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L'ermeneutica di Mosheim e la Storia ecclesiastica: rinnovamento o destrutturazione di un genere letterario tardo-antico
No full textIl testo si propone di mettere in luce le soluzioni critico-dialettiche che condussero Mosheim ad un rinnovamento antidogmatico della Stria ecclesiastica tenendo conto con cautela del dibattito post spinozian
L'ermeneutica di Mosheim e la Storia Ecclestica: rinnovamento e/o destrutturazione di un genere letterario tardo antico
No full textil saggio propone una rilettura inedita del ruolo svolto dalla methodus di Mosheim nei processi di secolarizzazione criptica della storiografia ecclesiastica in area riformata germanica nel xviii secol
Auf römischen Strassen unterwegs. Gedanken zum Essen und Trinken in den Herbergen/Viaggiare sulle strade romane. Riflessione su cibo e bevande negli ostelli
No full textTETRAPOD REMAINS FROM THE LADINIAN (MIDDLE TRIASSIC) SCELTRICH BEDS OF MONTE SAN GIORGIO UNESCO SITE
No full textThe Sceltrich beds at the base of the upper Meride Limestone (Ladinian) above the Cassina beds,
yielded a rich and diversified fish fauna comprising several specimens of the predatory fish Saurichthys and sarcopterygians.
Reptile findings instead are scarce and limited to few disarticulated teeth and bones, however, their description
can give an, albeit limited, insight about the reptile fauna of the Sceltrich beds which was never documented before,
testifiying the presence of large to mid-sized eusauropterygians and of the terrestrial tanystropheid Macrocnemus.
The results indicate that the composition of the tetrapod fauna of the Sceltrich beds is similar to that of the upper
levels of the Cassina beds. The taphonomic conditions that led to preservation as isolated remains could be due to
a combination of different factors most probably involving a disarticulation and loss of elements during a floating
phase. However it cannot be excluded that at least in some cases a residence phase of the carcass occurred for enough
time to allow decomposition of soft parts, leading to disarticulation and removal of isolated elements by currents
Galilean methodology and abductive inference
No full textGalileo, in founding modern science, ended up attributing a decisive role to the deductive method by means of which human reason must do violence to sense in order to know the world. This emphasizes, in a highly admirable way, precisely the constitutively counterfactual aspect of modern scientific reasoning, which no longer starts from empirical observation, but rather conjecturally constructs a theory whose mathematically deduced conclusions are then placed in relation to the experimental dimension. This revolutionary approach to scientific research outlined by Galileo has not always been understood. On the contrary, the empiricist image of science has often been superimposed on the very way in which scientists work. Peirce’s elaboration of abduction corrected this empiricist reading of science, emphasizing the need to include abduction itself in a great multiplicity of perspectives, all very open and very broad. The essay retraces this complex knot concerning the most correct epistemological image of scientific knowledge, following and analyzing the contributions provided by both the empiricist and idealist traditions, and then focusing on the contribution of two authors such as Peirce and Vailati who, in two different contexts, grasped the importance of a normativist vision of scientific knowledge and the role of deduction and of Peircean abduction itself. In this way, the critical problematic nature of scientific knowledge is placed at the center of our image of scientific knowledge
A new Coelacanth specimen with elongate ribs from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) Kalkschieferzone of the Monte San Giorgio (Canton Ticino, Switzerland)
No full textNew finding of a coelacanth from the upper Ladinian upper Kalkschieferzone of the Meride Limestone
Formation of Monte San Giorgio (UNESCO World Heritage area) is described. It represents the first known
coelacanth from the Middle triassic that undoubtedly bears elongate thin ribs. the incompleteness of the specimen
prevents a reliable taxonomic assignment or the erection of a new species, however some characters, mainly scale
morphology, are very similar to those of the holotype of Heptanema paradoxum bellotti, 1857 from the roughly coeval
Perledo Formation of northern italy. elongate ribs are not reported in original descriptions of H. paradoxum, however
small portion of ribs are visible among the scales of the holotype. accordingly, the new specimen is tentatively
ascribed to Heptanema as Heptanema cf H. paradoxum
A new species of Saurichthys (Actinopterygii: Saurichtydae) from the middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio
No full textA new species of the actinopterygian fish genus Saurichthys is described on the basis of several specimens from the Sceltrich beds (Meride limestone Formation) of the uneSco World Heritage area of Monte San Giorgio. The new species shows among other characters, unsegmented lepidotrichia in all fins and elongated and wide paired fins, suggesting a different adaptation for swimming and catching preys with respect to other Saurichthys species of Monte San giorgio. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that the new species is closely related to the Saurorhynchus species group. The new finding adds further knowledge to the plasticity and functional adaptations of the genus Saurichthys, which was one of the most successful actinopterygians of the triassic
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