... no evidence of being associated with carotidatherosclerosis in the Lanyang cohort On the other hand, having a history of diabetes was a significant risk factor, and having a history of hypertension ... exclude the possibility of other genes that confounded the relation between the HO-1 genotype andcarotidatherosclerosis In the LMN cohort in the context of high arsenic exposure, the Page of 11 ... biological gradient of longterm arsenic exposure with the prevalence ofcarotidatherosclerosis [6], further providing evidence ofthe presence ofatherosclerosis induced by arsenic Despite the well-documented...
... if they mean to abandon reasoned argument altogether, even in defence of their own position, then I have Introduction nothing more to say to them because they have excluded themselves from further ... fully in my Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity andthe Logic of 18 An introductiontothe philosophy of mind ciple is correct, then, and turn tothe case of a person and his or her ... it, then, it seems, by analogy with the statue andthe lump of bronze, every part ofthe body must be a part ofthe person but not every part ofthe person can be part ofthe body: that is to...
... if they mean to abandon reasoned argument altogether, even in defence of their own position, then I have Introduction nothing more to say to them because they have excluded themselves from further ... conception ofthe whole of reality, we cannot hope to render compatible the theories and observations ofthe various different sciences: and providing that conception is not the task of any one of those ... that the philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of subjects of experience – what they are, how they can exist, and how they are related tothe rest of creation.1 EMPIRICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND...
... entities, and constitute the contents of beliefs and other so-called propositional attitude 74 An introductiontothe philosophy of mind states And let us then see whether this hypothesis gives rise to ... teleological theory of representation over the causal theory may encourage us to try to extend it tothe case of mental representation, that is, tothe attitudinal states of subjects of experience ... that the problem of misrepresentation can be overcome by referring tothe normal causes of a given type of belief rather than simply tothe actual 15 For a sophisticated version ofthe causal theory...
... account of our concepts of mental states than as a theory ofthe nature of mental states themselves 52 An introductiontothe philosophy of mind ing an adequate account ofthe character of mental ... strings of meaningless marks or sounds If that is so, then to abandon the category of belief is implicitly to abandon also the very notions of truth and falsehood and therewith, it seems, the very ... states of consciousness to other human beings, so that to deny consciousness tothe hypothetical pile of pebbles in the circumstances envisaged would be to succumb to narrow-minded prejudice, of the...
... colour and shape ofthe tree andofthe house, the intervening ground between them, the sky behind them, and other objects in their vicinity (together with their colours and shapes) And these other ... cortex and wired up to electromagnetic sensors attached tothe top of his head, functioning in such a way as to restore, to all intents and purposes, his lost sense of sight How, then, does the ... to divide one’s attention in a way which seems to be psychologically impossible From the point of view ofthe causal theory, then, it is easy enough to 148 An introductiontothe philosophy of...
... profoundly implicated in the more pressing conflicts ofthe age The complex intersection of these two histories – the political turmoil ofthe 1790s andthe broader hegemonic shift towards the ... sphere altogether in favour of an equation of literature with poetry But these Romantics, as we now refer to them, none the less sought to establish the importance of their vision of aesthetic ... sites of cultural negotiations which must themselves be understood as the effects of power Much ofthe New Historicism produced in the 1980s by Romantic critics, on the other hand, tended to offer...
... u s and t h e m , the body andthe spirit, the ego andthe id, the brain andthe mind Part ofthe change in paradigm exemplified by the shift from dream c o n t e n t to dream f o r m is the ... years In the process, the b o o k offers the reader a unique opportunity to r e c o n s i d e r his or her own dream theory and, into the bargain, to learn about the fascinating discoveries of m ... crucial to our effort to e x t e n d our understanding of mental life back into the waking state, andto obtain comparable quantitative data from the minds ofthe same individuals when awake and...
... rsi, θtb the angle spanned by the tooth at radius rsb, wtb the width ofthe tooth base, dtb the depth ofthe tooth base, dtte the depth ofthe tooth tip edge, and dttc the depth ofthe tooth tip ... that the reciprocal of wsiR is set tothe average ofthe reciprocals ofthe chord lengths between inner corners of slot at the top ofthe slot (under the tooth tip) andthe outer corners ofthe ... (including the inert material), and ϕrm denotes position as measured from the q-axis ofthe rotor, and both B and H refer tothe radial component ofthe field directed from the rotor tothe stator These...
