Author’s Reply to discussion by Thyssen‐Bornemisza

Geophysics ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-216
Author(s):  
Sigmund Hammer
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Vertical Profile ◽  
Vertical Gradient ◽  
Specific Topic ◽  
Foregoing Discussion ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Vertical Gradient Of Gravity

The foregoing discussion by Dr. Thyssen‐Bornemisza calls attention to interesting extensions of the rather simplified theoretical analysis in my paper. Dr. Thyssen‐Bornemisza has published extensively on the subject of the vertical gradient of gravity and its applications in exploration. My paper was limited to a very specific topic, namely the variability of the vertical gradient along a vertical profile above an anomalous mass.

Bullshit, trust, and evidence

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 633-656
Author(s):  
Adrian Briciu
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Harry Frankfurt ◽  
The Third ◽  
Main Fault ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Epistemic Standards ◽  
Adequate Evidence

Abstract It has become almost a cliché to say that we live in a post-truth world; that people of all trades speak with an indifference to truth. Speaking with an indifference to how things really are is famously regarded by Harry Frankfurt as the essence of bullshit. This paper aims to contribute to the philosophical and theoretical pragmatics discussion of bullshit. The aim of the paper is to offer a new theoretical analysis of what bullshit is, one that is more encompassing than Frankfurt’s original characterization. I part ways with Frankfurt in two points. Firstly, I propose that we should not analyze bullshit in intentional terms (i.e. as indifference). Secondly, I propose that we should not analyze it in relation to truth. Roughly put, I propose that bullshit is best characterized as speaking with carelessness toward the evidence for one’s conversational contribution. I bring forward, in the third section, a battery of examples that motivate this characterization. Furthermore, I argue that we can analyze speaking with carelessness toward the evidence in Gricean terms as a violation of the second Quality maxim. I argue that the Quality supermaxim, together with its subordinate maxims, demand that the speaker is truthful (contributes only what she believes to be true) and reliable (has adequate evidence for her contribution). The bullshitter’s main fault lies in being an unreliable interlocutor. I further argue that we should interpret what counts as adequate evidence, as stipulated by the second Quality Maxim, in contextualist terms: the subject matter and implicit epistemic standards determine how much evidence one needs in order to have adequate evidence. I contrast this proposed reading with a subjectivist interpretation of what counts as having adequate evidence and show that they give different predictions. Finally, working with a classic distinction, I argue that we should not understand bullshit as a form of deception but rather as a form of misleading speech.

scholarly journals Prerequisites for the Formation and Development of Professional Music Education in Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Marina V. Pereverzeva ◽  
◽  
Elena A. Meleshkina
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Music Education ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Home Education ◽  
Pedagogical Model ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Scientific Pedagogical

The subject of the study is the process of formation and development of music education in Russia on the basis of the traditions of home education of children in noble families and higher classes of tsarist Russia. The activation of performing and composer art has become one of the prerequisites for the development of professional music education in Russia. Another prerequisite was domestic music, which became widespread in aristocratic houses. The work carries out a historical and theoretical analysis of the origin of the pedagogical model of music education in pre-revolutionary Russia at the beginning of the 19th century and determines the main factors that led to the formation of professional music education in Russia on a solid scientific, pedagogical and socio-cultural basis, established in the country during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Theoretical basis of research of personal mediation of manipuiative tendencies

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Borets ◽  
◽  
O. V. Palahniuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Training Process ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Practical Implications

The purpose of the article. Theoretical analysis of personal mediation of manipuiative tendencies. Methodology. The basis of this study is a theoretical analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematization of available scientific literature on the subject. Results. Manipulation of consciousness is one of the ways to dominate and suppress the will of people by acting on them through the programming of their behavior. This action is aimed at the mental structures of man, which is carried out secretly and aims to change the thoughts, motivations and goals of people in the right direction for a certain group of people. In this case, the purpose of manipulation – hiding their true intentions, to encourage another person to take certain actions, change values, ideas and opinions, etc., while maintaining the illusion of independence in general and independence of decisions or actions. In other words, to motivate a person to what he does not want to do, to distract from what he aspires to, but at the same time to create in him the confidence that he is acting of his own free will. Practical implications. The need to study manipulative tendencies is to determine the main ways and methods of manipulation and ways to protect against manipulative action. To reveal the main features of the manipulator’s personality and the category of people who are most prone to manipulative action. Theoretical materials can be used in the training process of the courses “Psychology of personality”, “Age Psychology”, “Differential Psychology”, “Fundamentals psychological correction”. Originality/value. It was found that the criteria for manipulation are: the attitude of the manipulator to the objects of manipulation as a means to achieve their own goal, the desire to gain unilateral advantage, the hidden nature of influence, use of force, motivation, motivation and skill in the process of manipulative influence. Key words: manipulation, coercion, manipulation, subject of manipulation, projection, Machiavellianism, manipulative influence.

