identification, friend or foe
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identification, friend or foe IFF a system using electromagnetic transmissions to which equipment carried by friendly forces automatically responds, for example, by emitting pulses, thereby distinguishing themselves from enemy forces.
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Metaphysics and Its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of Knowledge.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; GRACIA, Jorge, E. Metaphysics and Its Task: The Search for the...introduction to Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics that `he who undertakes to judge or, more, to construct a system of metaphysics must satisfy the demands here made...
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How is metaphysics as a science possible? Kant on the distinction between philosophical and mathematical method.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; I METAPHYSICS AS A SCIENCE AND THE ANALYTIC-SYNTHETIC...loosely to be called Leibnizian-Wolffian metaphysics; but he became increasingly more skeptical...the possibility of reconciling this metaphysics with the exact sciences of his day...
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VERENDLICHUNG (FINITIZATION): THE OVERCOMING OF METAPHYSICS WITH LIFE
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...with Heidegger means that we must still concern ourselves with the task of overcoming metaphysics. What is metaphysics? From Heidegger, we know that metaphysics consists in a persistent confusion between beings and being. If we want to overcome...
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A program for "naturalizing" metaphysics, with application to the ontology of events.(Essay)
Magazine article from: The Monist; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; 1. Metaphysics and Cognitive Science I wish to advance a certain program for doing metaphysics, a program in which cognitive science would...ingredient is absent from most contemporary metaphysics. There are one or two local parts of metaphysics...
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Papal metaphysics. (Pope John Paul II's emphasis on metaphysics in Catholic education) (editorial)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 9/26/1987; ; 700+ words
; Papal Metaphysics I wonder if a pious unbeliever, who...New Orleans for greater emphasis on metaphysics. I was charmed by it and felt myself...does show where an undue emphasis on metaphysics can lead even as compassionate a Catholic...
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Loptson, Peter. Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...very heart of philosophical inquiry, metaphysics has, at least since the time of Hume...first half of the twentieth century "metaphysics" seemed to have become, in many quarters...renaissance over recent years and so has their metaphysics. Within contemporary English-speaking...
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The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; LOWE, E. J. The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time...viii + 275 pp. Cloth, $65.00--Metaphysics is enjoying an increasing popularity...E. J. Lowe's The Possibility of Metaphysics. Lowe's title calls to mind the critical...
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From metaphysics to moral philosophy
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...position concerning the use of the terms "metaphysics" and "moral philosophy," and their...commitment stems from the way the term "metaphysics" was used by the founders of the journal...worthy of the name. In this sense, "metaphysics" was simply equivalent to antipositivism...
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Theology, metaphysics, and the centrality of Christ.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...of the modern philosophical impact on metaphysics, claimed that metaphysical reflection...all philosophers declare the death of metaphysics, he would simply create the necessary...historical and metaphysical spheres. (2) "Metaphysics," Walter Kasper writes, "is the...
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BONAVENTURE'S METAPHYSICS OF THE GOOD.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...writer set out to overturn classical metaphysics; however, the significance of the...is his development of a theological metaphysics. As Zachary Hayes has shown, Bonaventure...intelligibility.(4) Identifying metaphysics as the task of unifying all of finite...
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Metaphysics
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
Metaphysics The term metaphysics refers to the study of things that are removed from sense perception. Modern metaphysics studies the kind of things that exist and the way they exist. In the dialogue of science and religion, metaphysics, science...
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metaphysics
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
metaphysics , branch of philosophy concerned with the...nature of existence. It perpetuates the Metaphysics of Aristotle, a collection of treatises placed after the Physics [Gr. metaphysics =after physics ] and treating what Aristotle...
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metaphysic
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
metaphysic sb. XIV. —...earlier n. pl. (repr. by metaphysics XVI) — medGr...PHYSIC(S) ). So metaphysic adj. XVI, metaphysical...metaphysician XVI. Aristotle 's Metaphysics followed in the received...
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Leibniz: Physics, Logic, Metaphysics
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Leibniz: Physics, Logic, Metaphysics The special problems for any comprehensive treatment of the...his search for the ultimate grounds of mechanism led him to metaphysics and the doctrine of entelechies. This indicates the early...
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Jacques Derrida
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...challenged assumptions about metaphysics and the character of language...riddles found in language. 'Metaphysics of Presence' Derrida depicted...from Plato onward, as a " metaphysics of presence. " By this he meant...
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