in the mind, language and literature of all people, there are some significant numbers like three, thirty, six, nine, twelve, forty, one hundred and one thousand that are called numbers of perfection. sometimes one digit is added to these numbers (and the result is seven, thirteen, ten and one thousand and one) or is subtracted from them (and the result is five, ninety nine or eleven) and the o...

ONE MORNING IN EARLY OCTOBER OF 1987 THE U.S. health authorities announced that 25 percent of the adult population had a dangerous condition requiring medical treatment. Since there were no symptoms, it would be necessary to screen the entire population to identify those in danger. More than half of those screened would be dispatched to their physicians for medical tests and evaluation. Then fo...

This article is dedicated to the place of Hortyca reserve in Cossack myth and historical memory Ukraine. The at different stages its formation, post-Soviet-populist version, was successfully integrated into state policy independent reveals context creation reserve, shows lack a base for «reconstruction» Zaporizhisn Sich. Nevertheless, movement theme gain an important politics presidents. also b...

An unrestricted sociosexual orientation (the endorsement of casual sex) has been found to correlate with undesirable behaviors and personality characteristics more so in men than in women. Using a community sample of men and women, we investigated the correlations between sociosexuality and behaviors, motives, attitudes, and fantasies related to sexual aggression. Participants (n = 168; ages 21...

too long. It generates a cascade of subtle errors that ultimately accumulate to a distorted picture of the man and his science and indeed early Victorian scientific communities. A varied and overwhelming array of evidence demonstrates that Darwin did not avoid publishing his theory for 20 years.” The only evidence that has ever been put forward for Darwin’s delay is circumstantial or ambiguous ...

Andy Clark and David Chalmers argue that the mind sometimes extends outside the body to encompass features of the environment (HEC). HEC has been criticised by Fred Adams, Kenneth Aizawa, and Robert Rupert. In this paper, I argue for two claims: (1) HEC is a harder target than those critics have supposed; HEC is entailed by functionalism, a commonly held view in philosophy of mind, and one to w...

BACKGROUND Nylon teeth myth is a belief of associating infant illnesses with bulges on infants' alveolus that mark the positions of underlying developing teeth and that it is necessary to treat the condition mainly by traditional healers to prevent infant death. The traditional treatment often leads to serious complications that may lead to infant death. Although the government instituted educa...

Several evidences shows that in Brazil, suicide mortality rates of some indigenous people are significantly higher than national and regional rates. Furthermore, evidence points to the difficulties to transport biomedical categories to the indigenous societies, because they use specific symbolic references to understand the health-disease process and the death. The aim of this paper was to refl...

The article addresses the problem of how myth relates to rationality. In classical formulation, this question appears in following manner: are mythos and logos opposites? It can be stated that has become one key themes philosophy 20th century. been studied ethnography anthropology, cultural studies, art theory, political science even theory knowledge. Myth is understood not only as a special ar...