Partial Truth in Aristotle’s Metaphysics

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-308
Author(s):  
Silvia Carli ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Partial Truth ◽  
The Status ◽  
Aristotle's Metaphysics

This paper explores the status of partial truths, i.e., statements that are partially true and partially false, in Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Contrary to what some scholars have suggested, it argues that partial truths are not confined to reputable opinions (endoxa) that have not yet been clarified and disambiguated. Rather, they have a more central role in Aristotle’s investigation. First, I propose that the fundamental question of being, namely, “What is substance?” is such that even our best attempts to answer it may never yield a full or complete truth. Second, at least in some instances, Aristotle does not seem interested in disambiguating the assertions of previous thinkers to attain propositions that are fully true or fully false. This is the case because our capacity to gain insights into the nature of things is mediated by our reflections on previous theories and on the problems that they incur. It may thus be desirable to retain some partial truths that, owing to their very ambiguity, force us to interrogate the nature of things more deeply.

scholarly journals Reading Audiobooks

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-216
Author(s):  
Iben Have ◽  
Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Mass Medium ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
The Status

Abstract The development of digital media technologies like the MP3 file and the smartphone has changed the status of the audiobook from being a by-product of the printed book to being a mass medium in its own right. This chapter takes a context and user perspective on audiobooks and asks the fundamental question: to what extent can one say that one ‘reads’ an audiobook? Based on the Danish author Helle Helle’s novel Ned til hundene (Down to the Dogs, 2008), the authors discuss how the audiobook experience as a whole can be analysed regarding ‘technological framing’, ‘reading situations’ and ‘the performing voice’. They also investigate audiobook reading in relation to the experience of time and depth.

scholarly journals Światłocienie perswazji. Fragmenty dyskursu ero//teore//tycznego

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 74-86
Author(s):  
Artur Żywiołek
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
The Status ◽  
Linguistic Reality ◽  
Cognitive Understanding

Chiaroscuros of persuasion. Fragments of the ero//theo//r(e)tical discourse The article entitled Chiaroscuros of persuasion. Fragments of the ero//theo//r(e)tical discourse is a reflection concerning the rhetoric paradox, which, as an ingredient of septem artes liberales – was an efficient cognitive, understanding and thinking tool. Today, however, its position is described in the following article with the usage of “light” and “shade” metaphors. The rhetoric of various theoretical models (in the sciences and in the humanities) has become, in our times, a reason for asking the fundamental question about the status of the relation between language and reality, between cognition and interpretation. Does the desire for knowledge, the passion of thinking, indicate the existence of an objective and cognizable reality, or is it quite the contrary: does it prove that there is no non-linguistic reality?

scholarly journals Mistisisme dan Hal-hal Tak Tercakapkan : Menimbang Epistemologi Hudhūrī

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sabri
Keyword(s):  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Phenomenal Consciousness ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Language Games ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Mystic Experience ◽  
Philosophical Structure