... deal of money to support the luxurious court ofthe emperors and their innumerable officials and servants, andto supply "bread and circuses" for the populace ofthe towns All sorts of taxes and ... force the Goths into the Empire Battle of Adrianople, 378 Previous tothe year 375 the attempts ofthe Germans to penetrate into the Empire appear to have been due to their love of adventure, their ... was then that fugitives from the cities of northeastern Italy fled tothe sandy islets just off the Adriatic shore and founded the town which was to grow into the beautiful and powerful city of...
... assumed to be larger than all the elements tothe end of each ofthe auxiliary arrays, to help accomplish the task of moving the remainder of one ofthe auxiliary arrays back to a after the other ... the algorithm, the importance ofthe algorithm in relationship to others from both practical and theoretical standpoints, the difficulty of analysis, andthe accuracy and precision ofthe required ... the material, depending on the background and experience of students and instructor One approach, more mathematically oriented, would be to emphasize the theorems and proofs in the rst part of...
... m) The change ofthe locations ofthe individuals in the phase space is governed by the dynamics ofthe flow field andthe individual motion, as well as the growth of 10 CHAPTER INTRODUCTIONthe ... is the conservation of mass The total mass, M, may be expressed by the mass of one ofthe chemical elements needed by the plankton cells and most often the Redfield ratio is used to estimate the ... (1999) and references therein Another class of models describes the fish stock dynamics which largely ignores the bottom-up effect ofthe lower part ofthe food web, see e.g Gulland (1974) and Rothschild...
... centuries of ignorance and violence in marked contrast tothe civilization ofthe Greeks and Romans on the one hand, andtothe enlightenment of modern times on the other The more careful studies ofthe ... deal of money to support the luxurious court ofthe emperors and their innumerable officials and servants, andto supply "bread and circuses" for the populace ofthe towns All sorts of taxes and ... Previous tothe year 375 the attempts ofthe Germans to penetrate into the Empire appear to have been due to their love of adventure, their hope of enjoying some ofthe advantages of their civilized...
... visible tothe naked eye are the statistics written in the band of stars ofthe ‘Milky Way’ Studies ofthe distribution and motion of these stars reveal that we are situated towards the edge of a ... the velocity ofthe observed star relative tothe Earth The overall relative velocity is the sum ofthe rotational velocity ofthe Earth, the velocity ofthe Earth round the Sun andthe Solar System ... estimate the size ofthe part of it visible to us in principle ( the visible Universe’) Assuming that the Sun is a typical star, use the data in the text and in the list of constants together with the...
... observed the rising and setting ofthe sun andthe several phases ofthe moon The more thoughtful among them have then proceeded to ask the question, “Why? Why does the moon wax and wane? Why does the ... ofthe listener would have to be made the same as the conditions ofthe mind ofthe speaker, and this can never be Similarly, to know an object external tothe mind it andthe mind would have to ... understanding ofthe abstract forms The “good” or the “form ofthe good” constitutes the highest form of wisdom because it encompasses all other forms and shows their interrelatedness The form of the...
... what are the duties of history; what is the use of history; and so on On the other hand, there is incontestable truth in the remark that nearly all the specialists and historians of to- day are, ... in cataloguing and transcribing, in the great depositories of Europe, the documents which relate tothe history of England, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States, andthe rest.[40]With ... reflection on the conditions of historical analysis and synthesis, have robbed the work of specialists and historians of much of its value The truth is, that, of all branches of study, history is without...
... centuries of ignorance and violence in marked contrast tothe civilization ofthe Greeks and Romans on the one hand, andtothe enlightenment of modern times on the other The more careful studies ofthe ... deal of money to support the luxurious court ofthe emperors and their innumerable officials and servants, andto supply "bread and circuses" for the populace ofthe towns All sorts of taxes and ... Previous tothe year 375 the attempts ofthe Germans to penetrate into the Empire appear to have been due to their love of adventure, their hope of enjoying some ofthe advantages of their civilized...
... be important for the development of mathematics in the twentieth century Three of them (the 19th, 20th and 23rd) were devoted tothe calculus of variations These predictions of Hilbert have been ... by L (A) the length ofthe boundary and by M (A) the measure (the area) of A The isoperimetric inequality states that [L (A)]2 4M (A) Presentation ofthe content ofthe monograph Furthermore, ... Presentation ofthe content ofthe monograph To deal with problems ofthe type considered in the previous section, there are, roughly speaking, two ways of proceeding: the classical andthe direct...