Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-160
Author(s):  
Dale S. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Question

The conclusion to this book follows themes in the sutra’s epilogue that address the question of why it might be important to take the teachings of Vimalakirti seriously and what means of reading the sutra would allow us to do that. It inquires into the dichotomy between the Buddhist teachings and Vimalakirti’s “thunderous silence,” and raises the sutra’s existential question of what Buddhist practices are most suitable for the goal of awakening. The conclusion ends by examining what the sutra has to say on the crucial question of the most productive relation readers might take to the practice of meditative reading.

War of Perception, Perception of Time

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-267
Author(s):  
Kuniichi Uno
Keyword(s):  
Michel Tournier ◽  
Crucial Question ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Desert Island ◽  
Perception Of Time

For Gilles Deleuze's two essays ‘Causes and Reasons of Desert Islands’ and ‘Michel Tournier and the World Without Others’, the crucial question is what the perception is, what its fundamental conditions are. A desert island can be a place to experiment on this question. The types of perception are described in many critical works about the history of art and aesthetical reflections by artists. So I will try to retrace some types of perception especially linked to the ‘haptic’, the importance of which was rediscovered by Deleuze. The ‘haptic’ proposes a type of perception not linked to space, but to time in its aspects of genesis. And something incorporeal has to intervene in a very original stage of perception and of perception of time. Thus we will be able to capture some links between the fundamental aspects of perception and time in its ‘out of joint’ aspects (Aion).

Practice and Technology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kjeld Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Turning Points ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Cooperative Work ◽  
Computer Supported Cooperative Work ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Crucial Question

The emergence of practice-centered computing (e.g., Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, or CSCW) raises the crucial question: How can we conceptualize the practices into which the prospective technology is to be integrated? How can we, reasonably, say of two observed activities or events that they are, or are not, instances of the same type? These are crucial questions. This chapter therefore attempts to clarify the concepts of “practice” and “technique.” First, since our ordinary concepts of “practice” and “technique” developed as part of the evolution of modern technology, as tools for practitioners’ and scholars’ reflections on the role of technical knowledge in work, the chapter outlines the major turning points in the evolution of these concepts, from Aristotle (via the scholastics), to enlightenment thinkers such as Diderot and Kant, and finally to Marx and Marxism. The chapter thereafter moves on to analyze the concepts as we use them today in ordinary discourse.

Instituting Europe: Germany, the Union, and the Legacy of the Short Century

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Michael Werz
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Crucial Question ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Federal Structure

Recent debates about the future of the European Union have focusedin large part on institutional reforms, the deficit of democratic legitimacy,and the problem of economic and agrarian policies. As importantas these issues may be, the most crucial question at the momentis not whether Europe will prevail as a union of nations or as a thoroughlyintegrated federal structure. What is of much greater concernis the fact that political structures and their corresponding politicaldiscourses have lagged far behind the social changes occurring inEuropean societies. The pivotal transformation of 1989 has not beengrasped intellectually or politically, even though its results areincreasingly visible in both the east and west.

The Research of Word Similarity in Semantic Retrieval

2014 ◽  
Vol 701-702 ◽  
pp. 413-417
Author(s):  
Jie Ran ◽  
Ji Ya Huang ◽  
Zu Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Processing Technology ◽  
Semantic Retrieval ◽  
Word Similarity ◽  
Crucial Question ◽  
Computing Method

Word similarity computing is a crucial question in information processing technology. In this paper, an integrated word similarity computing method is proposed by analyzed morpheme's similarity, word order's similarity and word length's similarity, and parameters of the method are decided by experiments. The experiments show that this method has high efficiency.

Towards a More Varied Picture of Slavery

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-261
Author(s):  
Jessica Hinchy ◽  
Girija Joshi
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Crucial Question ◽  
Revenue Collection ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
Slavery Studies

