Voltaire, F. R. S

1951 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-252
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Friend ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
French And English ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Many ◽  
Ways Of Life

Of all the many impressions that Voltaire gained from his stay in England, the most profound and lasting were those caused by the burial of an actress and of a scientist in Westminster Abbey. The actress was Mrs Oldfield, and the man of science, Isaac Newton. The difference between the French and English ways of life at that time were accentuated for Voltaire by the fact that the French actress Adrienne Lecouvreur, to whom the clergy of Paris denied Christian burial, was his intimate friend. It was in her box at the Comedie Frangaise that the scene occurred between Voltaire and the Chevalier de Rohan. Shortly afterwards Voltaire was assaulted in the street by the Chevalier’s lackeys and belaboured with sticks. Insult was then added to injury by Voltaire’s imprisonment in the Bastille on 28 March 1726, at the Chevalier’s behest. Voltaire’s release on the following 2 May was conditional on his departure for England, where he arrived later in that month. And it was shortly after his return to France that Adrienne Lecouvreur died on 20 March 1730.

scholarly journals Grounding semantic transparency in context

Morphology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rossella Varvara ◽  
Gabriella Lapesa ◽  
Sebastian Padó
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Distributional Semantics ◽  
Semantic Transparency ◽  
Inclusion Measure ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Semantic Point ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractWe present the results of a large-scale corpus-based comparison of two German event nominalization patterns: deverbal nouns in -ung (e.g., die Evaluierung, ‘the evaluation’) and nominal infinitives (e.g., das Evaluieren, ‘the evaluating’). Among the many available event nominalization patterns for German, we selected these two because they are both highly productive and challenging from the semantic point of view. Both patterns are known to keep a tight relation with the event denoted by the base verb, but with different nuances. Our study targets a better understanding of the differences in their semantic import.The key notion of our comparison is that of semantic transparency, and we propose a usage-based characterization of the relationship between derived nominals and their bases. Using methods from distributional semantics, we bring to bear two concrete measures of transparency which highlight different nuances: the first one, cosine, detects nominalizations which are semantically similar to their bases; the second one, distributional inclusion, detects nominalizations which are used in a subset of the contexts of the base verb. We find that only the inclusion measure helps in characterizing the difference between the two types of nominalizations, in relation with the traditionally considered variable of relative frequency (Hay, 2001). Finally, the distributional analysis allows us to frame our comparison in the broader coordinates of the inflection vs. derivation cline.

Problems of Translation

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-310
Author(s):  
A. F. LIBER
Keyword(s):  
Congenital Absence ◽  
Agar Gel ◽  
Chemical Substances ◽  
French Word ◽  
Current Usage ◽  
French And English ◽  
Medical Dictionary ◽  
The Many ◽  
Problems Of Translation

Among the many virtues of the article by Lamy et al., "Congenital Absence of Betalipoproteins" (Pediatrics, 31:276, 1963) is the generally excellent English, with virtually no translationese. But the reader unversed in French may be puzzled by the legend of Figure 11, page 286: "Gelosis immunoelectrophoresis." "Gelosis" is clearly intended to render gélose, the French word for agar, or, in the current usage when referring to electrophoresis, agar-gel. The ending -sis is doubtless derived from the French -se, as in nephrosis for nephrose, analysis for analyse. A different law of transliteration applies to chemical substances, in whose names -ose is used in both French and English, as in glucose, identical in the two languages. Indeed, Dorland's Medical Dictionary gives gelose "a carbohydrate, (C4H10O5)n, from agar."

The Hindu Kush earthquake of March 4, 1949 as recorded in Europe

1964 ◽  
Vol 54 (6A) ◽  
pp. 1915-1925 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Amplitude Ratio ◽  
Epicentral Distance ◽  
Focal Region ◽  
Travel Times ◽  
Period Range ◽  
Characteristic Appearance ◽  
Hindu Kush ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Deep Focus ◽  
The Many

