Ephemeral Vision

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohan Matthen
Keyword(s):  
Material Objects ◽  
Kendall Walton ◽  
Fred Dretske ◽  
Definition Of

Vision is organized around material objects; they are most of what we see. But we also see beams of light, depictions, shadows, reflections, etc. These things look like material objects in many ways, but it is still visually obvious that they are not material objects. This chapter articulates some principles that allow us to understand how we see these ‘ephemera’. H.P. Grice’s definition of seeing is standard in many discussions; here I clarify and augment it with a criterion drawn from Fred Dretske. This enables me to re-analyse certain ephemera that have received counter-intuitive treatments in the work of Kendall Walton (photographs), Brian O’Shaughnessy (light), and Roy Sorenson (occlusions).

A Challenge to Applied Archeology

1982 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-16
Author(s):  
Alice Portnoy
Keyword(s):  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
General Definition ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Recent Contribution ◽  
Actual Material ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Applied Fields

It seems that those of us who think we are doing applied archeology can't agree on even a general definition of this field of activity. Leland Patterson, in his recent contribution to this column (Practicing Anthropology 3,1, 33-34), seems to base his definition on distinctions between "theory" and "Practice," and between dealing with ideas and with actual material objects. He presented his concept of the field as a contrast to one that he claims is held by many archeologists, i.e., that contract archeology is "applied" while other (mostly academic) archeology is not. I would like to offer still another concept, based on my understanding of other applied fields, especially applied anthropology.

scholarly journals Essence and types of results of operational search activity

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-117
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Sidorenko ◽  
Konstantin Maslennikov
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Investigation ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Search Activity ◽  
New Developments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Definition Of

Operational search activity is a complex system of interrelated organizational and tactical elements, provides timely detection and use of information necessary to solve the problems of prevention, suppression and disclosure of non-obvious, latent and disguised crimes in the conditions of counteraction from the criminal environment. There is an objective need for the most complete use of the results of the police work in criminal proceedings. The absence in the Federal Law «On Operational Search Activity» of a relevant theoretically based definition of its results is a significant legal gap. The variety of tasks of the operational search activity and the specifics of the operational tools do not allow us to consider the results of this activity as an unambiguous category. Taking into account the special nature of the information obtained by means of a criminal investigation, It is only by means of a structural theoretical and legal analysis of the activity itself that it is possible to identify the characteristic features inherent to the results of this activity and the requirements to be meet. The article offers a structural theoretical and legal analysis that justifies the author’s definition of the results of operational search activities. Only the results of operational search activities can be attributed to the results of the operational search activity. Different search potential and target orientation of operational search activities provide the opportunity to obtain three specific groups of results. The first group of results refers to information that has been identified in the implementation of individual activities or in the implementation of a specific task. The second group includes discovered and preserved material objects. The third group includes new developments that have changed the state of the social environment.

scholarly journals Williama Goldinga Siłą bezwładu w perspektywie ontologii zorientowanej na przedmiot

2021 ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Kowalcze
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
Free Fall ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Real Object ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
The Real ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Main Protagonist ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

The paper applies selected devices of the methodology of Object-Oriented Ontology to study William Golding’s novel Free Fall. Particular attention is given to Graham Harman’s project, whose definition of an object accounts for all beings, humans included. Within the ontological structure of an object two components can be distinguished: the “sensual object”, which can engage in relationships with other objects, and the “real object”, which refrains from any connections. The author aims to show how the main protagonist of Golding’s novel is impacted on by material objects, how other humans are perceived by him as inherently dual beings, but most importantly how the protagonist himself discovers the thing-like quality of his own human condition.

PROBLEMS OF UNDERSTANDING SUBJECT MATTER OF THE OFFENCE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN)

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-176
Author(s):  
Izzat Achilov
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Material Benefits ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Definition Of

This article is devoted to analyze understanding subject matter of offence in modern jurisprudence rather than classic criminal law Republic of Uzbekistan. Particularly, the article analyses controversial point of views on the material objects and non-material objects and person within the definition of subject matter of the offence and proposed corresponding conclusions. Author analyzed opinions of various scientists from the Republic of Uzbekistan and other foreign states. On the basis of the specified opinions the author drew the corresponding logical conclusions. Author proposed to define subject matter of crime as a material and some non-material benefits that are subject to crime or criminal offenses for person who is guilty of committing an offense. Author notes that the crime must be differentiated from the weapon of crime and means of the crime.

