The satires are called Silloi by late writers, and this name may go back to Xenophanes himself, but it may originate in the fact that Timon of Phlius, the " sillographer " ( 3rd century BC ), put much of his own satire upon philosophers into the mouth of Xenophanes.

Cantor's work is of great philosophical interest, a fact of which he was well aware.

In part this limitation arose from the fact that consciousness raising, as " the primary method of understanding women's condition " in the movement at this time and its " most successful organizing tool ", led to an emphasis on personal experience that concealed " prior political and philosophical assumptions ".

As he states in the preface, he saw the book as a preamble to his other philosophical and theological books ; in fact, he suggests that Natural Theology should be read first, so as to build a systematic understanding of his arguments.

The position of scientists and science educators has been that although evolution has generated a great deal of political and philosophical debate it is, in the scientific fields, regarded as fact.

Its theme and outlook are often cited as exemplars of existentialism, though Camus did not consider himself an existentialist ; in fact, its content explores various philosophical schools of thought, including ( most prominently and specifically ) absurdism, as well as determinism, nihilism, naturalism, and stoicism.

* Lesbian Books ()-In three books, which derived its name from the fact that the scene of the philosophical dialogue was laid at Mytilene in Lesbos.

The above-mentioned EPR philosophical starting assumptions were considered to be falsified by empirical fact ( e. g. by the optical real experiments of Alain Aspect ).

The classical scholar Isaac Casaubon in De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI ( 1614 ) showed, through an analysis of the Greek language used in the texts, that those texts which were believed to be of ancient origin were in fact much more recent: most of the " philosophical " Corpus Hermeticum can be dated to around AD 300.

For Vico, poetic discourse is prior to philosophical discourse ; philosophy is in fact derivative of poetry.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, after examining the philosophical works of Khayyám, maintains that it is really reductive to just look at the poems ( which are sometimes doubtful ) to establish his personal views about God or religion ; in fact, he even wrote a treatise entitled " al-Khutbat al-gharrå ˘" ( The Splendid Sermon ) on the praise of God, where he holds orthodox views, agreeing with Avicenna on Divine Unity.

The new university's challenges were mostly political, due to the ongoing Mexican Revolution and the fact that the federal government had direct control over the university's policies and curriculum ; some resisted its establishment on philosophical grounds.

Second, because Abraham acted on a prophetic vision of what God had asked him to do, the story exemplifies how prophetic revelation has the same truth value as philosophical argument and thus carries equal certainty, notwithstanding the fact that it comes in a dream or vision.

In recent studies by Muslim contemporary thinkers that aim at ' renewing the impetus of philosophical thinking in Islam ', Nader El-Bizri offers a critical analysis of the conventions of methodology and historiography that dominate the mainstream academic and epistemic approaches in studying ' Islamic philosophy ' from ' archival ' standpoints, within Oriental and Mediaevalist Studies, which fail to recognize the fact that ' philosophy in Islam ' can still be a living intellectual tradition, and that its renewal requires a radical reform in ontology and epistemology within Islamic thought.

Hence the existence of models as given by the completeness theorem needs in fact 2 philosophical assumptions: the actual infinity of natural numbers and the consistency of the theory.

In fact, based on this very assumption, a philosophical article has explored recently the possibility of humans ' willing extinction as a gesture toward other beings.

Maine de Biran's philosophical reputation has suffered because of his obscure and laboured style, and the fact that only a few of the least characteristic of his writings appeared during his lifetime: the essay on habit ( Sur l ' influence de l ' habitude, 1803 ), a critical review of Pierre Laromiguière's lectures ( 1817 ), and the philosophical portion of the article " Leibnitz " in the Biographie universelle ( 1819 ).

In fact, it is with him the function of philosophy to classify and explain universal convictions and beliefs ; but common-sense is not with him philosophy, nor is it the instrument of philosophy ; it is simply the material on which the philosophical method works, and in harmony with which its results must ultimately be found.

In Against the Ethicists, Sextus in fact directly says that " the Skeptic does not conduct his life according to philosophical theory ( so far as regards this he is inactive ), but as regards the non-philosophical regulation of life he is capable of desiring some things and avoiding others.

It is important to take note that many devoted environmentalists encompass a somewhat anthropocentric-based philosophical view supporting the fact that they will argue in favor of saving the environment for the sake of human populations.

His chief philosophical importance consists in the fact that he was a leader in the attempt to revivify French philosophy by the new thought of Germany, to which he had been introduced by Victor Cousin, but of which he never had more than a second-hand knowledge.