abstract The European records from distances 36°-50° of the deep Hindu Kush earthquake of March 4, 1949 were studied. The many clearly recorded deep-focus reflections lend to the records a characteristic appearance which is repeated in many other shocks from the same focal region. The ratios of the amplitudes of these phases vary somewhat from one shock to another. In the shock here considered sP and sPP are exceptionally large at most stations; in the Italian stations they are not so large, while pP is a clear phase. pP is not very well defined at most other stations. Most of the 1949 records were from the old type long-period instruments having their highest magnification for periods from about 5 sec to 12 sec. Present day instruments of quite short or of very long proper period while admirable for many purposes do not record waves in this period range very well and therefore do not produce a satisfactory picture of the forerunners of earthquakes. The difference between the records obtained on different instruments is illustrated. It is shown in examples that the amplitude ratio PP:P may differ strongly at the same epicentral distance and also that pP may vary greatly with azimuth. The deficiency of station readings is noted. Travel times and their residuals are tabulated and travel times plotted versus epicentral distances.

A Traveller's Guide to Putnam's “Narrow Path”

Dialogue ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Davies
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Hilary Putnam ◽  
Human Face ◽  
Metaphysical Realism ◽  
Internal Realism ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Many

It is now over 15 years since Hilary Putnam first urged that we take the “narrow path” of internal realism as a way of navigating between “the swamps of metaphysics and the quicksands of cultural relativism and historicism” (1983, p. 226). In the opening lines of the Preface to Realism with a Human Face, a collection of Putnam's recent papers edited by James Conant, Putnam reaffirms his allegiance to this narrow path, unmoved by Realist murmurings from the swamps and laconic Rortian suggestions that only the quicksands are a proper metaphilosophical abode for those willing to confront our lack of epistemological and metaphysical foundations. If there are changes to be discerned in these writings, Putnam avers, they pertain only to the burden allotted to different considerations in the overall economy of his argument: “It might be said that the difference between the present volume and my work prior to The Many Faces of Realism is a shift in emphasis: a shift from emphasizing model-theoretic arguments against metaphysical realism to emphasizing conceptual relativity” (p. xi).

scholarly journals A Budget of Paradoxes (Continued from p. 232)

1865 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 294-301
Author(s):  
A. De Morgan
Keyword(s):  
French And English ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Country Town

Demonville.—A Frenchman's Christian name is his own secret, unless there be two of the surname. M. Demonville is a very good instance of the difference between a French and English discoverer. In England there is a public to listen to discoveries in mathematical subjects made without mathematics: a public which will hear, and wonder, and think it possible that the pretensions of the discoverer have some foundation. The unnoticed man may possibly be right: and the old country-town reputation which I once heard of, attaching to a man who “had written a book about the signs of the zodiac which all the philosophers in London could not answer,” is fame as far it goes. Accordingly, we have plenty of discoverers, who, even in astronomy, pronounce the learned in error because of mathematics.

Comment: Heidegger’s Poietic Writings

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 287-293
Author(s):  
Daniela Vallega-Neu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Human Being ◽  
World War ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Many

This paper is about my latest book on Heidegger’s non-public writings on the event. It begins with a discussion of Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event) and ends with The Event, spanning roughly the years 1936 to 1941. I pay primary attention to shift of attunements, concepts, and movement of thought in these volumes. Thereby a narrative emerges that traces a shift from a more Nietzschean pathos emphasizing the power of beyng to a more mystical approach in which Heidegger thinks “the beingless,” “what is without power,” and speaks of originary thinking as a thanking rather than a questioning. The shift begins to happen in 1939, the year World War II broke out but becomes clearly visible in 1940 in the volume On Inception (GA 70). Heidegger’s path of thinking is one of downgoing into the most concealed dimension of the truth of beyng and an attempt at thinking more radically without primacy of the human being. Among the many questions my book engages, I am focusing especially on the articulation of both the difference and simultaneity of beyng and beings in relation to attunement, body, history, and Heidegger’s errancies.

