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Dialogues on relativism, absolutism, and beyond : four days in India
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ISBN: 1283213931 9786613213938 1442209305 9781442209305 9780742560321 0742560325 9780742560338 0742560333 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,

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What is truth, goodness, or beauty? Can we really define these concepts without the idea of a frame of reference? In the newest addition to the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, Michael Krausz presents fictional dialogues between four former classmates who hold significantly different views about these questions. As they travel in India, a place with unfamiliar concepts and customs, these four friends debate the rightness of relativism and absolutism. Are these concepts irreconcilable? Might there be a better view that goes beyond both of them? These lively discussions provide students with


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Keys to the beyond : Frithjof Schuon's cross-traditional language of transcendence
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ISBN: 143847900X 9781438479002 9781438478999 Year: 2020 Publisher: Albany, New York : SUNY Press,

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"Thorough study of the original vocabulary of Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998), its relevance to comparative religion, and the status of metaphysical and theological terms in religion"--


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Absolute constructions in early Indo-European
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ISBN: 9780521767620 0521767628 9781139019736 113988798X 1139793349 1139783246 1139781952 1139019732 1139775928 113977896X 1283746271 1139777440 1108456022 9781139775922 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press,

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In the past, discussions of absolute constructions (ACs) have been limited by an imprecise understanding of what ACs are. By examining the nature and function of ACs and related constructions in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, this new study arrives at a clear and simple definition of ACs. Focussing on the earliest attested material in each language, it highlights how AC usage differs between languages and offers explanations for these differences. Identifying the common core shared by all ACs, it suggests a starting-point and way by which they developed into Greek, Latin and Sanskrit. Further historical study reveals how ACs have been conceived of by grammarians, philologists and even Christian missionaries over the last two thousand years and how enduring misconceptions still affect our discussion of them today. All Sanskrit material is annotated in detail, making it accessible for classicists in particular and allowing a better understanding of ACs in Greek and Latin.

Absolute music and the construction of meaning
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ISBN: 0521631815 0521027519 0511089015 1107115698 0511019181 0511175752 0511156340 0511325401 0511481691 1280420294 0511051069 9780511481697 9780511019180 0511035829 9780511035821 9780511051067 9780511156342 9786610420292 6610420297 9780521631815 Year: 1999 Volume: *1 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; secondly, it is a history of a music that claims to have no history - absolute music. The book therefore writes against that notion of absolute music which tends to be the paradigm for most musicological and analytical studies. It is concerned not so much with what music is, but with why and how meaning is constructed in instrumental music and what structures of knowledge need to be in place for such meaning to exist. From the thought of Vincenzo Galilei to that of Theodore Adorno, Daniel Chua suggests that instrumental music has always been a critical and negative force in modernity, even with its nineteenth-century apotheosis as 'absolute music'.


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Antithetical arts : on the ancient quarrel between literature and music
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ISBN: 9780199562800 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

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Moral Demands and Personal Obligations
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ISBN: 0585211108 9780585211107 0878405372 9780878405374 0878405437 9780878405435 1589019539 Year: 1993 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press,

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Metrology and physical constants : proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", course 185, Varenna on Lake Como, Villa Monastero, 17-27 July 2012
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ISBN: 1614993262 9781614993261 1306284651 9781306284653 1614993254 9781614993254 9788874380831 8874380836 9781614993254 Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands : IOS Press,

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The reliability and accuracy of systems of measurement continue to advance. We are about to enter a period of the most stable measurement system we can imagine with the anticipated new definitions of the SI units of measurement; a direct link between fundamental physics and metrology which will eliminate the current definition of the kilogram, until now based upon an artifact.This book presents selected papers from Course 185 of the Enrico Fermi International School of Physics, held in Varenna, Italy, in July 2012 and jointly organized with the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM).

Tensor analysis
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ISBN: 1281876852 9786611876852 9812564462 9789812564467 9789812383600 9812383603 9781281876850 9812383603 6611876855 Year: 2003 Publisher: River Edge, NJ : World Scientific Pub.,

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Tensor analysis is an essential tool in any science (e.g. engineering,physics, mathematical biology) that employs a continuum description. This concise text offers a straight forward treatment of the subject suitable for the student or practicing engineer.


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Irreducible cartesian tensors
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ISBN: 3110563738 3110564866 9783110564860 9783110564877 3110564874 3110563630 9783110563733 9783110563634 3110563630 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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This monograph covers the concept of cartesian tensors with the needs and interests of physicists, chemists and other physical scientists in mind. After introducing elementary tensor operations and rotations, spherical tensors, combinations of tensors are introduced, also covering Clebsch-Gordan coefficients. After this, readers from the physical sciences will find generalizations of the results to spinors and applications to quantum mechanics.


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Tensor Numerical Methods in Scientific Computing
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ISBN: 3110391392 311036591X 9783110365917 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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The most difficult computational problems nowadays are those of higher dimensions. This research monograph offers an introduction to tensor numerical methods designed for the solution of the multidimensional problems in scientific computing. These methods are based on the rank-structured approximation of multivariate functions and operators by using the appropriate tensor formats. The old and new rank-structured tensor formats are investigated. We discuss in detail the novel quantized tensor approximation method (QTT) which provides function-operator calculus in higher dimensions in logarithmic complexity rendering super-fast convolution, FFT and wavelet transforms. This book suggests the constructive recipes and computational schemes for a number of real life problems described by the multidimensional partial differential equations. We present the theory and algorithms for the sinc-based separable approximation of the analytic radial basis functions including Green's and Helmholtz kernels. The efficient tensor-based techniques for computational problems in electronic structure calculations and for the grid-based evaluation of long-range interaction potentials in multi-particle systems are considered. We also discuss the QTT numerical approach in many-particle dynamics, tensor techniques for stochastic/parametric PDEs as well as for the solution and homogenization of the elliptic equations with highly-oscillating coefficients. Contents Theory on separable approximation of multivariate functions Multilinear algebra and nonlinear tensor approximation Superfast computations via quantized tensor approximation Tensor approach to multidimensional integrodifferential equations

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