Fetishism Revisited: Kongo Nkisi in Sociological Perspective

Africa ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wyatt MacGaffey
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Deceased Person ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphFetishism, a word much in vogue in late nineteenth century anthropology, no longer appears in serious scholarly use, except among art historians, psychoanalysts, and Marxist economists. Tylor, the most influential voice in the definition of fetishism, regarded it as a development of animism; fetishism was ‘the doctrine of spirits embodied in, or attached to, or conveying influence through, certain material objects. Fetishism will be taken as including the worship of ‘stocks and stones’ and thence it passes by an imperceptible gradation into Idolatry’ (Tylor 1874:II:144). Tylor went on to speculate that primitive man originally imagined the soul of a deceased person to inhabit some relic such as a bone; this idea once established, it evolved into a propensity to associate any unusual object with a spirit. If the spirit, with its capacity for action, were embodied in an object specially made to represent its character, the ethnographer would recognise an Idol.

Introductory paper

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
W. W. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Line Intensity ◽  
Classification Scheme ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Spectral Classification ◽  
Dimensional Array ◽  
Rr Lyrae ◽  
Metallic Line ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
Parameter Varying ◽  
Definition Of

1. The definition of “normal” stars in spectral classification changes with time; at the time of the publication of theYerkes Spectral Atlasthe term “normal” was applied to stars whose spectra could be fitted smoothly into a two-dimensional array. Thus, at that time, weak-lined spectra (RR Lyrae and HD 140283) would have been considered peculiar. At the present time we would tend to classify such spectra as “normal”—in a more complicated classification scheme which would have a parameter varying with metallic-line intensity within a specific spectral subdivision.

2.2. Working Group 2: Conceptual Definitions of Reference Coordinate Systems for Earth Dynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 21-26
Keyword(s):  
Coordinate System ◽  
Working Group ◽  
General Character ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Reference Coordinate System ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Earth Dynamics

An ideal definition of a reference coordinate system should meet the following general requirements:1. It should be as conceptually simple as possible, so its philosophy is well understood by the users.2. It should imply as few physical assumptions as possible. Wherever they are necessary, such assumptions should be of a very general character and, in particular, they should not be dependent upon astronomical and geophysical detailed theories.3. It should suggest a materialization that is dynamically stable and is accessible to observations with the required accuracy.

Symbiotic Stars at Optical, Infrared and Radio Wavelengths

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 125-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Regime ◽  
Type Star ◽  
Stellar Systems ◽  
Symbiotic Stars ◽  
Lower Excitation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Original Type

No paper of this nature should begin without a definition of symbiotic stars. It was Paul Merrill who, borrowing on his botanical background, coined the termsymbioticto describe apparently single stellar systems which combine the TiO absorption of M giants (temperature regime ≲ 3500 K) with He II emission (temperature regime ≳ 100,000 K). He and Milton Humason had in 1932 first drawn attention to three such stars: AX Per, CI Cyg and RW Hya. At the conclusion of the Mount Wilson Ha emission survey nearly a dozen had been identified, and Z And had become their type star. The numbers slowly grew, as much because the definition widened to include lower-excitation specimens as because new examples of the original type were found. In 1970 Wackerling listed 30; this was the last compendium of symbiotic stars published.

Immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in positively stained frozen sections

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
K. T. Tokuyasu
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
Thin Layers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Staining ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ultrathin Frozen Sections ◽  
Definition Of

During the past investigations of immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in ultrathin frozen sections, we found that the degree of negative staining required to delineate u1trastructural details was often too dense for the recognition of ferritin particles. The quality of positive staining of ultrathin frozen sections, on the other hand, has generally been far inferior to that attainable in conventional plastic embedded sections, particularly in the definition of membranes. As we discussed before, a main cause of this difficulty seemed to be the vulnerability of frozen sections to the damaging effects of air-water surface tension at the time of drying of the sections.Indeed, we found that the quality of positive staining is greatly improved when positively stained frozen sections are protected against the effects of surface tension by embedding them in thin layers of mechanically stable materials at the time of drying (unpublished).

Initial Polymerization Sites Indicated During Mitochondrial Oxidation of Diaminobenzidine after Toluene Treatment

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 408-409
Author(s):  
W. A. Shannon ◽  
M. A. Matlib
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Permeability ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Precise Definition ◽  
Cytochemical Localization ◽  
Oxidative Reaction ◽  
Mitochondrial Oxidation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Exogenous Substrates

Numerous studies have dealt with the cytochemical localization of cytochrome oxidase via cytochrome c. More recent studies have dealt with indicating initial foci of this reaction by altering incubation pH (1) or postosmication procedure (2,3). The following study is an attempt to locate such foci by altering membrane permeability. It is thought that such alterations within the limits of maintaining morphological integrity of the membranes will ease the entry of exogenous substrates resulting in a much quicker oxidation and subsequently a more precise definition of the oxidative reaction.The diaminobenzidine (DAB) method of Seligman et al. (4) was used. Minced pieces of rat liver were incubated for 1 hr following toluene treatment (5,6). Experimental variations consisted of incubating fixed or unfixed tissues treated with toluene and unfixed tissues treated with toluene and subsequently fixed.

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