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A Madhyamaka Analysis of the Property View and the Essence View of Existence

In this paper, I try to demonstrate a problem with two medieval European views of existence: The property view and the essence view. Adopting a style of reasoning employed by the Indian Madhyamaka philosopher Nāgārjuna, I argue that both the property view and the essence view understand the relation between an object and its existence in terms of difference: The former understands the difference as the difference between an object and its property of existence, and the latter, as the difference between an object’s essence and existence. Neither understanding is without problems, and both lack explanatory power. We must reject both the views.

Targeted Neurotransmitters Profiling Identifies Metabolic Signatures in Rat Brain by LC-MS/MS: Application in Insomnia, Depression and Alzheimer’s Disease

Epidemiological, cross-sectional, and prospective studies have suggested that insomnia, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and depression are mutually interacting conditions and frequently co-occur. The monoamine and amino acid neurotransmitter systems in central nervous system were involved in the examination of neurobiological processes of this symptom complex. However, few studies have reported systematic and contrastive discussion of different neurotransmitters (NTs) changing in these neurological diseases. Thus, it is necessary to establish a reliable analytical method to monitoring NTs and their metabolite levels in rat brain tissues for elucidating the differences in pathophysiology of these neurological diseases. A rapid, sensitive and reliable LC-MS/MS method was established for simultaneous determination of the NTs and their metabolites, including tryptophan (Trp), tyrosine (Tyr), serotonin (5-HT), 5-hydroxyindolacetic acid (5-HIAA), dopamine (DA), acetylcholine (ACh), norepinephrine (NE), glutamic acid (Glu), and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in rat brain tissues. The mobile phase consisting of methanol and 0.01% formic acid in water was performed on an Inertsil EP C18 column, and the developed method was validated well. Results demonstrated that there were significant differences for 5-HT, DA, NE, Trp, Tyr and ACh between model and control group in all three models, and a Bayes linear discriminant function was established to distinguish these three kinds of nervous system diseases by DA, Tyr and ACh for their significant differences among control and three model groups. It could be an excellent strategy to provide perceptions into the similarity and differentia of mechanisms from the point of NTs’ changing in brain directly and a new method to distinguish insomnia, depression and AD from view of essence.

Theoretical and empirical studies on essence-based adaptive software engineering

The OMG Essence standard was published as the kernel for software engineering methods in 2014. We show that the Essence view of software engineering is reminiscent of a nondeterministic, multidimensional finite state machine, and that the Essence lends support to a semi-Markov decision process model of software engineering which, in practice, facilitates a goal-driven adaptive software engineering. We develop an activity-state mapping algorithm and a goal-activity cover algorithm based on the Essence, which can help automate the health monitoring of project states and the adaptive planning of project activities in a software engineering project. Practical applications of the model and algorithms are illustrated. Benefits to software practitioners of the proposed approach are measured through statistical experiments.

The modal view of essence

According to the modal view, essence admits of reductive analysis in exclusively modal terms. Fine (1994) argues that modal view delivers an inadequate analysis of essence. This paper defends the modal view from Fine's challenge. This defense proceeds by examining the disagreement between Finean primitivists and Quinean eliminativists about essence. In order to model this disagreement, a distinction between essence and a separable concept, nature, is required. This distinction is then used to show that Fine's challenge is misdirected and therefore unsuccessful.

Учет творческого, эмпатийного и масштабного мышления при построении модели высшего профессионального образования

There are considered innovative processes, which are taking place in the modern world and radically alter a view of essence of education and allow to make a conscious choice of High Professional Education modern model formation.

Where Is the Essence? Developmental Shifts in Children’s Beliefs About Internal Features

The present studies investigated children's and adults' intuitive beliefs about the physical nature of essences. Adults and children (ranging in age from 6 to 10 years old) were asked to reason about 2 different ways of determining an unknown object's category: taking a tiny internal sample from any part of the object (distributed view of essence) or taking a sample from one specific region (localized view of essence). Results from 3 studies indicated that adults strongly endorsed the distributed view, and children showed a developmental shift from a localized to distributed view with increasing age. These results suggest that even children go beyond mere placeholder notions of essence, committing to conceptual frameworks of how essences might be physically instantiated.

Deconstructing the Feminine Essence Narrative

In Dreger’s history of the controversy surrounding Bailey’s (2003) work on femininity in biological males, she refers to the popular view of male-to-female transsexualism as the feminine essence narrative. Because my commentary considers the feminine essence view as a set of propositions rather than as a story, I will refer to it as the feminine essence theory. Dreger presents the main ideas of the theory quite clearly enough for the purposes of her history. She writes, for example, that according to the feminine essence theory, ‘‘trans people suffer from a sort of trick of nature, whereby they have the brain of one gender in the body typical of the other. Thus the trans person has a sort of neurological intersex condition, typically understood to be inborn.’’ She does not, however, formally enumerate the distinguishable elements and implications of the theory, an exercise that would have taken her beyond the scope of her article. Such an analysis is the subject of this commentary. My purpose in writing it is to present the feminine essence theory in a form that facilitates its comparison with other theories of male-tofemale transsexualism, including my own view. The remainder of this commentary has three main parts. First, I will list what I consider to be the central tenets of the feminine essence theory. There is no ‘‘official version’’ of this theory, and another author might come up with a shorter or longer list of tenets, or state some of them in different language. Second, I will explain each of the tenets as I conceive them, and third, I will compare the various elements of the feminine essence theory with my own conjectures.

Aquinas’ transcendences to Aristotle in the doctrine of essence

Aquinas’ philosophy is revolutionary, especially his doctrine of essence within the context of natural philosophy has transcended that of Aristotle. The principal distinctions between the doctrines of Aquinas and Aristotle are demonstrated in four layers which are entity-nature, compositeness, particularity and potentiality of essence. Aquinas not only overturns and reforms the Western traditional view of essence, but also constructs a prominent “joint” connecting essentialism to existentialism in Western philosophy.