THE CATEGORIES AND THE STATUS OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD: PLOTINUS AND THE NEO-PLATONIC COMMENTATORS

2004 ◽  
Vol 47 (Supplement_83_Part_1) ◽  
pp. 121-136
Author(s):  
RICCARDO CHIARADONNA
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
The Status

Vision

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivien Greene
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Status ◽  
Male Supremacy

Even though the culture of decadence at the fin de siècle was widespread, most artists of the period did not think of themselves as “decadent.” Instead, writers transposed the term from literature to art. This article considers whether there was a decadent subset to symbolism, a movement that burgeoned when scientific developments, industrialization, and secularism spurred artistic explorations antithetical to reality and the physical world. Close readings of specific symbolist works identify potentially decadent tendencies, such as overwrought, debased, or gruesome imagery animated by exaggerated form, distorted line, and extreme ornamentation. Centering on depictions of erotically charged, bestial, and often “exoticized” women, from castrating femmes fatales to hybrid mythical creatures, the chapter contextualizes such representations within contemporary scientific, pseudo-scientific, and social theories, especially evolutionary ideas, that were manipulated to validate white European male supremacy. Ultimately, symbolist painters who were inclined to decadence deployed hyperbolic style in frequently misogynistic or racially biased interpretations of nonmimetic subjects that threatened dominant culture and the status quo.

Sir Arthur Eddington and the Physical World

Philosophy ◽  
1934 ◽  
Vol 9 (33) ◽  
pp. 39-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. T. Stace
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
The Status

Sir arthur edington's brilliantly phrased article, “Physics and Philosophy,” which appeared in the January 1933 issue of Philosophy, seems to me to contain a number of things which are calculated to be provocative to the mere philosopher. And I propose in this article to discuss what appears to be one of the most important of these provocative things, namely, Sir Arthur's view of the status of the physical world.

scholarly journals Mathematical model of explanation of the world’s structure in Plato’s Timaeus

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-188
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Kandic
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Human Organism ◽  
Physical Aspect ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
The Status ◽  
Psychological Origin ◽  
Micro Structures ◽  
The Mathematical Model ◽  
The Relationship

Plato?s cosmological dialogue The Timaeus initiates, among other things, the question of the status of mathematical entities: do they exist completely independently of the physical world whose structure they supposedly explain, are they present in a certain sense within the physical world, or are they, perhaps, exclusively psychological in nature. The author of the paper critically examines Johansen?s interpretation according to which the inherent structure of the human psyche, in the case of Plato?s Timaeus, is already mathematically ideal. Although Johansen?s interpretation is pervasive and well-grounded, the relationship between mathematical and sensory entities is considered mainly in the context of astronomy, disregarding Plato?s theory of micro-structures (the so-called geometric atomism). Thus, the author confronts Johansen?s interpretation with the opinions of other influential researchers of ancient philosophy, such as Cornford, Vlastos, Popper, Lloyd, Brisson, as well as the philosophers of the ancient era, Proclus, Aristotle, and others, in an effort to develop an interpretation that is as close as possible to the whole of Plato?s text. It seems that, when it comes to Plato?s Timaeus, one cannot discuss about the psychological origin of the mathematical model of explanation of natural phenomena without realizing that, in a quite complicated way, such mathematical model possesses a physical aspect as well. Plato himself, at the end of The Timaeus, claims that psychological disorders are caused by disruptions of the mathematically ideal proportions of bodily parts of the human organism (86b), which is only one of his claims that points to the psychophysical nature of mathematical entities.

scholarly journals How Useful Is a Distributed Ledger for Tracking and Tracing in Supply Chains? A Systems Thinking Approach

Logistics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Christian Straubert ◽  
Eric Sucky
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Distributed Ledger ◽  
Distributed Ledger Technology ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
The Status

