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Question by Jung Prada G: Since early man’s physiology and modern day man’s physiology are nearly the same, is history the difference?
Early man had less history to live off of; modern day school children learn more in one day of class than that which is learned in early man’s life time.
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…I know psychologist/philosopher Steve Pinker argued AGAINST it in lay terms in “The Blank State” positing that genetics attribute to the change and adaptation of behavior (which I plan on reading soon); it’s just that, is it true that history (or experience–MTheory is the bomb, he answered a similar question with most of this insight–) trumps the belief of a blank state, all the way down to the genetic level?
*’does’ having history make the difference between early man (and the lack of recorded/communicated history between the evolution of apes to man) and modern man (in that we have an accumulation of recorded history today more than anyone else in the past have ever had)
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Answer by M T
Exactly what you are asking is unclear.
Just from your short summary it has to be some of both and not exclusively one or the other.
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Question by ♠MC.Sniper: about the Ancient Rome and Early Christianity?
in world history class
Ancient Rome and Early Christianity
1. How do the institutions of religion, government, and the economy shape the development of Rome?
2.How did ancient civilization (Rome/Greece) interact with each other?
3.How did imperial structures affect the society of Rome?
4. How did the rule of law evolve throughout the rise and fall of ancient Rome?
5. How is the treatment of conquered people and peasants related to the progression of governmental institutions?
6. Why did ancient Rome fall?
7. How did Roman culture develop?
8. How did the Romans influence the modern world?
9. How did the ancient philosophers influence the development of the modern world?
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Answer by Steve C
Does it help if we do your homework for you? Doesn’t that defeat the reason for assigning the homework in the first place?
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Question by mae 
: what are the effects of the early philosopher,chemist,physicist,and inventors’ works to the modern life?
i need to answer this for my assignment. i am really having a research about Robert Boyle and i need to know the effects of his works to the modern life. please help me!!!
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Answer by Ingsoc Aaron
Robert Boyle is important in physics and chemistry.
And mainly he’s remembered for coming up with “Boyle’s Law”, which is simply that in a closed system the pressure and volume of a gas (at constant temperature) are inversely proportional to each other.
Now what this means is that if you have a can of gas, a closed system (no gas can escape from the can or get into it), then the pressure that the gas exerts on the inside walls of the can and the volume of the gas inside the can are inversely proportional. Only true at constant temperatures (that’s to say, the temperature of the gas can’t change).
Now what does inversely proportional mean?
Simply, if the volume of the can shrinks, and the can still has the same amount of gas (which it should because the can is a closed system and the gas can’t escape), then pressure inside the can from the gas goes up (the gas pushes harder on the walls). So remember, if Volume of gas goes down, the pressure goes up. That’s what inversely proportional means (one goes up, one goes down).
Same thing.
If can got bigger (volume increased), pressure inside the can would decrease (the gas molecules have more room to move around so they exert less pressure on the walls of the can).
So volume goes up, pressure goes down. (Inversely proportional).
Thiis is Boyle’s Law.
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Why is this important?
Because Boyle’s law contributes to the overall “Ideal Gas Law” which explains how all ideal gasses behave (an ideal gas is one that’s inert and doesn’t chemically react with other substances).
The Ideal Gas Law is a mathmatical equation and is as followed,
PV = nRT
Where P stands for pressure, V is volume, n is the amount of gas, R is the ideal gas constant (a number), and T is the temperature.
(Pressure)*(Volume) = (amount)*(Ideal Gas Constant)*(Temperature)
(Pressure) times (Volume) = (amount) times (Gas Constant) times (temperature).
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Now then the Ideal Gas Law is a combination of four gas laws.
1. Boyle’s Law (explained).
2. Charles’s Law- which states volume of a gas is directly proportional to its temperature. Simply, temperature of a gas goes up, the volume goes up as well. And, temperature of a gas goes down, the volume of gas goes down to. Balloon example: A balloon contains a fixed amount of gas because of this law if you heat the balloon it gets bigger! (The volume increase). And if you freeze the balloon the gas gets cold and it shrinks (volume decreases).
3. Gay-Lussac’s Law- The temperature and pressure of gas are directly proportional. If temperature of gas goes up (gas gets hotter), then the pressure goes up. If the gas gets cold, pressure goes down.
4. And Avogadro’s Law- which isn’t as easy to explain or understand, but simply, all ideal gasses act the same regardless of the size of the molecules in the gas. Example: Carbon Dioxide (a gas) is composed of one Carbon atom and two oxygen atoms however it behaves the same as Helium (another gas) that’s only composed of Helium atoms alone. However on a molecular level Carbon Dioxide is larger than Helium (it has more atoms), nonetheless both gasses act the same and follow the Ideal Gas Law. In fact all ideal gasses, regardless of their size, act the same.
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These four laws make the Ideal Gas Law.
