The Practice of Philosophy

The appearance of semiotics in the early twentieth century signifies an increase in awareness of the communicative powers of our entire environment.  Once we are able to attain the level of abstraction in which a word is a sign, we can then readily perceive clothing, gesture and traffic light as signs whose semiotic structure, whose semioses, must always already bear strong resemblances to the semioses of words.  The expansion of the communicative universe through the research and a...

QURAN AND SCIENCE OF METEOROLOGY Quran Treats the phenonomenon of Rain and Hail By Allama Muhammad Yousuf Gabriel www.oqasa.org shaukatawan@rocketmail.com The Quran has claimed not when but twice in most explicit terms to include all knowledge that concerned humanity. And has challenged the world to bring a chapter like it, when I was asked that Quran was not the book of science, it was only the book of religion. How for that reason, the treatment of the subjects like...

Even though I believe that style is an attribute, or rather an ability, of the conscious mind, if there are natural things which had been not designed, then design is not a necessity of production. In spite of having a rather obviously singular function, other than for aesthetic and stylistic purposes, a watch could be as regular and mundane as a rock. 1 of the examples we have utilised for design was of a watch and a watchmaker, by William Paley. He speaks of the notion of finding a rock on ...