate the laws of nature, in so far as such laws are [[Philosophical realism|realistically accountable]]. ...
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  • ...eryday understanding of common sense is ultimately derived from historical philosophical discussions. Relevant terms from other languages used in such discussions i "Common sense" has at least two specific [[Philosophy|philosophical]] meanings. One is as a capability of the animal soul ({{lang|grc|[[wikt:ψυ ...
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  • ...rgument. Protagoras wrote about a variety of subjects and advanced several philosophical ideas, particularly in [[epistemology]]. Some fragments of his works have s ...erived from [[Sextus Empiricus]], who represents him as holding the most [[philosophical skepticism|ultrasceptical]] opinions, and maintaining that all notions are ...
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  • ...fferent questions about the nature of truth which are still the subject of contemporary debates. These include the question of defining truth; whether it is even p ...ed. According to a survey of professional philosophers and others on their philosophical views which was carried out in November 2009 (taken by 3226 respondents, in ...
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  • In contemporary anthologies such as ''Neither Here nor There: The Many Voices of Liminality ...assen2009/> [[Bisexual]], [[intersex]], and [[transgender]] people in some contemporary societies, people of mixed [[ethnicity]], and those accused but not yet jud ...
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  • | series = Point/Counterpoint: Philosophers Debate Contemporary Issues Series ...vu.org/congress/wvc57/souvenir/tamil.html | title = Vegetarianism in Tamil Literature | last = Meenakshi Sundaram | first = T. P. | date = 1957 | website = 15th ...
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  • ...nt/view.php?id=51387&section=2.1 Succeeding in postgraduate study: 2.1 The philosophical approach], accessed 26 January 2023</ref> Critical thinking presupposes ass Contemporary critical thinking scholars have expanded these traditional definitions to i ...
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  • ...|date=2013 |title=Reason and Rationality |series=Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis |volume=48 |location=Berlin |publisher=[[De Gruyter]] |isbn=978-38 ...st=Nicholas |author-link=Nicholas Rescher |date=1988 |title=Rationality: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Nature and the Rationale of Reason |series=Clarendon Libra ...
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