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Philosophers then focus on their tense properties: is an event past, present or future?

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

Philosophers and theologians adopted the Slavonic upiór to coin the English term “vampire.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

Philosophers have asked similar questions about the latter: Can we actually see a hole?

From Scientific American • Jul. 10, 2023

French intellectual and media personality Bernard-Henri Lévy, who rose to prominence with the anti-socialist New Philosophers movement in the 1970s, has never stopped thinking about civilization’s perilous situation around the world.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2023

‘Even our Experimental Philosophers and Physicians find, that an experiment that hits ofttimes, quite misseth afterwards on other Subjects, and they know not why. A course of effects may oft come from unknown causes.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton