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Dangling Propositions
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Author : Billy Sledge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-09-03
Dangling Propositions written by Billy Sledge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-03 with categories.
"...blessed are those/Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled/That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger/To sound what stop she please." (Hamlet, Act III, Sc. 2)I can imagine these Shakespearean lines occurring to my character Nebo Rhombus, confronted with obeying the mysterious will of the "plasmamorph" in "Instrument," one of three stories comprising Dangling Propositions (29686 words). A force of life from Earth's atmosphere has revealed itself to Rhombus, an image consultant/promoter. It is determined to employ him to somehow lead humankind from a world-threatening course, before that course is cataclysmically corrected.A matter of course is also plotted in "The Superstoic," though on an individual scale. Whether ultra-reticent library worker Zharko Solovich is willing, he is held to account for his right to besilent in an alternate world where no such right exists.For compulsive mimic, Bogustin Guisermann, who hides himself mirroring others, being unintentionally "gifted" with the ability to blind people to his presence, as a result of though-projection experiments, may be the refuge from the "judging sight" of the world he's always sought. In "Not to Behold," to be perceived, or not to be perceived, seems the question.
Dangling Propositions
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Author : Billy Sledge
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2018-10-03
Dangling Propositions written by Billy Sledge and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-03 with categories.
Do we believe what we know? Do we know what we believe? Dangling Propositions is as much an act as it is a title. Human perceptions are suspended, within the imaginative realms of its three speculative stories, for reader scrutiny. These are exploits through individual and collective dimensions of our awareness, challenges to expected experience. Solitary library worker Zharko Solovich not only keeps to himself, he, one might say, "keeps himself in." When attempts to "bring him out" are fantastically taken up in a variant reality, where it is a crime to withhold oneself - punished by forced chemical correction. In "The Superstoic", it may be asked, how much right does one have to their inner self? "Instrument" presents the "plasmamorph," a lifeform that supposedly resides in Earth's upper atmosphere. Image promoter Nebo Rhombus, despite what he wants or believes, finds himself "taking on" this ethereal being as a client. The Biblical and the phenomenal combine in a cryptic narrative concerning the questionable fate of our world. For compulsive mimic Bogustin Guisermann, who hides himself mirroring others, being unintentionally "gifted" with the ability to blind people to his presence, as a result of thought-projection experiments, may be the refuge from the "judging sight" of the world he's always sought. He becomes an "imperceivable man." In "Not to Behold", to be perceived, or not to be perceived, seems the question.
Land Of The Fee
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Author : Devin Fergus
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-08
Land Of The Fee written by Devin Fergus and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-08 with Political Science categories.
The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt. As Devin Fergus explains in Land of the Fee, a not-insignificant portion of that debt comes in the form of predatory hidden fees attached to everyday transactions. Beginning in the 1980s, lobbyists for the financial industry helped dismantle consumer protections, resulting in surreptitious fees-often waived for those who can afford them but not for those who can't. Bluntly put, these hidden fees unfairly keep millions of Americans from their hard-earned money. Journalists and policymakers have identified the primary causes of increasing wealth inequality-fewer good working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that benefit the ultra-rich, among others. However, they miss one commonplace but substantial contributor to the widening divide between the rich and the rest: the explosion of fees on every transaction people make in their daily lives. Land of the Fee traces the system of fees from its origins in the deregulatory wave of the late 1970s to the present. The average consumer now pays a dizzying array of charges for mortgage contracts, banking transactions, auto insurance rates, college payments, and payday loans. These fees are buried in the pages of small-print agreements that few consumers read or understand. Because these fees do not fall under usury laws, they have redistributed wealth to large corporations and their largest shareholders. By exposing this predatory and nearly invisible system of fees, Land of the Fee reshapes our understanding of wealth inequality in America.
Higher Level Language Processes In The Brain
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Author : Franz Schmalhofer
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Higher Level Language Processes In The Brain written by Franz Schmalhofer and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Psychology categories.
Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain is a groundbreaking book that explains how behavior research, computational models, and brain imaging results can be unified in the study of human comprehension. The volume illustrates the most comprehensive and newest findings on the topic. Each section of the book nurtures the theoretical and practical integration of behavioral, computational, and brain imaging studies along a different avenue, and each is supplementary. Readers with limited background knowledge on the methods are presented with an easy-to-read, state-of-the-art exposition that is conceptualized and written from a well-established point of view. Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate cognitive science students, as well as researchers and practitioners who seek to learn and apply scientific knowledge about human comprehension to reading analysis.
