Chapter 4: LIMITS OF COGNITION A LEIBNIZIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE QUANTITATIVE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN LINGUISTIC TRUTH AND OBJECTIVE FACT

2006 ◽  
pp. 37-56
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Discrepancy ◽  
Objective Fact

Viscous tails in Hele-Shaw flow

1971 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-576
Author(s):  
C. J. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Trailing Edge ◽  
Kutta Condition ◽  
Quantitative Discrepancy ◽  
Edge Flow ◽  
Hele Shaw Cell

An experiment has been performed, using pulsed dye injection on an aerofoil in a Hele-Shaw cell. The purpose was to observe the form of the trailing-edge flow when the Reynolds number was high enough to permit separation and the initiation of a Kutta condition. The experiment provides a successful confirmation of the existence of a ‘viscous tail’ as predicted by Buckmaster (1970) although there is an unexplained quantitative discrepancy.

Good For and Good About

Philosophy ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-121
Author(s):  
Jenny Teichman
Keyword(s):  
Life Sciences ◽  
Alasdair Macintyre ◽  
Polluted Water ◽  
Individual Animal ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Fresh Meat ◽  
Philippa Foot ◽  
Objective Fact ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Good For

Ethical relativists and subjectivists hold that fact must be distinguished from value, ‘is’ from ‘ought’ and reason from emotion. Their distinctions have been called into question, notably by Philippa Foot (Natural Goodness 2001), also by Alasdair Macintyre (Dependent Rational Animals 1999).Reason in the form of the life sciences—ethology, biology—indicates that what is good or bad for an individual animal and its species are matters of objective fact. There is nothing relativistic about the idea that fresh meat is good for wolves and it is a fact, a paradigm fact, that polluted water is bad for dolphins. Moreover what is good for an animal is often something that is good about it. Sharp ears and great speed are good for deer and are also what makes a deer a good specimen of its kind.These general remarks apply to the human animal as well as to ‘ordinary’ animals. The good and bad discussed by moral philosophers cannot be radically different from the good and bad known through reason. But if it were it would normally be a remarkably indigent field of study.

Revisionist historians and the modern Irish state: the conflict between the Advisory Committee and the Bureau of Military History, 1947–66

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (137) ◽  
pp. 99-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evi Gkotzaridis
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Military History ◽  
Objective Fact ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Revolution

The most resounding charge brought during the last two decades against ‘revisionism’ in Irish historiography has been that of a tacit collaboration between historians and the government. This accusation is too serious to be left unexamined. Traditionalists have denounced ‘revisionism’ as a dubious device designed to prop up the border and undo the work of the revolution. Desmond Fennell declared categorically that ‘Both in its ultimate thrust, and as a matter of objective fact, [it] is the historiography of the counter-revolution.’ Séamus Deane defined it as ‘a provincial phenomenon’ and dismissed its practitioners as ‘neo-unionists’.

scholarly journals Moral Objectivism in Cross-Cultural Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 386-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Beebe ◽  
Runya Qiaoan ◽  
Tomasz Wysocki ◽  
Miguel A. Endara
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Study ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Objective Fact ◽  
Ethical Statement ◽  
Moral Objectivism

Moral psychologists have recently turned their attention to the study of folk metaethical beliefs. We report the results of a cross-cultural study using Chinese, Polish and Ecuadorian participants that seeks to advance this line of investigation. Individuals in all three demographic groups were observed to attribute objectivity to ethical statements in very similar patterns. Differences in participants’ strength of opinion about an issue, the level of societal agreement or disagreement about an issue, and participants’ age were found to significantly affect their inclination to view the truth of an ethical statement as a matter of objective fact. Implications for theorizing about folk morality are discussed.

scholarly journals Moral Objectivism in Cross-Cultural Perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Beebe
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Study ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Objective Fact ◽  
Ethical Statement ◽  
Moral Objectivism

Moral psychologists have recently turned their attention to the study of folk metaethical beliefs. We report the results of a cross-cultural study using Chinese, Polish, and Ecuadorian participants that seeks to advance this line of investigation. Individuals in all three demographic groups were observed to attribute objectivity to ethical statements in very similar patterns. Differences in participants’ strength of opinion about an issue, the level of societal agreement or disagreement about an issue, and participants’ age were found to significantly affect their inclination to view the truth of an ethical statement as a matter of objective fact. Implications for theorizing about folk morality are discussed.

