... and the next are specifically about Einstein’s theory of
relativity, but Einstein also began a second, parallel revolution in physics
known as the quantum theory, which stated, among other things, ... twin is not moving at all. It would then seem
that the twin on earth is the one whose biological clock should tick more
slowly, not the one on the spaceship. The flaw in t...
... Einstein’s theory of relativ-
ity, but Einstein also began a second, parallel revolution in physics
known as the quantum theory, which stated, among other things,
that certain processes in nature are inescapably ... of their
individual masses.
Now we know that the masses of all the atoms in the blobs must
be the same as they always were. The change is due to the change...
... remembering, recognising, understanding, learning, proving, explaining,
communicating, referring, describing, interpreting, imagining, creating, deliberating, choosing, acting,
testing, verifying, and so ... can be changed in many ways. The invention of painting and drawing permitted new
thoughts in the processes of creating and interpreting pictures. The invention of speaking and w...
... us
of what they are intuitions; we make theminto intuitions of something,
into representations by actively combining them according to the rules of
judgment, of conceptual representation in general. ... the themes of “freedom” and the “thinking for oneself ”
were indeed motivating the Critique, one could nonetheless excuse any
reader who found themsomewhat hard to find in its openi...
... having his rights independently of whether others would actually
grant him those rights or be sympathetic to his having them). Indeed, the
most striking thing about Kant’s thesis was that there ... philosophy
Kant thought the key to answering these questions lay in the prac-
tical necessity for assuming that we are free. The independence of the
normative from the factual in t...
... imagination and intellect (der Verstand, the
understanding”) are in free play with each other – free in the sense that
their interaction with each other is not constrained by any rule. When
the ... might have the concept of a “rose” and then judge
whether the flower we are observing is indeed a rose – is indeed an
“instance” or “instantiation” of the more general concept.) In...
... for the alternative shrines and pilgrimages that went
with them.
16 SHRINES AND PILGRIMAGE IN THE MODERN WORLD
Research into change
Eventually, due to the ecclesiastical innovations in the Western ... identity, the ‘rediscovered’
pilgrimage has also once again become a pastoral instrument in the secular-
ized West, used to help control the crises in the institution...
... the science of gynecology around the world. An analysis of the origins of medical
development in the South provides another locus in the larger discourse of colonial medicine in
the late nineteenth ... discoveries,
including the invention the Sims Speculum and the Sims Position, and the use of silver sutures to
prevent internal infections. These innovations eventu...