Mozart–Portrait and Myth

Reply: The myth of a myth

Tim Tully recently gave a fascinating account of his mission to Russia to find the names of Pavlov’s dogs [1]. Unfortunately, his essay perpetuates one of the most enduring myths in science: that Pavlov routinely used a bell in training salivary conditioning in dogs. Tully says: “For several repetitions, Pavlov would ring a bell just before giving food to a hungry dog. Before long, he noticed, ...

The Myth of 'the Myth of Hypercomputation'

ness and Approximations Thursday, June 9, 2011 Abstractness and Approximations • This rather absurd attack goes as followsness and Approximations • This rather absurd attack goes as follows Thursday, June 9, 2011 Abstractness and Approximations • This rather absurd attack goes as follows 1. Even Turing machines are abstract models that can’t be implemented fully.ness and Approximations • This r...

Judicial Myth and Reality

Unicorn. Myth and reality

RUDIGER ROBERT BEER, Unicorn. Myth and reality, translated by Charles M. Stem, New York and London, Ash & Grant, 1977, 8vo, pp. 215, illus., £7.95. The original versions of this book were published in German. It now appears in an elegant volume with a multitude of illustrations taken from a wide variety of sources, including tapestries, mosaics, and carvings, as well as manuscripts and printed ...

Globalization: Myth and Reality

The paper takes Hirst, P., and Thompson, G., 1996, Globalization in Question as the basis for developing some arguments on the globalization debate. Following a summary of the book, the paper focuses on three points. Firstly the need to divorce the issue of globalism from the one on liberalism. Secondly, the authors’ thesis that very little has changed in the international scene in the last few...