In two papers in the mid-seventies, Quine has discussed an ontological debacle, the reduction of ontology to an ontology of pure sets only. This debacle, which weakened Quine’s interest in ontology, is the natural outcome of ontological relativity, or, more precisely, the proxy-function argument. It is explained how Quine unavoidably came to this conclusion. Moreover, it is argued that the resu...

This paper extends Ellis and Stimson’s (Ideology in America. New York: Cambridge UniversityPress, 2012) study of the operational-symbolic paradox using issue-level measures of ideological incongruence based on respondent positions and symbolic labels for these positions across 14 issues. Like Ellis and Stimson, we find that substantial numbers—over 30 %—of Americans experience conflicted conser...

Ideology detection from text plays an important role in identifying the political ideology of politicians who have expressed their beliefs on many issues. Most existing approaches based on bag-of-words features fail to capture semantic information. And other sentence modeling methods are inefficient to extract ideological target context which is significant for identifying the political ideolog...

An acute confusional state, which developed in a patient with polyarteritis nodosa (PAN), proved to be secondary to inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone and consequent hyponatraemia. This is a very unusual complication of PAN and may well reflect a direct stimulation of the supraoptic nuclei owing to cerebral vasculitis.

in regional level, iran-iraq war had a great impact on neighboring states' foreign policy approach, especially on gulf arab states. these states adopted a new approach in their relations with iran and iraq considering the ideological and revolutionary threat of iran. after iraqi invasion against iran, gulf arab states affected by nationalism movement, sported iraq extensively. their policy...

The paper examines the terminology used by Byzantine authors of 10th and 11th century as regards Samuel’s State, which was largely shaped ideology momentary aim political propaganda. analysis sources shows that end Basil II became known “Scythicus”, because his military achievements against State. same context derives from II’s verse Epitaph contains ideological message about accomplished missi...

Young college teachers’ ideological politics education work with certain particularity is different with students’. Only their ideological politics education work is made well, the talent advantages can be fully exerted, which is very important for the talent cultivation of colleges. Based on the importance of young college students’ ideological politics education work, the problems existing in...