In the beginning was thelogos: Hermeneutical remarks on the starting-point of Edmund Husserl's Formal and transcendental Logic

Man and World ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-213
Author(s):  
George Heffernan
Keyword(s):  
Transcendental Logic ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
In The Beginning

How to begin a sequel?

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-58
Author(s):  
Péter Hajdu
Keyword(s):  
Sufficient Information ◽  
General Description ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Fictional Narratives ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Fictional Worlds ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Formal Feature

AbstractBeginnings of fictional narratives apply various strategies to introduce their readers to the represented world, and even if they select a starting point in the flow of events as definitive, they tend to tell something about how the starting situation has been constituted by earlier events and circumstances. Some literary genres represent fictional worlds so different from the readers’ that a general description of the former is also needed in the beginning. A sequel may seem free of the burden of a descriptive introductory beginning, since readers (if they have read the previous work or works) have sufficient information to be able to cope with in medias res beginning. However, long series of many sequels have to be accessible for new readers as well, therefore they offer introductions for a double audience. The paper analyses several beginnings from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. I show how the early novels use the description of the Discworld as a formal feature to begin the narrative; those descriptions fulfil the double purpose of introducing new readers and entertaining the trained ones by new ways of elaboration and adding some new traits.

The Scope of International Relations

1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick S. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Ambiguous Word ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Striking Similarity ◽  
Real Property ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
Critical Scrutiny ◽  
The Moment ◽  
In The Beginning

Four able and penetrating writers have recently given us their considered views on the nature and scope of international relations as a branch of higher learning.* While each of them starts from a somewhat different intellectual viewpoint, they display a striking similarity of conception of the general place of international relations (hereafter referred to as IR) in the spectrum of human knowledge. I propose here, not to subject these writings to critical scrutiny, but to use them as a starting point for a brief inspection of the scope of international relations as it now seems to be taking form in the work of the leading scholars in the field.It is necessary to note in the beginning that “scope” is a dangerously ambiguous word. It suggests that the subject matter under inquiry has clearly discernible limits, and that all one has to do in defining its scope is to trace out these boundaries in much the manner of a surveyor marking out the bounds of a piece of real property. Actually, it is nothing of the sort. A field of knowledge does not possess a fixed extension in space but is a constantly changing focus of data and methods that happen at the moment to be useful in answering an identifiable set of questions. It presents at any given time different aspects to different observers, depending on their point of view and purpose. The boundaries that supposedly divide one field of knowledge from another are not fixed walls between separate cells of truth but are convenient devices for arranging known facts and methods in manageable segments for instruction and practice. But the foci of interest are constantly shifting and these divisions tend to change with them, although more slowly because mental habits alter slowly and the vested interests of the intellectual world are as resistant to change as those of the social world.

Mountain Tourism at the Beginning of the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-107
Author(s):  
Mihail Ovidiu Tanase ◽  
Liliana Nicodim
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Mountain Development

The 1990s represent the starting point for a lot of changes not only in tourism but in the whole economy of any EEC. Before that, Eastern European countries had similar tourism developments with some differences between the types of mountain development due to some specificities according to the national policies of the sector. A short overview of the mountain tourism current situation is presented in the beginning. The tourism market is a very challenging one with rapid changes due to shifts in customers' preferences, new technologies, seasonality. The authors also presented the latest trends in mountain tourism in terms of supply and demand. The possibilities for future mountain tourism development in Romania are presented at the end of the chapter starting from the results of the previous analyses. Some of them are specific for Romania, but others can be applied to all mountain destinations (with or without minor adjustments).

scholarly journals Acquisition of new communication media and social (dis)connectivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-593
Author(s):  
Jesper Tække
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
In The Beginning

The article discusses the relation between communication media and social (dis)connectivity. The question is how communication media provide society with different possibilities for (dis)connectivity in different historical media societies. The article draws on Luhmann’s sociocybernetics theories of social systems and communication media in combination with media theory (especially Meyrowitz). As a starting point, the acquisition of oral language made communicative connections and thereby society possible. Later the written media, print media and analogue electronic media opened up new possibilities for social systems to develop structures with new forms of communicative connections. Even though society is only possible because of communication media, which offer new ways of forming new structures that provide new connection possibilities, a new communication medium, especially in the beginning, causes problems and disconnectivity. After the introduction of the printing press in Europe, a great interpretation disagreement broke out and wars raged across the continent for the next centuries. Later with the invention of radio and film, dictators, especially Hitler, benefited from the new media situation. In the final section, the article analyses if we also in the present-day society with the acquisition of digital media see signs of new disconnectivity, and it discusses if we in the new medium society, like in the former, will experience permanent societal disconnectivity going hand in hand with new forms of connectivity.

A New Approach for Designing a Gearbox for a New Kind of Independently Controllable Transmissions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Wünsch ◽  
Der-Min Tsay ◽  
Sándor Vajna ◽  
Michael Schabacker
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization ◽  
Design Space ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
New Approach ◽  
And Topology ◽  
Continuous Output ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Parametric Cad ◽  
In The Beginning

This paper deals with a new approach for the development of a gearbox of a new kind of variable transmissions, the independently controllable transmission (ICT). It provides a continuous output speed which is independent of the input speed. In the beginning the requirements of a gearbox are mentioned. Design guidelines are the starting point for the design process of the ICT gearbox. Some of these guidelines will be applied on the gearbox of the ICT to model rules which were needed for the design process. The process of the product design of the gearbox can be improved more efficiently by using multidisciplinary design optimization with evolutionary algorithms and topology optimization. This paper describes an approach for the development of this gearbox and the preparation of the optimization models based on a process chain, which is a guide for the next steps of creating the design process in detail. The first step is a parametric CAD model which consists of different parts and provides the complete design space of the gearbox.

