The Aš‘arite Ontology: I Primary Entities

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Frank
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
General Context ◽  
The One

The present study seeks to lay out the most basic elements of the ontology of classical Aš‘arite theology. In several cases this requires a careful examination of the traditional and the formal lexicography of certain key expressions. The topics primarily treated are: (1) how they understood “Being/ existence” and “being/existent” and essential natures; the systematic exploitation of the equivocities of certain expressions (e.g., ḫaqīqa, ḫadd, ma‘na) within a general context in which other than words there are no universals proves to be elegant as well as insightful; (2) the basic categories of primary entities: independant beings and nonindependant beings, (a) created and (b) uncreated, the equivocity of “being/existent” as predicated of contingent entities on the one hand and of God and His attributes on the other, and certain problems that arise because of the rigid application of the system's underlying analytic principles.

scholarly journals Eternal Contemporaneity in Advertisements of „Naujoji Romuva“ (1931–1940)

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (31) ◽  
pp. 177-189
Author(s):  
Gabija Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė ◽  
Eglė Keturakienė
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Context ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
A Performance

Advertising appealing to senses is satiated with the dream of immortality. The society striving for an eternal state of mythical youth lives in the reality of theatre and manipulations. On the one hand, advertising offers certain society life models through myth, archetypical symbols. On the other hand, culture of global observation, watching changes life into an illusion and life simulation. The more a person succumbs to abstractedness of life in advertisements, the greater demand for mythical time, eternal moment and harmony arises. Advertising which has categorically prohibited for a society to get older, gives an individual an illusion of eternal contemporaneity through archetypes. Modern man sees himself as a creator of history, hence, he feels great temptation to take part in an imaginary act of creation. The article provides the analysis of archetypac imagery in interwar advertisements on the basis of insights of R. Barthes, G. Debord and M. McLuhan on mythological structures of thinking, advertisements and modern society of a performance as well as thoughts of M. Eliade on repetition of time. For the analysis publication Naujoji Romuva (1931-1940) has been chosen. The expression of archetypes has been discussed after they have been categorized into three groups under character and general context of archetypal structures: archetypes of world creation, prototypes of man and woman, and mythical, folklore. Prototypes of man as a hero and woman as having a mystic role to continue the cycle of life, as well as mythical, folklore symbols (mirror, horseshoe, spruce, flower) also play the said role. Archetypal imagery is often found in advertisements of cosmetics, chemicals and sealants.

Resolvents and trace form

1975 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Fröhlich
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Number Fields ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Context ◽  
Module Structure ◽  
Galois Module ◽  
Trace Form ◽  
Root Numbers ◽  
Arithmetic Theory ◽  
The One

This paper is a continuation of (F3). In its first part we shall expand and extend the general theory of the earlier paper, while in the second part we specialize to number fields. The theory of resolvents and of the trace form, presented here, complements the more arithmetic theory of module conductors and module resolvents as described elsewhere (cf. (F4)). Both these papers will be applied in work on the connexion, for tame extensions, between Galois module structure of algebraic integers on the one hand, and Artin conductors and root numbers on the other hand (cf. (F5)). The results of the present paper are however not restricted to the tame case and, it is hoped, will subsequently be applied in a more general context.

scholarly journals On fibre: additional observations

1843 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 384-386
Keyword(s):  
Chromic Acid ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Structure ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Chemical Reagent ◽  
The One

On examining coagulating blood, the author finds that it contains discs of two different kinds; the one comparatively pale; the other, very red. It is in the latter discs that a filament is formed; and it is these discs which enter into the formation of the clot; the former, or the pale discs, being merely entangled in the clot, or else remaining in the serum. He thinks that the filament escaped the notice of former observers, from their having directed their attention almost exclusively to the undeveloped discs which remained in the serum, and thus conceived that the blood-discs are of subordinate importance, and are not concerned in the evolution of fibrin. To render the filament distinctly visible, Dr. Barry adds a chemical reagent capable of removing a portion of the red colouring matter, without altogether dissolving the filament. He employs for this purpose chiefly a solution of one part of nitrate of silver in 120 parts of distilled water; and sometimes also the chromic acid. He admits that the use of these reagents would, on account of their destructive tendency when concentrated, be objectionable as proofs of the absence of any visible structure; but as the point to be proved is that a certain specific structure does exist, he contends that the same appearance would not equally result from the chemical actions of reagents so different as are those of chrome and the salts of mercury and of silver. After the appearance of the filament, thus brought to light, has become familiar to the eye, it may be discerned in the blood-discs, when coagulation has commenced, without any addition whatever. Those blood-discs of the newt, which contain filaments, often assume the form of flask-like vesicles, the membranes of which exhibit folds, converging towards the neck, where, on careful examination, a minute body may be seen protruding. This body is the extremity of the filament in question, its protrusion being occasionally such as admit of its remarkable structure being recognised.

scholarly journals Anti-Scepticism and Epistemic Humility in Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy of Science

2017 ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Marie Gueguen ◽  
Stathis Psillos
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scientific Methodology ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Theoretical Virtues ◽  
Epistemic Humility ◽  
Epistemological Position ◽  
The One ◽  
In The Beginning

Duhem’s philosophy of science is difficult to classify according to more contemporary categories like instrumentalism and realism. On the one hand, he presents an account of scientific methodology which renders theories as mere instruments. On the other hand, he acknowledges that theories with particular theoretical virtues (e.g., unity, simplicity, novel predictions) offer a classification of experimental laws that “corresponds to real affinities among the things themselves.” In this paper, we argue that Duhem’s philosophy of science was motivated by an anti-sceptical tendency, according to which we can confidently assert that our theories reveal truths about nature while, at the same time, admitting that anti-scepticism should be moderated by epistemic humility. Understanding Duhem’s epistemological position, which was unique amongst French philosophers of science in the beginning of the 20th century, requires a careful examination of his accounts of representation, explanation, and of their interrelation.

