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Thinking intuitively: the rich (and at times illogical) world of concepts
Intuitive knowledge of the world involves knowing what kinds of things have which properties. We express it in generalities such as “ducks lay eggs”. It contrasts with extensional knowledge about actual individuals in the world, which we express in quantified statements such as “All US Presidents are male”. Reasoning based on this intuitive knowledge, while highly fluent and plausible may in fact lead us into logical fallacy. Several lines of research point to our conceptual memory as the source of this logical failure. We represent concepts with prototypical properties, judging likelihood and argument strength on the basis of similarity between ideas. Evidence that our minds represent the world in this intuitive way can be seen in a range of phenomena, including how people interpret logical connectives applied to everyday concepts, studies of creativity and emergence in conceptual combination, and demonstrations of the logically inconsistent beliefs that people express in their everyday language
1998 BUSINESS ANALYSIS SUMMARY FOR GENERAL LIVESTOCK FARMS
This report has three purposes: 1)to provide statistical information about the financial results on dairy farms during 1998; 2)to provide production costs for comparative analysis and forward planning; and 3)to provide information on the trends in resource use, income and costs during the last few years.Livestock Production/Industries,
Intra-abdominal abscess and intractable sinus - a rare late complication after splenectomy
Intra-abdominal abscess and an intractable abdominal
wall sinus forty years after splenectomy is rare, which
has not been described previously in the surgical literature.
We report the management of a patient who
had presented with an intractable sinus on his left
hypochondrium forty years after having undergone
splenectomy and cholecystectomy, which persisted
for more than two years despite repeated surgery and
courses of antibiotics and compromised quality of life
significantly from pain. A sinogram and computerised
tomographic scan followed by exploration and laying
open of the sinus delivered multiple silk sutures used for
ligation of splenic pedicle, led to complete resolution of
the sinus. It is important to avoid using non-absorbable
silk sutures during splenectomy when splenectomy is
undertaken in a contaminated field. Appropriate imaging
and exploration is mandatory for its resolution
Improved diamond coring bits developed for dry and chip-flush drilling
Two rotary diamond bit designs, one operating with a chip-flushing fluid, the second including auger section to remove drilled chips, enhance usefulness of tool for exploratory and industrial core-drilling of hard, abrasive mineral deposits and structural masonry
Nature’s Beauty: Legitimacy, Imagination and Transcendence in Hepburn and the New Nature Writing
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The Rumsfeld Effect: The unknown unknown
A set of studies tested whether people can use awareness of ignorance to provide enhanced test consistency over time if they are allowed to place uncertain items into a “don’t know” category. For factual knowledge this did occur, but for a range of other forms of knowledge relating to conceptual knowledge and personal identity, no such effect was seen. Known unknowns would appear to be largely restricted to factual kinds of knowledge
Mystical Poetics
The development of Christian mysticism is deeply bound to poetics. This examination first considers Platonic poetry, Hebrew creation, and Christian kenosis as sources of poetic mysticism, before turning to an elaboration of the role of rhythm, language, and the poetic imagination. The appraisal then considers the historical development of mystical poetry, beginning with early Christian reflection on the figurative and lyrical use of scriptural language to express a deep personal relationship with God. The development of vernacular mysticism, and its adoption of this scriptural model, is then explored through a detailed consideration of four mystical poets (Dante, Jacopone, Hadewijch, and Angelus Silesius). The interaction of poetic form and spiritual content is elaborated throughout, with the aim of demonstrating how poetics allows the mystical writer to achieve a result for the reader otherwise not possible in discursive forms of communication
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