Dr John Hurst’s approach to the treatment of people with intellectual disabilities was ahead of its time. In the early 1970s, John, who has died aged 79, developed the pre-discharge unit at South Ockenden Hospital, Essex, as a therapeutic community, as well as a number of community group homes. He also introduced one of the earliest community nursing services in intellectual disability there be...

in order to express his visionary experiences, baha-e-valad has innovated his own symbols and imagery. such illustrations of imagination may be interpreted as the product of his intuitive experiences of visits to the realm of ideas referred to as a vision of one's self in psychological, mystic terms. the present study, in an attempt to study and analyze the nature of the symbols in baha-e-valad...

Nevertheless, he argues that the evidence for a compositional truth-theoretic semantics is pretty glib, because one can give a correct model of language understanding and productivity without assuming a compositional truth-theoretic semantics. In the seventh chapter of the book he suggests a counterexample to the compositional view about language understanding. He describes a possible world in ...

Who Believes in Belief? William Pooley (bio) modernity, belief, alief, doubt, Jason Josephson Storm, Michael Saler, Jeanne Favret-Saada, Nils Bubandt The "disenchantment of the world" remains a guiding metanarrative for many histories last four hundred years Europe. There are those who continue to argue what Keith Thomas called general "decline magic," even if they disagree about chronologies a...

One of the elements in Persian poetry and sonnets (Ghazal) is penname, which in addition to marking poetry in the name of the poet, sometimes has an amphiboly to another means; but in the poetry of poets such as Hafez - which have a special and coherent intellectual system - in the form of a main metaphor or central metaphor, penname is involved in determining their intellectual system. In this...

among the intellectual figures of france in the 20th century, pierre bourdieu has left the greatest influence on sociological studies. in this respect he may only be compared with levi strauss, except for the fact that strauss’ influence outside france has been much less and that the foundations of strauss’ thought; that is, the structural theory of social science, has long lost its power while...

vengeance is developed in order to oblige the debtors to return their debts and to support those creditors who, for administration of justice, cannot deliver any acceptable document to the machinery of justice. the exercise of vengeance is applicable, sometimes by taking back the corpus of usurped property and some other times by taking an intervenient exchange. religious jurists have different...

Nevertheless, he argues that the evidence for a compositional truth-theoretic semantics is pretty glib, because one can give a correct model of language understanding and productivity without assuming a compositional truth-theoretic semantics. In the seventh chapter of the book he suggests a counterexample to the compositional view about language understanding. He describes a possible world in ...