Ways of life as modes of presentation

Books and journal articles have become the dominant modes of presentation in contemporary philosophy. This historically contingent paradigm prioritises textual expression and assumes a distinction between philosophical practice and its presented product. Using Socrates and Diogenes as exemplars, we challenge the presumed supremacy of the text and defend the importance of ways of life as modes of practiced presentation. We argue that text cannot capture the embodied activity of philosophy without remainder, and is therefore limited and incomplete. In particular, we contend that (1) a static text is essentially alienated from our practices of philosophising, (2) words cannot unambiguously represent lives, and (3) practiced presentation enriches our understanding beyond words alone. After discussing some pedagogical implications, we conclude with a plea for a pluralistic approach that recognises lives as legitimate and valuable modes of philosophical presentation.

Results of Using Different Modes of Presentation of Stereostimuli in the Study of Stereo Vision in Normal Children and in Children with Non-Paralytic Strabismus without Functional Scotoma

The work is devoted to one of the actual problems of current ophthalmology — creating effective methods of studying stereovision.The purpose — comparative analysis of the capability of stereoperception under conditions of using different regimes of alternating presentation of stereo stimuli with different characteristics in children with strabismus and in children without ophthalmopathology.Patients and methods. 294 school children — 167 children of the control group (without ophthalmopathology) and 127 children with non-paralytic strabismus without functional scotoma (FSS) were observed. We used stereostimuli with different characteristics in the following regimes of presentation: 1) the regime of simple monocular alternating (alternate presentation of an image for the right and left eye); 2) the regime having an “empty” interval (black background) between monocular phases; 3) the regime having a binocular phase (a binocular image containing details corresponding to the stimuli for the right eye and the left eye) between monocular phases.Results. It was found that the majority of children with non-paralytic strabismus, who are incapable of stereoperception with the classic Fly-test and Lang-test, can perceive the stereoeffect with alternating presentation of stereostimuli within individual ranges of durations of monocular phases, a binocular phase and an “empty” interval. In children of the control group when switching from the simple alternation regime to the “empty” interval regime the maximal durations of monocular phases, which preserved the stereoeffect, decreased and when switching to the binocular phase regime they significantly increased. In children with strabismus linear images are simpler for stereoperception than random-dot images as well as in children of the control group (p < 0.001); stimuli creating the effect of the frontoparallel separation of details get perceived better than those creating the decline effect or the turning effect (p < 0.001); stimuli creating the effect of the vertical stripes decline get perceived better than those creating the effect of the horizontal stripes turning (p < 0.001). However, as opposed to the children of the control group, in children with strabismus the stereoeffect gets formed better under conditions of the peripheral localization of linear details than under conditions of the central one.Conclusion. Using computer programs with different regimes of alternating presentation of stereostimuli with certain characteristics allows to effectively evaluate individual capability of stereoperception which is necessary for the personalized approach to the selection of visual stimuli and stimuli presentation regimes in functional treatment of patients with non-paralytic strabismus.

