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| Introduction: Aristotle's invention of induction and the eclipse of Presocratic cosmology |
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A historical note on verisimilitude |
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Some further hints on verisimilitude |
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The unknown Xenophanes: an attempt to establish his greatness |
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Founder of the Greek Enlightenment |
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The misunderstood cosmology of Xenophanes |
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Xenophanes as a philosophical theologian |
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Xenophanes theory of knowledge |
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Did Xenophanes inaugurate historical writing? |
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A note to the quotation from Xenophanes DK 21B25 |
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A new professional ethics based on Xenophanes' theory of truth Editorial note |
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How the Moon might shed some of her light upon the Two Ways of Parmenides (I) |
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The structure of Parmenides epos |
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The revelation of the goddess |
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A proposed solution of my problem |
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How the Moon might throw some of her light upon the Two Ways of Parmenides (1989) |
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Addendum with a note on a possible emendation affecting the relation between the two parts of Parmenides poem |
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Can the Moon throw light on Parmenides Ways? (1988) |
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Clarification of the solution to the problem |
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Parmenides rationalist elenchus |
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The world of Parmenides: notes on Parmenides poem and its origin in early Greek cosmology |
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The significance of cosmology |
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The discovery of the Earth and the sky |
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The beginnings of philosophy |
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Parmenides as a cosmologist |
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Parmenides was not an ontologist |
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Parmenides' new theory of knowledge |
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Parmenides and the methods of science |
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Why is the deceitful Way of Opinion included in the revelation of the goddess? |
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A psychological conjecture about Parmenides |
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Summary of these notes on Parmenides' poem |
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A historical conjecture about the origin of Parmenides' cosmology |
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Beyond the search for invariants |
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Parmenides and modern science |
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Scientific inquery and undending quest |
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Parmenides teaching of the Two Ways |
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Parmenidean anticipation of critical rationalism |
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Knowledge without foundations |
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Rationality and the search for invariants |
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Early ideas of opposites and change |
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Parmenides logical resolution of the problem of change |
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The atomist critique of Parmenides solution |
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Parmenides' rationalist research programme |
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The legacy of Parmenides search for truth |
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The atomist theory of change |
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The Parmenidean theory of invariants |
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Parmenidean roots of continuity and discontinuity theories of modern physics |
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Parmenidean three-dimensional space and modern relativity theory |
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Are there limits to rationality? |
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Relativity theory and indeterminism |
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Appearance of non-Parmenidean aspects in physics |
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Boltzmann's defence of atomism |
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Resolution of the paradox of the second law of thermodynamics |
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Schrodinger's version of Boltzmann's theory |
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The conversion of modern physics to Boltzmann's theory |
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Another Parmenidean apology of modern physics: the subjectivist interpretation of probability |
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Some critical remarks on the subjectivist interpretation of information theory |
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Indeterminism in quantum physics as a breakdown of Parmenideanism |
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Other anti-Parmenidean developments of modern physics |
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Non-Parmenidean explanations of the expanding universe |
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Summary of the deviations from the Parmenidean programme |
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A lesson from non-Parmenidean economics |
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Beyond the search for invariants: towards a logical theory of understanding |
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A note on opposites and existence in Presocratic epistemology |
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Comments on the prehistoric discovery of the self and on the mind-body problem in ancient Greek philosophy |
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The history of our picture of the universe |
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A problem to be solved by what follows |
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The prehistoric discovery of the self and of the world of mind (World 2) |
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The mind-body problem in Greek philosophy |
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Conjectural versus ultimate explanation |
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Plato and geometry (1950) |
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Plato and geometry (1957) |
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The dating of the Theaetetus (1961) |
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On sources of knowledge and of ignorance |
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Socrates maieutic art of criticism versus Aristotle's induction (epagoge) |
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The cosmological origins of Euclidean geometry |
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Concluding remarks on support and countersupport: how induction becomes counterinduction, and the epagoge returns to the elenchus |
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| Appendix Popper's late fragments on Greek philosophy |
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Fr. 0-5 On Parmenides (II) |
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Fr. 6 Democritus and materialism |
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Fr. 7-10 Aristotle's mathematics misunderstood |
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Fr. 11 An Aristotelian tangle of Heraclitus' and Xenophanes' theory of the Sun |
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| Index |
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