A Conservative View

2014 ◽  
pp. 15-17
Keyword(s):  
Conservative View

Essays in Russian Literature. The Conservative View: Leontiev, Rozanov, Shestov

1969 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 489
Author(s):  
Mary-Barbara Zeldin ◽  
Spencer E. Roberts ◽  
Leontiev ◽  
Rozanov ◽  
Shestov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Conservative View

scholarly journals Remarks on Acceptability and Grammaticality

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Bent Jacobsen
Keyword(s):  
Native Speaker ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Grammaticality Judgments ◽  
Conservative View ◽  
Acceptability Judgments ◽  
Logical Extension

<p>In the present paper a distinction is drawn between <strong>acceptability</strong> and <strong>grammaticality</strong>. These two concepts have often been confounded in the literature. Thus linguists have been prone to say that 'the native speaker makes grammaticality judgments'. Nothing could be more mistaken. He makes acceptability judgments, and that is something entirely different. In this article, I shall make use of the sentence-schema which has been current since Chomsky (1986a) - a logical extension of X-bar syntax. Readers who are not familiar with the basic modules of modern TG-theory are referred to my articles in <em>Hermes</em>, 1 and <em>Hermes</em>, 2 (see references). In these two articles I adhered to the S-bar/S-schema of sentence structure. This is now obsolete. I shall adopt a relatively conservative view of bounding nodes (subjacency); i.e. I make no attempt to introduce the sophisticated theory of barrierhood developed in Chomsky (1986a). This is immaterial to the argument conducted in this paper.</p>

Limits on variances from symmetry in neutral kaon decays

1972 ◽  
Vol 330 (1582) ◽  
pp. 331-347 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Relative Magnitude ◽  
Neutral Kaon ◽  
Leptonic Decay ◽  
Kaon Decays ◽  
Conservative View ◽  
Better Than

An analysis is made o f the limits on the possible departures from CP -, T -, and TCP -invariance, both in the structure of K L and K S states and in the decay amplitudes to xx and xIv channels. A small violation of the requirements of CP - and T -invariance on the structure of K L and K S states can be deduced under quite plausible assumptions, but there is no evidence of any other departure from the requirements of CP -, or T -, or TCP -in variance. However, the present limit for one measure 8 of TCP -noninvariance is several times larger than the estim ated value of the corresponding CP - and T -noninvariance parameter or = Re<K L |K S >. Taking a conservative view of the experimental data, symmetry-violating parts of decay amplitudes are lim ited to better than 1 % for the I = 0 channel and to within a small percentage for the I = 2 channel, in relative magnitude. The corresponding limits which can be deduced for leptonic decay amplitudes are som ewhat larger but there are indications that symmetry-violating amplitudes are unlikely to exceed a small percentage in relative magnitude.

JUSTICE: A CONSERVATIVE VIEW

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kekes
Keyword(s):  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
Conservative View

According to the conservative view defended in this paper, justice holds when people have what they deserve and do not have what they do not deserve. Some of the questions considered are: how to tell what people deserve, why people should get what they deserve, how mistakes in the distribution of good and bad things can be corrected, why all egalitarian theories of justice are fundamentally mistaken, what makes the conservative view of justice practical, and what implications the conservative view has for taxation and prosperity. Familiar objections to the conservative view of justice are also considered and shown to be readily answerable.

Antediluvian pictorial fun: E.T. Reed and the prehistoric peeps

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Horrall
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Local History ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Racial Threat ◽  
British Identity ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Conservative View ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

This chapter is centred on the ‘prehistoric peeps’ cartoons that E.T. Reed began publishing in Punch magazine in 1893. These immensely influential images, which appeared for years and were reproduced throughout the English-speaking world, marked the point at which the cave man character entered popular culture. Reed’s scruffy human cave men were not related to gorillas or missing links and so they posed no existential racial threat. They inhabited a completely fanciful world that is also easily recognisable as an archaic version of late-Victorian Britain. Reed poked gentle fun at contemporary institutions, ideas and events. It was a conservative view of the ancient past that endorsed late-Victorian ideas about gender, class and national identity. Reed’s images were especially popular in the colonies, where they were used to promote a British identity and erase indigenous peoples from local history. Reed’s impact on contemporaries is explored, especially American cartoonists whose imitative images finally popularised cave men in that country. Reed’s cartoons were also recreated on stage by professional and amateur performers in Britain and throughout the empire. Writers explored prehistory in literature. By the turn of the century, Reed’s unthreatening, middle class vision of prehistory predominated.

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