Shoe-Pots, Patajos, and the Principle of Whimsy

1976 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-391
Author(s):  
Keith A. Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Field Investigation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Broad Category ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Single Criterion

The traditional broad category of shoe-shaped pots (or bird-forms or patojos) is invalid for analytic purposes. It is a catch-all category for vessels which may have had different histories, uses, and meanings. One kind, the culinary shoe-pot, does form a distinctive class with a special use in cooking and was widely distributed in space and time. Previous researchers, including Varner, Beals, and Sisson most recently, have generated spurious problems and have been led to erroneous conclusions. The following recommendations are explained: (1) culinary shoe-pots should not be classified with bird or foot effigies, although they sometimes become effigies as visual puns; (2) they should not be grouped with other asymmetrical pots on the single criterion of horizontal body elongation without considering the other vessel attributes; (3) further ethnographic and linguistic field investigation should be done where culinary shoe-pots are still used; (4) primary and secondary uses of culinary shoe-pots should not be confused.

USE OF THE GALAXY AS A TOOL FOR SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ORIENTATION DURING THE EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD AND UP TO THE 15TH CENTURY

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Andreas Eckart
Keyword(s):  
Milky Way ◽  
The Other ◽  
Temporal Orientation ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islamic

AbstractWe study to what extent the Milky Way was used as an orientation tool at the beginning of the Islamic period covering the 8th to the 15th century, with a focus on the first half of that era. We compare the texts of three authors from three different periods and give detailed comments on their astronomical and traditional content. The text of al-Marzūqī summarises the information on the Milky Way put forward by the astronomer and geographer ʾAbū Ḥanīfa al-Dīnawarī. The text makes it clear that in some areas the Milky Way could be used as a geographical guide to determine the approximate direction toward a region on Earth or the direction of prayer. In the 15th century, the famous navigator Aḥmad b. Māǧid describes the Milky Way in his nautical instructions. He frequently demonstrates that the Milky Way serves as a guidance aid to find constellations and stars that are useful for precise navigation on land and at sea. On the other hand, Ibn Qutayba quotes in his description of the Milky Way a saying from the famous Bedouin poet Ḏū al-Rumma, which is also mentioned by al-Marzūqī. In this saying the Milky Way is used to indicate the hot summer times in which travelling the desert was particularly difficult. Hence, the Milky Way was useful for orientation in space and time and was used for agricultural and navigational purposes.

scholarly journals Natural Science and Supernatural Thought Experiments

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 389
Author(s):  
James Robert Brown
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Thought Experiments ◽  
The Other ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Theological Thought

Religious notions have long played a role in epistemology. Theological thought experiments, in particular, have been effective in a wide range of situations in the sciences. Some of these are merely picturesque, others have been heuristically important, and still others, as I will argue, have played a role that could be called essential. I will illustrate the difference between heuristic and essential with two examples. One of these stems from the Newton–Leibniz debate over the nature of space and time; the other is a thought experiment of my own constructed with the aim of making a case for a more liberal view of evidence in mathematics.

Entrepreneurship Policy Framework

2017 ◽  
pp. 95-139
Author(s):  
Raghubir Singh Chauhan ◽  
Rituparna Das
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
The Other ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Entrepreneurship Policy ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Economic Understanding

The ongoing debate regarding how to formulate an entrepreneurship policy is globally vital so it is pertinent to understand the other dimensions also. By using a broad spectrum of space and time, and covering heterogeneous correlation the why, what if, where etc. regarding policy framework and deeper fundamentals of global economic understanding as well as misunderstanding is explored on an intersubjective context. By multi-stage data substantiation, analysis and literature review the direction and important determinants of policy framework are examined.

Chapter V: From Herder to Darwin, 1772-1871

1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (S1) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Richard Albert Wilson
Keyword(s):  
General Scheme ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Language History ◽  
The World ◽  
Descent Of Man ◽  
The Way ◽  
Modern Movement

Nature leads the way. Man emerges on the scene, follows her footprints, marks and registers them in language, and makes a Science of Nature. Then he looks back and discovers that Language, while following the path of Nature, has left a trail of her own. He returns on this new trail, again marks and registers its footprints, and makes a Science of Language.My purpose in this book is not to compare languages as in linguistic science, or to trace their concrete development as in language history; but to describe the problem which gave birth to language, to show the place of language in the general scheme of world evolution, and to point out its basic structure in relation to the two forms of sense, Space and Time. I have dealt at some length with Herder and his time because that period was the beginning of the modern movement in language investigation in which we are still engaged. For the next hundred years, from Herder’s essay in 1772 to Darwin’s Descent of Man in 1871, I can only touch some of the peaks in the development of linguistic theory and science, that, in their combined results, have prepared the way for the present inquiry, and that may help to give the perspective necessary to set the fabric of language clearly in its place among the other phenomena of the world. If this mode of treatment should appear to the language specialist as in some degree wanting in the ‘hard factualness’ of language, the explanation is that the inclusion of such factual material would not contribute to the investigation in hand. If one can make clear the world-problem which called language into existence, and show the structure which language was destined to assume in order to answer this problem, then the way should be better prepared and the impulse quickened for tracing man’s first steps and subsequent windings in the actual making of language.

