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Two classic articles Antonio Panaino, "Gli Yašt dell'Avesta: metodi e prospettive", ATTI del Glottologico Milanese 30 [1989], Milan, 1992, 159-184. Prods Oktor Skjaervø, "Hymnic composition in the Avesta", Die Sprache 36, 1994, 199-243. Panaino summarizes …
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Frantz Grenet
The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (8)
Frantz Grenet
The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (8)
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The period following the Greek colonial period, at least as far as Tokharestan is concerned - a country now encompassing Bactria and the south of ancient Sogdiana - is conventionally divided into several phases: the "invasion period" or "pre-Kushan" (from …
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Brad Weslake
Why Think Causally?
Brad Weslake
Why Think Causally?
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Abstract Theories of actual causation formulated in the framework of causal models have made salient an interesting puzzle concerning the relationship between counterfactual dependence and causation. Even when theorists agree on the causal model …
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In this talk, I will present the comparison between recent experimental results obtained by the quantum optics group at the ETH Zurich and theory predictions concerning thermoelectric effects in a two-terminal geometry realizing a cold atom equivalent of …
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Life then passes through the littoral barrier, and analogies have been established with the extracellular anisosmotic regulation (internal and intracellular environments always have the same osmolarity, whatever that of the external environment) that …
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Abstract Dispositional realism, as I have defended it in Le Ciment des choses , relies on four main assumptions: 1. A causal theory of properties, 2. A conditional dispositionalist account of laws; 3. Some kind of aliquidditism (or thin essentialism) . 4. …
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The microbiota-nutrition relationship is undoubtedly one of the most visible areas of human-microbe mutualism. The intestinal microbiota metabolizes food ingested by the host, as well as host elements (mucins). Conversely, products of microbial metabolism …
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Abstract I explore the debate over the metaphysics of the direction of causal dependence and the temporal arrow in conjunction with the idea that causation is a productive relation. I show how evidence drawn from experience that seems to support a …
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