The recent edition of the Textbook of physiology, edited by Fulton, reveals the enormous strides made in this field during the past fifteen years.8 Similar advances have been achieved in the increasingly closely related discipline of experimental psychology, a science that only a few decades ago was compartmentalized into artificial groups, such as Sensation, Cerebration and Intellection, and T...

human dignity, based on the sadraee thought and according to his basis and philosophy, is a factual and existential but not reliable and conventional thing and because this is graded so dignity is a gradation thing. accordingly, inherently human contains dignity it means that dignity in the developmental system is a constant and unchanging thing and associated with human nature, due to the char...

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 A tradição sociológica francesa há muito tempo considera o “indivíduo” como uma realidade situada fora de sua área compreensão e investigação. Segundo Durkheim, indivíduo é um objeto psicológico por excelência. sociologia favorece estudo dos coletivos (grupos, classes, categorias, instituições, microcosmos), sugerindo que era que, si só, ficava aquém do social. O artigo discute mét...

Despite growing recognition of the importance of leadership to a profession's growth and development, leadership in physical therapy remains under-researched and poorly understood. 2,3 Desveaux and colleagues' study contributes valuable information about the characteristics of physical therapy managers and academics in Canada – two cohorts of physical therapists who may be considered leaders wi...

This paper investigates the appropriateness of formal dialectics as a basis for non-monotonic reasoning and defeasible reasoning that takes computational limits seriously. Rules that can come into connict should be regarded as policies, which are inputs to deliberative processes. Dialectical protocols are appropriate for such deliberations when resources are bounded and search is serial. AI, it...

I begin with two autobiographical comments in explanation of my title. In 1986 reviewed for The Expository Times the excellent book by Dr James Patrick, Magdalen Metaphysicals: Idealism and Orthodoxy at Oxford, 1901-1945.1 This prompted a series cards, notes, letters from Donald MacKinnon. He wanted to read because it was an American publication he thought easier borrow me. Those who remember t...

Indian music is primarily melodic. Appreciation of it is supposed to be mainly based on the melodic content and rhythm, and not so much on the timbral content. In north Indian classical vocal music (also known as Hindusthani vocal music) raga forms the base bone. The most common style of performance is khayal. The first part in khayal is known as alap, wherein one tries to establish the image a...

This paper looks at how the practice of health care tends to follow a dualistic system of thought, seeing the mind and body as distinct. Approaching patients in this way leads to a failure to understand them in a unified and holistic way, often leaving patients feeling less than “healed” and often facing “crises” that go beyond their physiological illness or ailment. This paper critiques this d...

A debated topic in Avicennan psychology is whether for Avicenna abstraction is a metaphor for emanation or to be taken literally. This issue stemsion is a metaphor for emanation or to be taken literally. This issue stems from the deeper philosophical question of whether humans acquire intelligibles externally from an emanation by the Active Intellect, which is a separate substance, or internall...