Zwischen Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft: Textualität revisited. Mit Illustrationen aus der Welt der Urlaubsansichtskarte

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiko Hausendorf
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe present article takes the concept of textuality and textualization – as it was introduced in the beginning of textlinguistics as a subdiscipline of linguistics in the early 70s – as a starting point for discussing the relationship between linguistics and literature. Textuality is developed in a threefold way: There are

Estetyka wobec feminizmu

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (25) ◽  
pp. 40-66
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Dziamski
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Feminist Art ◽  
Women's Art ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Judy Chicago ◽  
The Difference ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Feminist Aesthetics

When we talk today about women’s art, we think about three phemonena, quite loosely related. We think about feminist art, about the way that the feminist’s statements and demands were expressed in the creativity of Judy Chicago and Nancy Spero, Carolee Scheemann and Valie Export, Miriam Schapiro and Mary Kelly, and in Poland in the creativity of Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Natalia LL or Ewa Partum. We think about female art, the forgotten, abandoned, neglected artists brought back to memory by the feminists with thousands of exhibitions and reinterpretations. Lastly, we think about the art created by women – women’s art. However, we do not know and will never know, whether the latter two phenomena would develop without the feminist movement. What is more, it is about the first wave of feminism called “the equality feminism”, as well as the dominating in the second wave – “the difference feminism”. The feminist art was in the beginning a critique of the patriarchal world of art. In a sense it remains as such (see: the Guerilla Girls), yet today we are more interested in the feminist deconstruction of thinking about art, and thus the question arises: should feminism create its own aesthetics – the feminist aesthetics, or should it develop the gender aesthetics, and as a result introduce the gender point of view to thinking about art? In this moment the androgynous feminism regains its importance, one represented by Virginia Woolf, and referring – in the theoretical layer – to Freud as read by Lucy Irigaray. Freudism, which the feminists became aware of in the 1970s, is the only philosophical movement, which assumes a dual subject, that is, in the starting point assumes the existence of two subjects – man and woman, even if the woman is defined in a purely negative way, by the deficit, as a “not a man”. Freudism replaces the Cartesian thinking subject (consciousness) by the corporeal and sexual being, and forces us to re-think the Enlightenment beginnings of the European aesthetics.

scholarly journals Generative Art: Between the Nodes of Neuron Networks

Artnodes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Caldas Vianna
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Generative Art ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Neuron Networks ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Deep Learning Neural Network ◽  
In The Beginning

This article uses the exhibition “Infinite Skulls”, which happened in Paris in the beginning of 2019, as a starting point to discuss art created by artificial intelligence and, by extension, unique pieces of art generated by algorithms. We detail the development of DCGAN, the deep learning neural network used in the show, from its cybernetics origin. The show and its creation process are described, identifying elements of creativity and technique, as well as question of the authorship of works. Then it frames these works in the context of generative art, pointing affinities and differences, and the issues of representing through procedures and abstractions. It describes the major breakthrough of neural network for technical images as the ability to represent categories through an abstraction, rather than images themselves. Finally, it tries to understand neural networks more as a tool for artists than an autonomous art creator.

Unendliche Reihen im Mathematikunterricht

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-104
Author(s):  
Ervin Deák
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Series ◽  
Genetic Method ◽  
Alternative Formula ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Elementary Problem ◽  
Series Convergence ◽  
In The Beginning

A radically new propaedeutic way of cognition to infinite series. Convergence is not a starting point but the result of a longer and detailed notional construction. In the beginning a series and its „sum” is considered as a symbolic alternative formula for an elementary problem of a certain type and its known solution respectively. Classification: B10, B15, B19; C30, C35, C39; I30, I35, I39. Keywords: Infinite series, propaedeutics to infinite series, Convergence, pursuit processes, psychological-genetic method.

scholarly journals O ensino de matemática por meio da resolução de problemas: metanálise de propostas nos 6º e 7º anos do ensino fundamentalMathematics teaching through problem solving: meta-analysis of proposals in the 6th and 7th years of elementary school

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Carlos de Proença
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mathematical Teaching ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
In The Beginning

O objetivo neste artigo foi o de analisar propostas de ensino de Matemática que tiveram como foco o trabalho por meio da resolução de problemas, sobretudo, no uso do problema como ponto de partida. Realizamos uma metanálise em quatro dissertações de mestrado, referentes aos anos finais do Ensino fundamental. Os resultados mostraram que duas pesquisas desenvolveram propostas de ensino em que a abordagem foi o uso de problemas como aplicação de conteúdos. As outras duas seguiram, no início, uma abordagem em que o problema foi o ponto de partida e, na outra parte, como aplicação dos conteúdos. Concluímos que, de forma geral, nas propostas de ensino, os problemas foram utilizados como exercícios e que o termo “problema” acabou designando, de forma inadequada, atividades de formação conceitual.The objective of this article was to analyze mathematical teaching proposals that focused on work through problem solving, mainly using the problem as a starting point. The methodology corresponded to the bibliographic research modality in which we obtained four master's dissertations, referring to the 6th and 7th years of elementary school. From the assumptions of the meta-analysis, the results showed that two researches developed teaching proposals in which the approach was the use of problems such as application of contents. The other two followed, in the beginning, an approach where the problem was the starting point and, in the other part, as an application of the contents. We conclude that, in general, in the teaching proposals, the problems were used as exercises and that the term problem ended up designating, in an inadequate way, conceptual training activities.

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