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What was the need to create the concept of art and science?

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Why in the academic fields of art and design, the philosophy taught or mentioned is often Continental philosophy?

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Is there, in Aristotle, a broad concept of thinking ( noèsis) that includes imagination ? Or is imagination a purely sensible power?

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Historically, were most philosophers moral realists before the rise of physicalism?

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Did Clausewitz's On War influence later non military/political philosophy?

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List of books which teaches historical Aristotelian logic

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How do the works attributed to Aristotle are determined to originate from him?

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