Background: The use of blockchain technology for tracking and tracing (T&T) in supply chains is the subject of lively debate in scientific literature. However, distributed ledger technology (DLT) does not have to have the characteristic blockchain structure and often performs better without such a structure. Generalized DLT for T&T in supply chains has rarely been discussed in the existing literature. Methods: This article presents an exploratory case study research of eight companies to identify the main goals, and problems that the companies have when they engage in T&T. This practical perspective is complemented by a theoretical systems thinking perspective. Based on these two foundations, we discuss the usefulness of blockchain technology and, more generally, DLT for T&T in supply chains. Results: Based on our analysis, DLT is only necessary in special cases, e.g., when the owners of the data have an interest in deleting the data, but the data stakeholders do not. In the other cases examined, DLT competes with other technologies, such as conventional, centralized databases in combination with digital signatures. Furthermore, it became evident that DLT can only be useful for supply chain tracing. The technological features of DLT do not provide any benefit for supply chain tracking, i.e., the timely communication of the status of a physical good. Conclusions: Distributed ledgers often have a disadvantage in that they are very complex and, therefore, expensive. DLT should preferably only be used when it is technologically necessary or the simplest/cheapest choice, which is probably not all that often. Finally, the usefulness of distributed ledger technology and its integrated smart contract technology is highly dependent on how easy it is to link the real physical world to a digital record/contract in an error-free and tamper-proof way. Currently, such a definite link exists only in very few cases and is often impossible.

Digital Twin-Driven Rapid Customized Design of Board-Type Furniture Production Line

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Yan Douxi ◽  
Liu Qiang ◽  
Jiewu Leng ◽  
Zhang Ding ◽  
Rongli Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Line ◽  
Manufacturing System ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Production Lines ◽  
Digital Twin ◽  
Board Type ◽  
The Status ◽  
Key Enabling Technologies ◽  
Line Design

Abstract The mass personalization paradigm requires manufacturing enterprises to adapt to market changes quickly to meet customer demands. It also imposes higher requirements for designing intelligent production lines. Based on the digital twin (DT) technology, a rapid customized design method is proposed for developing new board-type furniture production lines. The DT has the characteristics of interactive virtual-reality mapping and fusion. It could provide design guidance and decision-support services in the design phase, yield the engineering analyzing ability to solve coupled problems, and finally generate the authoritative design scheme of the manufacturing system. A production line design platform is developed based on the DT model, which can parallelize the design process and reduce the design cycle. The parallel control between the physical world and digital space is achieved by establishing the DT network and perceiving the status of the physical equipment. Five key enabling technologies are introduced to provide the theoretical fundamentals for implementing the DT-based manufacturing system design approach. A board-type furniture production line is presented as a case study to verify the effectiveness of the method.

Complexity Should Not Be in the Eye of the Beholder: How Representative Complexity Measures Respond to the Commonly-Held Beliefs of the Literature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Hennig ◽  
Taylan G. Topcu ◽  
Zoe Szajnfarber
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Cross Validation ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Complexity Measures ◽  
System Architectures ◽  
Size Number ◽  
The Status ◽  
Intellectual Foundations

Abstract In an increasingly interconnected & cyber-physical world, the ability to coherently measure and manage complexity is vital for the engineering design and systems engineering community. To this end, numerous measures have been promulgated in the literature, yet these measures differ in terms of their intellectual foundations and perspectives, with limited cross-validation among them. In this paper, we propose a framework for benchmarking the status quo of existing complexity measurement approaches in terms of their alignment with the commonly-held beliefs in the literature. We discover that the literature broadly suggests an understanding of complexity based on a system’s size, number of interconnections, and architectural structure. We adopt a design of experiments approach and synthetically create system architectures to mimic the variation across these dimensions. We then use these architectures as a shared test-bed to document the response of four complexity measures that are representative of the predominant perspectives of the literature. We do this by evaluating the change in measurement of a complexity measure as we incrementally varied the levels of one system architecture property believed to affect complexity while keeping the others constant. We find that none of the measures fully satisfy the commonly-held beliefs of the literature and provide a discussion on the underlying factors that lead to these discrepancies. We note that multiple independent discussions coexist in the literature, with little cohesion and communication across the groups, suggesting that further research is required to understand the interactions and influences among these communities. For this purpose, our rigorous, structured, and grounded in literature benchmarking approach can serve as a testbed for development and verification of future architectural assessment tools and measures.

