Two Truths and a Lie: Performing Professorhood/Motherhood

2005 ◽  
Vol 118 (467) ◽  
pp. 78-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Heather Carver
Keyword(s):  
Two Truths

Two Truths and a Lie: In re John Z. and Other Stories at the Juncture of Teen Sex and the Law

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (02) ◽  
pp. 364-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Oberman
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Adolescent Sexuality ◽  
Two Truths ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Meaningful Relationship ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
Sexual Encounters ◽  
Criminal Justice Response

Laws governing adolescent sexuality are incoherent and chaotically enforced, and legal scholarship on the subject neither addresses nor remedies adolescents’ vulnerability in sexual encounters. To posit a meaningful relationship between the criminal law and adolescent sexual encounters, one must examine what we know about adolescent sexuality from both the academic literature and the adults who control the criminal justice response to such interactions. This article presents an in-depth study of In re John Z., a 2003 rape prosecution involving two seventeen-year-olds. Using this case, I explore the implications of the prosecution by interviewing a variety of experts and analyzing the contemporary literature on sexual norms among youth. I also relate a series of interviews conducted with the major players in the prosecution. Examining this case from a variety of perspectives permits a deeper understanding of how the law regulates adolescent sexual encounters and why it fails.

scholarly journals On a two-truths phenomenon in spectral graph clustering

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (13) ◽  
pp. 5995-6000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carey E. Priebe ◽  
Youngser Park ◽  
Joshua T. Vogelstein ◽  
John M. Conroy ◽  
Vince Lyzinski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Mri ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Graph Clustering ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Two Truths ◽  
Spectral Graph ◽  
Spectral Embedding ◽  
Mixture Model Clustering ◽  
Theoretical Results ◽  
Embedding Methods

Clustering is concerned with coherently grouping observations without any explicit concept of true groupings. Spectral graph clustering—clustering the vertices of a graph based on their spectral embedding—is commonly approached viaK-means (or, more generally, Gaussian mixture model) clustering composed with either Laplacian spectral embedding (LSE) or adjacency spectral embedding (ASE). Recent theoretical results provide deeper understanding of the problem and solutions and lead us to a “two-truths” LSE vs. ASE spectral graph clustering phenomenon convincingly illustrated here via a diffusion MRI connectome dataset: The different embedding methods yield different clustering results, with LSE capturing left hemisphere/right hemisphere affinity structure and ASE capturing gray matter/white matter core–periphery structure.

scholarly journals THE 'TWO TRUTHS' DOCTRINE (SATYADVAYA) AND THE NATURE OF UPĀYA IN NĀGĀRJUNA

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (133) ◽  
pp. 17-41
Author(s):  
Dilip Loundo
Keyword(s):  
Mahayana Buddhism ◽  
Two Truths ◽  
Structural Framework ◽  
Mahāyāna Buddhism

ABSTRACT The objective of this article is to contribute to the understanding of Nāgārjuna's 'two truths' doctrine (satyadvaya) as presented in the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā ("The Fundamental Verses of the Middle Path") (XXIV.8-10). For that purpose, we argue that 'two truths' doctrine the basic structural framework for the operational functionality of upāya of upāya (lit., 'skilful means'), perhaps the most important epistemological/pedagogical notion of Mahāyāna Buddhism.

Buddhist Reductionist Action Theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Siderits
Keyword(s):  
Action Theory ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Theory Of Action ◽  
Mental Event ◽  
Ultimate Truth ◽  
Two Truths ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Prior Intention ◽  
Psychological Determinism ◽  
Conventional Truth

This essay develops the theory of action presupposed by Buddhist Reductionists. Their account uses the theory of two truths to reconcile the folk theory of human action with the Buddhist claim that there are no agents. The conventional truth has it that persons are substance-causes of actions, and the willings that trigger actions are exercises of a person’s powers in light of their reasons. According to the ultimate truth, there are no persons, only causal series of bundles of tropes. An action is a bodily or mental event in one such series that has the occurrence of a prior intention event as its cause. Facts about causally connected psychophysical elements explain the utility, and thus the conventional truth, of claims about persons as agents. This two-tier account of human agency makes possible a novel approach to making attributions of moral responsibility compatible with psychological determinism.

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