The Problem of Life: An Essay in the Origins of Biological ThoughtMacmillan, 1976 - 343 Seiten |
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... theory are to be found amongst the Eleatics and their Abderan successors in the fifth century BC . The theory , in fact , is the logical outcome of the early Greek way of looking at the world . But as we have just seen it has certain ...
... theory are to be found amongst the Eleatics and their Abderan successors in the fifth century BC . The theory , in fact , is the logical outcome of the early Greek way of looking at the world . But as we have just seen it has certain ...
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... theory of perception involved the passage of material ' images ' from the outside world through the sense organs into the body . His theory is in fact in some ways a remarkable prefiguration of Helmholtz's nineteenth - century doctrine ...
... theory of perception involved the passage of material ' images ' from the outside world through the sense organs into the body . His theory is in fact in some ways a remarkable prefiguration of Helmholtz's nineteenth - century doctrine ...
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... theory , for , like many other fourth - century philosophers , he was far more concerned with the nature of the microcosm than with the nature of the macrocosm . He was far more concerned , in the unsettled times at the end of the ...
... theory , for , like many other fourth - century philosophers , he was far more concerned with the nature of the microcosm than with the nature of the macrocosm . He was far more concerned , in the unsettled times at the end of the ...
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Preface | 8 |
The act of imagination | 8 |
The palaeontology of some key words | 17 |
Urheberrecht | |
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