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    A Note on a Remark of Evans

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    In his seminal paper, ‘Can There Be Vague Objects?’ (1978), Gareth Evans advanced an argument purporting to prove that the idea of indeterminate identity is incoherent. Aware that his argument was incomplete as it stands, Evans added a remark at the end of his paper, in which he explained how the original argument needed to be modified to arrive at an explicit contradiction. This paper aims to develop a modified version of Evans’ original argument, which I argue is more promising than the modification that Evans proposed in his remark. Last, a structurally similar argument against the idea of indeterminate existence is presented

    Privation and the principles of natural substance in Aristotle's Physics I

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    Factors Affecting Plunge Grinding Force

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    Grinding force has a close relation to grinding inputs such as grinding wheel, work material, interference condition, grinding speed, grinding fluid and machine condition, and therefore varies widely with grinding inputs. On the other hand, grinding force affects significantly grinding outputs which are efficiency and quality evaluated with surface roughness, accuracy, surface integrity and so on. It is important to make clear the relations between grinding inputs and grinding force in order to control grinding outputs. In this paper, from the above point of view, the relations between grinding inputs and grinding force are experimentally investigated. It is pointed out that the normal grinding force, the tangential grinding force and its ratio are determined by the product of speed ratio of work speed to wheel speed and setting depth of cut as for interference conditions, and by the product of square of dressing feed and cutting depth of. dresser as for dressing conditions. Furthermore as for characteristics of work materials, the normal grinding force has a close relation to the yield stress, and the force ratio is related to the elongation of work material

    "In Love with the Productions of Time": A Study of the Treatment of Time and Eternity in William Blake's Prophetic Works

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    Eternity and time are central concepts within the Prophetic Works. In the Prophetic universe, eternity is defined as a positive state of infinite potentiality, whereas time is depicted as a state founded on the exclusion of possibilities; hence, the existence of the human mind in time rather than in eternity severely limits the sum of his existence. Viewed as a whole, the Prophetic cycle can be seen as an extended attempt to reconciliate man’s awareness of his nature as an “eternal” being with his actual existence as a body in time. Within the poems, this conflict can be discerned on a symbolical, philosophical, as well as a linguistic level, and has repercussions in the Prophetic universe that are felt in almost every area of life. Throughout the majority of the cycle, the aforementioned conflict manifests itself as a struggle against the constraints of time and an attempt to reinstate the conditions of eternity to the greatest degree possible. By the end of the cycle, however, the goal has shifted to become the creation of a necessary synthesis between the two

    Curses, hallelujahs, and amens : the rhetoric of Daniel Defoe, a case study in didactic fiction

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    In Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent, Wayne Booth asserts that "we need a criticism that can explain why some cursings of God and shouts of hallelujah succeed and some fail" (188). He is referring to the dilemma presented by didactic fiction. Such fiction exists in a critical gap for which students of literature have little specific terminology. This study is an exploration into the appropriate criteria for the evaluation of fiction which claims to teach a lesson. Part One examines Defoe's non-fictional rhetoric, searching for rhetorical patterns which might illuminate his didactic fiction. Three significant factors emerge: the role of blame, the role of the audience, and the role of truth. Part Two endeavors to ascertain if these three areas operate similarly in Defoe's major fiction to allow for an effective combination of didacticism and artistry. Three novels, Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, are analyzed in detail

    On the existence and multiplicity of extensions in dialectical argumentation

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    In the present paper, the existence and multiplicity problems of extensions are addressed. The focus is on extension of the stable type. The main result of the paper is an elegant characterization of the existence and multiplicity of extensions in terms of the notion of dialectical justification, a close cousin of the notion of admissibility. The characterization is given in the context of the particular logic for dialectical argumentation DEFLOG. The results are of direct relevance for several well-established models of defeasible reasoning (like default logic, logic programming and argumentation frameworks), since elsewhere dialectical argumentation has been shown to have close formal connections with these models.Comment: 10 pages; 9th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR'2002

    Desires, Values and Norms

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    The thesis defended, the “guise of the ought”, is that the formal objects of desires are norms (oughts to be or oughts to do) rather than values (as the “guise of the good” thesis has it). It is impossible, in virtue of the nature of desire, to desire something without it being presented as something that ought to be or that one ought to do. This view is defended by pointing to a key distinction between values and norms: positive and negative norms (obligation and interdiction) are interdefinable through negation; positive and negative values aren’t. This contrast between the norms and values, it is argued, is mirrored, within the psychological realm, by the contrast between the desires and emotions. Positive and negative desires are interdefinable through negation, but positive and negative emotions aren’t. The overall, Meinongian picture suggested is that norms are to desires what values are to emotions

    Hateful Contraries: Studies in Literature and Criticism

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    These ten essays, written over a period from 1950 to 1962, are bound together by their common concern with questions of the meaning of criticism and the larger meaning of literature itself. These difficult questions W.K. Wimsatt treats with characteristic wit and penetration, ranging easily from a broad consideration of principles to incisive comment on individual writers and works. The first part of the book is devoted to a discussion of literary theory. Wimsatt reviews the development of critical dialectic from the German romanticism of Schelling and the Schlegels to the mythopeic bravura of Northrop Frye. Himself a classical ironist, he nevertheless exposes here some of the extravagances of the ironic principle as flourished by the systematic Prometheans. The second and third parts contain essays on more particular topics: the meaning of “symbolism,” Aristotle’s doctrines of the tragic plot and catharsis, the theory of comic laughter, and the objective reading of English meters. Here too are extended comment on particular writers—a study of the imagination of James Boswell, an analysis of the comedy of T. S. Eliot in The Cocktail Party, and a contrast in the handling of similar themes by Tennyson and Eliot. The fourth part is a comprehensive statement of the demands and opportunities confronting the critic in his or her role as teacher. W. K. Wimsatt (1907–1975) was professor of English at Yale University and author of several literary critcisms, including Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry. A monumental work. —Literary Half-Yearly A rich storehouse of judgment, analysis, and demonstration. —Renascence A first-rate book of criticism. —Times Literary Supplementhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_comparative_literature/1008/thumbnail.jp
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