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Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Roy A. Sorensen
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities is a collection of puzzles, paradoxes, riddles, and miscellaneous logic problems. Depending on taste, one can partake of
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Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Roy Sorensen
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-12-04 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for mille
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Pages: 369
Authors: Roy Sorensen
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-27 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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About the fifth century BC, three civilizations independently and simultaneously began to philosophize about nothing: China (chapter 3), India (chapters 4 and 5
A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities
Language: en
Pages: 303
Authors: J. C. McKeown
Categories: History
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A miscellany of odd stories and facts about the ancient Greeks, demonstrating how much they were--and were not--like us.
A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Jan Bondeson
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-24 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Long ago, curiosities were arranged in cabinets for display: a dried mermaid might be next to a giant's shinbone, the skeletons of conjoined twins beside an Egy