<div><p><strong>Abstract :</strong> In general, this article intends to answer a fundamental question, whether a mystical experience  can  or  cannot  be  expressed  through language. If the answer is positive, what kind of language can ‘formulate’ an inner space of human experience to penetrate into the heart of the most real reality? What kind of consciousness can “bring” the light of God to the ‘empirical’ world? h en how to formulate a mystical consciousness in expressing spiritual experience that is “subjective” and therefore, has limitations? How, in  fact,  the  status  of  “non-subjective  phenomenal” consciousness in Islamic epistemology? h e above questions, of course, are just a small ripple for those who seek to dive into the depth of “Mystical Ocean without shore”. To  give an answer, this article then presents two contemporary philosophers from the genre of analytic philosophy, but from a diff erent background from that of tradition: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)  and  Mehdi Ha’iri  Yazdi  (1923  to  1999).  h is  article appears to be a “resistance” epistemic: to show the fragile philosophical structure of positivism to capture the invisible ‘realities’. h is last genre of philosophy, which is concerned mostly with the reliability of facts, the necessity correspondence between the facts and language, and glorifi es the verifi cation principles, has experienced “stutters” in every endeavor to reveal the world of meaning. h is article, also seeks reveal the way to the world of “experience” and does not stop at the world of knowledge. By adopting the approach of Analytic Philosophy, this article shows the folds of meaning and reality: empirical, meta-empirical, existential, and spiritual.  For  the  author,  the  all  layers  of  reality  can  only  be  revealed through a mystical experience, a presential knowledge (al-’ilm al-hudhūrī) in a perfect ontological state.</p><p><em>Keywords : Mystical experience, Logical-positivism, al-‘ilm al-hudhūrī, Language games, Logosentrism, Metalanguage, Perceptive</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstrak :</strong> Secara umum artikel ini ingin menjawab sebuah pertanyaan fundamental apakah pengalaman mistik (mystic experience) dapat diekspresikan melalui bahasa. Jika jawabnya positif, bahasa jenis apakah yang bisa ‘merumuskan’ sebuah pengalaman inner space manusia hingga menembus ke jantung realitas yang paling sejati? Kesadaran jenis apakah yang mampu “menghadirkan” cahaya Tuhan ke dunia ‘empiris’? Lalu bagaimana merumuskan sebuah kesadaran mistik dalam ungkapan- ungkapan pengalaman keruhanian yang bersifat “subyektif ” dan karena itu memiliki keterbatasan-keterbatasan? Bagaimana sejatinya posisi kesadaran “subyektif-non fenomenal” dalam bangunan epistemologi Islam? Deretan pertanyaan di atas, tentu hanyalah riak kecil dari gelombang tanya yang ingin menyelami kedalaman “lautan mistik” yang tak bertepi. Untuk menjawab terhadap pertanyaan di atas, artikel ini lalu menghadirkan dua fi lsuf kontemporer yang berasal dari genre fi lsafat analitik (analytic philosophy) namun dari latar belakang tradisi yang berbeda: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) dan Mehdi Ha’iri Yazdi (1923-1999). Artikel ini hadir untuk sebuah “perlawanan” epistemik: memperlihatkan betapa gawatnya bangunan filsafat Positivisme dalam memotret ‘realitas-realitas’ yang tak kasat mata. Genre fi lsafat terakhir ini, meski berhasil memesona tradisi  fi lsafat Barat yang memuja, keterandalan fakta, keharusan korespondensi antara fakta dan bahasa, dan mengagungkan verifi cation principles, tetapi ia mengalami “kegagapan” dalam setiap ikhtiar menyingkap dunia makna (meaning). artikel ini, sebaliknya, memperlihatkan pentingnya menempuh jalan ke dunia “pengalaman”(experience) dan tidak berhenti pada dunia pengetahuan (knowledge). Dengan menggunakan pendekatan Filsafat Analitik,  penulis memperlihatkan lipatan makna dan realitas yang berlapis: empirik, meta-empirik, eksistensial, dan spiritual. Dan seluruh lapisan  realitas tersebut hanya dapat disingkap melalui pengalaman mistik via al-‘ilm al-hudhūrī dalam sebuah ‘ketercelupan ontologis’ yang sempurna.</p><p><em>Kata kunci : Pengalaman mistik, Logika-positivistik, al-‘ilm al-hudhūrī, Permainan bahasa, Logosentrime, Metabahasa, Perseptif</em></p></div>

scholarly journals Syrianus on the Platonic Tradition of the Separate Existence of Numbers

2016 ◽  
pp. 167-194
Author(s):  
Melina G. Mouzala
Keyword(s):  
The Status ◽  
Platonic Tradition ◽  
Aristotle's Metaphysics

This paper analyzes and explains certain parts of Syrianus’s Commentary on book M of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, which details Syrianus’s response to Aristotle’s attack against the Platonic position of the separate existence of numbers. Syrianus defends the separate existence not only of eidetic but also of mathematical numbers, following a line of argumentation which involves a hylomorphic approach to the latter. He proceeds with an analysis of the mathematical number into matter and form, but his interpretation entails that form is the constituent of number, which has the status and role of a Platonic Form. This solution allows him not only to explain and justify the unity of number, but also to apply the Platonic thesis of the separate existence of numbers, to the mathematical or monadic numbers themselves. It also betrays its tendency to combine theses of the Platonic Ontology with fundamental Aristotelian doctrines. 