In fact, he was consistently suspicious of anything claiming to be a solution to an old political or philosophical problem.

There are those who would claim both Hirsch and Hildesheimer as indirect philosophical founders of Modern Orthodox Judaism ; in fact, of the two, Hildesheimer is more likely classifiable as such.

Though the tradition receded into the background of European philosophical thought in these centuries, the term " virtue " remained current during this period, and in fact appears prominently in the tradition of classical republicanism or classical liberalism.

But Peirce did not seize on this fact to enhance his reputation, and even coined the word " pragmaticism " to distinguish his philosophical position.

In fact, he calls his productions dance-theatre works of motion, shape, light, and sound.

Faulkner's total works today, and in fact those of his works which existed in 1946 when Mr. Cowley made his comment, or in 1939, when Mr. O'Donnell wrote his essay, reveal no such simple attitude toward the South.

This fact makes it plausible that some of the suspect works that form part of Alexander's corpus should be ascribed to his father.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

It is this reluctance which was felt by the Rijksmuseum to reattribute works to other painters ( Abraham van Calraet does not even appear in a Museum catalogue until 1926, and even then he is not given his own entry ) which shows how important it is to art historians that painters are accurately connected to their works — and this is continuously necessary for those of Aelbert Cuyp, as Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter may not in fact be Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter.

Others noted that almost all traits claimed to be uniquely cyberpunk could in fact be found in older writers ' works — often citing J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Stanisław Lem, Samuel R. Delany, and even William S. Burroughs.

In 1901, with a better vacuum pump, Pyotr Lebedev showed that in fact, the radiometer only works when there is low pressure gas in the bulb, and the vanes stay motionless in a hard vacuum.

A drill-across works by grouping ( summarizing ) the data along the keys of the ( shared ) conformed dimensions of each fact participating in the " drill across " followed by a join on the keys of these grouped ( summarized ) facts.

One notable fact is that a number of Gong An works may have been lost or destroyed during the Literary Inquisitions and the wars in ancient China.

Pliny makes clear the fact in the preface to his work that he had checked his facts by reading and comparing the works of others, as well as referring to them by name.

Much encyclopaedism of the French Renaissance was based upon the notion of not including every fact known to humans, but only that knowledge that was necessary, where necessity was judged by a wide variety of criteria, leading to works of greatly varying sizes.

Another element supporting this fact is that Paris has the highest density of cinemas in the world, measured by the number of movie theaters per inhabitant, and that in most " downtown Paris " movie theaters, foreign movies which would be secluded to " art houses " cinemas in other places are shown alongside " mainstream " works.

A sunny, melodic work in the Schubert vein ( although its lyricism and superb orchestration do much to conceal the fact that it is one of the composer's most harmonically advanced works ).

Particularly striking examples of such unfair judgements were produced by noted Bach biographers Philipp Spitta and Albert Schweitzer, who criticized Telemann's cantatas and then praised works they thought were composed by Bach — but which were, in fact, composed by Telemann, as was shown by later research.

In the process, many fragments of classical learning are preserved which otherwise would have been hopelessly lost ; " in fact, in the majority of his works, including the Origines, he contributes little more than the mortar which connects excerpts from other authors, as if he was aware of his deficiencies and had more confidence in the stilus maiorum than his own " his translator Katherine Nell MacFarlane remarks ; on the other hand, some of these fragments were lost in the first place because Isidore ’ s work was so highly regarded — Braulio called it quecunque fere sciri debentur, " practically everything that it is necessary to know "— that it superseded the use of many individual works of the classics themselves, which were not recopied and have therefore been lost: " all secular knowledge that was of use to the Christian scholar had been winnowed out and contained in one handy volume ; the scholar need search no further ".

However, despite the fact that most of Origen's works only survive in Latin translations, 10 out of the 11 references are in the original Greek.

Perhaps as a result of this, and the fact that Le Morte D ' Arthur was one of the earliest printed books in England, published by William Caxton in 1485, most later Arthurian works are derivative of Malory's.

His view on class division and technocracy are as follows " Since when no one works for another, the profiteer from wealth disappears, just as government will disappear when no one pays attention to those who learned four things at universities and from that fact they pretend to govern men.

Scholars defending Luke's authorship say there is no reason for early Christians to attribute these works to such a minor figure if he did not in fact write them, nor is there any tradition attributing this work to any other author.