Temporal lobe epileptics undergoing psychiatric hospitalisation were contrasted with patients suffering idiopathic psychiatric syndromes or other epilepsies. Quantitative ratings from blind interviews conducted according to a protocol confirmed the appearance of a statistically distinctive behavioural profile, including the desire for social affiliation, circumstantiality, religious and philoso...

W. STERLING EDWARDS and PETER D. EDWARDS, Alexis Carrel. Visionary surgeon, Springfield, Ill., Charles C Thomas, 1974, 8vo, pp. xi, 143, illus., $5.00. Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) was an outstanding French-born surgeon who spent most of his professional life at the Rockefeller Institute, New York City (1903-1939). He received a Nobel Prize in 1912 and his main contributions were to vascular surge...

In the histories of logic and of computer science which mention precursors and pioneers, we often find mention of Leibniz, the great l7th-century mathematician and philosopher, who was one of the first to try to build a mechanical calculator, and who tried to formulate a Mathesis universalis, a sort of scientific language which would permit any two disputants to settle their differences merely ...

secret is one of the key notions in studying the content of ibn 'arabi's mysticism. secret is a divine bounty which conferred upon the creatures by god and indicates a path stretching byond the reason. as an extension of secret god can be experienced by the mystic. of course undestanding god is a matter of faith and intuition and does not fit the medium of reason. the limits of langua...

The quest for what constitutes knowledge and the authentic means of attaining it have been a subject intense philosophical speculations from time immemorial. This is to say that discourse about theory had stated ancient era in parlance. Knowledge, turn, co-efficient social order, democratic ideology development, which implies there be any form tranquility peace society at all; its leaders must ...