scholarly journals The Illusion of the Experience of the Passage of Time

Disputatio ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (35) ◽  
pp. 67-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gal Yehezkel
Keyword(s):  
General Assertion

Abstract Supporters of the A-theory of time sometimes refer to an alleged experience of the passage of time in support of their theory. In this paper I argue that it is an illusion that we experience the passage of time, for such an experience is impossible. My argument relies on the general assertion that experience is contingent, in the sense that if it is possible to experience the passage of time, it is also possible to experience that time does not pass. Having established this claim, I argue that it is impossible to experience that time does not pass, and hence that it is impossible to experience the passage of time.

Flaubert: Trois Contes and the Figure of the Double Cone

PMLA ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 95 (5) ◽  
pp. 812-826
Author(s):  
John R. O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Principal Symbol ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Double Cone ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Speculative Philosophy ◽  
General Assertion

AbstractIn A Vision, W. B. Yeats describes the principal symbol of his work as the figure of a double cone formed by tracing a line along the outer edges of two intersecting gyres, or vortices, the apex of each vortex in the middle of the other's base. He then asserts that the only writer outside speculative philosophy to have used the symbol was Flaubert, who had planned to write a story called “La Spirale.” Though it is impossible completely to credit Yeats's reading of “La Spirale,” his general assertion is nevertheless correct, extraordinarily, as a description of the Trois Contes, where the double cone appears both as a narrative structure and a theme, symbolizing the creative passage from material to spiritual life.

scholarly journals Hunger as a Constitutive Property of a Culinary Work

Topoi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Bacchini
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Experience ◽  
Psychological Condition ◽  
General Assertion ◽  
Constitutive Property ◽  
Argumentative Strategy

Abstract In this paper I attempt to show that a certain degree of hunger, intended as a material and psychological condition of the diner, can become a constitutive property of a culinary work. One may believe that the best possible argument supporting this thesis is one relying on the general assertion that an author’s stipulative authority over the features of his or her work, if adequately exercised, is absolute. Quite the contrary, I show that we should prefer a different and more specific argumentative strategy based on the twofold fact that the conventions ruling over culinary works are peculiarly less stringent than in many other art fields, and that hunger has a very special status with regard to culinary works, in the sense that fixing the degree of hunger of the diner may serve to fix the appropriate conditions for any minimally acceptable perceptual experience of a culinary work to take place.

When are Immersions Diffeomorphisms?

1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-492
Author(s):  
Chung-Wu Ho
Keyword(s):  
Topological Spaces ◽  
Fundamental Groups ◽  
General Assertion

AbstractIt is shown in this paper that an immersion of a connected, closed n-manifold into another connected n-manifold is a diffeomorphism if and only if the induced homomorphism between the fundamental groups is surjective at some point. This is proved as a consequence of a more general assertion about topological spaces.

Performance measurement: test the water before you dive in

2005 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arie Halachmi
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Performance Score ◽  
General Assertion ◽  
Management Concept ◽  
Performance Reports ◽  
The Cost

Performance measurement and reporting are promoted in various publications as a management concept that can help administrators and elected officials address the issues of productivity and accountability. This article challenges this general assertion for two reasons. First, because the cost of performance score cards is always significant while the benefits, in many instances, may be only tentative. Second, because of possible problems that result when measuring performance is used for two different and potentially competing functions: accountability versus productivity. The article concludes that while performance measurement has a potential, its use should be encouraged but not mandated by external bodies. The article asserts that a more prudent introduction and use of performance score cards may result from better understanding of two things: first, what can go wrong when compiling performance reports; and, second, that there might be a need for other corresponding changes, within and outside government agencies, in order to facilitate meaningful performance reports.

scholarly journals Augustus and his Legionaries

1920 ◽  
Vol 14 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 187-194
Author(s):  
E. G. Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Length Of Service ◽  
General Assertion ◽  
The Military

In the Monumentum Ancyranum Augustus makes some interesting and, if we can unravel them, undoubtedly important statements, from which certain deductions seem possible as to the number of his legionary soldiers, the rate of mortality among them, their length of service and the provisions made for them after their dicharge. Quite early in the Monument (I. 16–19) we get the following general assertion: ‘About five hundred thousand Roman citizens were bound to me by the military oath. Of these, after the due expiry of their service, I settled in colonies or sent back to their own municipia somewhat more than three hundred thousand. And to all of them I gave land purchased by myself, or in lieu of land sums of money out of my own resources.’ From the place of this statement in that part of the record relating to his earlier career we might be tempted to infer (a) that the five hundred thousand legionaries were those who formed his armies at the time of Antony's collapse, and (b) that the discharge of three hundred thousand of them, whether planted in colonies or sent back to their domiciles, took place at one and the same time. With regard to the second point, we shall see presently that the vague and indiscriminate statement made here is cleared up by a later passage (III. 22 sqq.), from which it appears that the assignation of land belongs to two distinct schemes of colonizations, separated by sixteen years, and that the restoration of discharged soldiers to their municipalities, to whom alone the words ‘pecuniam pro agris dedi’ are applicable, belongs to a still later date.

scholarly journals Actions in practice: On details in collections

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Clift ◽  
Chase Wesley Raymond
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Analytic Theory ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
General Assertion ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Specific Expertise

