Examples from two territories of medical research work will show the usefulness of signific analysis. Not long ago workers on the clinical and biophysical effects of short wave currents were opposited to each other in different schools. In a former episode the opposition moved about the explaining of short wave effects as "specific" respectively "non-specific". The analysis of the word specific learns, that it entitles a quality, when this quality according to the momental height of our knowledge, is restricted to (...) some sort of things or agents and does not belong to other sorts in the same category. Thus short wave effects are specific, when they are not produced by the longer diathermic wave-length. It is shown however, that like the abusage of similar dutch en german qualifications in ordinary language, the term specific has been reserved by many authors for effects, which they think "interesting". So it may be clear, that a group of workers used the word specific to indicate a non-thermic action. A similar disturbance in understanding followed, when schools called themselves "thermic" and "a-thermic". It is shown, that in the micro-world it is difficult to separate thermic and non-thermic energy, as the former may be a statistic interpretation of the latter. Where thermic specific effects were supposed to be realised in discontinue distribution of the effect of Joule, a discontinuity, which should reach into the world of molecular dimension because of the variability of the electric constants of matter, the volitional resistance against something so "ordinary" like diathermic warmth, led to the non logical opposition of thermists and non-thermists. In a third example, taken from certain problems about the embryologic origin of the autonomic system, it is shown, that a traditional and usual interpretation of the law of the origin of the nervous system from the outer cell-layer may confound the problems. Some questions like the possibility of the mesodermic origin of certain cells of the autonomic system would not be any longer a problem if the law is significally seen as what it is: an a-posterioric description of histiogenetic history. Many terms and problems in medicine will profit by signific analysis and clearing. (shrink)
Il arrive souvent, quand on discute de questions portant sur la théorie de la connaissance, que l’on utilise des concepts qui ont une consonance éthique. On se demande ce qui distingue une bonne hypothèse d’une mauvaise, ou si nous devrions croire ceci ou cela sur la base des données..
As the apparent variant is in the text, Ludvvich alters the scholion into S0009838800018516_inline1, which has not been found in any MS. so far. The only noticeable point prima facie about S0009838800018516_inline2 is that it is an S0009838800018516_inline3 . Therefore I would read S0009838800018516_inline6. Ludwich's index to his A.H.T. gives cases of the omission of ov or OVK in the scholia. We need not restrict S0009838800018516_inline7 There is too much tendency to restrict usage in matters of language. At one time (...) it was believed that μxs22EFποτε was the property of Didymus! S0009838800018516_inline8 ‘passage’ does not occur in the scholia we possess, τόπος however does . Compare the note on H 96S0009838800018516_eqnU1xs22EFν xs1F04λλxs1FF3 xs1F51βριταxs22EF. We must supply in sense χωρxs22EFxs1FF3, for the reference is to Callim. Del. 69, where this is the meaning of xs22EFπειλητxs22EFρες. (shrink)
As the apparent variant is in the text, Ludvvich alters the scholion into S0009838800018516_inline1, which has not been found in any MS. so far. The only noticeable point prima facie about S0009838800018516_inline2 is that it is an S0009838800018516_inline3. Therefore I would read S0009838800018516_inline6. Ludwich's index to his A.H.T. gives cases of the omission of ov or OVK in the scholia. We need not restrict S0009838800018516_inline7 There is too much tendency to restrict usage in matters of language. At one time it (...) was believed that μxs22EFποτε was the property of Didymus! S0009838800018516_inline8 ‘passage’ does not occur in the scholia we possess, τόπος however does. Compare the note on H 96S0009838800018516_eqnU1xs22EFν xs1F04λλxs1FF3 xs1F51βριταxs22EF. We must supply in sense χωρxs22EFxs1FF3, for the reference is to Callim. Del. 69, where this is the meaning of xs22EFπειλητxs22EFρες. (shrink)
1. Some scholia on the Odyssey, very brief but so far the most valuable as the oldest, have been published from a papyrus, parts of which have found their way to London and Vienna, by Kenyon and Wessely, and commented on by Ludwich.
A collection of articles in English, German and French by fourteen Hungarian authors. Of particular interest and value is "Über die erkenntnistheoretischen Ansichten des jungen Marx" by György Markus. Although the footnotes are full of criticisms of the "revisionists", the early Marx is taken seriously as a philosophical thinker in his own right, and an effort is made to lay out what might be a theory of knowledge for this early Marx. Other articles of interest are by Edit Rózsahegyi, "The (...) Place and Role of Purpose in the Process of Cognition" and a criticism of Heisenberg by A. Szabó. On the whole, the articles are genuinely philosophical and deserve attention, although long, boring and dogmatic pieces such as "Objective Contradiction" by G. Tamás, and "Communism and Conditions for the Development of Personality" by A. Wirth are also present.--K. A. M. (shrink)
La curiosité persistante des lecteurs de Primo Levi a pris souvent une forme interrogative et a suscité son engagement. Sa réponse à la question « êtes-vous retourné à Auschwitz ? » se trouve dans un appendice joint à l’édition scolaire de Se questo è un uomo longtemps après sa première parution1.La réponse est oui. Levi est retourné..
