Showing papers on "Antecedent (grammar) published in 1984"

The genesis of chronic illness: narrative re-construction.

Abstract: In this paper I demonstrate the way in which people's beliefs about the aetiology of their particular affliction (arthritis) need to be understood as part of a more comprehensive imaginative enterprise which I refer to as narrative reconstruction. The intrinsically teleological form of this enterprise means that identified 'causes' represent only putative efficient connexions between the disease and antecedent factors but also narrative reference points between the individual and society in an unfolding process which has become profoundly disrupted. Through the presentation of case material taken from lengthy interviews I illustrate the way in which my question to the subjects about the cause of their disease: 'Why do you think you got arthritis?' was translated by them into a narrative reconstruction of their changing relationship to the world in which they live and the genesis of illness within it.

Milton C. Winternitz and the Yale Institute of Human Relations: a brief chapter in the history of social medicine.

Abstract: This paper considers the antecedent events that led to the development of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, the program of interdisciplinary research and teaching established, and the principal protagonists, James Rowland Angell, President of Yale University, and Milton C. Winternitz, Dean of the School of Medicine, both of whom were committed to the concept that medicine is a social science.

The Dimensionality, Antecedents, and Study Method Correlates of the Causal Attribution of Filipino Children

Abstract: This study of attributions for performance in a forthcoming major examination of 261 Filipino secondary-school children indicates that Weiner et al.'s (1971) two-dimensional/four-category model of causal attribution was too restrictive. It does, however, lend some support to Weiner's (1979) reconceptualization of this process. Investigation of the antecedent and study method correlates showed that both are linked to attributions in systematic ways consistent with attribution theory but differing for boys and girls.

Frege, the Proliferation of Force, and Non-cognitivism

Abstract: But these two inferences could not proceed on the same principle if we'... had to recognize a special way of judging for the negative case'. In inference (i), assertoric force attaches to the first premise as a whole and to the second premise as a whole, and the thought expressed in the second premise coincides with the thought expressed in the antecedent of the first premise. 1 If we were to recognize denying as a special kind of judging, in inference (2) assertoric force would still attach to the-,first premise as a whole, while in the second premise the negation sign would be absorbed into the act of denying. Thus the thought expressed in the second premise would no longer coincide with that in the antecedent of the first premise, so that 'the inference ... cannot be performed in the same way'.2 In 'Compound Thoughts' Frege makes several further remarks that lead Michael Dummett to claim that it is Frege's doctrine that force'... cannot significantly occur within a clause which is a constituent of a complex sentence, but can attach only to a complete sentence as a whole', a doctrine which, if true, would provide '... a powerful new method for detecting spurious claims to have identified a new kind of force'.3 Peter Geach in particular has put the doctrine to this use: in 'Assertion', he uses appearance in the antecedent of a conditional as a test to rule out various proposals to construe words or phrases as force signs, including a noncognitivist construal of 'wrong' as expressing condemnation. Geach's argument starts out parallel to Frege's in 'Negation': he claims that 'it's true that . . .' and 'wrong' cannot carry force because modus ponens goes through in the usual way from the premises 'If it's true that p, then q' and 'If gambling is wrong, then inviting people to gamble is wrong', which involve neither asserting that p nor condemning gambling. Geach goes on

Calendering of PVC

Abstract: According to Griffin1 the word ‘calender’shares a common Greek antecedent with ‘roller’, and the first recorded reference to calendering appears to be a description, in an 18th century publication, of a smoothing treatment for textile fabrics, carried out by means of individually operated, weighted rolls. The multi-roll machine of the general type still represented by the modern calender, was developed for the processing of rubber around the mid-1800s.

Darstellung eines Parathyreoideaadenoms mit der Magnetresonanztomographie

Abstract: Homme de 61 ans ayant des antecedents de coliques nephretiques depuis 1952. Le diagnostic d'adenome a ete confirme par la chirurgie

Stopper on Nasti's Contention and Stoic Logic

Abstract: In a recent critical notice, M. R. Stopper discusses at length what he calls 'Nasti's contention' (namely, the claim that the so-called Chrysippean implication is at least as strong as necessary equivalence between the consequent and its antecedent).' He casts some (reasonable) doubts on its real status, asking himself whether the contention is entailed or not by a well-known property of Stoic conditionals (namely that a conditional is sound (hugies) iff the negation of the consequent conflicts with its antecedent) when that property is conjoined with a statement disclosed by a Sextan passage (namely that 'according to them' i.e. to the Dogmatists as Sextus says, 'it is impossible for a sound conditional to be constituted from conflicting propositions': adunaton de esti [. . .J sunestos, PH II 189). According to Stopper, that statement is not a piece of Stoic logic but a consequence of a Sextan fallacy. In what follows I will argue that, although the statement disclosed by Sextus' passage may well be a piece of Stoic logic, Nasti's contention may need to be modified in order to get a better agreement with textual evidence.