Recovering The Soul
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Author : G. Stephen Blakemore
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2023-01-19
Recovering The Soul written by G. Stephen Blakemore and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-19 with Philosophy categories.
Recovering the Soul explores an area of historical philosophy that few if any others have attempted by critically comparing the metaphysical doctrines of Thomas Aquinas and Baruch Spinoza on the identity of mind and body. The central premise is that the hylomorphism of Aquinas's understanding of soul and body has a surprising affinity with Spinoza's own understanding of how human beings are enabled to exist as a single entity that is both mind and body. In the process of making the case that hylomorphism can apply to Spinoza's philosophy as much as Aquinas's, the book carefully exegetes the work of each philosopher and indicates how each is internally consistent within his own system of thought. The hylomorphic reading of Spinoza helps to address some interpretive challenges that his commentators have noted and struggled to harmonize with other aspects of this monist ontology. Beyond the historical and interpretive interests the book addresses, it also makes the case that hylomorphism as a metaphysical theory of human constitution best harmonizes with contemporary studies in the human genome and provides a more comprehensive starting point for the philosophy of mind than reductionism or substance dualism.
The Metaphysics Of Good And Evil
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Author : David S. Oderberg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-22
The Metaphysics Of Good And Evil written by David S. Oderberg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-22 with Philosophy categories.
The Metaphysics of Good and Evil is the first, full-length contemporary defence, from the perspective of analytic philosophy, of the Scholastic theory of good and evil – the theory of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and most medieval and Thomistic philosophers. Goodness is analysed as obedience to nature. Evil is analysed as the privation of goodness. Goodness, surprisingly, is found in the non-living world, but in the living world it takes on a special character. The book analyses various kinds of goodness, showing how they fit into the Scholastic theory. The privation theory of evil is given its most comprehensive contemporary defence, including an account of truthmakers for truths of privation and an analysis of how causation by privation should be understood. In the end, all evil is deviance – a departure from the goodness prescribed by a thing’s essential nature. Key Features: Offers a comprehensive defence of a venerable metaphysical theory, conducted using the concepts and methods of analytic philosophy. Revives a much neglected approach to the question of good and evil in their most general nature. Shows how Aristotelian-Thomistic theory has more than historical relevance to a fundamental philosophical issue, but can be applied in a way that is both defensible and yet accessible to the modern philosopher. Provides what, for the Scholastic philosopher, is arguably the only solid metaphysical foundation for a separate treatment of the origins of morality.
Utility Progress And Technology Proceedings Of The 15th Conference Of The International Society For Utilitarian Studies
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Author : Schefczyk, Michael
language : en
Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing
Release Date : 2021-09-27
Utility Progress And Technology Proceedings Of The 15th Conference Of The International Society For Utilitarian Studies written by Schefczyk, Michael and has been published by KIT Scientific Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-27 with Philosophy categories.
This volume collects selected papers delivered at the 15th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, which was held at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in July 2018. It includes papers dealing with the past, present, and future of utilitarianism – the theory that human happiness is the fundamental moral value – as well as on its applications to animal ethics, population ethics, and the future of humanity, among other topics.
Linguistic Theory
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Author : Robert De Beaugrande
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-24
Linguistic Theory written by Robert De Beaugrande and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In Linguistic Theory, Robert de Beaugrande analyses linguistic theories not as abstract ideas or theses, but as the process and product of theoretical discourse. He argues that the best documentation of this discourse can be found in the 'fundamental' works of major linguists from Ferdinand de Saussure to Teun van Dijk and Walter Kintsch. He therefore employs the highly unusual strategy of a close reading of these works as discourse performances and strives to uncover their main points and characteristic moves in the linguist's own words. Through this approach, the reader is able to appreciate and understand the variety and controversy among linguistic theories as they have emerged and developed in interaction with each other. Special scrutiny is allocated to the issue of how far the active practice of the linguists followed their own theories and proposals, and why. The author concludes by assessing the prospects for linguistics to be drawn from the retrospect in the previous chapters.
Heeding The Ancestral Call
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Author : Iya Ifalola Aboyade Omobola
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011
Heeding The Ancestral Call written by Iya Ifalola Aboyade Omobola and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
The Investors Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
The Investors Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Finance categories.