The Villa of Good Fortune at Olynthos

1934 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 501 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Good Fortune

Envy and Social Comparison

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels van de Ven ◽  
Marcel Zeelenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Comparison ◽  
Social Comparisons ◽  
Past Work ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Malicious Envy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Upward Social Comparison

Upward social comparison can give rise to the emotion of envy: the pain caused by the good fortune of others. We explain what envy is, and what the possible function of envy is to an organism experiencing it. We provide an overview of past work on envy, the distinction between two subtypes (benign and malicious envy), possible antecedents of envy, possible consequences of envy, and the responses to being envied by others. In each of these areas there are clear links to research on social comparison, and research on envy has greatly benefitted from insights from the social comparison literature. Given the surge in research on envy in the last decade, we hope that the findings on envy can also inspire those investigating social comparisons.

A new approach to the logic of discovery

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-27
Author(s):  
Gerald Massey
Keyword(s):  
Modal Logic ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Logic Of Discovery ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Deep Sense

Contending that the quest for a logic of scientific discovery was prematurely abandoned, the author lays down eight phenomena that such a logic or theory must explain: the banality of scientific discovery; the trainability of scientists; the high incidence of simultaneous discoveries; the ubiquity of relative novices; the fact of scientific genius; the barrenness of isolated workers; the incommensurability of concepts of successive theories; and the quasi-incorporation of old concepts, objects, and methods in successor theories, The author then presents a new theory or logic of discovery according to which discoveries are the termini of "tweak paths" generated when scientists "tinker" with the laws, concepts, methods, and instruments of a given theory. Tinkering and tweaking are illustrated by examples from many-valued and modal logic and from Darwinian biology. Through the history of planetary discovery, the accidental role played by luck or good fortune in some discoveries is explored, but the author emphasizes that in a deep sense serendipity is an in eliminable feature of all scientific discovery because scientists never know m advance whether their tweaks will lead to dead ends or to positive developments. The author's new theory of scientific discovery is shown to account for all eight explananda, ft also reveals science to be a more egalitarian enterprise than the traditional view of scientific discovery as ultimately inexplicable depicts it.

Fortuna

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Miano
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
And Gender

This book focuses on the Latin goddess Fortuna, one of the better known deities in ancient Italy. The earliest forms of her worship can be traced back to archaic Latium, and she was still a widely recognized allegorical figure during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The main reason for her longevity is that she was a conceptual deity, and had strong associations with chance and good fortune. When they were interacting with the goddess, communities, individuals, and gender and age groups were inevitably also interacting with the concept. These relations were not neutral: they allowed people to renegotiate the concept, enriching it with new meanings and challenging established ones. The geographical and chronological scope of this book is Italy from the archaic age to the late Republic. In this period Italy was a fragmented, multicultural and multilinguistic environment, characterized by a wide circulation of people, customs, and ideas, in which Rome played an increasingly dominant role. All available sources on Fortuna have been used: literary, epigraphic, and archaeological. The study of the goddess based on conceptual analysis will serve to construct a radically new picture of the historical development of this deity in the context of the cultural interactions taking place in ancient Italy. The book also aims at experimenting with a new approach to polytheism, based on the connection between gods and goddesses and concepts.

scholarly journals An Interesting and Productive Research and Clinical Career

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-188
Author(s):  
Samuel M. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Nebraska Medical ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Productive Research ◽  
The University

To begin, I wish to thank the Academy of Toxicological Sciences for bestowing this honor on me. I have had a rewarding career in basic research and clinical medicine, beginning with research in high school and always planning on becoming a physician. I have had the good fortune of having outstanding mentors, wonderful parents, and a supportive and intuitive wife and family. This article provides a brief overview of some of the events of my career and individuals who have played a major role, beginning with the M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin, pathology residency and faculty at St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts, a year as visiting professor at Nagoya City University, and my career at the University of Nebraska Medical Center since 1981. This could not have happened without the strong input and support from these individuals, the numerous students, residents and fellows with whom I have learned so much, and the more than 500 terrific collaborators.

I.—The Complete Building Accounts of the City Churches (Parochial) designed by Sir Christopher Wren

Archaeologia ◽  
1915 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 1-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Short Paper ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Reference Number ◽  
Building Set ◽  
Christopher Wren ◽  
The City

Bound up with other additional matter in the heirloom copy of Wren's Parentalia, on which I read a short paper on the 17th June, 1909;, is an engraving by Hulsbergh. It is an emblematical design of a pyramid dotted with medallions, on each of which is written the name of a Wren building and a reference number. At the sides are two tables giving the costs of each building, set out to the uttermost farthing. No doubt many students of Wren have wondered, as I did, where Hulsbergh got these detailed figures, and by good fortune I have found their source in Bodley's Library, Oxford.

scholarly journals An extract of letter written to the publisher by Mr. Thomas Platt, from Florence, August 6. 1672. concerning some experiments, there made upon vipers, since Mons. Charas his reply to the letter written by Signor Francesco Redi to Monsieur Bourdelot and Monsieur Morus

1672 ◽  
Vol 7 (87) ◽  
pp. 5060-5066
Keyword(s):  
Good Fortune

Sir , I shall begin with telling you, that in a Conversation last Winter, where I had the good fortune to make one of the number, the discourse was of an Opinion of M. Dela chambre , who, to prove that the Spirits are animated, alledges, among other arguments, their Aptness to discern

Almeida's “History of Ethiopia”: Recovery of the Preliminary Matter

1923 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 783-804
Author(s):  
E. Denison Ross
Keyword(s):  
Title Page ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
King's College ◽  
Original Title ◽  
History Of ◽  
Outer Cover

Since the appearance of the last number of this Bulletin I have had the good fortune to find the outer cover of the King's College manuscript of Almeida's History of Ethiopia, which had hitherto been missing. The discovery is important, for attached to this cover there was not only the original title page, but also the “Preliminary Matter” referred to by Marsden in his Catalogue, occupying in all eleven folios. The contents are as follows:—

The Political Good Fortune of Medical Research

Science ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 144 (3616) ◽  
pp. 267-270
Author(s):  
M. Viorst
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Good Fortune

scholarly journals IX. Charters relative to the Priory of Trulegh in Kent; Communicated by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.R.S., F.S.A., in a Letter to John Gage, Esq., F.R.S., Director

Archaeologia ◽  
1832 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 146-150
Author(s):  
Thomas Phillipps
Keyword(s):  
Good Fortune ◽  
A Cell

During my last excursion to France I had the good fortune to preserve some original charters relative to the Priory of Trulegh in Kent, which was a Cell to the Abbey of St. Bertin at St. Omer, in France, of which Priory very little has been discovered either by Dugdale, Tanner, or the Editors of the New Monasticon.

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