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These ideas were further advanced, and modified, by Plato’s greatest student and arguably the greatest thinker in Western history, Aristotle. Aristotle went on to start his own school, the Lyceum, rightly considered to be the world’s first university, in 335 BCE. Unlike his teacher Plato, Aristotle was committed not only to philosophical
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As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force, which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the
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nihilism
Keely Adler and • 24 cards
The first ‘germ theory of disease’ was proposed by Dr Plenciz in 1762, but it was not until the 19th century that the Italian entomologist, Agostino Bassi performed experiments that are alleged to be the first to provide ‘proof’ for the theory.
Dawn Lester • What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong
A part of Dawkins’s purpose was to explain altruism: behavior in individuals that goes against their own best interests. Nature is full of examples of animals risking their own lives in behalf of their progeny, their cousins, or just fellow members of their genetic club. Furthermore, they share food; they cooperate in building hives and dams; they
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DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters
anthroposophy
Stuart Evans • 49 cards
philosophy
Eros • 3 cards
