VIII.—A New Law of Thought

New thought experiment to test the generalized second law of thermodynamics

In 1970 Geroch [1] raised the possibility of violating the ordinary second law of thermodynamics with help of classical black holes. The idea was to bring slowly from infinity a box with proper energy Eb over the event horizon and throw it eventually inside the hole. The cycle would be closed by lifting back the ideal rope, which is assumed to have arbitrarily small mass. Because static asympto...

MMR vaccination: new thought.

INDIAN PEDIATRICS 555 VOLUME 43__JUNE 17, 2006 Measles is rightly called as captain of killer team in India. We used to see measles cases mostly between 1 to 3 years of age group and mumps in school going children. Morbidity due to measles and mumps is very well known. Nowadays there is distinct change in the measles and mumps disease pattern due to measles and MMR vaccination. Both these vacci...

The Pure Theory of Law: Demythologizing Legal Thought

Ecological Thought : Some New Implications Of Whitehead’s Philosophy

  This paper will discuss some new implications of Whitehead’s philosophy for environmental thought.[i] They fall under three headings: 1. The interrelations between three ways of thinking about the environment: bioregionalism, land ethics, and the philosophy of organism.  2.  The implications of Whitehead’s philosophy of organism for environmental aesthetics.  3.  The implications of Whit...

Law and Eschatology in Wittgenstein ' s Early Thought

The paper investigates the role played by ethical deliberation and ethical judgment in Wittgenstein's early thought in the light of twentieth-century German legal philosophy. In particular the theories of the phenomenologists Adolf Reinach, Wilhelm Schapp, and Gerhart Husserl are singled out, as resting on ontologies which are structurally similar to that of the Tractatus: in each case it is ac...