Leibniz On Form and Matter

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Garber
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Middle Years ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Mechanical Philosophy ◽  
Other Hand

AbstractThis paper discusses the Aristotelian notions of matter and form as they are treated in the philosophy of Leibniz. The discussion is divided into three parts, corresponding to three periods in Leibniz's development. In the earliest period, as exemplified in a 1669 letter to his former mentor Jakob Thomasius, Leibniz argues that matter and form can be given straightforward interpretations in terms of size and shape, basic categories in the new mechanical philosophy. In Leibniz's middle years, on the other hand, as exemplified in the Discourse on Metaphysics and the correspondence with Arnauld, Leibniz seems to hold a more orthodox Aristotelian view of matter and form as the constituents of the corporeal substances that ground the reality of the physical world. In Leibniz's latest years, as discussed in the letters with Des Bosses, matter and form enter once again in connection with the vinculum substantiale, the substantial bond that is supposed to bind monads together to form corporeal substances.

Aristotelianism, Newtonianism and the Physics of the Layman

Perception ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benny Shanon
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
Philosophy Of Nature ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Written and visual surveys were administered in order to assess people's models of the physical world. A comparison was made between scientific theories and the layman's philosophy of nature on the one hand, and between people's conceptions and perceptions on the other hand. The findings suggest that there are discrepancies on both levels: people do not conceive the world as physicists do, and their conceptions are different from their perceptions.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF MENTALITY IN SHAMANISTIC SOCIETIES OF THE NANAI PEOPLE

2021 ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
TATIANA D. BULGAKOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Physical World ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Real ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Cultural Reality

The generalization of the field material collected by the author allowed to identify two groups of interrelated factors that form the mentality of those Nanai people who practice shamanism. There were two principles identified, the goal-setting and detecting the resources required to achieve the desired results. On the one hand, an irrational worldview, the idea of the accessibility of the space of the spiritual world and the characters inhabiting it (spirits), is specific to the mentality of shamanists. On the other hand, the basis of the mentality of shamanists is the priority of the principle of pragmatism (utility), that is, the desire to consider the spiritual invisible reality as a resource available for solving those problems that arise in the real physical world. The mentality formed at the intersection of the principles of irrationality and utility has a significant sociogenetic potential, its effect extends to those aspects of the socio-cultural reality that are outside of the actual shamanic practice...

“Never the Right Food”

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 84-106
Author(s):  
Michial Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Wise Blood ◽  
God's Call ◽  
The Right ◽  
Desperate Attempt

Flannery O’Connor’s first novel, Wise Blood, and John Updike’s second, Rabbit, Run, both deal with the convergences and divergences of the physical and material worlds. Both feature characters who are driven by instinctual longings for or away from divinity, and both feature complicated relationships between their characters and the gods they seek and flee. But the conclusions drawn by these two novels are contradictory. O’Connor’s Hazel Motes, in his desperate attempt to escape from God’s call, ends up performing a painful bodily penance and presumably finds God present in his suffering. Updike’s Harry Angstrom, on the other hand, does his best to find God’s active presence in the world but ends up alienated from that presence, subsumed in the physical world in which he seeks it. This paper seeks an answer for this divergence in endings.

Perception and Judgment

Dialogue ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Paul Rowntree Clifford
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
Considerable Difficulty ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Senses

Is Perception a form of judgment? The importance of this question is that it brings to the fore a crucial issue for modern perceptionempiricism. If perception is not a form ofjudgment, it is possible o t maintain, though still with considerable difficulty, that the senses acquaint us directly with the physical world and that a metaphysical account of reality can be excluded without undermining what the ordinary layman and the scientist alike claim to know. Judgment can then be discussed from the linguistic standpoint without raising any serious ontological questions. If, on the other hand, perception is judgment, or if in perceiving we inevitably go beyond that which is presented to the senses, then metaphysics is unavoidable unless we are prepared to abandon the hope of knowing anything at all.

scholarly journals Relations and Panpsychism

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 32-35
Author(s):  
C. Rovelli
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Physical World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Relational Aspect

Twentieth-century physics has revealed a pervasive relational aspect of the physical world. This fact is relevant in view of some of the motivations for panpsychism. In fact, it may be seen as a vindication of the panpsychist idea of a monist continuity where some aspects of consciousness's perspectivalism are universal. On the other hand, this same fact may undermine some of the motivations for more marked forms of panpsychism.

Ferromagnetic domains in CrBr3, investigated with a liquid helium magnetic specimen stage

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 464-465
Author(s):  
H. Möllner ◽  
M. Schönauer ◽  
E.M. Hörl
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Liquid Helium ◽  
Curie Point ◽  
The Other ◽  
Horizontal Magnetic Field ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Ferromagnetic Domains ◽  
Electron Microscopical ◽  
Foil Orientation

In continuation of the electron microscopical work on CrBr3 done by Matricardi et. al. we have applied a special type of liquid helium specimen stage, which has permitted application of a horizontal magnetic field in the specimen region. During observation of the specimen we have been able to apply fields up to 60 Oe, without observation fields up to 600 Oe.In general the observations of Matricardi et.al. have been confirmed, especially the contrast, size and shape of the domains, their non-appearance in in-focus micrographs and micrographs taken above the Curie point. On the other hand occasional regions of the foil, where the contrast disappears (Fig. 1a] are not thought to be chemical inhomogeneities. Such regions can exhibit strong domain contrast if the foil orientation changes slightly, as in our case by the thermal strains occuring in warming-up the specimen to approx. 60 K and cooling it down again.