Abstract Indrani Chatterjee’s ground-breaking research has shown the centrality of obligation and provision to historical forms of slavery in South Asia, deepening our understanding of slave-using societies beyond the plantation systems that have dominated historiography, as well as historical memory. In this interview, Chatterjee explains why the crucial question in the context of South Asian slavery was: who do you serve and for what purpose? Enslavers were obliged to materially provide for their slaves, in return for the enslaved person’s service, labor and loyalty, creating varied relationships of dependence. By foregrounding the complex set of relationships and obligations in which slaves were enmeshed, Chatterjee seeks to “make people out of laborers.” This has led her to rethink the ways that resistance and agency have been conceptualized in slavery studies and Subaltern Studies, emphasizing the relationships within which a person became an agent. Her research has also deepened our understanding of colonialism and slavery. British colonizers generally ignored slaves’ entitlements to certain labor or taxation exemptions from the state, and colonial revenue-collection made the already-burdened doubly burdened. But in a hetero-temporal colonial context, older ways of identifying and forms of relationships endured. Chatterjee argues that this history of the provision of survival in contexts of enslavement is not “romanticizing,” but rather historicizes multiple forms of violence and shows a fuller, more varied picture of slavery.

The growth-volatility relationship redux: what does volatility decomposition tell?

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Debdulal Mallick
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycle ◽  
Empirical Relationship ◽  
Growth Trajectories ◽  
Crucial Question ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Growth Volatility

AbstractThis paper revisits the empirical relationship between volatility and long-run growth, but the key contribution lies in decomposing growth volatility into its business-cycle and trend components. This volatility decomposition also accounts for enormous heterogeneity among countries in terms of their long-run growth trajectories. We identify a negative effect of trend volatility, which we refer to as long-run volatility, on growth, but no effect of business-cycle volatility. However, if long-run volatility is omitted, there would be a spurious (negative) effect of business-cycle volatility. Our results draw attention to a crucial question about different volatility measures and their implications in macroeconomic analyses.

Clause structure, case and agreement in Polish existential, possessive and locative sentences: A phase-based account

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-696
Author(s):  
Joanna Błaszczak
Keyword(s):  
Information Structure ◽  
Clause Structure ◽  
External Argument ◽  
Case Alternation ◽  
Crucial Question ◽  
Existential Sentences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Event Variable

Abstract In this paper it will be argued that the difference between existential and locative sentences is primarily structurally encoded at the vP/VP level (at the first phase of a derivation). The crucial question is which argument of the verb BE (the Location or the nominal argument (“Theme”)) is projected as the “external argument”, i.e., which argument is the subject of inner predication. In the case of existential sentences it is the Location argument which is the subject of inner predication, and in the case of locative sentences it is the nominal argument. The subject of inner predication becomes by default also the subject of outer predication, i.e., the topic of the sentence. Hence, in the case of locative sentences the nominal argument is the subject of outer predication, i.e., the topic of the sentence, and in the case of existential sentences it is the Location which becomes the topic. (Or, alternatively, the actual topic (the subject of outer predication) might be the situational/ event variable, and the Location functions as a restriction on it.) However, the actual arrangement of constituents in the sentences under discussion, as in any other Polish sentence, is determined by the pragmatic/communicative principles. Given this, it is reasonable to think that the NOM/GEN case alternation in negated existential/locative sentences is primarily a matter of syntax, and not one of information structure or scope of negation. The analysis will be modeled in accordance with the phasal model of Chomsky (2000 et seq.).

scholarly journals Autonomously Autistic

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Williams
Keyword(s):  
Hostile Environment ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Crucial Question ◽  
Autistic People

The locus of pathology exists not in the autistic person, but in the interaction between a hostile environment and the subjugated autistic. It is essential for parents, practitioners, educators, and autistic people themselves to ask the crucial question—  Is the autistic a machine, or an organism? Are we active agents in our own embodied experience, or are we a locus of behavior? It is not with defiance, but autonomy, that I declare as an autistic person— I am not a manifestation of stimuli and response. I am agential. I am Autonomously Autistic.

scholarly journals "Living in the shadow of apocalyptic roulette": Conversation with Svetozar Stojanovic

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-69
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Nikitovic
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
Crucial Question ◽  
New Situation

Progress and invention of apocalyptic means have brought mankind to radically new situation of possible self-destruction. Living in a shadow of selfapocalypse rises new basic dilemmas and questions of understanding of the sense of hu?man actions and poses as most important goal the sole existence of humankind. Could ethics as we know it today and modern political philosophy find the answer to challenges of ?apocalyptic roulette? which humankind is facing today, or we need entirely new principles of political organization, is crucial question to which we need to find the proper answer.

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