... correspond to
the concepts that can be expressed in the systemic
net. An example of a systemic choice network in
the notation of Mellish (1988), is Figure 4. The
connective I, of which there are ... all ofthe concepts con-
tained in the conjunctive concepts in 7 9 so that
U 79 C P. The following theorem states that for
every consistent set 79 of concepts, there is a least
P such that ...
both a d and an e. On the other hand, if we
assume that b is defined, then the presence of d
and e in a conjunctive concept should ensure the
presence of b, thus eliminating the sets
{d,e,f},...
... tamper
with the laws of nature to suit the needs ofthe story.
The archetype of this requirement is Tom Godwin's " ;The Cold Equations,"
in which the laws of nature are the background ofthe ... all the other
kinds of fiction.”
All the other kinds of fiction restrict themselves to the here-and-now, or to
the known past. All other forms of fiction are set here on Earth, under a sky
that ... chandeliers of Louis XIV's palace at Versailles; and they think they
know what the inside of a jail looks like.
But what does the reader know ofthe ammonia seas of Titan, the largest
moon of the...
... pro-
tein. The sensitivity ofthe anti-GST serum to detect
lower concentrations ofthe target protein is not as
great as thatofthe mAb F11; therefore, it is not sur-
prising thatthe corresponding ... are buried in the interior
of the protein with K401 actually appearing on the
opposite face ofthe protein from the majority of resi-
dues in the F11 epitope [30]. Assuming thatthe F11
antibody ... seen in the pGEX 4T3 control (lane 2).
The intensities of these bands corresponded to the pos-
itive reactivity ofthe target protein and may therefore
have been degradation products ofthe truncated...
... also assume
the universal validity of logical reasoning and mathematics. One ofthe most impor-
tant assumptions that we make in building theory is thatthe fabric of causation in
the cosmos is ... all
changes ofthe organization register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-
patterns ofthe wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-
relationship ofthe species. ... had flashes of insight when they thought ofthe struggle for
existence occasioned by overpopulation and the idea thatthe fittest organisms
would prevail. This is the origin ofthe notion of natural...
... a theoretical unity
that can bridge the chasms of modern linguistics as he sees them, bringing
together the logical, the psychological, and the pragmatic; the empirical and
the theoretical; the ... to open up a vast
8 TheLogicof Language
context, the serene purity created by the mathematics oflogic is drawn into
the realm ofthe complexities ofthe human mind and the mundane needs
served ... afflicted the
twentieth century).
During the first half ofthe twentieth century, most logicians defended
the view that logical derivations should be defined merely on grounds of
the agreed
FORMS of the...
... Criteria,contains a list ofthe patient conditions
that the author is using to specify the selection of pieces of text. The right-hand portion of the
screen contains a window on the text ofthe master document. ... informa-
tion about theindividual patient: both the selection of content and the manner of expression of
that content may be determined by the patient’s medical conditionand their personal and ... those of interest
here.
On the other hand, Strecher and colleagues created the tailored texts that they used in their
experiments simply by building a large set of simple snippets of text that...
... what part the language is playing, what it is thatthe
participants are expecting the language to do for them in that situation, the symbolic
organisation ofthe text, the status that it has, ... another, both the types of speech role that
they are taking on in the dialogue and the whole cluster of socially significant relationships in
which they are involved?
+ The MODE OF DISCOURSE ...
of the processes, i.e. the ideational grammatical metaphor is a more metaphorical way of
expressing the meaning at the level of experience. The interpersonal grammatical metaphor, on
the other...
... had originally been argued. The
Logic, that is, was to be thelogicofthe metaphysics ofthe past that
would show thatthe various positions assumed in the history of philos-
ophy were not just ... comes to the fore. Here, the original synthetic unity of apperception
is recognized also as the principle ofthe figurative synthesis, i.e., ofthe forms of intuition; space
and time are themselves ... “regard the transition
fromthe concept of God to his being as an application ofthe exhibited logical progression of the
objectivizing ofthe concept in truth [it] is not the relationship of an...