Appearance and reality

The papers in this volume provide us with a good sample of contemporary metaphysical inquiries. The first essay, by Zovko and Zovko, develops an account of the nature of metaphysical inquiry in general, which account is grounded in the history of this discipline. Their essay illuminates the great divide between ancient and medieval thought, on the one hand and modern and post-modern metaphysical thinking, on the other.

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This work is called the Critique of Practical Reason, not of the pure practical reason, although its parallelism with the speculative critique would seem to require the latter term. The reason of this appears sufficiently from the treatise itself. Its business is to show that there is pure practical reason, and for this purpose it criticizes the entire practical faculty of reason.

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Taken as a whole, the German cinema is both more and less than the sum of its films. When one thinks of individual titles, quite a few, especially from the 1920s and early 1930s, have entered the canon, have become cultural icons the world over. Yet in these very same classics, the brilliant and the dark sides of their genius appear not only close together but inextricable. If we think of The Golem, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Nosferatu and Dr Mabuse: these are titles which by themselves evoke the spirit of an age, conjuring up...

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When XML first appeared, people widely believed that it was the imminent successor to HTML. This viewpoint was influenced by a variety of factors, including media hype, wishful thinking, and simple confusion about the number of new technologies associated with XML. The reality is that millions of web sites are written in HTML, and no widely used browser fully supports XML and its related standards.

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According to the objective idealist philosophy, thinking is a product of "absolute idea" as a supernatural instinct, independent, not dependent on the material. According to George Wilhemer Fridrick Heghen: "The concept of absolute origins and its activities can only be expressed in thought, in the form of speculative science alone". [1]. Karl Marx said: "For Heghen, the movement of thinking he personified under the name" the idea "that God created reality; reality is only appearance of ideas"

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This book is now in its fifth edition. Each edition has corresponded to a different phase in the way computer networks were used. When the first edition appeared in 1980, networks were an academic curiosity. When the second edition appeared in 1988, networks were used by universities and large businesses. When the third edition appeared in 1996, computer networks, especially the Internet, had become a daily reality for millions of people. By the fourth edition, in 2003, wireless networks and mobile computers had become commonplace for accessing the Web and the Internet.

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We appear to be on the threshold of witnessing a substantial reduction in the longterm complications of diabetes. Modern treatment regimens, better monitoring of control and the huge impact of improved education all combine to offer the prospect of real progress towards prevention of complications and lessening of progression in those in whom complications may be present. The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) has provided eveidence that such can be achieved, while the St Vincent Declaration initiative has set the standards to enable these benefits to become reality....

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In an era of spectacular medical advances, it is easy to become immune to the announcement of new “breakthroughs”. This in no way lessens the remarkable achievements of diagnostic imaging over the last few years in which the field of Nuclear Medicine has shared. To the outsider the specialty of Nuclear Medicine can appear confusing and esoteric since it operates in a world of invisible radioactive emissions, nuclear decay charts and obscure elements.

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With the latest algorithm change by Google, it has become important to gauge the landscape now and see what works and what doesn't. A lot of websites crashed down the search rankings because they did not correlate well with the changes that were put in by Google and its team. Videos are one of those modern day realities that are growing in strength and it appears they have a big role to play in the success of a website.

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