Philosophical Dictionary

Medawar PB, Medawar JS (1983) Viruses. In Medawar PB, Medawar JS (eds) Aristotle to zoos a philosophical dictionary of biology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA p, 275... 

In our present times, those that should be knowledgeable in matters of the human soul (Psychologists) are mostly perplexed when they are confronted with matters like this. They do not know what the soul really is. Since they do not acknowledge a Spirit and a substantial Soul existing independently from the body. This is why they constantly confuse the concept of Spirit and Soul. For example, in one of the newer philosophical dictionaries, it is stated ... 

Voltaire understood this dilemma well. He described it, with characteristic irony, in his Philosophical Dictionary, under the heading, Freedom of Thought, cast in the form of a dialogue between Lord Boldmind, an English general, and Count Medroso, a Spanish nobleman. I cite only a fragment of Voltaire s statement ... 

Voltaire s Dictionaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary ) is published in Geneva. 

Chevalier de la Barre, a young admirer of Voltaire s, refuses to uncover and kneel in the presence of a religious procession. He is tortured, his tongue is ripped out, and he is beheaded. His body is burned at the stake unto which the executioners also commit a copy of Voltaire s Philosophical Dictionary Slavery is abolished in England. 

Wade Baskin, Foreword, in Voltaire s Philosophical Dictionary, p. 3. 

Baskin, W. Foreword. In Voltaire s Philosophical Dictionary A Compendium. Translated and edited by Wade Baskin, pp. 3-5. New York Philosophical Library, 1961. 

Voltaire, F. Philosophical Dictionary (1764). Translated by Peter Gay. New York Basic Books, 1962. 

The best books are those which make the reader supplement them. (Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, Foreword)... 

Ruland, Martin. A lexicon of alchemy or Alchemical dictionary / by Martinus Rulandus, Philosopher, Doctor and private physician to the August person the Emperor. fhttp //www.ebrarv.coml. 1992. 

Cirlot, Juan Eduardo. A dictionary of symbols. Translated from the Spanish by Jack Sage. Foreword by Herbert Read. 2nd ed ed. Edited by Herbert Read. Translated by Jack Sage. New York Philosophical Library, 1971. lv, 419 p. 

A nineteenth-century biographical dictionary of alchemists includes Jean de Meun, author of The Romance of the Rose. Francis Barrett notes that some have read the work as a tale of love, while others have seen beneath the text the process for the stone of the philosophers (29). In particular, verses 16914—16997 are said to contain much veiled information regarding the Great Work. 

Finally, we may conclude with the matter of a certain, homunculuslike Child (Enfant), shown by Duchamp in Spring to be strategically put in the center of his symbolic composition and then ptopetly enclosed within the Philosophical Egg. The Mytbo Hermetic Dictionary describes the figute as follows ... 

Cirlot, ]. E. A Dictionary of Symbols. New York Philosophical Library, 1962. 

ISIR — The author of the Hermetic Dictionary says that the Philosophers understand by this term the Elixir at the White, and that the Sages have so named it when it is desired to multiply it. But the Philosophers also make use of it to signify the same thing that they express under the term Iris, which see. 

The philosopher s stone was an imagined substance which allegedly had the power to transform base metals into gold. WEBSTER S II New Riverside University Dictionary 882 (1984). 

This can be seen, for example, in two historical dictionaries of philosophy that represent the state of philosophical discussion at the time when Whitehead enters the scene with Bachelard following soon thereafter. See the entries on Substanz in Michaelis (1907, 607-610) and in Eisler (1904, vol. 2, 450-464). 

Horton, B. J. Dictionary of Modem Chess, Philosophical Library, New York, 1959. 

F. Accum] (i.e., A Practical Chemist ), Explanatory Dictionary of the Apparatus and Instruments Employed in the Various Operations of Philosophical and Experimental Chemistry with Seventeen Quarto Copper Plates, Thomas Boys, London, 1824, pp. 100-110, which describes 10 eudiometers (Priestley, Pepy, Scheele, De Marti, Humbolt, Hope, Seguin, Bertholet, Davy, Volta). 

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