A CLINICAL STUDY ON VARIOUS MODES OF PRESENTATION OF PANCREATOBILIARY MALIGNANCIES

Obstructive Jaundice is an important surgical problem that occurs when there is an obstruction to the passage of conjugated bilirubin from liver cells to intestine. It is among the most challenging conditions managed by general surgeons and results in high morbidity and mortality. Hence, early diagnosis of the cause of obstruction is very important especially in malignant cases, as resection is only possible at an early stage. Signicant 3 advances have been made over the past 30 years in understanding pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of obstructive jaundice. Biliary obstruction effects the bile ducts and leads to disturbed liver function and widespread systemic effects. Jaundice patients are at high risk for developing hepatic and renal dysfunction, cardiovascular problems, nutritional deciencies, bleeding problems, infections, and wound 4 complications, and higher perioperative mortality. There is usually an overlap of features among different obstructive pathologies, for example uctuating icterus is present in both common bile duct stone and periampullary carcinoma. AIM:To study the clinical spectrum of the patient with malignant obstructive jaundice. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study has been carried out on 48 patients with clinical presentation of suspected malignant obstructive jaundice over a period of 13 months who were seen in general surgery department of a tertiary care centre of Eastern India. A detailed history and relevant information were collected from the patient and relatives like mode of onset, duration, progression, loss of weight and substance abuse. Besides, information like place of residence, family history, personal history, drug intake etc. were recorded. RESULTS: The mean age (mean ± s.d.) of the patients was 66.27±5.85 years with range 52 - 78 years and the median age was 67.0 years. 81.3% of patients had signicant loss of weight which was signicant. 75.0% of patients had palpable mass abdomen and it was signicant. There was neither any signicant association between habit of alcohol intake nor the habit of smoking with cancer of the patients. CONCLUSION: The descriptive study on malignant obstructive jaundice patients demonstrated the various modes of presentation. Obstructive jaundice is a multi spectrum disease, in terms of organ involvement, local spread and resectability. Analytical and experimental studies done for each of the etiologies separately will throw more light on the possible evolution of early diagnosis and management.

Representing Representations

This chapter champions the priority of objectual representations and reference to the world over fine-grained “inner” mental representations. The main argument rests upon demonstrating that our attitude ascriptions practices give priority to de re ascriptions of mental contents over de dicto ascriptions of mental contents. The argument thereby advances a rejection of the Fregean tradition that construes modes of presentations of objects as essential to the characterization of mental contents within attitude ascriptions. A novel argument is advanced invoking the evaluative commitments expressed with embedded referential slurring terms in argument position, showing them to reveal derogatory attitudes of the ascriber, not the ascribee, and then showing by analogy that the same obtains for existential and referential commitments: they do not typically invoke Fregean modes of presentation by which the ascribee cognizes the world. The chapter ends by reexamining substitution puzzles and the nature of de re belief.

User Responses to a Humanoid Robot Observed in Real Life, Virtual Reality, 3D and 2D

Humanoid robots (i.e., robots with a human-like body) are projected to be mass marketed in the future in several fields of application. Today, however, user evaluations of humanoid robots are often based on mediated depictions rather than actual observations or interactions with a robot, which holds true not least for scientific user studies. People can be confronted with robots in various modes of presentation, among them (1) 2D videos, (2) 3D, i.e., stereoscopic videos, (3) immersive Virtual Reality (VR), or (4) live on site. A systematic investigation into how such differential modes of presentation influence user perceptions of a robot is still lacking. Thus, the current study systematically compares the effects of different presentation modes with varying immersive potential on user evaluations of a humanoid service robot. Participants (N = 120) observed an interaction between a humanoid service robot and an actor either on 2D or 3D video, via a virtual reality headset (VR) or live. We found support for the expected effect of the presentation mode on perceived immediacy. Effects regarding the degree of human likeness that was attributed to the robot were mixed. The presentation mode had no influence on evaluations in terms of eeriness, likability, and purchase intentions. Implications for empirical research on humanoid robots and practice are discussed.

A prospective observational study on thyroid malignancy

Background: Thyroid cancers are a complex group of tumours with wide variety of histological presentation and biological behaviour, and prognosis range. In their early stages, they behave like other benign conditions of the thyroid. The success of treatment lies upon early diagnosis and proper management. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the modes of presentation, the incidence of various pathological types, and assess their clinical, behaviour and surgical management.Methods: The present study is observational, time-bound, consists of patients prospectively and consecutively diagnosed and histologically confirmed thyroid malignancy.Results: This study showed females 80.66% are commonly affected than males 19.44%. The most frequent malignancy is papillary 86.11%, followed by follicular carcinoma 11.11%, medullary carcinoma 2.78%. Cervical lymph nodes are involved in four 13.88% of patients. In patients undergone iodine ablation, 5.56% of them had a recurrence. Mortality at two years was 2.7%. In this study, Thyroid cancer is commonly seen between twenty-one to thirty years.Conclusions: The incidence of thyroid malignancies is more common among women (80.66%) than men. Papillary carcinoma (86.11%) is the common differentiated thyroid cancer. The prevalence of distant metastasis is 2.78% to the vertebral body. In our study, 41.66% of patients belongs to less than 30 years of age; this may be due to the trend of overdiagnosis due to the introduction of ultrasonography guided Fine needle aspiration study.