The Application and Construction of Light Steel Roof Truss in the Hydropower Station Tunnel

2012 ◽  
Vol 538-541 ◽  
pp. 3160-3164
Author(s):  
Xiao Ping Wang ◽  
Qi Tao Zhan ◽  
Jie Xu
Keyword(s):  
Operation Time ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
Installation Space ◽  
Hydropower Station ◽  
Tunnel Construction ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Power House ◽  
Assembly Area ◽  
Roof Truss ◽  
Steel Roof

The hydropower station tunnel construction is crossover operation and environment is poor. Installation space and time are limited. The paper introduces corresponding measures and installation method.Through field investigation and vast demonstration, using electric hoist and little bridge machine in equipment assembly area can avoid the effect to power house equipment installation and reduce crossover operation time. Using installation platform on the little bridge in hydro-generator area can reduce the use of the little bridge machine and improve the installation efficiency .

Modern Mathematics in Germany

1936 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 390-393
Author(s):  
W. Threlfall
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
The Other ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Mathematics ◽  
Mathematics And Physics

Since I am speaking to you about modern German mathematics, I wish to call your attention to a most important subject, namely to the world which surrounds us, and to our scientific knowledge of its extent in space and time. There can be no doubt about the fact that this world we are living in is not the best of all possible worlds. Financial, industrial, and political dieases, you know them just as well on the other side of the great pond as we do on this side. Nevertheless in one respect we are living just now in a golden age. The world of science is in an excellent state and few eras have seen as important successes of mathematics and physics as ours.

‘Arrest and Movement’: Tippett’s Second Piano Sonata and the Genesis of a Method

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAIN STANNARD
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Piano Sonata ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Temporal Representation ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe terms ‘arrest’ and ‘movement’, deployed by Tippett in his Third Symphony (1970–2) as part of what Kemp defines as a ‘dialectic of strong contrasts’, were in fact significant at an earlier stage of the composer’s output. Some ten years previously Arrest and Movement appears as a possible title for his Second Piano Sonata in the pencil manuscript of the work. Tippett’s notebooks further reveal how these two categories determined the formation of two distinct types of temporality in the piece: one halting or stuttering, the other flowing. Art critic Henriette Groenewegen-Frankfort’s book Arrest and Movement: an Essay on Space and Time in the Representational Art of the Ancient Near East, which was published in 1951 and which Tippett is known to have read, uses these terms to explore the relationship between spatial and temporal representation. This prompts investigation of the arrest–movement dialectic in Tippett’s Sonata along analogous lines, analysing structure, balance, and use of quasi-spatial proportions. The two threads converge by means of the criterion of ‘monumentality’, a term Groenewegen-Frankfort uses to describe works of particularly effective balance. While critical evaluation of the Sonata might suggest that this work itself falls short of ‘monumental’ stature, it is arguable that Tippett was able to carry forward lessons learned to works of his later œuvre (such as his Fourth Symphony), which do indeed approach this status.

scholarly journals Sobre la perífrasis 'soler' + estativo: una lectura genérica

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Axelle Vatrican
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dynamic Event ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Normal Man ◽  
The One

<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Abstract. This paper presents a semantic analysis of a periphrastic construction which has not been studied at this time in Spanish: <em>soler </em>+ stative (<em>Un poeta suele ser un hombre normal, “A poet usually is a normal man</em>”). Whereas the habitual construction has been largely studied (<em>Juan suele cantar “Juan usually sings”</em>), it seems that the first one does not carry the same interpretation. We will claim that we need to distinguish between two readings: the habitual reading on the one hand and the generic reading on the other hand. According to Menéndez-Benito (2013), Krifka et al. (1995) and Shubert &amp; Pelletier (1989), among others, we will argue that <em>soler </em>contains a frequentative adverb of quantification <em>Q</em>. In the habitual reading, the <em>Q</em> adverb quantifies over an individual participating in an event at a time t (<em>Juan está cantando</em>, <em>“Juan is singing”</em>), whereas in the generic reading, <em>Q</em> adverb quantifies over a characterizing predicate (<em>un poeta es un hombre normal, “A poet is a normal man”</em>). In the habitual reading, the NP must refer to an individual and the VP to a dynamic event anchored in space and time. In the generic reading, the NP must refer to a class of objects and the VP to a stative predicate.</span></p>

scholarly journals Coincidence or Construct

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
ABDUL AZIZ
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
The Other ◽  
Space And Time

How South Asian Muslims Have Become The Other in Space and Time

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