Conversational philosophical club that the future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the philosopher and psychologist William James, and philosophers John Dewey and Charles Sanders Peirce formed in January 1872 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dissolved in December 1872
Metaphor which means “Using the understanding gained by major thinkers who have gone before in order to make intellectual progress”.It is a metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants and expresses the meaning of “discovering truth by building on previous discoveries”. This concept has been dated to the 12th century, according to John of Salisbury is attributed to Bernard of Chartres
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1986 nonfiction book by Barry Lopez
Memoir of the early career of Fitzroy Maclean
Zoological book for the general audience, written by the Austrian scientist Konrad Lorenz in 1949. The first English-language edition appeared in 1954.The original German title is So kam der Mensch auf den Hund, which could be literally translated as “How man ended up with dog”. The German title is also a play on the phrase “Auf den Hund kommen”, which is a common idiom in German-speaking countries and probably comes from the old days when farmers with economic problems had to sell their livestock animals and ended up with only the dog.