Paradigmatic Politics

This final chapter examines films distributed by the conservative production company Citizens United, placing special emphasis on the films’ excessive use of stock footage as a substitute for archival images. The stock footage, I claim, functions as an aesthetic correlative for neoliberalism in the era of communicative capitalism and likewise provides the primary aesthetic means by which the hysterical films mimic the conventions of compilation documentaries. The generic, paradigmatic images are paired with the talking points offered by political speakers, thereby implying that the former validates the latter, despite the fact that both modes of presentation bear no direct relationship to the referents they invoke. The simulacrum of more conventional documentary forms and strategies provides the hysterical films with the flexible tools by which to dismiss or erase from view any and all political alternatives, avoiding a substantive debate through the very performance of debate.

What are we doing when we perceive numbers?

Clarke and Beck rightly contend that the number sense allows us to directly perceive number. However, they unnecessarily assume a representationalist approach and incur a heavy theoretical cost by invoking “modes of presentation.” We suggest that the relevant evidence is better explained by adopting a radical enactivist approach that avoids characterizing the approximate number system (ANS) as a system for representing number.

Essential Characteristics and Content of the Concept of Contemporary Pop Vocal-Performing Thesaurus

The article is devoted to the problems of terminology in the contemporary pop vocal pedagogy field. In the course of the research, which has been conducted from the standpoint of the principle of cultural-conformity, we identified the essence of the concept “contemporary pop vocal-performing thesaurus”, highlighted its structure, and represented the thesaurus in the form of an ontology. The contemporary pop vocal-performing thesaurus as a form of personal activity has a cognitive and creative essence and constitutes an individual professional resource for a performer. As a pedagogical category it is a thematically organized and practically tested outcome of teaching a pop vocalist holistically, and is a renewable interaction of all its components. It consists of cognitive, vocal-technical, artistic-technological, communicative, interpretive, and artistic-figurative components. We note that the artistic-figurative and interpretive components are fully demonstrated in the co-connection of all other components, and reflect the specificity of our concept. We outline some characteristic features of contemporary pop music, the specific components of contemporary non-classical vocal techniques, and modes of presentation of musical information, which are used in the process of forming the contemporary pop vocal-performing thesaurus. We emphasize that the results of our research enable modification of the educational process in the context of contemporary pop vocal, by means of its updating and supplementing with unconventional approaches, principles and methods. Despite the fact that our study primarily concerns the problems of Ukrainian pedagogy we think that its main provisions can apply to the development of methods for teaching pop singing in any country of the world

Meinong’s Theory of Assumptions

The article clarifies the reasons why A. Meinong expands the classification of mental phenomena proposed by F. Brentano and places the class of assumptions between the classes of presentations and judgments. Meinong understands acts of assumption as propositional acts, the specificity of which is that they lack the affirmative force or the moment of seriousness characteristic for acts of judgment. Meinong demonstrates the impossibility of reducing the acts of assumption to the acts of presentation on the example of negative assumptions: the negative characteristics of objects grasped in such assumptions are not captured by the presentations. It is demonstrated that the theory of modes of presentation put forward by Brentano and Marty in response to this argument of Meinong does not allow us to defend the thesis of the reducibility of assumptions to presentations: even with the help of a new notion of presentation, it is not possible to explain such phenomena as play, pretense and lies without artificial complications. The article goes on to discuss some of the details of Meinong’s semantic theory that are in need for resolving the issue of the difference between assumptions and judgments. The author points out the peculiarity of Meinong's understanding of words and sentences meanings, and gives a brief description of the theory of objectives. After the explanations made, an argument is discussed that allows Meinong to justify the difference between acts of assumption and acts of judgment. The argument is constructed as a sequential analysis of sentences, the task is to show that sentences of different types, both simple, and loaded with subordinate clauses, and composite, in different circumstances express a propositional attitude devoid of affirmative force.