Exemplary cases are important when teaching such abstract meta-knowledge about the explanatory perspectives in biology because students need to apply abstract knowledge in connec- tion with concrete examples to fully understand a topic (Zohar and David 2008). Such meta-level discussions of the ...
See further examples in the supplementary material. The planethood of the Moon and other satellites was not a throwaway oddity of the period; it was central to the scientific reasoning of the period, and the Copernican Revolution cannot be properly understood without this conceptualization of ...
Eudemus, for example, reflects the Platonic view of thesoulas imprisoned in the body and as capable of a happier life only when the body has been left behind. According to Aristotle, the dead are more blessed and happier than the living, and to die is to return to one’s real home....