Download or read book Then Beggars Could Ride written by Ray Faraday Nelson and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of his life, Newton McClintok had lived in the Americal flapper era. He might have been an ancient Roman or a Victorian Englishman. He could have lived his life in any time or place he chose -- or at least, an almost perfect replica of it. But for Newton McClintok, life in this dream world brought only discontentment. After an unsuccessful suicide attempted, he embarked on a journey through the ages to find his own special Utopia -- only to discover that the journey never ends! A classic science fiction novel from the author of The Ecolog and TimeQuest.
Download or read book If Wishes Were Horses Beggars Could Ride written by E. V. A. Christy and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metaphysics written by Josiah Royce and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-08-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an edited transcript of Josiah Royce's last year-long course in metaphysics at Harvard in 1915–1916.
Download or read book Imagining Irreality written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Rescher surveys and analyzes the different kinds of unreal possibilities and nonexistent objects, tying together all the diverse ways in which this area has been approached by philosophers. As he surveys the field and clarifies the kinds of unreality, he also makes a sustained argument against the philosophical fashion for dealing with nonexistent possible world as though they were authentic objects. The author holds that, while we may discuss possibilities, we ought not to accord them ontological status. The possibility of existence of a certain sort of world is not the existence of possible world of a certain sort. While we may reasonable discuss possibilities at the generic level, such as a world where dogs have horns, this does not require a commitment to a possible world where they do. The work that theorists of logic and language want to accomplish with possible worlds and individuals can be managed with propositional manifolds, stories or scenarios, while the modalities of necessity and possibility that modal logicians want to analyze in terms of realization in possible worlds can be handled by turning instead to figuring in stories or scenarios.
Download or read book Coffee Tales written by Kurt Frazier and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coffee Tales is a collection of short fictional works that carry the reader from looking for a "Missing Groom" to settling a debt between old friends
Download or read book Wedded in Scandal A Bridal Favors Novel written by Jade Lee and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “...deliciously flawed characters, sizzling chemistry, and a delightful journey.” ~Chrissy Burns With her father cast from society as a liar and a thief, the ensuing scandal renders Lady Helaine unfit for marriage. Desperate to provide for herself and her mother, she adopts an assumed name and runs a dressmaker’s shop specializing in bridal wear for ladies of high society. Helaine is happiest immersed in silk and satin but lives in terror that her true identity will be discovered and she will lose everything...again. When Robert Percy, Viscount Redhill, encounters the mysterious Helaine he is entranced and sets out to weave a web of seduction sure to ensnare. Then he learns, too late, the heartbreaking truth of her sullied past. Now to claim Helaine as his own, he must find a way to overcome the past. But what chance has love when a secret mistress becomes a scandalous wife? “Jade Lee [will] sweep you away.” ~Sabrina Jeffries, New York Times bestselling author Bridal Favors, in series order: Engaged in Wickedness Wedded in Scandal Engaged in Passion Wedded in Sin
Download or read book Studies in Pragmatism written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: set of studies of various ideas and theories that play a key role in traditional pragmatism and are important for the idealistic pragmatism Nicholas Rescher long was engaged in developing.
Download or read book Aporetics written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word apory stems from the Greek aporia, meaning impasse or perplexing difficulty. In Aporetics, Nicholas Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. Rescher examines historic, formulaic, and systematic apories and couples these with aporetic theory from other authors to form this original and comprehensive survey. Citing thinkers from the pre-Socratics through Spinoza, Hegel, and Nicolai Hartmann, he builds a framework for coping with the complexities of divergent theses, and shows in detail how aporetic analysis can be applied to a variety of fields including philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, logic, and intellectual history.Rescher's in-depth examination reveals how aporetic inconsistency can be managed through a plausibility analysis that breaks the chain of inconsistency at its weakest link by deploying right-of-way precedence based on considerations of cognitive centrality. Thus while involvement with cognitive conflicts and inconsistencies are pervasive in human thought, aporetic analysis can provide an effective means of damage control.
Download or read book Toward a New Sensibility written by O. K. Bouwsma and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O. K. Bouwsma, one of America's foremost Wittgensteinians, was also an extraordinarily dedicated and effective teacher. The present collection, assembled posthumously from his papers, includes twelve essays, all but one previously unpublishedøand all characterized by the humor, common sense, and wisdom that marked his classroom lectures. Ranging in subject matter from topics in Wittgenstein to Descartes to aesthetics, the pieces all show the influence of Wittgenstein. Some of the questions they raise deal with the traditional and historical background of twentieth-century philosophy?"Am I dreaming?" "Is what I see real?" "Are there material objects?"?while others relate to considerations peculiar to thinkers today, for example, "What is Wittgenstein doing in his writing?" "What does philosophy have to do with language?" Bouwsma wants first to understand the philosophical questions?to unknit the knit eyebrows it produces. Accordingly, his major concern is how we as thinkers, readers, writers, and speakers, separate what we understand from what we do not understand: hence his consideration, in the opening essay, of "a new sensibility in the matter of our language." Always approaching the subject as a practical problem rather than as an abstract, theoretical issue, these essays demonstrate, with patience and wit, ways to achieve clarity on puzzles long thought intractable.