Several of the contributions to the Lynch et al. Special issue make the claim that conversation-analytic research into epistemics is ‘routinely crafted at the expense of actual, produced and constitutive detail, and what that detail may show us’. Here, we seek to address the inappositeness of this critique by tracing precisely how it is that recognizable actions emerge from distinct practices of interaction. We begin by reviewing some of the foundational tenets of conversation-analytic theory and method – including the relationship between position and composition, and the making of collections – as these appear to be primary sources of confusion for many of the contributors to the Lynch et al. Special Issue. We then target some of the specific arguments presented in the Special Issue, including the alleged ‘over-hearer’s’ writing of metrics, the provision of so-called ‘alternative’ analyses and the supposed ‘crafting’ of generalizations in epistemics research. In addition, in light of Lynch’s more general assertion that conversation analysis (CA) has recently been experiencing a ‘rapprochement’ with what he disparagingly refers to as the ‘juggernaut’ of linguistics, we discuss the specific expertise that linguists have to offer in analyzing particular sorts of interactional detail. The article as a whole thus illustrates that, rather than being produced ‘ at the expense of actual, produced and constitutive detail’, conversation-analytic findings – including its work in epistemics – are unambiguously anchored in such detail. We conclude by offering our comments as to the link between CA and linguistics more generally, arguing that this relationship has long proven to be – and indeed continues to be – a mutually beneficial one.

scholarly journals Political Attitudes and the Processing of Misinformation Corrections

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ullrich K. H. Ecker ◽  
Li Chang Ang
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Motivated Reasoning ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Inferential Reasoning ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
General Assertion ◽  
Influence Effect ◽  
Singular Event

Misinformation often continues to influence people’s memory and inferential reasoning after it has been retracted; this is known as the continued influence effect (CIE). Previous research investigating the role of attitude-based motivated reasoning in this context has found conflicting results: Some studies have found that worldview can have a strong impact on the magnitude of the CIE, such that retractions are less effective if the misinformation is congruent with a person’s relevant attitudes, in which case the retractions can even backfire. Other studies have failed to find evidence for an effect of attitudes on the processing of misinformation corrections. The present study used political misinformation—specifically fictional scenarios involving misconduct by politicians from left-wing and right-wing parties—and tested participants identifying with those political parties. Results showed that in this type of scenario, partisan attitudes have an impact on the processing of retractions, in particular (1) if the misinformation relates to a general assertion rather than just a specific singular event, and (2) if the misinformation is congruent with a conservative partisanship.

Ftir Studies Of Organometallic Surface Chemistry Relevant To Atomic Layer Epitaxy.

1991 ◽  
Vol 222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ananth V. Annapragada ◽  
Sateria Salim ◽  
Klavs F. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Atomic Layer ◽  
Atomic Layer Epitaxy ◽  
Growth Surface ◽  
Methyl Groups ◽  
Dissociative Chemisorption ◽  
Decomposition Products ◽  
General Assertion ◽  
Methylene Groups ◽  
Dehydrogenation Reactions

ABSTRACTThe adsorption and surface reactions of trimethylgallium and tertiarybutylarsine on GaAs(100) surfaces have been investigated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Adsorbed methyl groups resulting from the dissociative chemisorption of trimethylgallium on GaAs(100) are shown to form As-H and CH2 species on the surface. The CH2 groups are stable on the surface at temperatures as high as 550 °C. The surface coverage is low (∼0.2% of a monolayer) and is reduced by the presence of hydrogen on the surface. This dehydrogenation of surface methyl groups could be a possible route to carbon incorporation in GaAs grown by atomic layer epitaxy. Tertiarybutylarsine is shown to decompose primarily by homolysis to form a tertiary butylgroup and AsH2. At temperatures below 400°C on trimethylgallium dosed surfaces, the decomposition products appear to cause the hydrogenation of methylene groups remaining from prior surface dosing with trimethylaallium. At high temperatures, the tertiarybutyl radical appears to undergo dehydrogenation reactions to an unsaturated species which is stable on the surface. In contrast, the dehydrogenation does not appear to occur on surfaces treated with tertiarybutylarsine. The data for trimethylgallium and tertiarybutylarsine support the general assertion that surface As-H species play a critical role in the removal of hydrocarbon species from the growth surface.

Islamic Opposition to the Islamic State: The Jamaʿat-i Islami, 1977–88

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr
Keyword(s):  
Political Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Islam And Politics ◽  
Islamic Movements ◽  
General Assertion ◽  
Islamic Movement ◽  
Process Characteristics ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Islamic Revivalism

Islamic revivalism is often believed to be solely committed to the Islamization of society, viewing politics as merely an instrument in the struggle to realize its aim. The record of Islamic revivalist movements—as exemplified by one of the oldest and most influential of them, the Jamaʿat-i Islami, or Islamic party of Pakistan—however, brings this presumption into question. The nature of the linkage between Islamic revivalism as a particular interpretive reading of Islam and politics is more complicated than is generally believed. Political interests, albeit still within an Islamic framework, play a more important and central role in the unfolding of revivalism—even overriding the commitment to Islamization—than is often ac knowledged. Participation in the political process eschews a blind commitment to Islamization and encourages adherence to organizational interests, and as is evi dent in the case of Pakistan, to the democratic process, characteristics that are not usually associated with Islamic movements. The dynamics and pace of this pro cess are controlled by the struggles for power within an Islamic movement as well as vis-à-vis the state. It is through grappling with these struggles that the commit ment to Islamization is weighed against the need to adhere to organizational and political interests; this is the process that governs the development of Islamic re vivalism. Beyond this general assertion, the manner in which the struggle for power unfolds, the variables that influence it, and the nature of its impact on the development of revivalism need to be explored further.

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