Battles of Ideas Between the Legal and the Legitimate

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-161
Author(s):  
Paula Castro ◽  
Sonia Brondi ◽  
Alberta Contarello
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Many

This chapter discusses how social psychology can offer theoretical contributions for a better understanding of the relations between the institutional and public spheres and how this may impact change in ecological matters. First, it introduces the difference between natural and agreed—or chosen—limits to human action and draws on Sophocles’s Antigone to illustrate this and discuss how legitimacy has roots in the many heterogeneous values of the public sphere/consensual universe, while legality arises from the institutional/reified sphere. Recalling some empirical research in the area of social studies of sustainability, it then shows how a social representations perspective can help us understand the dynamic and interdependent relations between the institutional or reified sphere and the consensual or common sense universe—and their implications for social change and continuity.

the Seed is the Law

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Eileen M. Antone
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
The People ◽  
The Law ◽  
Seeds Of Peace ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
The Many ◽  
Ways Of Life

AbstractSince humanities arise from a specific place and from the people of that place, this article will focus on Peacemaker’s revolutionary teachings about the seed of law. Long before the people from across the ocean arrived here on Turtle Island (North America) there was much warfare happening. According to John Mohawk (2001, para. 1), an Iroquoian social historian, “[t]he people had been at war for so long that some were born knowing they had enemies [but] not knowing why they had enemies”. Peacemaker planted the seeds of peace which resulted in the Kayenla’kowa, the Great Law of Peace (n. d.), which is the basis of the Hotinosh^ni Confederacy. With the burial of the weapons of war under the Great Tree of Peace the Hotinosh^ni were able to develop their rituals and ceremonies to reflect their relationship with creation. This peaceful confederacy was disrupted shortly after the Europeans arrived with their violent imperialistic ways of life. The 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal People (RCAP) documented the situation of Aboriginal communities, which was the result of oppressive policies and programs of colonialism. The RCAP also captured the many different voices of the Aboriginal people in their struggle to revitalise their traditional teachings that will make them strong again.

Microscopic observations on the so-called vesicular vapours of water as existing in the vapours of steam, and in clouds, &c

1851 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 628-628
Keyword(s):  
Thin Layer ◽  
Microscopic Observation ◽  
Philosophical Magazine ◽  
Sir Isaac Newton ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
The Many ◽  
White Colour

From some experiments, of which the author published an account in the Philosophical Magazine of last February, he was led to conclude that the opaque vapours of condensed steam consist of minute globules or spherules of water, and not of small vesicles, as is implied in the generally received theory, according to which this condition of water is designated by the term vesicular vapour . In the present paper, he relates a set of experiments confirming by microscopic observation his views of the globular condition of the particles of opaque vapours; premising a short retrospect of the opinions of Sir Isaac Newton, Halley, Kratzenstein, and De Saussure on this subject. Finding it impossible to observe the globules with any high magnifying power while they are at liberty to move, the author adopted the plan of fixing the condensed vapours arising from the breath or other sources, in some liquid, such as oil, which has no affinity with water. Of the many vehicles which he has tried, he finds Canada balsam to be that which is best adapted for these observations. By breathing with a little force on a slip of glass previously covered with a thin layer of balsam, the vapours of the breath are not only condensed on its surface, but penetrate beneath, where they may be recognised in opaque streaks of a white colour, and where they remain stationary for more than an hour; or, if covered with another thin piece of glass or talc, for a much longer period. These streaks are decomposed under the microscope into minute globules perfectly spherical, like shot, or the globules of mercury. The author describes, at some length, the various appearances presented under different circumstances, and with different oily fluids; and gives drawings of these appearances as exhibited by the microscope.

Morphological studies on the microfilariae of Onchoceca Gibsoni cleland & Johnston and Onchocerca gutturosa Neumann (nematodaL Filaroidea).

1955 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 324 ◽  
Author(s):  
KC Bremner
Keyword(s):  
Body Length ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
Length Measurements ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Many

Studies have been made on the morphology of the microfilariae of Onchocerca gibsoni Cleland & Johnston, and 0. gutturosa Neumann. Examinations were initially made on larvae emerging from dissected female worms, and later, on larvae recovered from the skin. No differences in either morphology or body length measurements were detected between the skin-inhabiting and freshly emerged larvae of each species. The form, size, and arrangment of the caudal and cephalic nuclei were found to vary widely within each species. Of the many measurements investigated only that of body length had any taxonomic value. Skin-inhabiting microfilariae of 0. gibsoni had a body length of 240- 280 � (mean 266 �), whereas those of 0. gutturosa measured only 200-260 � (mean 224.5 � ), the difference between the means being highly significant.

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