Qualities of contest orations

Boerhaave's Orations

Boerhaave's Orations, translated with introductions and notes by E. Kegel-Brinkgreve and A. M. Luyendijk-Elshout, Leiden, E. J. Brill for the Sir Thomas Browne Institute, 1983, 8vo, pp. vii, 374, Dfl.96.00. Fahrenheit's letters to Leibniz and Boerhaave, edited, translated, and annotated by Pieter van der Star, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1983, 8vo, pp. x, 195, [no price stated] (paperback). Boerhaave ca...

Sensory Qualities, Sensible Qualities, Sensational Qualities

In theorizing about perception, philosophers have often multiplied qualities. To perceptible qualities of external objects, like colors and shapes (‘sensible’ qualities), have been added qualities of experiences (‘sensory’ qualities) or of sense-data (‘sensational’ qualities). Start with sensory qualities. The phrase ‘sensory quality’ is not much in use these days, having lost out to ‘phenomena...

Contest architecture

A contest architecture specifies how the contestants are split among several subcontests whose winners compete against each other (while other players are eliminated). We compare the performance of such dynamic schemes to that of static winner-take-all contests from the point of view of a designer who maximizes either the expected total effort or the expected highest effort. For the case of a l...

Theory of Meaning in Commenting Predicative Qualities

The verses of predicative qualities have considered as a notable challenge of the ambiguous verses. Various views have been presented in the field of which the theories of real qualification and hermeneutics may be known as the most famous. Some have expanded the meaning to explain the predicative qualities; the fact of which two views occurred: one is 'putting words for the spirits of meanings...

DISTINCTIVE QUALITIES OF EXPERT TEACHERS Distinctive Qualities of Expert Teachers