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Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Disadvantage of the end of metaphysics: Disbelief in the "monumentum aere perennius"
Disbelief in the "monumentum aere perennius".—A decided disadvantage, attending the termination of metaphysical modes of thought, is that the individual fixes his mind too attentively upon his own brief lifetime and feels no strong inducement to aid in the foundation of…
Lonely Planet Iran (travel Guide)
Iranians expelled from Iraq
many of the more than 200,000 ethnic Iranians expelled from Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War have now settled permanently in Iran. Many were descended from Iranians who had settled in Iraq centuries before. (1260-1261)
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
The sign is increasingly taken as the basic concept of the ‘linguistic science’ (scientia sermocinalis)
The genesis of an elaborate theory of signs in the second half of the 13th century is the result of a complex interplay of Aristotelian and Augustinian influences. Since the mid-13th century Augustinian views, until then effective mainly in theological discussions, begin to…
Mental concepts begin to be characterized as signs of things (signa rerum).
The criticism of modist grammar is based on a fundamental redefinition of the concept of sign, coming about after the mid-13th century. For the translocation of signification in the proper sense from the word to the intellect is based on the presupposition that, whatever…
Osx Dictionary
verb [ with obj.
verb [ with obj. ] make (someone or something) seem unimportant: this is not to belittle his role | she felt belittled. DERIVATIVES belittlement noun, belittler noun ORIGIN late 18th cent.: a coinage of Thomas Jefferson originally meaning ‘diminish in size, make small’; the…
Semantic Web For The Humanities
Concept drift in the humanities
Different versions of the same dataset show that concepts change their meaning over time, especially if the time gap is wide. Although not meaning exactly the same, two time gapped instances of the same concept may preserve some degree of sameness. For example, the concept…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
From the Ceramic Model to the Crackpot Model
Another powerful image is the Ceramic Model of the universe, in which we think of it as so many forms of one or more substances, as pots are forms of clay, and as God is said to have created Adam from the dust. This has been an especially troublesome image, bewildering…
Waldensians - Wikipedia
Waldesians and their persecutions by the catholic church
Waldensians, Waldenses or Vaudois are names for a Christian movement of the later Middle Ages, descendants of which still exist in various regions, primarily in North-Western Italy. There is considerable uncertainty about the earlier history of the Waldenses because of a lack…