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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: algebra
congruence modularity, for which there exist analogous syntactic characterizations of varieties of algebras with these properties. A more recently developed power tool for this area is McKenzie's notion of tame congruences, facilitating the study of the structure of finite algebras. Within the alge...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: aesthetics
Bibliography A. Primary Works (in Aesthetics) B. Secondary Works Other Internet Resources Related Entries 1. Biographical Sketch Goodman's personal life (August 7, 1906–November 25, 1998) was linked to art in several and important ways. From 1929 to 1941, he directed an art g...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: schema
Open access to the SEP is made possible by a world-wide funding initiative. Please Read How You Can Help Keep the Encyclopedia Free Author & Citation Info | Friends PDF Preview | InPho Search | PhilPapers Bibliography Schema First published Fri May 28, 2004; substantive revision Thu May 10, 2...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: in the 19th century
Bolyai excised the postulate from Euclid's system; the remaining rump is the “absolute geometry”, which can be further specified by adding to it either Euclid's Postulate or its negation. From the 1790's Carl Friedrich Gauss (b. 1777, d. 1855) had been working on the subjec...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: the biological notion of
conceptualization of autonomy. Metchnikoff's overall representation constituted the phagocyte as an agent (Crist and Tauber 2001), an actor that is the cause of its own action—as a matter of endogenously generated and directed behaviors. The portrayal of the phagocyte as autonomous is...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: School of Names
from passing through each other. We should emphasize that these interpretations are highly speculative and thus carry little or no justification. Without further contextual information, even if this sort of explanation makes sense of the paradox, we have no particular reason to believe it is...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Bohmian mechanics
1987, p. 191): Is it not clear from the smallness of the scintillation on the screen that we have to do with a particle? And is it not clear, from the diffraction and interference patterns, that the motion of the particle is directed by a wave? De Broglie showed in detail how...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Brentano, Franz
the natural sciences. This standpoint is clearly mirrored in his empirical approach to psychology. It is noteworthy here that Brentano's use of the word “empirical” deviates substantially from what has become its standard meaning in psychology today. He emphasized that all our kno...
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