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Paul Cohen’s philosophy of mathematics and its reflection in his mathematical practice
This paper studies Paul Cohen’s philosophy of mathematics and mathematical practice as expressed in his writing on set-theoretic consistency proofs using his method of forcing. Since Cohen did not consider himself a philosopher and was somewhat reluctant about philosophy, the analysis uses semiotic and literary textual methodologies rather than mainstream philosophical ones. Specifically, I follow some ideas of Lévi-Strauss’s structural semiotics and some literary narratological methodologies. I show how Cohen’s reflections and rhetoric attempt to bridge what he experiences as an uncomfortable tension between reality and the formal by means of his notion of intuition.
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Divergent relationship of circulating CTRP3 levels between obesity and gender: a cross-sectional study
C1q TNF Related Protein 3 (CTRP3) is a novel adipose tissue derived secreted factor, or adipokine, which has been linked to a number of beneficial biological effects on metabolism, inflammation, and survival signaling in a variety of tissues. However, very little is known about CTRP3 in regards to human health. The purpose of this project was to examine circulating CTRP3 levels in a clinical population, patients with symptoms requiring heart catheterization in order to identify the presence of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). It was hypothesized that serum CTRP3 levels would be decreased in the presence of CAD.
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The logic of invention
In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of the distinction between self and other possible, much as specific human genes allow for language? Wagner explores what he calls \"the reciprocity of perspectives\" through a journey between Euro-American bodies of knowledge and his in-depth knowledge of Melanesian modes of thought. This logic grounds variants of the subject/object transformation, as Wagner works through examples such as the figure-ground reversal in Gestalt psychology, Lacan's theory of the mirror-stage formation of the Ego, and even the self-recursive structure of the aphorism and the joke. Juxtaposing Wittgenstein's and Leibniz's philosophy with Melanesian social logic, Wagner explores the cosmological dimensions of the ways in which different societies develop models of self and the subject/object distinction.
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The relative native : essays on indigenous conceptual worlds
This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major volume, which includes his momentous 1998 Cambridge University Lectures, \"Cosmological Perspectivism.
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Cognitive stories and the image of mathematics
This paper considers two models of embodied mathematical cognition (a modular model and a dynamic model), and analyses the image of mathematics that they support.
Este artículo considera dos modelos de cognición matemática corporizada (un modelo modular y un modelo dinámico), y analiza la imagen de las matemáticas que apoyan.
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Roy H. Wagner : a cinematographer's life beyond the shadows
\"Named by Kodak as among the \"100 Top Cinematographers in the World,\" Roy H. Wagner has produced some of the most striking and unique photography on American film and TV screens of the past forty years. Mentored by legendary cinematographers of Hollywood's Golden Age, Wagner has brought both a studio craftsman ethic and maverick artistic sensibility to his work that includes A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Beauty and the Beast, Quantum Leap and House. Together with co-author Wayne Byrne, Wagner takes the reader on a candid journey from his small-town roots in the Midwest to his professional collaborations with industry figures such as John Badham, Richard Franklin, Seymour Friedman, Bill Froehlich, Peter O'Fallon, William Fraker, Diane Keaton, Dennis Maguire, Harry Stradling, Patrick Swayze, Kevin Tenney and many others\"-- Provided by publisher.
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'Luck in the double focus': ritualized hospitality in Melanesia
This paper argues that the relevance of hospitality in Melanesia has been under-theorized. It does so by examining four cases of the hospitality motif: the idea of 'guests of the land' among the Daribi; the ritualized feasting and dispensation of 'containment' among the Usen Barok named lak mamaran -' Godspeed', literally meaning 'luck in the double focus' (though the Barok language, lacking a word for 'luck', had to borrow one from English); the non-reciprocal character of the imbatekas sorcerer among the Tangu of Madang province; and the consumptive and predatory hospitality of the Kiwai of the Fly River estuary. I shall conclude with a consideration of the North American potlatch, a generic anthropological quasi-institution that has been distorted out of all ethnographic proportion by what I shall call the 'reciprocity speculation bubble'. Le présent article avance que la pertinence de l'hospitalité en Mélanésie n'est pas suffisamment théorisée. Pour le démontrer, il examine quatre déclinaisons du motif de l'hospitalité : l'idée des « invités de la terre » chez les Daribi, les festins ritualisés et la distribution chez les Usen Barok de « contenance », appelée lak mamaran (« bonne chance », littéralement « la chance sous deux aspects », mais la langue barok n'ayant pas de mot pour « chance », il a fallu emprunter « lak » à l'anglais), la non réciprocité du sorcier imbatekas chez les Tangu de la province de Madang, et l'hospitalité consommatrice et prédatrice des Kiwai de l'estuaire de la Fly River. L'auteur conclut par une considération sur le potlatch nord-américain, quasiinstitution anthropologique générique, déformée jusqu'à en perdre toute proportion ethnographique par ce qu'il appelle « la bulle spéculative sur la réciprocité ».
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