Definition Of Things Research Articles

Essence and definition by abstraction

We may define words or concepts, and we may also, as Aristotle and others have thought, define the things for which words stand and of which concepts are concepts. Definitions of words or concepts may be explicit or implicit, and may seek to report preexisting synonymies, as Quine put it, but they may instead be wholly or partly stipulative. Definition by abstraction, of which Hume’s principle is a much discussed example, seek to define a term-forming operator, such as the number operator, by fixing the truth-conditions of identity-statements featuring terms formed by means of that operator. Such definitions are a species of implicit definition. They are typically at least partly stipulative. Definitions of things, or real definitions, are, by contrast, typically conceived as true or false statements about the nature or essence of their definienda, and so not stipulative. There thus appears to be an obvious and head-on clash between taking Hume’s principle as an implicit and at least partly stipultative definition of the number operator and taking it as a real definition, stating the nature or essence of cardinal numbers. This paper argues that this apparent tension can be resolved, and that resolving it sheds light on part of the epistemology or essence and necessity, showing how some of our knowledge of essence and necessity can be a priori.

Misconception and Self-Perception of HIV/AIDS Patients: A Qualitative View

The spread of HIV/AIDS has affected millions of people worldwide. The misconceptions of the disease ascend because of different causes, general ignorance and misunderstanding about scientific knowledge of this infectious disease. The present study deals with misconception associated with the HIV/AIDS disease regarding its remission. People get information and definition of things, behaviours so on from their surroundings, so that perception of patients about their disease is always very stigmatized. People are more concerned about stigmas rather than the disease itself. The current qualitative study highlights some stigma which involved in developing self-perception of HIV/AIDS patients at DHQ Dera Ghazi Khan. Ten interviews were conducted from Patients and Five from medical staff, along with two technicians. There is a number of factors which needs to be included in prevention mechanism to aware the population of how this disease spread and what is just illusion or misunderstandings.

Archaeology and the New Materialisms

This article revisits the object of archaeology in light of the New Materialisms. Orienting recent work around three propositions with respect to the reality and definition of things—that is, things are assemblages, things are participants, and things are things—it lays out the core features of the New Materialisms and goes on to address some compelling methodological issues. Ultimately, this article raises a challenge; that New Materialist perspectives reveal a self-definition for archaeology, not as the study of the human past through its material remains, but as the discipline of things, as an “ecology of practices” that approaches the world with care and in wonder.

Miniature Gardening Collection Model in Green Environment Engineering

Starting from the definition of things, this paper introduces the miniature gardening collection model, the model architecture and hardware components, and analyzes the advantages of the model for smart collections, providing a useful reference for the Internet of Things technology applied to various types of collections.

장르와 레지스터 분석에서 나타난 중학생의 지구과학 주제 글쓰기의 언어적 특징

The study investigated the linguistic characteristics of middle school students' writing on the themes of earth science through analysis of its genre and register. Data for analysis included 7 th grade and 9 th grade students' writings about 'global warming' and 'classification of rocks'. The results of this study include: First, many students were not accustomed to writing in genre, especially exposition genre. Second, in terms of ideational meaning, the material verbs representing action or doing were more dominant than relational verbs that are related to the attribute or definition of things, and additional logical relations were predominant. Third, regarding interpersonal meaning, agents, emotions, subjective opinions appeared in the writings and students did not express their ideas conclusively and revealed feelings of doubt and uncertainty about their knowledge. Fourth, as for textual meaning, most students listed fragments of information using additional conjunctions in simple structures and were not accustomed to writing texts with organizing structures, logical patterns, cohesion, and coherence. From these results, we argued that the scientific writings should be emphasized in science learning that aims to foster scientific literacy. In addition, we discussed the necessity of improving science teachers' perceptions on scientific writing as well as setting up a specific plan in the national curriculum.

A Review of Seven First Poetry Books

If there’s one word suggested by this group of first books, it’s “ear.” This is partly because the word appears conspicuously in two of them. The other five collections suggest it by their ability to convey a consistent vision through a consistent sound. This consistency comes from rhythm and meter but also from other innovative qualities. To start naming them, we can go to Larry Levis’s 1977 review of four young poets: “I know it is unfashionable to speak of the ear now, but I . . . hope that it might make a comeback, not necessarily in meter or rhyme at all, but in poems, in imaginations.” To Levis, the ear is a quality that can bridge the gaps between our existing definitions of things, bringing them together in unexpected ways that ultimately seem to fit. If that’s the case, then ear is a defining part of these seven books: these poets show an ability to listen to disparate parts of our world and to put them on the page with innovative harmony. In Barter, Monica Youn shows an ear for the dialectic places in culture, where parts of art or history don’t seem similar yet speak to each other by being in the same space. If this is more characteristic of art and entertainment in big cities, then her poems might be said to show an urban vision. Ekphrastic poems normally meditate on individual works of art, and the best of this collection is ekphrastic of the clashing elements of culture. “Stereoscopes”—the poem takes A Review of Seven First Poetry Books