Shaykh Mā' Al-'Aynayn Al-Qalqamī in the folk-literature of the Spanish Sahara—II

Upward social comparison can give rise to the emotion of envy: the pain caused by the good fortune of others. We explain what envy is, and what the possible function of envy is to an organism experiencing it. We provide an overview of past work on envy, the distinction between two subtypes (benign and malicious envy), possible antecedents of envy, possible consequences of envy, and the responses to being envied by others. In each of these areas there are clear links to research on social comparison, and research on envy has greatly benefitted from insights from the social comparison literature. Given the surge in research on envy in the last decade, we hope that the findings on envy can also inspire those investigating social comparisons.

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A new approach to the logic of discovery

Theoria Beograd ◽

10.2298/theo0701007m ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 7-27

Author(s):

Gerald Massey

Keyword(s):

Modal Logic ◽

Scientific Discovery ◽

Traditional View ◽

New Approach ◽

Logic Of Discovery ◽

Good Fortune ◽

High Incidence ◽

History Of ◽

Deep Sense

Contending that the quest for a logic of scientific discovery was prematurely abandoned, the author lays down eight phenomena that such a logic or theory must explain: the banality of scientific discovery; the trainability of scientists; the high incidence of simultaneous discoveries; the ubiquity of relative novices; the fact of scientific genius; the barrenness of isolated workers; the incommensurability of concepts of successive theories; and the quasi-incorporation of old concepts, objects, and methods in successor theories, The author then presents a new theory or logic of discovery according to which discoveries are the termini of "tweak paths" generated when scientists "tinker" with the laws, concepts, methods, and instruments of a given theory. Tinkering and tweaking are illustrated by examples from many-valued and modal logic and from Darwinian biology. Through the history of planetary discovery, the accidental role played by luck or good fortune in some discoveries is explored, but the author emphasizes that in a deep sense serendipity is an in eliminable feature of all scientific discovery because scientists never know m advance whether their tweaks will lead to dead ends or to positive developments. The author's new theory of scientific discovery is shown to account for all eight explananda, ft also reveals science to be a more egalitarian enterprise than the traditional view of scientific discovery as ultimately inexplicable depicts it.

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Fortuna

10.1093/oso/9780198786566.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Daniele Miano

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Historical Development ◽

Conceptual Analysis ◽

Dominant Role ◽

Age Groups ◽

New Approach ◽

Good Fortune ◽

Gender And Age ◽

New Meanings ◽

And Gender

This book focuses on the Latin goddess Fortuna, one of the better known deities in ancient Italy. The earliest forms of her worship can be traced back to archaic Latium, and she was still a widely recognized allegorical figure during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The main reason for her longevity is that she was a conceptual deity, and had strong associations with chance and good fortune. When they were interacting with the goddess, communities, individuals, and gender and age groups were inevitably also interacting with the concept. These relations were not neutral: they allowed people to renegotiate the concept, enriching it with new meanings and challenging established ones. The geographical and chronological scope of this book is Italy from the archaic age to the late Republic. In this period Italy was a fragmented, multicultural and multilinguistic environment, characterized by a wide circulation of people, customs, and ideas, in which Rome played an increasingly dominant role. All available sources on Fortuna have been used: literary, epigraphic, and archaeological. The study of the goddess based on conceptual analysis will serve to construct a radically new picture of the historical development of this deity in the context of the cultural interactions taking place in ancient Italy. The book also aims at experimenting with a new approach to polytheism, based on the connection between gods and goddesses and concepts.

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The Folk-Literature of the Galla of Southern Abyssinia. By Enrico Cerulli. Reprinted from the Harvard African Studies, Vol. III.

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0041977x00000264 ◽

1923 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 186-187

Author(s):

Alice Werner

Keyword(s):

African Studies ◽

Folk Literature

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An Interesting and Productive Research and Clinical Career

International Journal of Toxicology ◽

10.1177/1091581820910684 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 182-188

Author(s):

Samuel M. Cohen

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Clinical Medicine ◽

Medical Center ◽

Basic Research ◽

Nebraska Medical ◽

Good Fortune ◽

University Of Wisconsin ◽

Productive Research ◽

The University

To begin, I wish to thank the Academy of Toxicological Sciences for bestowing this honor on me. I have had a rewarding career in basic research and clinical medicine, beginning with research in high school and always planning on becoming a physician. I have had the good fortune of having outstanding mentors, wonderful parents, and a supportive and intuitive wife and family. This article provides a brief overview of some of the events of my career and individuals who have played a major role, beginning with the M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin, pathology residency and faculty at St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts, a year as visiting professor at Nagoya City University, and my career at the University of Nebraska Medical Center since 1981. This could not have happened without the strong input and support from these individuals, the numerous students, residents and fellows with whom I have learned so much, and the more than 500 terrific collaborators.

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I.—The Complete Building Accounts of the City Churches (Parochial) designed by Sir Christopher Wren

Archaeologia ◽

10.1017/s0261340900008353 ◽

1915 ◽

Vol 66 ◽

pp. 1-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lawrence Weaver

Keyword(s):

Short Paper ◽

Good Fortune ◽

Reference Number ◽

Building Set ◽

Christopher Wren ◽

The City

Bound up with other additional matter in the heirloom copy of Wren's Parentalia, on which I read a short paper on the 17th June, 1909;, is an engraving by Hulsbergh. It is an emblematical design of a pyramid dotted with medallions, on each of which is written the name of a Wren building and a reference number. At the sides are two tables giving the costs of each building, set out to the uttermost farthing. No doubt many students of Wren have wondered, as I did, where Hulsbergh got these detailed figures, and by good fortune I have found their source in Bodley's Library, Oxford.

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The Villa of Good Fortune at Olynthos

American Journal of Archaeology ◽

10.2307/498185 ◽

1934 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 501 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David M. Robinson

Keyword(s):

Good Fortune

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Construction and Application of WeChat Learning Platform in "Folk Literature" Teaching

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) ◽

10.3991/ijet.v11i05.5688 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 11 (05) ◽

pp. 10 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wei SHANG

Keyword(s):

Distance Education ◽

College Education ◽

Literature Teaching ◽

Effect Analysis ◽

Learning Platform ◽

Theoretical Support ◽

Mobile Software ◽

Application Mode ◽

Before And After ◽

Folk Literature

WeChat as a type of mobile software with social communication attribute and platform function can offer a new platform and application mode for distance education. Real-time communication and good use experience of WeChat can make students have high use ratio and degree of tackiness. WeChat learning platform makes distance education more feasible, convenient and efficient. This paper takes Folk Literature as the experimental course and adopts interview and statistical data methods to contrastively analyze classroom effect differences before and after application of WeChat learning platform through design of WeChat learning platform of Folk Literature distance education, teaching design and case design and application effect analysis of WeChat learning platform application. This paper provides theoretical support and data support for Folk Literature distance education and its application in college education.

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An extract of letter written to the publisher by Mr. Thomas Platt, from Florence, August 6. 1672. concerning some experiments, there made upon vipers, since Mons. Charas his reply to the letter written by Signor Francesco Redi to Monsieur Bourdelot and Monsieur Morus

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ◽

10.1098/rstl.1672.0046 ◽

1672 ◽

Vol 7 (87) ◽

pp. 5060-5066

Keyword(s):

Good Fortune

Sir , I shall begin with telling you, that in a Conversation last Winter, where I had the good fortune to make one of the number, the discourse was of an Opinion of M. Dela chambre , who, to prove that the Spirits are animated, alledges, among other arguments, their Aptness to discern

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