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On Emanuel Swedenborg's natural philosophy, especially his mechanistic worlview.

In this essay, I discuss two major theoretical discourses of modernity, namely, of classical modernity and postmodernity. Moreover, I aim at a proposition of a possible historical relation between those two discourses of crucial importance to modernity’s intellectual history. This historical connection is founded on what I call the principle of insufficient reason. The principle of insufficient

The general focus of this paper is on the methodological limitations of the sociology of law in capturing the law’s ‘truth’ as its practitioners experience it. The paper starts with arguing that the law does not have a monolithic ‘truth’. Some aspects of its ‘truth’ are produced through its own recursively sealed operations, while its other aspects are generated with reference to empirically groun

This chapter reviews the most important beginning with the long tradition of prescriptive tracts, offering observations and advice concerning the conduct of diplomacy. Authors from du Rosier to Nicolson were practitioners, who not only aimed at describing and explaining diplomacy but also had a clear prescriptive bent, offering recommendations as to the best conduct of diplomacy. War and military

The purpose of the study is to offer an interpretation of surrealism as lived experience or, more exactly, an interpretation of the ways in which the Surrealists themselves respond to and conceive of this experience. Thus, emphasis is put on surrealism as event and process, not as a historically limited phenomenon. The prime source of knowledge about this kind of experience, however, remains Surre

The paper gives an account of the concept of 'hapiness' and 'felicity' in the discourse of 18th century thought.

The purpose of this study is to investigate a loyalty card and its relation to accompanying promotional benefits, and their linkages to grocery retail service loyalty. Also, the aim sets out to find relationships between demographic variables and proneness towards the promotional benefits, the loyalty card, and loyalty. A quantitative approach has been assumed and empirical data has been collected

Repairing Final-Over-Final Constraint Violations: Evidence from Basque verb clusters∗ Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS) Bill Haddican (CUNY-Queens College) April 5, 2013 1 Introduction • Focus: The Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC), a generalization originally by Holmberg (2000) about the interaction between dominance relations and {head, complement} ordering cross-linguistically (Hawkins, 1983, 1995; Holm

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