The Thought Experimental Method: Avicenna's Flying Man Argument

revelations naturein avicennas thought

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The Design Argument in Classical Hindu Thought

Language , Thought , and the Language of Thought ( Aunty ’ s Own Argument Revisited

1. Introduction In this chapter, I shall be examining an argument for the language of thought hypothesis – an argument which, in earlier work (Davies, 1992; see also 1991), I have called 'Aunty's own argument for the language of thought'. That will be the business of Sections 2-5. In the final section, I shall briefly mention some points of contact between this argument for the language of thou...

Honeybee: The flying pharmacist

Honeybee, a small -although powerful- creature moves from one place to another to make an elixir, which cures different diseases. To make one kilogram of honey the small creature has to carry 150000 pieces of pollen and suck the sap of ten million flowers. Both honey and the honeybee poison have been used in treating diseases for thousands of years. The product made by such tiny creatures has b...

Honeybee: The flying pharmacist

Honeybee, a small -although powerful- creature moves from one place to another to make an elixir, which cures different diseases. To make one kilogram of honey the small creature has to carry 150000 pieces of pollen and suck the sap of ten million flowers. Both honey and the honeybee poison have been used in treating diseases for thousands of years. The product made by such tiny creatures has b...