The First Principle
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The First Principle In Late Neoplatonism
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Author : Jonathan Greig
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-11-04
The First Principle In Late Neoplatonism written by Jonathan Greig and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-04 with Philosophy categories.
In The First Principle, Jonathan Greig examines the philosophical theology of the two Neoplatonists, Proclus and Damascius (5th–6th centuries A.D.), on the One as the first cause. Both philosophers address a tension in the Neoplatonic tradition: namely that the One was seen as absolutely transcendent, yet it was also seen as intimately related to other things as the source of their unity and being. Proclus’ solution is to posit intermediate causes after the One, while Damascius posits a distinct principle, the ‘Ineffable’, above the One. This book provides a new, thorough study of the theories of causation that lead each to their respective position and reveals crucial insights involved in a rigorous negative theology employed in metaphysics.
An Essay On The First Principles Of Natural Philosophy Etc
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Author : William Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1763
An Essay On The First Principles Of Natural Philosophy Etc written by William Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1763 with categories.
Damascius Problems And Solutions Concerning First Principles
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Author : Damaskios
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-28
Damascius Problems And Solutions Concerning First Principles written by Damaskios and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-28 with Philosophy categories.
Damascius was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian shut its doors forever in 529. His work, Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, is the last surviving independent philosophical treatise from the Late Academy. Its survey of Neoplatonist metaphysics, discussion of transcendence, and compendium of late antique theologies, make it unique among all extant works of late antique philosophy. It has never before been translated into English.The Problems and Solutions exhibits a thorough?going critique of Proclean metaphysics, starting with the principle that all that exists proceeds from a single cause, proceeding to critique the Proclean triadic view of procession and reversion, and severely undermining the status of intellectual reversion in establishing being as the intelligible object. Damascius investigates the internal contradictions lurking within the theory of descent as a whole, showing that similarity of cause and effect is vitiated in the case of processions where one order (e.g. intellect) gives rise to an entirely different order (e.g. soul).Neoplatonism as a speculative metaphysics posits the One as the exotic or extopic explanans for plurality, conceived as immediate, present to hand, and therefore requiring explanation. Damascius shifts the perspective of his metaphysics: he struggles to create a metaphysical discourse that accommodates, insofar as language is sufficient, the ultimate principle of reality. After all, how coherent is a metaphysical system that bases itself on the Ineffable as a first principle? Instead of creating an objective ontology, Damascius writes ever mindful of the limitations of dialectic, and of the pitfalls and snares inherent in the very structure of metaphysical discourse.
A Treatise On The First Principles Of Arithmetic Ninth Edition
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Author : Thomas TATE (Mathematical Master, Training College, Battersea.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
A Treatise On The First Principles Of Arithmetic Ninth Edition written by Thomas TATE (Mathematical Master, Training College, Battersea.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with categories.
An Exposition Of The First Principles Of Grand Military Combinations And Movements Compiled From The Treatise Upon Great Military Operations By The Baron De Jomini With Remarks On The Leading Principles Of The Efficient Constitution Of Armies From The Same Author By J A Gilbert With Plates
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Author : Antoine Henri de Baron JOMINI
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1825
An Exposition Of The First Principles Of Grand Military Combinations And Movements Compiled From The Treatise Upon Great Military Operations By The Baron De Jomini With Remarks On The Leading Principles Of The Efficient Constitution Of Armies From The Same Author By J A Gilbert With Plates written by Antoine Henri de Baron JOMINI and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1825 with categories.
Initiation And Control Of Gait From First Principles A Mathematically Animated Model Of The Foot
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Author : Craig Nevin
language : en
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Release Date : 2010-05-21
Initiation And Control Of Gait From First Principles A Mathematically Animated Model Of The Foot written by Craig Nevin and has been published by Universal-Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-21 with categories.
