We are astonishingly ignorant about how many species are alive on earth today, and even more ignorant about how many we can lose yet still maintain ecosystem services that humanity ultimately depends upon. Mora et al.'s paper is important in offering an imaginative new approach to assessing total species numbers, both on land and in the sea.

For more than a century, historians of science have been spinning a philosophical roulette wheel, pondering which is more important in the creative process: imagination or knowledge. The most original scientists (and artists) in our day discover newness by blending existing knowledge with imaginative thinking.

Consider this very general question: What is the relationship between perception and imagination? When we consider this question, two facts pop out: (i) there is some commonality between the two, but (ii) there is a difference as well. Perception and imagination are alike in some respect(s), but also differ in some. The question is how to characterize the similarity and how to characterize the ...

A reconstruction problem of words from scattered factors asks for the minimal information, like multisets a given length or number occurrences set, necessary to uniquely determine word. We show that word [Formula: see text] can be reconstructed at most form text], where is letter in text]. Moreover, we generalise result alphabets by showing suffices reconstruct Both results improve on upper bou...

The article considers the peculiarities of philosophical understanding and definition concept "absolute" in works Russian philosopher Y. Golosovker. We suggest a consistent analysis original creativity theory researcher place term "imaginative absolute". is considered as unique construct, which marked by synthesis culturological, aesthetic epistemological orientations author. imaginative absolu...