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  • Galileo signals this goal clearly when he leaves Padua in 1611 to return to Florence and the court of the Medici and asks for the title Philosopher as well as Mathematician.

    Galileo Galilei Machamer, Peter 2009

  • The night we eat at the Philosopher is a quiet one, so the owner himself takes our orders, or rather tells us what to order, in a gruff but lovable way that adds to the ambiance of this find of a restaurant.

    TBTAM Does Italy - Part Last. Three Memorable Meals in Maratea aka TBTAM 2007

  • In the UK, you know... where the book originally came from its called The Philosopher's Stone.

    LOL: James Cameron’s Avatar is Disney’s Pochontas | /Film 2010

  • After this they took another subject, and one propounded this Syllogism: Every Philosopher is wise: Every Beast is wise, Therefore every Beast is a Philosopher.

    The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668

  • But another said that this Argument was false, therefore he contradicted him with a Syllogism of the second Figure of the fourth Mode, thus: Every Philosopher is wise: some Beasts are not wise, Therefore some Beasts are not Philosophers.

    The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668

  • THEM: A Philosopher is a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment: scholar, thinker b: a student of philosophy and a Poet is one who writes poetry or one as a creative artist of great imaginative and expressive capabilities and special sensitivity to the medium.

    Bernard Radfar: Texting Librarians Bernard Radfar 2011

  • THEM: A Philosopher is a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment: scholar, thinker b: a student of philosophy and a Poet is one who writes poetry or one as a creative artist of great imaginative and expressive capabilities and special sensitivity to the medium.

    Bernard Radfar: Texting Librarians Bernard Radfar 2011

  • THEM: A Philosopher is a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment: scholar, thinker b: a student of philosophy and a Poet is one who writes poetry or one as a creative artist of great imaginative and expressive capabilities and special sensitivity to the medium.

    Bernard Radfar: Texting Librarians Bernard Radfar 2011

  • Alain de Botton and Christopher Phillips offer neat contemporary introductions to the subject, but so does Richard Watson in a weird little book called The Philosopher's Diet: How to Lose Weight & Change the World.

    The consolations of philosophy M-mv 2007

  • Alain de Botton and Christopher Phillips offer neat contemporary introductions to the subject, but so does Richard Watson in a weird little book called The Philosopher's Diet: How to Lose Weight & Change the World.

    Archive 2007-12-01 M-mv 2007

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