[PDF] Top 20 What structuralism could not be

... beyond what is necessary ...in what follows, little will be said explicitly about the epistemology of mathematics; however it will become obvious that the underlying epistemological approach is ... See full document

... But where, I wondered, amidst this elegiac portrait, is the pain of contemporary academic life? No one, and last of all me, wants to exaggerate this suffering or to engage in some narcissistic project of self-indulgence ... See full document

... So the example of nCob still has C-objects that are based on sets, albeit mor- phisms which are more general than functions. However, one can go further than this: the notion of a category is in fact defined in a ... See full document

... contributed to its abrupt demise, is the inevitable implication that there must exist a direct correlation between the length of a line (figure) and the number of its, probably finite, constitutive points. Central to ... See full document

... throughout. In “Erosive”, the speaker begins her narrative by demanding to know which details her reader considers to be important in storytelling: “What do you need to know about me for this story? How old I am? ... See full document

... Linguistics as a structured notion is an accepted view now. Saussure wrote about language as a system which has a particular structure (though he never used the term structure; it was system for him). This system of ... See full document

... understanding what mathematics concerns, then, we are led away from a description in terms of a privileged subject matter, and instead to talk of mathematical descrip- tions, or mathematical features, of otherwise ... See full document

... question could therefore be raised: are youngsters merely passive consumers with regard to media messages on sex and sexuality? The answer is not simply ‘yes’ or ‘no’, as youth are capable of reasoning and ... See full document

... ideas could be implemented in CORA-2, their essence led participants to discover a large number of less radical requirements and designs, such as transferring knowledge on cockpit design to the design of the ... See full document

... Looking from another point of view, one understands that „change‟ can be perceived only when one is at rest. When everything is changing continuously, change will not be perceived. To „perceive‟ change, at least one ... See full document

... Chrysippos named it – the both necessary and sufficient level of causes, the ‘iron hard laws of fate’. However, the Stoics in general did not subscribe to any determinism, they only accepted fate (heimarmené, fatum), and ... See full document

... In the following, we choose to discuss some of these alternatives, one more extensively than the others since it has not been studied as extensively as the others, which could potentially hide behind the BEH ... See full document

... of means that could have been made. Can you imagine a table representing all these comparisons? Do not: clearly, most of them were unimportant. So why make them? Instead, the authors used the LSD at the 5% ... See full document

... “Some firms and advisors think they can continue to do what they’re doing—that is, they can live with the BIC and still sell high commission products. You have a duty to justify client expenditure of funds. I have ... See full document

... Rabbinic discussions in the Mishnah, the part of the Talmud that focuses on the details of Jewish law and observance, provide some guidelines. In particular, the tractate (sub-section of the Mishnah) that deals with ... See full document

... continue to live. These are not simply my points. They are points continuously made by post-structuralists and complexity scientists themselves. Even, for the latter, in their most epistemologically committed moments; ... See full document

... UNESCO could be much more effective as a catalyst for international cooperation in social science. UNESCO is uniquely placed to facilitate cooperation between international bodies, which is important for capacity ... See full document

... of structuralism that it always looks least plausible, at least at first glance, with respect to those mathematical disciplines which are practiced in direct orientation to one specific ... See full document

... the outcome of some further ‘super-measurement’, as standard interpret- ations of quantum mechanics would seem to require? This not only cries out for an account of super-measurement (for it is prima facie implausible ... See full document

... resolve what – drawing on both psychoanalytical and biological terminology – may be called a condition of ...which could be enounced without known rules, applied after having being ... See full document