COURTS OR THE LEGISLATURES? MARIJUANA POLICY IN GEORGIA AND THE UNITED STATES

Law and World ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
William Watkins
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Western Democracies

Who is to decide? This is the fundamental question facing a democratic republic. A separation of powers is widely accepted in western democracies with legislatures making laws, executives implementing the law, and judges interpreting and applying laws to actual cases and controversies brought before them. But when does the judicial role depart from judging and impermissibly lurch into the realm of policymaking which most people agree is a legislative function? This article examines such questions in reference to recent experience in the Republic of Georgia and the United States regarding the legal status of marijuana. In both countries courts and legislatures have taken decisive and controversial actions regarding the status of cannabis in society. But in so doing, have the judicial and legislative branches respected separation-of powers-principles, or have the lines been the two branches become blurred?

The study of interfacial reactions of nickel thin films on GaAs

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 156-157
Author(s):  
L.J. Chen ◽  
Y.F. Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Interfacial Reactions ◽  
Metal Contacts ◽  
Nickel Thin Films ◽  
Thin Foils ◽  
The Status ◽  
Si Doped ◽  
Electron Microscopes

One measure of the maturity of a device technology is the ease and reliability of applying contact metallurgy. Compared to metal contact of silicon, the status of GaAs metallization is still at its primitive stage. With the advent of GaAs MESFET and integrated circuits, very stringent requirements were placed on their metal contacts. During the past few years, extensive researches have been conducted in the area of Au-Ge-Ni in order to lower contact resistances and improve uniformity. In this paper, we report the results of TEM study of interfacial reactions between Ni and GaAs as part of the attempt to understand the role of nickel in Au-Ge-Ni contact of GaAs.N-type, Si-doped, (001) oriented GaAs wafers, 15 mil in thickness, were grown by gradient-freeze method. Nickel thin films, 300Å in thickness, were e-gun deposited on GaAs wafers. The samples were then annealed in dry N2 in a 3-zone diffusion furnace at temperatures 200°C - 600°C for 5-180 minutes. Thin foils for TEM examinations were prepared by chemical polishing from the GaA.s side. TEM investigations were performed with JE0L- 100B and JE0L-200CX electron microscopes.

Fate of sperm membrane in fertilized ova

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 40-41
Author(s):  
Frank J. Longo
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Electrical Activity ◽  
Sea Urchins ◽  
Morphological Changes ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Electrophysiological Recording ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sperm Membrane ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

Measurement of the egg's electrical activity, the fertilization potential or the activation current (in voltage clamped eggs), provides a means of detecting the earliest perceivable response of the egg to the fertilizing sperm. By using the electrical physiological record as a “real time” indicator of the instant of electrical continuity between the gametes, eggs can be inseminated with sperm at lower, more physiological densities, thereby assuring that only one sperm interacts with the egg. Integrating techniques of intracellular electrophysiological recording, video-imaging, and electron microscopy, we are able to identify the fertilizing sperm precisely and correlate the status of gamete organelles with the first indication (fertilization potential/activation current) of the egg's response to the attached sperm. Hence, this integrated system provides improved temporal and spatial resolution of morphological changes at the site of gamete interaction, under a variety of experimental conditions. Using these integrated techniques, we have investigated when sperm-egg plasma membrane fusion occurs in sea urchins with respect to the onset of the egg's change in electrical activity.

Revisiting the status of dental ethics instruction

2000 ◽  
Vol 64 (11) ◽  
pp. 772-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
JG Odom ◽  
PL Beemsterboer ◽  
TD Pate ◽  
NK Haden
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Instruction ◽  
The Status

The status of cosmology

2002 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
W Freedman
Keyword(s):  
The Status

Multicultural Assessment of Personality and Psychopathology in the United States: Still Art, Not Yet Science, and Controversial

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Dana
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Therapeutic Assessment ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
The Status ◽  
Training Research ◽  
Multicultural Assessment ◽  
Personality Description

This paper describes the status of multicultural assessment training, research, and practice in the United States. Racism, politicization of issues, and demands for equity in assessment of psychopathology and personality description have created a climate of controversy. Some sources of bias provide an introduction to major assessment issues including service delivery, moderator variables, modifications of standard tests, development of culture-specific tests, personality theory and cultural/racial identity description, cultural formulations for psychiatric diagnosis, and use of findings, particularly in therapeutic assessment. An assessment-intervention model summarizes this paper and suggests dimensions that compel practitioners to ask questions meriting research attention and providing avenues for developments of culturally competent practice.

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