VERTICAL GRADIENT OF GRAVITY ON AXIS FOR HOLLOW AND SOLID CYLINDERS

Geophysics ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 816-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Elkins
Keyword(s):  
Hollow Cylinder ◽  
Sudden Change ◽  
Vertical Gradient ◽  
Outer Radius ◽  
Gravity Gradient ◽  
Gradient Effect ◽  
Vertical Gravity Gradient ◽  
Vertical Gravity ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Vertical Gradient Of Gravity

The recent interest in borehole gravimeters and vertical gravity gradient meters makes it worthwhile to analyze the simple case of the vertical gravity gradient on the axis of a hollow cylinder, simulating a borehole. From the viewpoint of potential theory the results are interesting because of the discontinuities which may occur when a vertical gradient profile crosses a sudden change in density. Formulas for the vertical gradient effect are given for observations above, inside, and below a hollow cylinder and a solid cylinder. The special case of an infinitely large outer radius for the cylinders is also considered, leading to formulas for the vertical gradient effect inside a borehole on its axis and inside a horizontal slab. Some remarks are made on the influence of the shape of a buried vertical gradient meter on the correction factor for changing the meter reading to density.

scholarly journals Basic Social Values Reflection: Concept ‘Honor’ in English, German and Russian Linguocultures

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana Shevchenko ◽  
Genadii Slyshkin ◽  
Anna Moseyko ◽  
Kristina Korovina
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Subsequent Step ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Dictionary Definitions ◽  
Value Concept

The subject of this paper is to present the results of the study detailing the essence of the value concept ‘honor’ within the framework of English, German and Russian language cultures as a reflection of the basic values of society in the today’s linguistic world. The methods of the research were theoretical analysis of the works of philologists and pedagogues on the structure and essence of the value concept ‘honor’ as a synergetic unity of the two notions. The component analysis of dictionary definitions and their subsequent step-by-step identification is given. A review of various treatments of ‘honor’ is suggested, ranging from ‘respect’, ‘reputation’, ‘faith’, ‘mark of approval’, ‘creditable’ to ‘dishonor’, ‘discredit’, ‘shame’, ‘ill repute’ and so on. An attempt is made to characterize ‘honor’ as one of the axiological concepts and a socially and culturally conditional pattern of approval/disapproval.

Cognitive Discourse Functions meet historical competences

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane Dalton-Puffer ◽  
Silvia Bauer-Marschallinger
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
History Education ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Written Production ◽  
History Curriculum ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Literacy Level ◽  
Discourse Functions

Abstract This paper combines the perspectives of applied linguistics and history education in order to explore the viability of a genuinely non-binary pedagogy for content and language integration. Cognitive Discourse Functions (CDFs) are mapped against the model of historical competences underlying the current Austrian secondary history curriculum. The theoretical analysis shows the performance of CDFs as central to the constitution of historical competences. For the empirical part of the study, two complete didactic units on the topic of the Industrial Revolution were recorded, and oral and written utterances by students were analysed both in terms of CDF use and historical competences. The results confirm a significant connection between competences and CDFs. We argue that some explicit attention to CDFs and the linguistic resources necessary for their competent verbalization could significantly enhance the subject literacy level of Austrian CLIL history learners in both oral and written production.

scholarly journals Analogy in Terms of Identity, Equivalence, Similarity, and Their Cryptomorphs

Philosophies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Marcin J. Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Mathematical Concept ◽  
Mathematical Formalism ◽  
Binary Relations ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Tolerance Relation ◽  
Legitimate Expectation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Met Expectations

Analogy belongs to the class of concepts notorious for a variety of definitions generating continuing disputes about their preferred understanding. Analogy is typically defined by or at least associated with similarity, but as long as similarity remains undefined this association does not eliminate ambiguity. In this paper, analogy is considered synonymous with a slightly generalized mathematical concept of similarity which under the name of tolerance relation has been the subject of extensive studies over several decades. In this approach, analogy can be mathematically formalized in terms of the sequence of binary relations of increased generality, from the identity, equivalence, tolerance, to weak tolerance relations. Each of these relations has cryptomorphic presentations relevant to the study of analogy. The formalism requires only two assumptions which are satisfied in all of the earlier attempts to formulate adequate definitions which met expectations of the intuitive use of the word analogy in general contexts. The mathematical formalism presented here permits theoretical analysis of analogy in the contrasting comparison with abstraction, showing its higher level of complexity, providing a precise methodology for its study and informing philosophical reflection. Also, arguments are presented for the legitimate expectation that better understanding of analogy can help mathematics in establishing a unified and universal concept of a structure.

A theoretical analysis of the matching of assets to liabilities

1984 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Wise
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Insurance Contract ◽  
Pension Scheme ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Given ◽  
Future Cash Flows

1.1. This paper is supplementary to another by the same author on the subject of matching. It describes the mathematical analysis of the following problem.1.2. We are given:1. a pattern of expected future cash flows under a pension scheme or insurance contract;2. a set of investments available for purchase; and3. a model of the future behaviour of investment conditions.What set or sets of available investments would provide the best match against the given liabilities in order to minimize any likely surplus or deficiency on completion of the liability cash flows?

Relative precision of vertical and horizontal gravity gradients measured by gravimeter

Geophysics ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigmund Hammer
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Hilbert Transform ◽  
Gravity Data ◽  
Gradient Methods ◽  
Vertical Gradient ◽  
Gravity Gradients ◽  
Relative Precision ◽  
The Hilbert Transform ◽  
Vertical Gradients ◽  
Vertical Gradient Of Gravity

Several recent publications advocate the use of the vertical gradient of gravity from gravimeter measurements at two elevations in a portable tower (Thyssen‐Bornemisza, 1976; Fajklewicz, 1976; Mortimer, 1977). Contrary opinions have also been expressed (Hammer and Anzoleaga, 1975; Stanley and Green, 1976; Thysen‐Bornemisza, 1977; Arzi, 1977). The disagreement revolves around the question of practically attainable precision of the vertical gradient tower method. Although it is possible to calculate both horizontal and vertical gradients from conventional gravity survey data by use of the Hilbert transform (Stanley and Green, 1976), it should be noted that highly precise gravity data are required. Also the need for connected elevation and location surveys, the major cost in gravity surveying, is not avoided. This is a significant advantage of the gradient methods. The purpose here is to present a brief consideration of the relative precision of the horizontal and vertical gradients, as measured in the field by special gravimeter observations.

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