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		Excerpts from Seminars of the Royal Academy of Engineering Excerpts fron Teorema - Revista Internacional de Filosopia
ARTIFICIALE	artificial	Surely an engineer will want to know that the theory is accurate and reliable if that theory is employed in the design of some artifact, and what better guarantee of reliability is there than a theory’s truth?
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SICUREZZA	safety	Constructors are very good at thinking about the health and safety of their workers, and users are quite good at thinking about the health and safety of their customers, but the link between the two is often missed out.
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VERITA’	truth	there is no room in philosophical methodology for scientific inquiry, even if it reliably yields knowledge of the world: the truths it discovers are empirical, whereas the truths philosophy seeks are not, nor can they be established by consideration of such. However, the results of scientific enquiry (empirical truths) at least have the same format (propositional form) as the results of a priori inquiry, the universally accepted modus operandi of the true philosopher.
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BONTA’	goodness	Albert Flores [3, p.207] makes the distinction clear: “Whereas according to the deontologist an action is right or wrong insofar as it conforms with our moral duty, according to (the) consequentialist approach the rightness or wrongness of an action is a function of the goodness or badness of its consequences”.
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BELLEZZA	beauty	The engineering extraction from nature of both hidden materials and energies, together with the design of minded machines, made possible the quantitative proliferation of artifice and its coordinate standardization. Standardization appeared to deprive the world of crafted beauty as a necessary trade-off for affluence. The standardization that engineers constructed, not just with their machines and industrial processes, but behind the scenes through the negotiation of technical codes, nevertheless foreshadowed a fabricated substantiality at the base of a new ecology of artifice.
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NATURA	nature	Philosophers considering the nature of consciousness have in some cases failed to fully appreciate the importance of  he physical body to consciousness, so this work by engineers and scientists on the nature of consciousness delivers real philosophical insight.
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AZIONE	action	Knowledge stands to belief as action stands to desire. If I desire something and the world is not like that, then I am incomplete in some way, and I will therefore want to perform some action to make the world as I desire it. Knowledge and belief have a similar sort of relationship - if I believe something without knowing that the world is like that, then I have to perform some kind of investigation. My unaugmented mind supplies an incomplete view of the world.
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RESISTENZA	strength
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UNICITA’	unicity
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VALORE	value	Fixed asset values of blue chip companies only make up a relatively small percentage of their book value, but intangible assets such as knowledge provide a huge amount of the value, as expressed in market terms (Lev [2]). On top of that, of course, knowledge has always been a source of competitive advantage.
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