When Aristotle says substance in the truest and primary and most definite of the word, is that "which is neither predicable of a subject nor presents in a subject", he is saying that physical things are a substance and there would always be something to describe them in other words a predicate from a subject but substances themselves cannot be predicates with other substances. Primary substances can have predicable and present things for example an apple can have a predicate "apple" and something is present in it, the colors. ... In other words if we go back to the example of the apple, taking...

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Science, according to the definition given by the dictionary, "is the ability to produce solutions in some problem domain- (Hyperdictionnary, 2003). ... As a human being I feel concerned with the subject, and second I have some principles and believes that, in fact, contradict with some aspects of cloning. ... An egg cannot combine with another egg, and a spermatozoid cannot mix with another spermatozoid. ... For example, therapeutic cloning could be used to remove altered genes and replace them by good genes. ... And because some "bad- genes also serve a useful purpose - for example, the g...

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Classification as defined by the Oxford dictionary is "[the] arrangement of things in a number of distinct classes, according to shared characteristics or perceived or deduced affinities.... We encounter a perfect example in the reading "The Roots of Conflict: Science and Religion before Divorce" by Adam Frank, we find Giordano Bruno being hanged for his challenge against Catholicism; with his idea was that earth was not the center of the solar system. There are different ideas that show how humans arrived to Earth, the most common and most talked about is the ancestor shared with ...

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The above examples show that it is difficult to identify a mental act called intention. ... An everyday example would be imprisonment of persons who violated the laws of their society. ... How much control, for example, does a person have over his body? ... The addition of the slavery issue was deliberate, but had nothing to do either with the remote or with proximate causes of war. ... Logic cannot lead us all the way in life, but can keep us more closely aligned with reality if our perceptions themselves are in tune with the way the world really is. ...

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