Plato’s Theology

2019 ◽  
pp. 626-644
Author(s):  
David Sedley
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
The Other ◽  
Divine Nature ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Divine Intervention ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Individual Human

This chapter examines Plato’s views on theology. Plato inherited Socrates’s conviction that a proper understanding of the divine nature is essential to human virtue and happiness. Hence, god’s essential goodness is the thesis that runs most prominently through all his theological arguments. Since this supreme goodness is manifested above all in the cosmic structures created by divine intelligence, it is understandable if Plato turns out to stick resolutely to his insistence that, for all its appearances of imperfection, from a global perspective ours is the best physical world that could ever have been created, even by a supremely powerful being. On the other hand, Plato shows less interest than Socrates did in the idea of divine intervention in individual human lives. To that extent his work in theology points forward to Aristotle, who would insulate god entirely from concern with the sublunary world.

scholarly journals Comparative Actualistic Study Hints at Origins of Intriguing Miocene “Coprolites” of Poland

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Brachaniec ◽  
Dorota Środek ◽  
Dawid Surmik ◽  
Robert Niedźwiedzki ◽  
Georgios L. Georgalis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Oxide ◽  
Mechanical Deformation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Shell Fragment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Food Residues

Abstract Excrement-shaped siderite masses have been the subject of much controversy. They have been variously interpreted either as being coprolites, cololites or pseudofossils created by mechanical deformation of plastic sediment. Here we report excrement-shaped ferruginous masses recovered from the Miocene of the Turów mine in south-western Poland. Mineralogical, geochemical, petrographic and microtomographical analyses indicate that these masses consist of siderite and iron oxide rather than phosphate, and rarely contain recognizable food residues, which may suggest abiotic origins of these structures. On the other hand, evidence in support of a faecal origin include: (i) the presence of two distinct morphotypes differing in size and shape, (ii) the limited quantity of specimens, (iii) the presence of rare hair-like structures or coalified inclusions and (iv) the presence of fine striations on the surface. Importantly, comparative actualistic studies of Recent vertebrate feces show overall resemblance of the first morphotype (sausage-shaped with rare coalified debris) to excrements of testudinoid turtles (Testudinoidea), whose shell fragment was found in the investigated locality. The second morphotype (rounded to oval-shaped with hair-like structures), in turn, is similar to the feces of some snakes (Serpentes), the remains of which were noted in the Miocene of the neighborhood areas.

Improve Distributed Client Lifecycle Control in ShadowStream

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 62-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junhua Yan ◽  
Chen Tian ◽  
Jingdong Sun ◽  
Hanzi Mao
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Physical World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
The Core ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Core Idea

ShadowStream is a novel Internet live streaming system that integrates performance evaluation as an intrinsic capability. An essential component in ShadowStream is distributed lifecycle control mechanism, which assigns each client a virtual arrival/lifetime to create a particular scenario to evaluate the performance of streaming system. The original design focuses on utilizing stable streaming viewers in physical world to guarantee the accuracy of ShadowStream, which, on the other hand, significantly limits the scale of the experiment. The authors' research develops a novel distributed client lifecycle control to get rid of restrictions caused by the limited number of stable viewers in live-testing streaming networks. The core idea of their research is to match the desired experimental scenario with real viewers' behavior in physical world. The result demonstrates that with the authors' methodology, the scale of experiments can be doubled.

Behavior of Particles in the Growth Reactor and their Effect on Silicon Carbide Epitaxial Growth

2012 ◽  
Vol 717-720 ◽  
pp. 153-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tawhid Rana ◽  
Hai Zheng Song ◽  
M.V.S. Chandrashekhar ◽  
Tangali S. Sudarshan
Keyword(s):  
Silicon Carbide ◽  
Epitaxial Growth ◽  
Substrate Surface ◽  
Epitaxial Films ◽  
The Other ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Induced Defects ◽  
Shape Of Particles

Formation of particles and their effect on SiC epitaxial growth in the CVD reactor is investigated. Particle induced defects in the epilayer at different gas decomposition conditions are discussed. A higher number of pits with larger diameters are observed in the epilayer for conditions where gases decompose later in the gas injector tube (i.e. nearer to the substrate). On the other hand, the number and size of these pits reduce for the condition where gas decomposes earlier in the tube. To investigate the effect of particles during the growth, various particles with different size, shape and compositions are intentionally placed on the substrate surface before epitaxial films are grown. Samples are mapped and compared at similar locations in the pre-growth, post growth and post-etch (by molten KOH) conditions. It is found that the nature of particle induced defects depends primarily on size and shape of particles.

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