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Allan Nevins on history

Dion, Theon, and the Many-thinkers Problem

My solution to the problem of Dion and Theon (Burke 1994a) employs the doctrine of sortal essentialism.1 Jim Stone (2002) objects to my solution and proposes to weaken the doctrine so as to block my employment of it. Others question a different element of my solution: the maximality of personhood and thinkerhood. After opposing Stone's weakening of sortal essentialism, and responding in a preli...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Whither "world without leprosy"?

Dr Yo Yuasa, who was the President of the International Leprosy Association for two terms, exhorted everyone to work towards a “world without leprosy “ at the International Leprosy Congress, Beijing in 1998. He defined this state as “a world without leprosy-related problems, both medical and social, emphasizing the point that it is not the disease per se but its related problems, mostly social ...

A World Without Standards

h THIS ISSUE OF IEEE Design & Test of Computers is all about standards. Each of the papers makes an excellent argument why a particular standard is important and what benefits can be achieved by adopting the standard. As engineers we deal with standards a lot, but, like the air, I don’t think we often stop to think of their pervasiveness. Let’s imagine a world without standards. You wake up to ...