... reference to these nearby stars. From the measurement of its
apparent magnitude, the distance of a star, which lies beyond the range of the
parallax method, can be determined from the inverse ... the expansion in AC be the same as in BC. The sides of the triangle are
expanded by the same factor. Adding a galaxy out of the plane to extend the
argument to...
... at the way in which the brain systems
mediating dreaming can become exaggerated or distorted,
with unwelcome consequences. Here, we are on the edge of
the medicine of sleep disorders, a topic ... the point
a bit, it could mean further that to be prone to depression is to be
prone to REM sleep and vice versa. The changes in the sleep of
someone with depression,...
... monkeys to the presence of various kinds of predator.
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One type of call appears to represent the presence of eagles,
another the presence of snakes, and yet another the presence
of leopards. ... ever observe
the ‘appearances’ of things and are compelled to rely on
doubtful inferences from these in order to judge what their
‘real’ properties are. The questio...
... this.
Secondly, if they mean to abandon reasoned argument alto-
gether, even in defence of their own position, then I have
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nothing more to say to them because they have excluded
themselves ... possible ambiguity can easily be
removed by expanding ‘subject’ in our intended sense to ‘sub-
ject of experience’ – understanding ‘experience’ here in a broad
sense to em...
... monkeys to the presence of various kinds of predator.
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One type of call appears to represent the presence of eagles,
another the presence of snakes, and yet another the presence
of leopards. ... raining
and desires not to get wet: he might do so, for instance,
because he believes that he is being spied upon and desires to
hide his face. Even so, these different p...
... feeling
confused by these distinctions between type-states and token-
states and between roles and the states which ‘play’ them.
There is, indeed, a considerable danger that debates con-
ducted in these terms ... you and vice versa,
then we would probably tend to have different emotional
responses and therefore different patterns of behaviour in
the presence of red things and likewi...
... strongly deny that they
can see, namely, because they believe that they lack the
requisite kind of perceptual experience. And note, here, that
such subjects continue to deny that they can see even ... for
instance, between simply seeing a green apple and seeing that the apple is green –
as though these were different kinds of seeing. See, for example, Fred I. Dretske,
Seeing and Kno...
... Private arrangements between one landowner and another took
the place of the weakened bond between the subject and his king.
The feudal form of government and the feudal system of holding land ... non-noble classes. Many of these
privileges were perpetuated in France, and elsewhere on the continent, down to the
time of the French Revolution, and in Italy and Germ...
... exclusively devoted to recurrences on one index
N. We defer discussion of multivariate and other types of recurrences until
we have developed more advanced tools for solving them.
Studies in the theory ... carefully all the way through the book.
Supplementing the text are lists of references and several hundred ex-
ercises, to encourage readers to examine original sources...
... the New Testament.
Below the bishop and the priest were the lower orders of the clergy, the deacon and sub-deacon, and below
these the so called minor orders the acolyte, exorcist, reader, and ... of the emperors
of the West had proved weak and indolent rulers. The barbarians wandered hither and thither pretty much at
their pleasure, and the German troops in the...