Fight the obscure

The diagnosis of obscure pyrexia.

The task of diagnosis in a patient with pyrexia of uncertain origin demands a close alliance between clinician and pathologist-an alliance based on a full understanding of each other's powers and limitations. On the one hand the clinician must have a sound knowledge of the tests which he asks the pathologist to carry out; on the other, the pathologist must not be used merely as a sort of penny ...

The obscure act of perception

Finding disjunctivist versions of direct realism unexplanatory, Mark Johnston [(2004). Philosophical Studies, 120, 113–183] offers a non-disjunctive version of direct realism in its place and gives a defense of this view from the problem of hallucination. I will attempt to clarify the view that he presents and then argue that, once clarified, it either does not escape the problem of hallucinati...

The Obscure Object of Hallucination

a individuated by their constituent properties, where the constituent properties are those the subject is inclined to predicate on the strength of his hallucination.38 Charles, who starts out as real and then is evidently unreal, (if I may put it that way) is not to be found among such this-worldly abstracta. Once again, even an abstract entity that includes the property of being first real and...

The Fight for Fluoridation

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF FISHES. Volume 2, BEHAVIOR. Margaret E. Brown, Ed. New York, Academic Press Inc., 1957. xi, 526 pp. $14.00. The second volume of the series Physiology of Fishes deals with a wide variety of subjects under the common heading of Behavior. This misleading title is unfortunate, but the contents are a very pleasant surprise. Included are chapters dealing with: nerve system (central...

The Fight against Poliomyelitis