The Arms Race Phenomenon

1971 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin S. Gray

Since the 1850's there has been intermittent but always renewed interest on the part of politicians, academics, and journalists in the particular aspect of interstate rivalry generally termed an “arms race.” Despite the longevity of concern and the eclecticism of approach, the prime impetus behind the inquiry that has resulted in this article is the sad truth that aside from somewhat banal and highly questionable hypotheses we really know very little about arms race phenomena. This analysis will attempt a systematic investigation of some of the most important aspects of the subject.

1988 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Rutherford

Pindar must have narrated the myth of the birth of Apollo in many poems. We know of at least three, perhaps four versions: his only extant account of the birth itself is in Pa. XII; the latter of the two surviving sections of Pa. VIIb describes the flight of Asteria from Zeus, her transformation into an island and (probably) Zeus' desire to have Apollo and Artemis born there; the birth also seems to have been mentioned in the Hymn to Zeus immediately after the address to Delos and the account of Delos being rooted to the sea-bed in fr. 33c–d; finally a source reports that according to Pindar Apollo passed from Delos to Delphi via Tanagra and this would probably have followed an account of the birth, though it could refer to a lost part of Pa. XII or the Hymn to Zeus. These accounts have never been the subject of systematic investigation, which is regrettable, because they make up an important aspect of Pindar's attitude to religion. In this preliminary study I focus on two interrelated aspects: the stance Pindar takes towards the Homeric Hymn to Apollo and the role he attributes to Zeus.


1930 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. E. Woodman ◽  
R. E. Evans

A Notable contribution to our knowledge of the factors which influence the nutritive value of grass has been made by Dr J. B. Orr in a recent publication dealing with minerals in pastures and their relation to animal nutrition (l). The treatise was primarily the outcome of the deliberations of a sub-committee appointed in 1926 by the Civil Research Committee of the Cabinet to consider and report on the relationship between the mineral content of pastures and their nutritive value. From the initial enquiries instituted by this sub-committee, it was evident that malnutrition in cattle and sheep arising from deficiency of minerals in grass was widespread in the pastoral areas of the Empire, and that the subject, which was of great economic significance, warranted close and systematic investigation. A report to this effect was duly forwarded to the Civil Research Committee, on whose further recommendation grants were made by the Empire Marketing Board in aid of a comprehensive scheme of investigations into the mineral aspects of pastures within the Empire. A two-fold scheme of work was adopted, actual investigations in selected grassland areas being supplemented by a detailed search of the literature dealing with every phase of the subject.


Although the subject of diamagnetic susceptibility has attracted the attention of many experimental and theoretical investigators during the past decade, it is remarkable that no complete systematic investigation of the susceptibilities of salts forming ions with inert gas configurations has been made. As a result, in comparing experimental and theoretical work, results for various salts obtained by quite different methods are used in conjunction with one another, and it is hardly surprising that the agreement should be of an approximate quantitative nature only in view of the wide discordance of the experimental results. The work of Ikenmeyer is the most complete investigation, but here the susceptibilities of certain salts, notably the fluorides, have not been measured. This is a serious omission for the data upon fluorides should prove to be amongst the most interesting. The present investigation is part of an attempt to obtain a series of results under the same experimental conditions and with the same apparatus, in order that the comparative values so obtained may be as accurate as possible.


Author(s):  
PAVEL A. STUZHIN

Molecules of azaporphyrins combine two acidic pyrrole-type NH groups and several basic centres—two internal pyrrolenine nitrogen atoms and from one to four meso-nitrogen atoms—in one highly conjugated aromatic system. The acid–base properties of such unique multicentre ampholites have been the subject of numerous studies and discussions. Along with a short critical historical review the paper presents the latest results of a systematic investigation of the influence of successive aza substitution on the spectral properties and thermodynamic stability of the acid–base forms of azaporphyrins.


