WVHAT EVERYONE OUGHT TO KNOW. By Oliver T. Osborne. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill. This is a book on health, disease and accident, and should enable the fifteen-minute-a-day reader to talk impressively about a variety of things without thoroughly understanding any of them. One who is reasonably familiar with the fields of biology may wonder if it is useful to present to laymen a variety o...

Abstract Defending aesthetic education is a vital task and the reasons we offer to justify arts on curriculum matter. I philosophical argument for necessity of all school-aged students basis its distinctive value, which experiences afford. It experience that component in flourishing life. As educators have duty introduce our elements fulfilled enjoyable life, which, claim, includes multiple var...

Ought Implies Can or Could Have A. D. Bassford I Consider the following case: Case 1: Ray's house is being burglarized. The burglar has ambushed Ray and tied him to a chair facing window. friend, Sinan, happens be walking by. Sinan sees his friend in distress, approaches window, says Ray: "You're burglarized! You ought call police!" But responds: "I can't! I'm this chair."1 Perhaps best interpr...

Traditionally it has been assumed that language is a conduit for thought, a system for converting our preexisting ideas into a transmissible form (sounds, gestures, or written symbols) so that they can be passed into the minds of others equipped with the same language machinery. During the early and mid 20th century, however, several linguistic anthropologists, most notably Benjamin Whorf and E...

Deontic logic is the logic to reason about ideal and actual behaviour. Besides the traditional role as an underlying logic for law and ethics (for a survey see [MW]), in the realm of computer science, deontic logic has been proposed as a logic for the specification of legal expert systems [BMT87],[Sta80], authorization mechanisms [ML85], decision support systems [Kd.,88], [Lee88b],[Lee88a], dat...