Download or read book Logic and Philosophy written by William H. Brenner and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 1993-09-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dual purpose of this volume—to provide a distinctively philosophical introduction to logic, as well as a logic-oriented approach to philosophy—makes this book a unique and worthwhile primary text for logic and/or philosophy courses. Logic and Philosophy covers a variety of elementary formal and informal types of reasoning, including a chapter on traditional logic that culminates in a treatment of Aristotle's philosophy of science; a truth-functional logic chapter that examines Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, logic, and mysticism; and sections on induction, analogy, and fallacies that incorporate material on mind-body dualism, pseudoscience, the "raven paradox," and proofs of God. Throughout the book Brenner highlights passages and ideas from various prominent philosophers, and discusses at some length the work of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, and Wittgenstein.
Download or read book St Nicholas written by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hospice Choice written by Marcia Lattanzi-Licht and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-03-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the expertise of The National Hospice Organization--the umbrella organization for the ever-increasing number of hospice programs nationwide--this definitive guidebook outlines the many different choices for care and help available to the terminally ill, their families, and their caretakers.
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Download or read book The Nothing that Is written by Robert Kaplan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it's added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. As we enter the year 2000, zero is once again making its presence felt. Nothing itself, it makes possible a myriad of calculations. Indeed, without zero mathematics as we know it would not exist. And without mathematics our understanding of the universe would be vastly impoverished. But where did this nothing, this hollow circle, come from? Who created it? And what, exactly, does it mean? Robert Kaplan's The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero begins as a mystery story, taking us back to Sumerian times, and then to Greece and India, piecing together the way the idea of a symbol for nothing evolved. Kaplan shows us just how handicapped our ancestors were in trying to figure large sums without the aid of the zero. (Try multiplying CLXIV by XXIV). Remarkably, even the Greeks, mathematically brilliant as they were, didn't have a zero--or did they? We follow the trail to the East where, a millennium or two ago, Indian mathematicians took another crucial step. By treating zero for the first time like any other number, instead of a unique symbol, they allowed huge new leaps forward in computation, and also in our understanding of how mathematics itself works. In the Middle Ages, this mathematical knowledge swept across western Europe via Arab traders. At first it was called "dangerous Saracen magic" and considered the Devil's work, but it wasn't long before merchants and bankers saw how handy this magic was, and used it to develop tools like double-entry bookkeeping. Zero quickly became an essential part of increasingly sophisticated equations, and with the invention of calculus, one could say it was a linchpin of the scientific revolution. And now even deeper layers of this thing that is nothing are coming to light: our computers speak only in zeros and ones, and modern mathematics shows that zero alone can be made to generate everything. Robert Kaplan serves up all this history with immense zest and humor; his writing is full of anecdotes and asides, and quotations from Shakespeare to Wallace Stevens extend the book's context far beyond the scope of scientific specialists. For Kaplan, the history of zero is a lens for looking not only into the evolution of mathematics but into very nature of human thought. He points out how the history of mathematics is a process of recursive abstraction: how once a symbol is created to represent an idea, that symbol itself gives rise to new operations that in turn lead to new ideas. The beauty of mathematics is that even though we invent it, we seem to be discovering something that already exists. The joy of that discovery shines from Kaplan's pages, as he ranges from Archimedes to Einstein, making fascinating connections between mathematical insights from every age and culture. A tour de force of science history, The Nothing That Is takes us through the hollow circle that leads to infinity.
Download or read book Profitable Speculations written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first group surveys key aspects of the recent scene in philosophy in a retrospective mood that is appropriate as the century nears its close. The second group is a critical examination (both historical and systemic) of a conception - that of "possible worlds"--That has played an important formative role in twentieth-century philosophy. The final group presents some philosophical reflections on the human condition viewed from the vantage point of concepts (collectivity, technology, complexity, chance, and rationality) that twentieth-century philosophy has placed in the foreground of philosophical concern.
Download or read book Change Your Aura Change Your Life written by Barbara Y. Martin and published by TarcherPerigee. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Nautilus Award Winner A new guide to the source of your spiritual energy--the aura--from renowned spiritual teachers Barbara Y. Martin and Dimitri Moraitis. Discover your source of unlimited spiritual energy! Everything you think, feel, and do radiates a spiritual energy that comes through in various colors and hues: This is your aura. The aura is your spiritual blueprint. By changing the quality of your aura, you can automatically change the quality of your life. In this groundbreaking book, renowned aura expert Barbara Martin, known as the Mozart of Metaphysics, leads you through her technique for improving the aura--a technique she has taught to thousands. -Whether you see auras or not, this breakthrough book reveals: -What the various colors of the aura mean and say about you. -How to work with the power rays of spiritual enrichment--including love, prosperity healing, and wisdom. -More than 90 meditations to deepen personal relationships, advance your career, and transform destructive emotions. -How to become more spiritual and closer to God.
Download or read book The New Pearson s written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