This thesis examines the anatomical locations of the dynamic pressures that create the first five footprints when a standing person starts to walk. It is hypothesized that the primary activity starts with the dorsiflexion or lifting of the great toe. Consequently, the metatarsophalangeal region of the forefoot was studied from three directions. Viewed side-on, the great toe free-body is found from a detailed post hoc analysis of previous kinematic data obtained from cadavers to operate as a cam. The cam model also follows closely from Aristotle's ancient description of the hinged instrument of animate motion. Viewed in coronal cross-section, the first metatarsal torsion strength was estimated in 13 humans, 1 gorilla, 3 chimpanzees, 1 orangutan and 1 baboon set of dry-bone specimens of the hands and feet. The first metatarsal bone alone contributes 43% of the total strength of all the metatarsal bones. A result unique amongst the hominids and apes studied. Viewed in horizontal plan, the dynamic components and principle axes of the footprints of 54 barefoot humans (32 male, 22 female, age 32 +-11 years) were studied whilst standing on a 0.5m pressure plate, and then immediately when walking over a 2m plate (4 sensors per cm2 sampled at 100hz). Two footprints were obtained during the initial stance posture, and the first three footprints of the initial walk. Three new principles of animate motion were deduced from the divergent results obtained from complete and dissected cadavers: The metatarsal cam (from the sagittal side view) the ground reaction torque (from the frontal coronal view) and the amputation artifact. The philosophy of experimenting on inanimate cadavers rather than living subjects was intensively researched. Instead of assuming that gait is a uniform or regular motion as is usual, the foot was analyzed rather as if it was a beam attached to the ground. Engineering equations were used to determine the flexural properties of the foot every 0.01 seconds, including the principle axes, radius of gyration and the local shear stresses on the sensors spaced 5-7mm apart. A sequence of these impressions creates a mathematically animated model of the footprint. The local force under the foot was normalized against both the total force and contact duration. The forces under the foot were each divided between 10 anatomical regions using individual masks for each foot strike. Producing a 54-subject database from which the normal behavior of the foot could be quantified. The group showed a surprisingly low right foot step-off dominance of only 54%. The combination of the radius of gyration and impulse in particular produces a succinct but powerful summary of the footprint during dynamic activity. The initial angle and magnitudes of the loads that are applied and removed demonstrates that the body first rocks onto the heels after the instruction to walk is given. The feet simultaneously invert and their arches rise off the ground as anticipated. The principle axes were then animated in a mathematical four-dimensional model. The horizontal radius of gyration is on average 5 cm during heel strike, but increases to 20 cm as the forefoot comes into contact with the ground, finally rising to 25 cm at toe-off. Significantly the applied load during the fore-foot loading phase is more widely distributed than the load being removed. A new and unanticipated result that is believed to be a special characteristic of the animate foot. The standard deviation of the force under the great toe is the first mechanical parameter to converge in the 54 subjects, conclusively verifying the hypothesis that the great toe both initiates and controls gait.
Aristotle S Induction And The Inference Of First Principles
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Author : David Botting
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-10-15
Aristotle S Induction And The Inference Of First Principles written by David Botting and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-15 with Philosophy categories.
Aristotle's Induction and the Inference of First Principles observes that Aristotle’s reputation as an empiricist has come under threat. In the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle puts forward a foundationalist theory of scientific knowledge that problematizes knowing the science's first principles empirically. Aristotle states that we know the principles through induction but also that induction is inadequate for knowing essences. In response to this tension, rationalists claim that Aristotle equivocates between two conceptions of induction, enumerative and intuitive:"intuitive induction" being that which grasps the principles and provides direct knowledge of essences, “enumerative induction” being that which is said to be inadequate. Empiricists preserve an empiricist road to first principles by downplaying enumerative induction’s role. In order to preserve Aristotle's avowals that it is by induction that we know the principles while avoiding the rationalist alternative, David Botting provides an inferentialist account of induction, showing how the content of a first principle is inferentially known but not its necessity, which must be proved by constructing the first principle from simpler elements. A world governed by natural necessities and not just brute regularities is knowable through the senses and without resorting to super-empirical acts or faculties of intuition.
Essays On Some Of The First Principles Of Metaphysicks Ethicks And Theology
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Author : Asa Burton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1824
Essays On Some Of The First Principles Of Metaphysicks Ethicks And Theology written by Asa Burton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1824 with Ethics categories.
Theophrastus On First Principles
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Author : Théophraste
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010
Theophrastus On First Principles written by Théophraste and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Criticism categories.
Simultaneous critical editions based on all available evidence, with an introduction, English translations, and commentaries of the Greek text and a medieval Arabic translation of Theophrastus s "On First Principles" ( metaphysics ), together with a methodological excursus on Graeco-Arabic editorial technique and normative glossary.
The First Principles Of Knowledge
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Author : John Rickaby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
The First Principles Of Knowledge written by John Rickaby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.