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13 produkter
Brief History of the Paradox
Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
Av Roy Sorensen
E-bok, 2003
147 kr
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Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. Now Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative …
Seeing Dark Things
The Philosophy of Shadows
Av Roy Sorensen
Inbunden, 2008
1165 kr
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If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin? When you experience the total blackness of a cave, are you seeing in the dark? Or are you merely failing to see anything (just like your blind companion)?Seeing Dark Things uses visual riddles to explore our ability to see shadows, …
Nothing
A Philosophical History
Av Roy Sorensen
E-bok, 2022
184 kr
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An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th century How can nothing cause something? The absence of something might seem to indicate a null or a void, an emptiness as ineffectual as a shadow. In fact, …
Seeing Dark Things
The Philosophy of Shadows
Av Roy Sorensen
E-bok, 2008
473 kr
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If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin? When you experience the total blackness of a cave, are you seeing in the dark? Or are you merely failing to see anything (just like your blind companion)? Seeing Dark Things uses visual riddles to explore our ability to see things …
Vagueness and Contradiction
Av Roy Sorensen
Inbunden, 2001
1225 kr
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Did Buddha become a fat man in one second? Is there a tallest short giraffe?Epistemicists answer 'Yes!' They believe that any predicate that divides things divides them sharply. They solve the ancient sorites paradox by picturing vagueness as a kind of ignorance. The alternative solutions are …
Vagueness and Contradiction
Av Roy Sorensen
Häftad, 2004
969 kr
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Did Buddha become a fat man in one second? Is there a tallest short giraffe?Epistemicists answer 'Yes!' They believe that any predicate that divides things divides them sharply. They solve the ancient sorites paradox by picturing vagueness as a kind of ignorance. The alternative solutions are …
Brief History of the Paradox
Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
Av Roy Sorensen
E-bok, 2003
147 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. Now Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative …
Nothing
A Philosophical History
Av Roy Sorensen
Inbunden, 2022
271 kr
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An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th centuryHow can nothing cause something? The absence of something might seem to indicate a null or a void, an emptiness as ineffectual as a shadow. In fact, …
Seeing Dark Things
The Philosophy of Shadows
Av Roy Sorensen
Häftad, 2011
716 kr
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If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin? When you experience the total blackness of a cave, are you seeing in the dark? Or are you merely failing to see anything (just like your blind companion)? Seeing Dark Things uses visual riddles to explore our ability to see things …
Seeing Dark Things
The Philosophy of Shadows
Av Roy Sorensen
E-bok, 2008
473 kr
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If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin? When you experience the total blackness of a cave, are you seeing in the dark? Or are you merely failing to see anything (just like your blind companion)? Seeing Dark Things uses visual riddles to explore our ability to see things …
Nothing
A Philosophical History
Av Roy Sorensen
E-bok, 2022
184 kr
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An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th century How can nothing cause something? The absence of something might seem to indicate a null or a void, an emptiness as ineffectual as a shadow. In fact, …
A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities
A Collection of Puzzles, Oddities, Riddles and Dilemmas
Av Roy Sorensen
Häftad, 2017
123 kr
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If you want to learn how to conform to confound, raze hopes, succeed your successor, order absence in the absence of order, win by losing and think contrapositively, look no further. Here you can unlock the secrets of Plato's void, Wittgenstein's investigations, Schopenhauer's intelligence test, …
A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities
A Collection of Puzzles, Oddities, Riddles and Dilemmas
Av Roy Sorensen
E-bok, 2016
129 kr
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If you want to learn how to conform to confound, raze hopes, succeed your successor, order absence in the absence of order, win by losing and think contrapositively, look no further. Here you can unlock the secrets of Plato''s void, Wittgenstein''s investigations, Schopenhauer''s intelligence test, …