1941 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Tarski

The logical theory which is called the calculus of (binary) relations, and which will constitute the subject of this paper, has had a strange and rather capricious line of historical development. Although some scattered remarks regarding the concept of relations are to be found already in the writings of medieval logicians, it is only within the last hundred years that this topic has become the subject of systematic investigation. The first beginnings of the contemporary theory of relations are to be found in the writings of A. De Morgan, who carried out extensive investigations in this domain in the fifties of the Nineteenth Century. De Morgan clearly realized the inadequacy of traditional logic for the expression and justification, not merely of the more intricate arguments of mathematics and the sciences, but even of simple arguments occurring in every-day life; witness his famous aphorism, that all the logic of Aristotle does not permit us, from the fact that a horse is an animal, to conclude that the head of a horse is the head of an animal. In his effort to break the bonds of traditional logic and to expand the limits of logical inquiry, he directed his attention to the general concept of relations and fully recognized its significance. Nevertheless, De Morgan cannot be regarded as the creator of the modern theory of relations, since he did not possess an adequate apparatus for treating the subject in which he was interested, and was apparently unable to create such an apparatus. His investigations on relations show a lack of clarity and rigor which perhaps accounts for the neglect into which they fell in the following years.


As part of my work as the Gas Light & Coke Company’s Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical Technology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, I was asked to undertake a systematic investigation of the flame spectra of carbon monoxide, and of mixtures of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, under the joint supervision of Prof. W. A. Bone and Prof. A. Fowler, with a view to the elucidation, if possible, of certain aspects of the combustion of carbon monoxide which have been referred to in recent publications upon the subject. The present paper embodies the results of my experiments. The characteristic blue appearance of the highly radiative flame of carbon monoxide burning in air is, of course, well known; but on looking into the literature oi the subject, very little appears to have been published concerning the flame spectrum of carbon monoxide, which has not yet been adequately described. In 1901 Smithells recorded that the flame of carbon monoxide gives a continuous spectrum whether burning in air, oxygen or nitrous oxide, and that the same is also true when the combustion is inverted by burning oxygen in an atmosphere of carbon monoxide. He referred also to a previous observation of Burch’s that when the gas is burnt under reduced pressure, its spectrum becomes discontinuous, and that the maxima of light, though ill-defined, are in such positions as suggest that they are vestiges of oxy-carbon bands.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Zhao

It is well known that Gustav Radbruch’s philosophy of law is significantly influenced by the neo-Kantian philosophy of Rickert’s student Emil Lask. However, so far, there has been no systematic investigation of the question of which aspects of Lark’s analyses of legal philosophy, cultural philosophy and epistemology are important to Radbruch’s philosophy of law. The monograph endeavors to close this gap. Its structure orients itself towards a fundamental distinction between the scientific knowledge of the subject and the subject itself. The topic of the first part is the epistemological foundation of the philosophy and science of law; the second part deals with the justification of law itself. In the third part, the developments in the legal philosophical thoughts of Radbruch and Lask are analysed from the point of view of their relationship to the neo-Kantian tradition. The result also offers a new perspective on the much-discussed “transformation” in Radbruch’s legal philosophy.


The comparative study of the gill structure of the Lamellibranchia may be said to date from 1875. Williams, it is true, had in 1854 published two papers on the subject, but owing to the fact that the morphological relations of the gill lamellæ to the gill axis and to other parts of the body were not then understood, and owing to the somewhat wild and fantastic mode of argument affected by this author, they cannot claim to be seriously regarded as the first important contribution to the literature of the subject. The few remarks on the different types of Lamellibranch gills made by Leuckart in 1848 (p. 113), Hancock in 1853 (p. 290), and Duvernoy in 1854 (p. 37) are of interest only from an historical point of view, and do not come within the range of the modern treatment of the subject; and the excellent figures and remarks on gill structure made by Deshayes in 1844-1848 cannot claim to be considered in the present connection, being purely descriptive and not comparative. It was Posner who first attempted a systematic investigation of the subject, and in his memoir of 1875 he discussed, not very astutely, the minute structure of the gills of Anodonta and eleven other genera of bivalve Mollusca. Some fifteen months later Peck, who in 1875, independently of Posner’s work, had commenced a similar investigation, published his important observations on the gills of Area, Mytilus, Dreissensia and Anodonta . It was this paper which first placed the comparative study of the gills upon a sound basis. The investigation was conducted in the laboratory of Professor Ray Lankester and under his direction, and the working hypothesis around which the paper was written, and which has stood the test of time ever since, was, as the author explains, supplied by Professor Lankester. An adequate terminology was propounded for the grosser and finer parts of the gill, and this terminology remains in general use at the present day.


