Iteration and Truth: A Fifth "Orientation of Thought"

This article offers a novel interpretation of Jacques Derrida's deconstructive thought in terms of model theory. Taking its cue from Paul Livingston's Politics of Logic, which interprets Derrida as a thinker of inconsistent totalities, the article argues that Livingston's description of Derrida is unable to accommodate certain consistency-driven aspects of Derrida's work. These aspects pertain to Derrida's notion of ”iterability”. The article demonstrates that the context-bound nature of iteration – the altering repetition of any discrete unit of meaning – and Derrida's possibilist view of context – that a context need not be part of the actual world to merit consideration – lead to the possibility of articulating iteration with the model-theoretical notion of truth. In model theory, truth is a relation between a sentence and the class of models in which the sentence is true. Arguing that the same holds for Derrida's iterations and contexts, the article, in presenting the first rigorous truth-definition internal to deconstructive thought, outlines a ”fifth orientation of thought” alongside the four orientations listed in Livingston's book: if, according to Livingston, one can relate the whole of being to the whole of thought in one of four different ways, the aspects of Derrida's work that do not fall within this schema call out for another possible orientation

Kuusisataasivuinen tautologia

Roger Pearson: Unacknowledged Legislators. The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France. Chateaubriand–Staël–Lamartine–Hugo–Vigny. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016, 632 s

A polyol mixture or molasses treated beet pulp in the silage based diet of dairy cows: II. The effect on the lactoperoxidase and thiocyanate content of milk and the udder health

The study investigated the effect of a diet containing either a polyol mixture (polyol group) or molasses (molasses group) on the lactoperoxidase (LP) and thiocyanate (SCN- ) content of milk and the udder health of dairy cows during a 12 week trial period. The control group received no extra carbohydrate feed. On the basis of the weekly milk samples from all test animals the polyol group had on an average the highest LP content (17.8 µg/ml), the lowest SCN- content (0.87 mg/l), and the lowest somatic cell count (152 000 cells/ml). The mean values for the molasses group were; LP: 12.6 µg/ml, SCN- ; 1.01 mg/ml and cell count: 626 000 cells/ml. The same values for the control group were 11,7 µg/ml, 0.91 mg/l and 285 000 cells/ml, respectively. The polyol group yielded milk with an average of 51.5 % more lactoperoxidase daily than the molasses group, and 42.5 % more than the control group. These differences were, however, not found to derive from the different carbohydrate diet, because no significant change in the LP level in any group occurred during the test feeding. The LP and SCN- contents varied considerably from one cow to the other. The degrees of correlation between the factors tested varied markedly among the test groups. The overall values for r were as follows: LP: SCN- = —0.049, LP: cell count = 0.222 and SCN-: cell count = 0.080. On the basis of cell content and the occurrence of mastitis cases, the polyol group had the best and the molasses group the worst udder health. The possible effect of the LP/SCN- /H2O2 antimicrobial system on mastitis resistance is evaluated

Eläkekattoa koskeva selvitys

Eläketurvakeskus on selvittänyt eläkekattoa sosiaali- ja terveysministeriön pyynnöstä. Selvitys sisältää mm. kansainvälisen katsauksen eläkekaton ja eläkepalkkakaton käytöstä ja arvioita eläkekaton vaikutuksista. Katsaukseen sisältyy tilastollinen kuvaus korkeiden lakisääteisten eläkkeiden tasosta, yleisyydestä ja jakautumisesta. Mahdollisia eläkekaton vaikutuksia on arvioitu vakuutusmaksuihin, maksutuloon, eläkemenoon, vakuutettujen joukkoon ja palkkasummaan nähden

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