The Pre-Socratic Philosophers | "Pre-Socratic" is the expression commonly used to describe those Greek thinkers who lived and wrote between 600 and 400 B.C. It was the Pre-Socratics who attempted to find universal principles which would explain the natural world from its origins to man’s place in it. Although Socrates died in 399 B.C.‚ the term "Pre-Socratic" indicates not so much a chronological limit‚ but rather an outlook or range of interests‚ an outlook attacked by both Protagoras (a Sophist)
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Cleveland State University Author Note Lashear C. Price‚ Department of Psychology‚ Cleveland State University. Address Correspondence to: Lashear C. Price‚ Department of Psychology‚ Cleveland State University‚ 2121 Euclid Ave‚ Cleveland‚ OH 44115. E- mail: lashear_07@yahoo.com Abstract In recent years‚ researchers have debated whether social bias exists between boys and girls regarding social skills and academic achievement. While most studies have shown that girls
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Mathematical logic From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Mathematical logic is a subfield of mathematics exploring the applications of formal logic to mathematics. Topically‚ mathematical logic bears close connections to metamathematics‚ the foundations of mathematics‚ and theoretical computer science.[1] The unifying themes in mathematical logic include the study of the expressive power of formal systems and the deductive power of formal proof systems. Mathematical logic is often divided into
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about the ideal forms‚ they admire the depth of Aristotle ’s thought. However‚ few people heard about the contribution of the Ancient Greeks in other sciences like medicine‚ which was made by Hippocrates‚ or mathematics and geometry by Pythagoras‚ Euclid and Archimedes and fewer know about technological achievements of the Ancient Greeks. Among these achievements we can find automatic doors‚ steam engine‚ air and water pumps‚ gears‚ astrolabes and clocks. The work principle of some of these inventions
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Sam Houston-Summary Sam Houston had to face many obstacles since he was a little boy. He had very little education; however he educated himself with many readings from his father’s library. Houston served as governor for Tennessee and Texas. He also served as a United States senator for thirteen years. . He befriended General Andrew Jackson and remarried three times. Houston was made the first president of the Republic of Texas in 1836 and was re-elected in 1841. He gave many speeches throughout
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| A Brief History of MathematicsPeople seem compelled to organize. They also have a practical need to count certain things: cattle‚ cornstalks‚ and so on. There is the need to deal with simple geometrical situations in providing shelter and dealing with land. Once some form of writing is added into the mix‚ mathematics cannot be far behind. It might even be said that the symbolic approach precedes and leads to the invention of writing.Archaeologists‚ anthropologists‚ linguists and others studying
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Muslim Scientist & Their Contribution Quote: This thread is related to History of Muslim Scientist and their commendable contribution. It is an important topic of EDS. Members are requested to add their Notes as well. ABU AL-QASIM AL-ZAHRAWI (936-1013 C.E.) Abul Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas al-Zahrawi (known in the west as Abulcasis) was born in 936 C.E. in Zahra in the neighbourhood of Cordova. He became one of the most renowned surgeons of the Muslim era and was physician
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CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction According to President Benigno S. Aquino III (2012)‚ our education needs to add two more years for Basic Education Curriculum. Those who can afford pay up to fourteen years of schooling before university. Thus‚ their children are getting into the best universities and the best jobs after graduation. Mr. President Aquino wants at least 12 years for the school children to give them an even chance at succeeding. In line with this‚
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did not turn that into a systematic method for finding sides and angles of triangles. The ancient Nubians used a similar methodology.[5] The ancient Greeks transformed trigonometry into an ordered science.[6] Classical Greek mathematicians (such as Euclid and Archimedes) studied the properties of chords and inscribed angles in circles‚ and proved theorems that are equivalent to modern trigonometric formulae‚ although they
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| Elethia | Final Paper | | | 8/6/2012 | | Author‚ Alice Walker’s‚ Elethia‚ is a story of young Elethia who struggles to overcome a legacy of passivity‚ marginalization‚ inferiority‚ and misrepresentation of the Negro. To define her own identity she must break free and simultaneously hold on to the central figure that causes her to doubt her identity. Uncle Albert is a symbol of racism and the blindness that oftentimes presents itself within the Negro culture. There is a
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