PV = nRT.
That’s what’s important.
Because it completely explains how all gas (well ideal ones, which is basically all) behave, and will behave, under given circumstances. And Boyle helped.
The Ideal Gas Law was first written out by Emile Clapeyron when he combined all the Laws together.
Applications!
So what can you do with this?
Well there’s a lot of stuff, which I don’t want to go through all of it…
But Absolute Zero is a good result of the Ideal Gas Law.
Lord Kelvin figured this out by looking at the Ideal Gas Law. But if you plot a Temperature vesus Volume graph and recall that Temp is proportional to Volume you get a straight line. That’s to say there’s a specific volume for every temperature of a certain amount of gas.
So let’s say (this is an example and not real numbers) at 80 degrees you have a volume of 40 ml of gas, at 35 degrees you have 30 ml of gas, at 10 degrees you have 20 ml of gas (the volume goes down as the gas gets colder, charles law). Now it’s important to understand the gas isn’t going away, it’s volume is just getting smaller (which is predicted by the Ideal Gas Law).
Okay so Kelvin thought to himself.
What’s the temperature when the volume of the gas goes to zero? He found this by mathmatically following the graph he made (the line) to where this would be true (because you can’t measure it physically).
And he found that theoretically at -273 degrees Celsius the volume of gas is zero.
This is Absolute Zero.
You can never get colder then this because the volume of a gas can never go below zero (that’s impossible).
Kelvin finding this temperature is a good result of the Ideal Gas Law.
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Question by Dream Little Darling, Dream: What philosopher shaped medieval theory in Early Modern Europe?
I have been looking for the answer to this question everyone, and I still cannot find it. I am writing an essay on this subject, but I cannot find the philosopher that I am looking for.
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Answer by Dave P
What would you call early modern Europe? Do you mean someone who was medieval and shaped philosophy during that time or someone later who shaped how we think of the medieval period. If it’s the first, the biggest names in medieval thought who had a lasting influence were probably Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon.
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Question by boylova_music2: Philosophy help on the book “women philosophers of the early modern period, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia”.?
This is a study question for my final. I don’t remember reading any section of this book in class, and my professor is a jerk. I asked him what pages and he said “go see for yourself” I have no idea who princess elisabeth of bohemia is. Please help me, I don’t want to fail. 5 stars for best answer.
What do you think about their discussion of the soul? define what you understand the word “soul” to mean. Make at least four references to the letters in your response.
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Answer by Julia
i googled her and have come up with this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_of_Bohemia,_Princess_Palatine
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Question by natalie c: Why are early scientists considered philosophers?
Why is the it not encouraged in modern times?
Today few scientists could be considered a philosopher.
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Answer by EmoCake
Because people got more and more stupid while technology improved.
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This is the Herbert and Valmae Freilich Foundation Annual Lecture in Bigotry and Tolerance for 2009 and was recorded on March 12, 2009 at The Australian National University. In it, Professor Katz covers the essential features of medieval Christian antisemitism and the very different features of modern racial antisemitism, culminating in Nazi antisemitism. He concludes with an assessment on the connection between historical antisemitism and the antisemitism of today. Steven T. Katz is Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University, Boston, Ma., where he holds the Alvin J. and Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies. Professor Katz was Chair of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Museum for five years and still serves on the committee. He is presently the Chair of the Holocaust Commission of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. Professor Katz is one of the American representatives to the International Task Force on the Holocaust, sponsored by the European Union, and he also serves as Chair of the Academic Committee of this international organization. His publications include: Jewish Philosophers (1975); Jewish Ideas and Concepts (1977); Post-Holocaust Dialogues, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1984; Historicism, the Holocaust and Zionism (1992); and the forthcoming multi-volume study entitled The Holocaust in Historical Context, volume 1 of which was published in 1994 and was selected as the …
Question by Zack: Who is your favorite early modern philosopher and why?
This question isn’t intended to be particularly serious, just a matter of personal preference. I love Spinoza, perhaps as much for the man that he was as for his brilliant works. I also like Pascal, but have a harder time getting into Kant simply due to his complete lack off attempt to make his work readable.
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Answer by Clarissa
Kant and Pascal are great. Though Kant expressed his ideas so…weirdly
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Question by trisha w: What assumptions did the early greek philosophers have of the world(view), compared to modern scientist today?
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Answer by robertminidriver
The Greeks tended to speak metaphorically because they had few scientific tools or methods to prove or disprove their thoughts and concepts.
However, they did have the power of observation and the ability to make cogent conclusions and hypotheses based on these observations.
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Question by Tony T: was immanuel kant greatest of the early modern philosophers?
who is your personal favourite descartes?hegel?hume?locke? berkeley?…..???…???
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Answer by randox_x
my favorite descarte is me.. because they have different minds and different thoughts, and when it comes to philosophy, i can only hear my mind and thoughts
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