scholarly journals An IoT Platform Based on Microservices and Serverless Paradigms for Smart Farming Purposes

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 2418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Trilles ◽  
Alberto González-Pérez ◽  
Joaquín Huerta
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Wine Production ◽  
Iot Platform ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Smart Farming ◽  
Comprehensive Performance ◽  
The Status ◽  
Iot Devices

Nowadays, the concept of “Everything is connected to Everything” has spread to reach increasingly diverse scenarios, due to the benefits of constantly being able to know, in real-time, the status of your factory, your city, your health or your smallholding. This wide variety of scenarios creates different challenges such as the heterogeneity of IoT devices, support for large numbers of connected devices, reliable and safe systems, energy efficiency and the possibility of using this system by third-parties in other scenarios. A transversal middleware in all IoT solutions is called an IoT platform. the IoT platform is a piece of software that works like a kind of “glue” to combine platforms and orchestrate capabilities that connect devices, users and applications/services in a “cyber-physical” world. In this way, the IoT platform can help solve the challenges listed above. This paper proposes an IoT agnostic architecture, highlighting the role of the IoT platform, within a broader ecosystem of interconnected tools, aiming at increasing scalability, stability, interoperability and reusability. For that purpose, different paradigms of computing will be used, such as microservices architecture and serverless computing. Additionally, a technological proposal of the architecture, called SEnviro Connect, is presented. This proposal is validated in the IoT scenario of smart farming, where five IoT devices (SEnviro nodes) have been deployed to improve wine production. A comprehensive performance evaluation is carried out to guarantee a scalable and stable platform.

scholarly journals A Doubter's Guide to Law and Natural Rights

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
James Allan
Keyword(s):  
Moral Realism ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Natural Rights ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
The West ◽  
Moral Reality ◽  
The Status ◽  
Moral Precept ◽  
Moral Scepticism

The assertion that there are no independent moral values which transcend the view of an individual, or the society in which he or she lives, may cause consternation to many. Indeed it has been argued that it will tum the liberal western legal tradition on its head by removing the foundation for the rights on which that tradition is built. James Allan in this article suggests that such consternation is misplaced. While an objective moral reality is denied, he accepts the existence of an objective physical world. From this premise he reasons that certain courses of conduct will have certain consequences which, by human nature rather than moral precept, will be desirable or undesirable. It is therefore unlikely that the status quo need be changed to take account of the possibility of moral scepticism. The author proceeds to argue that if the fiction of moral realism were exposed it is likely that the position of tolerance widely adopted in the West would be able to be better defended. He concludes that the Western legal tradition, its commitment to tolerance and the existence of rule based rights would be preserved and enhanced by an acceptance of moral scepticism.

Key steps toward the creation of QCD — Notes on the logic and history of the genesis of QCD

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (25) ◽  
pp. 1430024
Author(s):  
Tian Yu Cao
Keyword(s):  
Physical Reality ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Effective Energy ◽  
Nuclear Forces ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Number Flow ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Key Steps

The creation of QCD is one of greatest achievements in the history of science. It has radically changed our conception of the fundamental ontology of the physical world and its underlying dynamics. What it has discovered are more than new particles and a new force, but rather a deeper level of physical reality, a new kind of entities. Dynamically, the strong nuclear forces are no longer taken to be fundamental, but are relegated to the status of the un-cancelled residue of far stronger long range force mediated by gluon. From a long term perspective, perhaps more important than these discoveries is that it breaks a new path to explore many novel features of an unknown layer of the physical world, such as instanton, the theta vacuum and effective energy. The notion of effective energy allows us to conceptualize the mysterious quantum number flow and hadronization. Although the metaphysical status of effective energy is not quite clear at this moment, but a window is open for conceptualizing the physical world that is in complex processes of transmutations in a unified way.

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