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  • | language = English ...Times Literary Supplement]] #88</ref> expecting the book to appeal more to philosophers than mathematicians. But he says : ...
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  • ...nd Structure of Physical Theory'' by [[Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem]] (1914, English tr., 1954) * ''[[Primates and Philosophers]]: How Morality Evolved'' by [[Frans de Waal]] (2006) ...
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  • {{use Indian English|date=April 2017}} ...|volume=IX|issue=4|pages=362–376|url=http://www.unipune.ac.in/snc/cssh/ipq/english/IPQ/6-10%20volumes/09%2004/PDF/9-4-3.pdf|accessdate=27 November 2016}} ...
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  • '''Shahn Majid''' (born 1960 in [[Patna]], Bihar, India) is an English [[pure mathematician]] and [[theoretical physicist]], trained at [[Cambridg ...structures in a self-dual category'. Although not accepted by professional philosophers of science, the philosophy has provided a point of view behind most of his ...
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  • | language = English ...al Orbits'' is "a fantastic example of what can result when scientists and philosophers collaborate."<ref name=":0" /> ...
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  • ...her had both been born in India, De Morgan used to say that he was neither English nor Scottish nor Irish, but a Briton "unattached," using the technical term ...6 as a secular alternative to Oxford and Cambridge; Catholics, Jews, and [[English dissenters|dissenters]] could enter as students and hold positions. Prior t ...
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  • ...the study of language use, though it is also a matter of great interest to philosophers, especially those wishing to understand the nature of [[knowledge]], [[perc ...the programs KAMP and BERTRAND<ref name="Appelt">D Appelt (1985). Planning English referring expressions. ''Artificial Intelligence'', 26:1–33.</ref><ref name ...
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  • ...s adumbrated by Gauss<ref>This is a sly poke at the finitists: "Empiricist philosophers, such as Hobbes, Locke, and Hume, had convinced some mathematicians, such a ...on to give the example of the successor function ' (Gödel used f, the old-English symbol for s) – given starting-point 0, thereafter 0', 0{{'}}{{'}}, etc cre ...
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  • ...losophy is also reflected in the fact that many famous logicians were also philosophers.<ref name="Jacquette"/> The philosophy of logic is closely related to [[met ....<ref name="Magnus3"/> One recurrent problem concerns the word "is" in the English language, which has a variety of meanings depending on the context, such as ...
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  • ...e explanation in 1729 of [[aberration of light|stellar aberration]] by the English astronomer [[James Bradley]]. ...tribute the translation to [[Edmond Halley]] (1656–1742), who would become English [[Astronomer Royal]] and who is best known for his calculations concerning ...
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  • ...onomist of Marx's time," observed [[Robert Heilbroner]] in ''[[The Worldly Philosophers]]'', "although future events have certainly indicated his prediction of suc English-language journals include ''[[Capital & Class]]'', ''[[Historical Materiali ...
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  • ...egre (9616423447).jpg|thumb|320px|[[Peter Singer]] is one of the prominent philosophers of [[effective altruism]].]] ...est.com/docview/1548669952 |journal=Judgment and Decision Making |language=English |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=303–315 |doi=10.1017/S1930297500006185 |s2cid=187 ...
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  • ...0-7914-6800-5 |page=167 |quote=In fact it was common among Persian Islamic philosophers to write few quatrains on the side often in the spirit of some of the poems ...k is ''[[Nasirean Ethics|Akhlaq-i nasiri]]'' or ''[[Nasirean Ethics]]'' in English.<ref name="Freely 2011">{{Cite book|last=Freely|first=John|date=2011|title= ...
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  • ...usefulness with the production of pleasure and avoidance of pain by moral philosophers, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.<ref>[[Jeremy Bentham|Bentham, Jeremy] ...tle= The paradox of value-Akshita Agarwal | author= Alex Gendler |language=English}}</ref> ...
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  • In common language, English 'heat' or 'warmth', just as French ''chaleur'', German ''Hitze'' or ''Wärme ...surmised, or even the equivalency of the concepts, boldly expressed by the English philosopher [[Francis Bacon]] in 1620. "It must not be thought that heat ge ...
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  • ...order logic.png|thumb|upright=1.6|alt=Visualization of how to translate an English sentence into first-order logic|Formal logic needs to translate natural lan ...rtínez-Vidal|1a3=Rosen|1y=2021|2a1=Tondl|2y=2012|2p=111}} For example, the English sentence "the tree is green" is different from the German sentence "der Bau ...
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  • ...900).jpg|right|thumb|The [[frontispiece]] of Sir Henry Billingsley's first English version of Euclid's ''[[Element (mathematics)|Elements]]'', 1570]]--> ...rchive.org/web/20160715034047/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/geodesic|archive-date=15 July 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> ...
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  • ...based on Chinese literary examinations which were popularized in France by philosophers, especially Voltaire. Western perception of China in the 18th century admir ...dgell]] recommended imitating the Chinese examination system but the first English person to recommend competitive examinations to qualify for employment was ...
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  • {{Short description|English theoretical physicist (1942–2018)}} '''Stephen William Hawking''' (8 January 1942&nbsp;– 14 March 2018) was an English [[theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]], [[cosmologist]], and author ...
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  • ...le outcomes of measurements. For this reason, some [[Philosophy of science|philosophers of science]] have deemed QBism a form of [[anti-realism]].<ref>{{Cite book| ...first=Amanda|work=Quanta|access-date=2017-04-24|language=en-US}}</ref> and English philosopher [[Frank P. Ramsey|Frank Ramsey]].<ref name=":0">{{cite arXiv|la ...
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