Turkey was once full of Greek cities which were the cradle of ancient Greek scientific and philosophical thought.

Specifically, physicists and philosophers tend to conflate what it means for something to exist and what it means for something to happen — treating occurrences as if they exist. Once that distinction ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The nature of time has plagued thinkers for as long as we've tried to understand the world we live in. Intuitively, we know what time is, but try to explain it, and we end ...

Time itself isn't difficult to grasp: we all understand it, despite our persistent struggle to describe it. The problem is one of articulation: a failure to precisely draw the right boundaries around ...

History is filled with bizarre stories about death, and the ancient Greeks are no exception. While the great intellectual Empedocles is said to have jumped into a volcano, in a misguided attempt to ...

Heraclitus of Ephesus was a Pre-Socratic philosopher who lived during the 6th century BC. He wrote a book which recorded his controversial philosophical thoughts. This book, which was deposited in the ...

ABSTRACT: It has been demonstrated by a host of Analytic philosophers that language imprecision and equivocation have been sources of confusion on many philosophical issues. This paper explores five ...

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.– Heraclitus of Ephesus, 500 B.C. George Walter Brown Source: (Photo courtesy of Greg O’Brien) On the ...

A new study suggests the universe might be slowly rotating, completing a full revolution every 500 billion years. This subtle rotation, while undetectable by current instruments, could significantly ...