A Soliloquy in LP Humility

Soliloquy: a Cautionary Tale

The Soliloquy primitive, first proposed by the third author in 2007, is based on cyclic lattices. It has very good efficiency properties, both in terms of public key size and the speed of encryption and decryption. There are straightforward techniques for turning Soliloquy into a key exchange or other public-key protocols. Despite these properties, we abandoned research on Soliloquy after devel...

A Study of Soliloquy in Japanese

Is humility a sentiment?

Gervais & Fessler reintroduce the concept of a sentiment as a framework for conceptualizing contempt, a construct with both attitudinal and emotional components. We propose that humility might also fit this mold. We review recent findings regarding the antecedents, phenomenology, and functional consequences of humility, and discuss why conceptualizing it as a sentiment may advance our understan...

On humility.

The new professionalism movement in medical education takes seriously the old medical virtues. Perhaps the most difficult virtue to understand and practice is humility, which seems out of place in a medical culture characterized by arrogance, assertiveness, and a sense of entitlement. Countercultural though it is, humility need not suggest weakness or lack of self-confidence. On the contrary, h...

Embedded Soliloquy and Affective Stances in Japanese

This article discusses strategies to express intimacy with and exaltation of the addressee ― affective stances morphologically incompatible in the Japanese honorific system, wherein addressees are marked as either psychologically distant and exalted, honored, shown respect or intimate and not exalted. To resolve this dilemma, speakers commonly embed soliloquy in dialogic discourse, a strategy d...