Middle comedy: Not only mythology and food

Context and Mythology

In this thesis, I will survey some philosophically representative approaches to the problem of the relationship between context and meaning. Starting from G.W.F. Hegel’s discussion of the meaninglessness of indexical terms in the Phenomenology of Spirit, I will investigate Gottlob Frege’s notion of context and the legacy of this notion in the formal sciences of language, showing that this appro...

Ebola Treatment and Prevention are not the only Battles: Understanding Ebola-related Fear and Stigma

Focus On "Only" And "Not"

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Winning Isn’t Everything: Rats Need Only Food Deprivation and Not Food Reward to Efficiently Traverse a Radial Arm Maze

The present study examined the assumption that immediate food reward is the critical determinant of efficient performance on the radial maze. Food-deprived and nondeprived rats were run on a large-platformed, S-arm radial maze that was either baited or unbaited. Food-deprived rats that were rewarded entered significantly more novel arms in their first eight choices than expected by chance, cons...

only - - not for reproduction

From the perspective of nonlinear science, it is argued that one may accept physicalism and reject substance dualism without being forced into reductionism. This permits a property dualism under which biological and mental phenomena may emerge from intricate positive feedback networks, involving many levels of both the biological and cognitive hierarchies.