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  Pi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And hence, as long as the two series produced the same digits, there was a very high confidence that they were correct.
Piems are related to the entire field of humorous yet serious study that involves the use of mnemonic techniques to remember the digits of π, known as piphilology.
In the cartoon series The Simpsons (episode Bye Bye Nerdie), "π is exactly three!" was an announcement made by Professor Frink on behalf of Lisa Simpson to gain the attention of a hall full of scientists.
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 Classics in the History of Psychology -- Reading Suggestions for History of Psychology Courses
400, sometimes misattributed to Gregory of Nyssa) is the earliest still-extant desciption of Medieval ventricular theory (the belief that the mental faculties are housed in the ventricles of the brain) (see especially Sections 30-32).
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651) opens with a series of 16 chapters collectively entitled "Of Man." This part of the book runs about 100 pp., but a number of the most basic topics (sense, imaginiation, speech, reason, passions) are covered in the first six chapters (35 pp.).
Leibniz's Monadology (1714) is mainly a metaphysical work, but contains some interesting psychological implications (taking the term fairly broadly).
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 Curriculum vitae
Leibniz, Metaphysical Disputation on the Principle of an Individual, 15 pp., typescript.
"Gregory of Rimini and Peter of Ailly: Are Mental Sentences Composed of Parts?," read at the Southeastern Medieval Association Meetings, March 24–26, Richmond, VA.
"Gregory of Rimini and Peter of Ailly: Are Mental Sentences Composed of Parts?," read at the Twelfth Kalamazoo Conference on the Middle Ages, May 5–8.
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 Pathways to Philosophy - Introductory readings in Philosophy
A number of published sources offer guidance to the reference literature of philosophy, but the present work is the only one that is at once comprehensive, up-to-date, and extensively annotated.
From the English Preface: "In the course of their studies, most students of philosophy at university or even in secondary education will sooner or later be called upon to produce a piece of original work.
There are as well many young teachers of philosophy who experience serious difficulties in compiling the material necessary to prepare their lectures, which are meant to introduce to the discipline which they themselves are teaching.
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 Martin Heidegger [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
By means of phenomenological description Husserl attempted to arrive at pure phenomena and to describe beings just as they were given independently of any presuppositions.
The series consists of four divisions: (I) Published Writings 1910-1976; (II) Lectures from Marburg and Freiburg, 1919-1944; (III) Private Monographs and Lectures, 1919-1967; (IV) Notes and Fragments.
Translated as An Introduction to Metaphysics by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000).
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 Bertrand Russell
This is so, even though he believed that his one, true revolution in philosophy came about as a result of his break from idealism.
Russell saw that the idealist doctrine of internal relations led to a series of contradictions regarding asymmetrical (and other) relations necessary for mathematics.
Landini, Gregory (1998) Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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 Top 20 Philosophy - A directory and selection of the best web sites for Philosophy!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
In Book 19 he argues against Cicero's understanding of the commonwealth, stating instead that the commonwealth is defined by people who are united in a commitment to share what they love.
An issue of great importance was coming to grips with the great political power that the Church had achieved, particularly in the office of the papacy.
The questions he raises would then be dealt with by Spinoza, Malebranche, Hobbes, Arnauld, John Locke, Leibniz, and David Hume.
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