How can an open access database annotating pictures, films, music and texts support adults as existential exemplars? This article explores the opportunities of a Norwegian called OE-database. Its target group is all who want to become better exemplars for children through encounters with art conversations in small groups. Educational sources contain many annotations literature education youth, ...

Note: This is a preprint of my introduction to the forthcoming translation by Margaret Atkins of Thomas Aquinas's Disputed Questions on the Virtues (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy). The basic procedure was simple. The topic would be announced in advance so that everyone could prepare an arsenal of clever arguments. When the faculty and students had gathered, the professor would of...

This paper explores some key features of Medieval accounts intuition, focusing on Thomas Aquinas (1224/5–1274), the one hand, and Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308), Peter Auriol 1280–1322), William Ockham 1287-1347), other hand. The first section is devoted to type intuitive cognition which accepted by all these authors, namely, immediate direct grasp present material object senses. It from this basic...

Acquiring knowledge from a human expert is a major problem when building a knowledge-based system. Aquinas, an expanded version of the Expertise Transfer System (ETS), is a knowledge-acquisition workbench that combines ideas from psychology and knowledge-based systems research to support knowledge-acquisition tasks. These tasks include eliciting distinctions, decomposing problems, combining unc...