Early Shi`i Thought

Language and Ontology in Early Chinese Thought*

According to Chad Hansen’s “mass noun hypothesis,” the semantics of Classical Chinese nouns is similar to that of English mass nouns, and this helps to explain why ancient Chinese theories of language are nominalist. Mass nouns, Hansen suggests, are most naturally interpreted as denoting mereological wholes, a construal that intuitively tends to motivate a nominalist theory of language. The pap...

The early course of schizophrenic thought disorder.

The current investigation studied the early course of positive thought disorder and its relationship to other aspects of schizophrenic outcome. Forty-eight schizophrenics diagnosed using the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC), 51 psychotic nonschizophrenics, and 67 nonpsychotic patients were studied at index hospitalization and at a 1.5-year followup. Most thought-disordered schizophrenics and ...

Science, optics and music in medieval and early modern thought

A. C. CROMBIE, Science, optics and music in medieval and early modern thought, London and Ronceverte, Hambledon Press, 1990, pp. xxii, 474, illus., £37.50 (0-907628-79-6). This is a collected volume of essays written over the last forty years by Alistair Crombie, whose major achievement lies in establishing the history of science as a legitimate and viable discipline on British soil. It is Crom...

Jewish thought and scientific discovery in early modern Europe.

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Operational Thought In Alzheimer's Disease Early Onset And SDAT