This essay explores the trope of sleep in Peter Sloterdijk’s philosophy anthropotechnics. Sleep is shown to be important for our understanding project as an index his subject’...

NPs with intensional relative clauses such as the impact of the book John needs to write pose a significant challenge for trope theory (the theory of particularized properties), since they seem to refer to tropes that lack an actual bearer. I will propose a novel semantic analysis of such NPs on the basis of the notion of a variable object. This analysis avoids a range of difficulties that an a...

* Adapted with permission from: McIntyre J, Lee J, Trope M, Vann WJ, Permanent tooth replantation following avulsion: Using a decision tree to achieve the best outcome. Pediatr Dent 2009;31(2):137-44. Management of an Avulsed Permanent Incisor with an Open Apex (Apex ≥1 mm)* Assess medical history and rule out any neurologic and nondental injuries. Diagnostic tests: • Rule out alveolar fracture...

68 © 2014 Guilford Publications, Inc. This work was funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation (Award #BCS1053128). We are grateful to members of our respective lab groups for feedback on an earlier version of this paper, as well as for comments from Dan Molden and an anonymous reviewer. Address correspondence to Kentaro Fujita, The Ohio State University, 1827 Neil Avenue, C...

Previous “systems” of rhetoric, which have arisen as responses to felt needs, emphasize an individualist paradigm whereas the contemporary system, responding to current impulses, tends toward a relational paradigm. The “Trinity” is proposed here as a trope that both prefigures this relational and dialogical turn in communication studies and suggests the ethical ends toward which communication p...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2016.06.001 0749-5978/ 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. q This manuscript is based on part of the first author’s doctoral dissertation. We thank Adam Alter, Amitav Chakravarti, Punam Keller, Gary Lilien, Geeta Menon, Tom Meyvis, Jamie Myers Maloney, Priya Raghubir, Stephanie Tully, and Yaacov Trope for helpful comments and suggestions. ⇑ Corresponding au...

versus Concrete Inputs: Construal Level Theory While there may be several different ways of addressing this inconsistency, the current research proposes one such resolution by drawing on construal level theory (CLT; Trope, Liberman, and Wakslak 2007). CLT states that objects, events, and individuals can be perceived as being either psychologically near or far along different dimensions of dista...