In this dissertation I examine the conceptions of opinion (<italic>doxa</italic>}), knowledge (<italic>gnosis</italic>), and understanding (<italic>episteme</italic>) that are presented by the character Socrates in Plato's <italic>Meno</italic> and <italic>Republic</italic>. A central claim I make, and one that sets my interpretation apart from…

Biogeography is a discipline included in comparative biology that studies the distribution of organisms, the distributional patterns of organisms are analyzed through the application of different methods, depending on the question formulated. In this work the principles and advantages of…

Diabetes mellitus is a syndrome which affects more and more people in all countries over the world. In Mexico, it is commonly treated with herbal extracts. Such treatment may be of considerable benefit especially during the early stages of the…

Cette thèse vise à mettre en lumière, dans les Essais de Montaigne, un aspect peu connu du débat sur la constance à la fin du seizième siècle. Alors que la vertu de constance devient à cette époque un enjeu philosophique…

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Dado un conjunto de agentes con una base previa de conocimiento, se desea saber cómo el nuevo conocimiento afecta a todos los agentes. Para modelar el nuevo conocimiento, se utilizóla lógica booleana, expresada mediante clausulas 2CNF, para reducir la complejidad.…

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Two main currents are clearly discernible in the Islamization of Knowledge literature regarding social science scholarship and its potential for use as a possible source of knowledge in the Islamization scheme. On the one hand, we have those who would…

El paradigma positivista busca la verdad en los hechos verídicos, capaces de comprobación científica, dada su condición cuantitativa y su efecto de ser medible, dejando de un lado la verdad milenaria que se esconde tras el saber popular de las