In a sense entirely appropriate to a philosophical gathering, the participants seemed to agree only on what time could not be.
Photios seems to have hosted some kind of literary salon in his home in the 850s or 860s, and similar gatherings, so-called theatra, where philosophical and other essays were read and discussed, constituted a central element in early Palaiologan cultural life (see Gaul 2011).
As someone who always thought searing conflict was a healthy (read: necessary) part of family gatherings, I struggle to see why parents are so against their children's partners adding a little philosophical spice to a polite gathering.
But now a restive contingent of our tribe is convinced that it can shed light on traditional philosophical problems by going out and gathering information about what people actually think and say about our thought experiments.
On Friday, Mr. Obama is scheduled to address the same group — the annual conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials — making the gathering a high-profile campaign forum that further highlights the philosophical divide over the issue and the political stakes.
The last section is devoted to gathering psycholinguistic evidence showing that at least some of the philosophical and semantic concepts discussed in this article may be cognitively real.
The most notable example is the Athenian Agora, an open square that served as a place for political gatherings, the buying and selling of goods, religious services, athletic events, philosophical discussions, educational events and art displays.
Because his productions did not avoid raising philosophical or political issues that questioned the Communist Party line, the Taganka became a gathering place for intellectuals and dissidents.
These informal gatherings were an occasion for engaged thinkers from a variety of perspectives to discuss together various philosophical themes, frequently ones Marcel himself was working on that week.
______ Overcrowded gathering.