scholarly journals Quasi-synonymy of Danish causal conjunctions from the speaker’s perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-60
Author(s):  
Dina Nikulicheva ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Temporal Correlation ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Oral Speech ◽  
Objective Fact ◽  
Mental Space ◽  
Different Sources

The article explores a fragment of the grammatical system of the Danish language, which represents a regular formal variation of auxiliary language markers — causal conjunctions fordi, for, eftersom, thi. The functional and pragmatic description of each of them is proposed based on the anthropocentric approach. This approach is aimed at studying the linguistic expression of the speaker’s orientation in denotative reality and communication. In terms of expressing causation, this presupposes differentiation of ways to substantiate the speaker’s assertion, depending on different sources of causation: the speaker’s own inference (for); appeal to knowledge, common to all participants in communication (thi); justifying one objective fact with another (fordi), justifying the speaker’s own inference with an objective fact (eftersom). The etymology of conjunctions, as well as the temporal correlation of the predicates in causal and main clauses, allows us to determine the reasons for the speaker to organize the mental space of causation in different ways. In addition, the use of the conceptual blending concept allows us to explain why one conjunction is replaced by another in oral speech.

scholarly journals Eternal Damnation: A Reply to Karori Mbugua’s “Gentler Theology of Hell”

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
R MJ Oduor
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Attributes Of God ◽  
Objective Fact ◽  
The Way

This article is a reply to Karori Mbugua’s article titled “The Problem of Hell Revisited: Towards a Gentler Theology of Hell” (Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya, New Series, Vol.3 No.2, December 2011, pp.93-103). The present article does not in any way seek to argue for or against the existence of eternal damnation. Instead, it advances the view that while Mbugua raises important philosophical issues around the question of eternal damnation, those questions deserve a more incisive treatment than Mbugua accorded them. The article further argues that as with all other matters touching on the way things are rather than the way they ought to be, the answer to the question as to whether or not eternal damnation exists cannot be determined by our opinions - its existence or non-existence is an objective fact. Consequently, philosophers cannot revise the fact to their liking; what they can do is to accept or reject the doctrine of eternal damnation altogether on rational grounds, but with no assurance that the objective fact is on their chosen side. KeywordsEternal damnation, hell, attributes of God, biblical doctrine

scholarly journals THE PHENOMENON OF MULTITASKING IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURAL-HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND A GROWING COMPLEXITY IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY

2021 ◽  
pp. 4-22
Author(s):  
Vadim A. Emelin ◽  
Galina U. Soldatova
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Complex Activity ◽  
Cultural Worldview ◽  
Communication Activity ◽  
Objective Fact

Relevance. Multitasking gets defined socially and dominating with the development of information technologies. It becomes the system of requirements and possibilities for combining, switching and alternating activities of different forms and contents within one complex activity. As a consequence of the technological development of the information society and a result of worldview transformations within the framework of the paradigm of multiplicity of the postmodern culture, the phenomenon of multitasking as a complex form of the activity in the technologized society becomes one of relevant objects of research in psychology and other sciences of man. Purpose. The theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of multitasking as a reflection of a multifaceted nature and variability of the postmodern culture and a result of the entry of digital technologies of the information society into the daily life in the context of the concepts of multiplicity and complexity. Method. The logic and methodology of the study is based on the cultural-historical and activity-based and semantic paradigm. The theoretical and comparative analyses and the method of generalization are employed to achieve the defined goals. Results. The philosophical analysis of socio-cultural, worldview and technological factors that determine the nature of multitasking is carried out. It shows the role of certain philosophical constructs of the postmodern worldview, particular technologies of the information society in developing the basis for the emergence of the phenomenon of multitasking and also its technological embodiment — mediamultitasking. Conclusions. At present, multitasking is the practice imposed by the specific nature of the information-communication activity under the technologization and complexity of the modern realities. Regardless of the attitude to this phenomenon, multitasking is an objective fact of the culture of the information society and, as a result, is one of the prerequisites for an efficient activity under its conditions.

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