St phane Chabrier, Isabelle Desguerre, M lanie Porte, Claude Payet, FranÅois Rivier for the Neuromuscular Commission of the Soci t FranÅaise de Neurologie P diatrique 1 CHU Saint-Etienne, Service de m decine physique et r adaptation p diatrique – Centre de r f rence maladies neuromusculaires Rh ne-Alpes, H pital Bellevue, Sainttienne, France. 2 Unit de neurop diatrie – Centre de r f rence malad...

A Boolean Chu space A = (X, |=, A) consists of two sets X and A and a binary relation |= ⊆ X × A from X to A. We call the elements x, y, . . . of X states or opens, and the elements a, b, . . . of A points, propositions, or events. We read x |= a as the Boolean-valued assertion “state x satisfies point (proposition, event) a.” Viewed as an event, a is understood as the proposition “event a has ...

editor: W.H. Weinberg Dedicated to Professor Wuyang Chu (USTB) on the occasion of his 70th birthday

By engaging in close analysis of the “Chu shuo” vignette chapters in Hanfeizi, this thesis seeks to explore the possible process of composition, the potential role such vignette collections play in the Hanfeizi compilation, and how they relate to the social background of the late Warring States period. In chapter I, I examined the traditional assumption that the guideline texts are composed pri...