Valorizzazione degli immobili statali militari: l'importanza di un metodo

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 19-21
Author(s):  
Aldo Patruno
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Planning Method ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Context ◽  
Property Management ◽  
Management Agency ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The One

During the last five years the State Property Management Agency has initiated and managed numerous projects to make use of government properties, including those no longer used for military purposes. After furnishing an introduction to the general context, this paper describes and discusses the main legislative and operational tools used by the Agency, showing on the one hand the multi-level and multi-sector planning method that it has tried to employ and on the other hand the most significant difficulties and opportunities.

Asian Immigrants in Spain: An Overview

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquín Beltrán Antolín
Keyword(s):  
Economic Structure ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Context ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Current Characteristics ◽  
The One ◽  
Growing Population

Asian communities in Spain are not very well known in spite of their long settlement and growing population in the country. Spain's transition as a destination for economic migrants has attracted various Asian groups. However, within the growing number of migration studies in Spain, Asians are rarely the focus of inquiry. This article presents an overview of the origin, evolution and current characteristics of the main Asian communities in Spain. The diverse origins of Asian immigrants on the one hand, and the development of migration policies and the economic structure of Spain on the other, are part of the general context within which to understand the settlement of Asian immigrants.

Narrating South Asian Partition

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anindya Raychaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Oral History ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The One ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This book brings together “private” and “public” forms of memory narratives of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition, by looking at oral history testimonies (covering direct and inherited memories) on the one hand, and the literature and cinema of partition on the other. The book makes the case that survivors of partition and their descendants are able to exert control over the ways they remember partition and through the ways in which they tell these stories. The book looks at a number of different themes that appear across the oral history interviews, literature, and cinema—home, family, violence, childhood, trains, and rivers—and shows how these narratives need to be seen as evidence of agency on behalf of the narrators. This agency through narration is sometimes explicit, more often implicit, but always contested and politicized. A careful examination of the ways in which agency is manifested in these texts will, I argue, shed new light on the ways in which the events of partition are remembered, narrated, and silenced in public and private life within and beyond the south Asian subcontinent.

A Unified Decoherence-Based Model of Microparticles in a Solution

2007 ◽  
Vol 555 ◽  
pp. 405-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Jeknić ◽  
M. Dugić ◽  
D. Raković
Keyword(s):  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Conformational Transitions ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Context ◽  
Complex Behavior ◽  
Physico Chemical ◽  
Solution Dynamics ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

The complex behavior of microparticles in a solution calls for different theoretical backgrounds. Here, we follow the line of two, recently developed theories on individuality, on the one hand, and conformational transitions of macromolecules in a solution, on the other. Given as separate theories, the two models may raise certain controversy in respect to their mutual consistency. Needless to say, their mutual consistency is necessary for the validity of the theories both in a general context as well as in search for a unified physico/chemical picture concerning the microparticles in a solution dynamics. We point out the consistency of these theories based on the definition of a molecule through its constituent subsystems (e.g. the center-of-mass and the “conformation” subsystems).

scholarly journals The Flight of Louis XVI. to Varennes. a Criticism of Carlyle

1886 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-341
Author(s):  
Oscar Browning
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
The Other ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
History Of ◽  
Louis Xvi ◽  
The One ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

The arrest of Louis XVI. during his flight from Paris to Montmédy was one of the most important events in the history of the French Revolution, and probably one of the most important in the history of France. It also forms one of the best known and most admired portions of Carlyle's history of the Revolution. It occupies a whole book of the second volume, fifty-four pages of the Library edition. It may therefore be taken as a fair specimen of Carlyle's style, both in its strength and in its weakness. A careful examination of his narrative from a purely prosaic standpoint will throw light on his manner of composition. It may be said that it is un-gracious to criticise in the petty details of fact a narrative which has stirred so many hearts by its tragic pathos, and which in its broad outlines is consistent with the truth. But here lies the whole distinction between the historical poem and the historical novel on the one side, and history proper on the other. Carlyle would have said, if he had been asked, that his one object in writing history was to tell the truth. It is for this reason that he multiplies fact upon fact and detail upon detail, until he has brought the scene vividly before the eyes of the reader. His accuracy can be trusted where he has visited the scenes which he describes, and where he is not carried away by preconceived prejudices or ideas.In history truth is always more tragic and more moving than fiction.

Note on Selection of Coordinate Systems for Geodynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 395-407
Author(s):  
S. Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The One ◽  
Static Systems ◽  
Selection Of

The first question to be answered, in seeking coordinate systems for geodynamics, is: what is geodynamics? The answer is, of course, that geodynamics is that part of geophysics which is concerned with movements of the Earth, as opposed to geostatics which is the physics of the stationary Earth. But as far as we know, there is no stationary Earth – epur sic monere. So geodynamics is actually coextensive with geophysics, and coordinate systems suitable for the one should be suitable for the other. At the present time, there are not many coordinate systems, if any, that can be identified with a static Earth. Certainly the only coordinate of aeronomic (atmospheric) interest is the height, and this is usually either as geodynamic height or as pressure. In oceanology, the most important coordinate is depth, and this, like heights in the atmosphere, is expressed as metric depth from mean sea level, as geodynamic depth, or as pressure. Only for the earth do we find “static” systems in use, ana even here there is real question as to whether the systems are dynamic or static. So it would seem that our answer to the question, of what kind, of coordinate systems are we seeking, must be that we are looking for the same systems as are used in geophysics, and these systems are dynamic in nature already – that is, their definition involvestime.

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