2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (120) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo F. Chagas

O artigo mostra a trajetória do pensamento de Marx sob a perspectiva do método na sua determinação dupla, investigação e exposição, enquanto processo de apropriação e explicitação crítico-racional da imanência do próprio objeto pelo sujeito. O método dialético de Marx enquanto método de investigação e de exposição distingue, sem separar, esses dois momentos, pressupondo que o objeto só pode ser exposto depois de ser investigado, analisado, criticamente em suas determinações essenciais. Por isso, tal método constitui uma oposição ao positivismo acrítico, próprio da economia clássica moderna, que toma o objeto como uma imediatidade factual, dada, sem a mediação do pensamento, assumindo e ratificando a positividade do fato, e ao idealismo acrítico, típico da especulação e da dialética hegeliana, que tem o objeto como resultado de uma construção abstrata do pensamento que sintetiza tudo em si e se movimenta a partir de si mesmo, sendo, por isso, incapazes de realizar uma investigação sistemática da “lógica”, da “racionalidade”, imanente ao próprio real e uma exposição crítica desse real, reconstruindo, no plano ideal, a totalidade do movimento istemático do próprio real.Abstract: The article presents the trajectory of Marx’s thought under the perspective of the method in its double determination, i.e. research and exposition, seen as a process of appropriation and of critical rational explanation of the object’s immanence by the subject. Marx’s dialectical method, in its investigative and expositional nature, distinguishes these two moments without separating them, presupposing that the object can only be presented after being critically investigated, according to its essential determinations. Therefore, such a method is, on the one hand, opposed to acritical positivism, which is so characteristic of modern classical economics and takes the object as a factual immediate entity devoid of mediating thought, assuming and confirming the positivity of the fact, and, on the other hand, to acritical idealism, which is typical of Hegel’s speculation and dialectic which takes the object as a result of an abstract construction of thought that synthethizes everything in itself and moves by its own means. These two kinds of explanation are therefore incapable of performing both a systematic investigation of the “logics” and “rationality”, immanent to reality itself, and a critical exposition of this reality, reconstructing in the ideal plan the totality of the systematic movement of reality itself. 


1977 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 189-207
Author(s):  
J. N. Findlay

The present paper is an attempt to study the acts and intentions which set up for the subject, and for the community of subjects, a set of values and disvalues which impose themselves as valid upon everyone, and which everyone must tend to prescribe, or to warn against, for everyone. The acts which set up a formal apophantic and ontology have been studied by Husserl in his Formal and Transcendental Logic, but he has not set out a comparable theory of the acts which set up a universally valid system of values and disvalues. He has not done so because he does not believe in such a system, because his thought goes no further than the values set up for and felt to hold in a given group or society. It is my view that there is an ineluctable progress from these relativistic group-values to a set of values and disvalues holding for everyone, and that moreover in their relation to everyone, and that these values and disvalues have definite and undeniable shapes and locations, even if these shapes also have somewhat nebulous contours. The views I am expounding on this occasion are not new: they are fully set out in my Values and Intentions and my Axiological Ethics and in other writings. Ideas, however, require restatement at intervals, with a suitable change of idiom and emphasis. And I feel my views on this topic to have a claim to truth simply because, quite differently from my views on other topics, and despite constant reflection, they have hardly changed over the last two decades. The inspiration for these views was only in part Husserlian, as I do not think that the emotional and the axiological are really Husserl's strong suit. Strangely enough, that dry thinker Meinong would seem to have had a much richer emotional life and the ability to frame a theory to fit it, than the much easier and at times effusive thinker Husserl. Meinong's 1917 Austrian Imperial Academy treatise, On Emotional Presentation, recently translated for the Northwestern Phenomenology series, is a much more systematic investigation of the presuppositions of value-theory than any writing of a professed phenomenologist. What I have to say will build considerably on Meinong, always a major influence in my thought. But I have also been much influenced in my approaches to value-theory by the transcendental methods of Kant. Kant, I think, could very well have worked out a transcendental deduction of the heads of value and disvalue, a deduction much more illuminating than the dogmatic intuitionism of Scheler and Hartmann, instead of producing the arid triad of categorical imperatives that were all that he actually deduced. Imperatives, I consider, are secondary structures in value-constitution: the primary structures are the ultimate objects of necessary, rational pursuit and avoidance which Kant wrongly thought of as involving heteronomy and a corruption of pure form by matter. There is, I shall argue, nothing more free from extraneous, pathological material than the objects of the pursuits and avoidances in question.


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