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  • 1 until

    حَتَّى \ even: showing a fact from which one may guess other facts: I invited him, but he didn’t even answer my letter (so, clearly, he did not come). It’s cold here, even in summer (so, clearly, it is very cold in winter), showing an unexpected fact: He was very kind; he even lent me some money, (used to give more force to a comparative word): He knows even less than I do. He’s even lazier than you are. in order that: so that; with the purpose that: We hurried in order that we should not arrive late. in order to: so as to; with the intention to: He saved his money in order to buy a bicycle. (no sooner)... than: as soon as: No sooner had I found the key than I lost it again (I lost it very soon after I had found it). so that: used for showing purpose: He helped me with the work so that we’d finish earlier. till: up to the time when: I waited till he was ready. till: up to (a certain time): We waited from 6.30 till midnight. We can’t go till Monday. to: in expressions of place and time; showing where sb. or sth. goes; showing an aim or limit; showing a point that is reached: We walked to school. I was away from June to October. until: up to the time that: She stayed until I returned.

    Arabic-English glossary > until

  • 2 in order that

    حَتَّى \ even: showing a fact from which one may guess other facts: I invited him, but he didn’t even answer my letter (so, clearly, he did not come). It’s cold here, even in summer (so, clearly, it is very cold in winter), showing an unexpected fact: He was very kind; he even lent me some money, (used to give more force to a comparative word): He knows even less than I do. He’s even lazier than you are. in order that: so that; with the purpose that: We hurried in order that we should not arrive late. in order to: so as to; with the intention to: He saved his money in order to buy a bicycle. (no sooner)... than: as soon as: No sooner had I found the key than I lost it again (I lost it very soon after I had found it). so that: used for showing purpose: He helped me with the work so that we’d finish earlier. till: up to the time when: I waited till he was ready. till: up to (a certain time): We waited from 6.30 till midnight. We can’t go till Monday. to: in expressions of place and time; showing where sb. or sth. goes; showing an aim or limit; showing a point that is reached: We walked to school. I was away from June to October. until: up to the time that: She stayed until I returned.

    Arabic-English glossary > in order that

  • 3 so that

    حَتَّى \ even: showing a fact from which one may guess other facts: I invited him, but he didn’t even answer my letter (so, clearly, he did not come). It’s cold here, even in summer (so, clearly, it is very cold in winter), showing an unexpected fact: He was very kind; he even lent me some money, (used to give more force to a comparative word): He knows even less than I do. He’s even lazier than you are. in order that: so that; with the purpose that: We hurried in order that we should not arrive late. in order to: so as to; with the intention to: He saved his money in order to buy a bicycle. (no sooner)... than: as soon as: No sooner had I found the key than I lost it again (I lost it very soon after I had found it). so that: used for showing purpose: He helped me with the work so that we’d finish earlier. till: up to the time when: I waited till he was ready. till: up to (a certain time): We waited from 6.30 till midnight. We can’t go till Monday. to: in expressions of place and time; showing where sb. or sth. goes; showing an aim or limit; showing a point that is reached: We walked to school. I was away from June to October. until: up to the time that: She stayed until I returned.

    Arabic-English glossary > so that

  • 4 и только после того, как он...

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > и только после того, как он...

  • 5 faltar

    v.
    1 to lack, to be missing, to have not enough.
    Me falta comida I lack food.
    Me falta comida I lack food.
    Falta un tornillo A screw is missing.
    2 to be lacking, to be needed.
    falta aire there's not enough air
    falta sal it needs a bit of salt
    3 to be necessary, to have yet to, to have still to. (hacer falta).
    me falta tiempo I need time
    para que su felicidad fuera completa sólo faltaba que viniera su hijo all it needed to make her happiness complete was for her son to arrive
    ¡lo que me faltaba! that's all I needed!
    sólo le faltó ponerse a llorar he did everything but burst into tears
    Me falta terminar esto I have still to finish this.
    4 to be absent or missing (estar ausente).
    falta Elena Elena is missing
    el día que yo falte when I have passed on
    Falta María Mary is absent.
    5 to offend.
    Me faltó mi hermana My sister offended me.
    Me faltó mi hermano My brother offended me.
    6 to omit, to skip.
    7 to become scarce for.
    Me faltó el dinero Money became scarce for me.
    Me faltó el dinero Money became scarce for me.
    8 to be not enough.
    Falta comida There is not enough food.
    9 to be yet to.
    Falta barrer There is yet to sweep.
    10 to be offended.
    Se me faltó I was offended.
    * * *
    1 (no estar una cosa) to be missing; (una persona) to be absent
    ■ ¿quién falta? who's missing?
    ■ mañana a las tres, ¡no faltes! tomorrow at three, be sure to come!
    2 (haber poco) to be lacking, be needed
    ■ falta (más) leche we need (more) milk, there isn't enough milk
    3 (no tener) to lack, not have (enough)
    4 (quedar) to remain, be left
    ■ ¿cuánto falta para Alicante? how much further is it to Alicante?
    ■ falta poco para que... it won't be long till...
    5 (no respetar) to insult, be rude to
    \
    faltar a la verdad not to tell the truth, lie
    faltar a su deber to fail in one's duty
    faltar a su palabra to break one's word
    faltar a su promesa not to keep one's promise
    faltar al respeto a alguien to be rude to somebody, insult somebody
    faltar en los pagos not to keep up with the payments
    ¡lo que me (te, le, etc) faltaba! that's all I (you, he, etc) needed!
    ¡no faltaba más! (por supuesto) of course!, but of course! 2 (por supuesto que no) absolutely not!
    ¡sólo me (te, le, etc) faltaba eso! that's all I (you, he, etc) needed!
    * * *
    verb
    3) be unfaithful, break
    * * *
    VI
    1) (=no haber suficiente)

    • faltar algo a algn, le falta todavía un impreso — you still need another form

    ¿te falta dinero? — do you need any money?

    2) (=no estar) to be missing

    ¿quién falta? — who's missing?, who's not here?

    no podemos irnos, falta Manolo — we can't go, Manolo isn't here yet

    • no faltar, un desayuno en el que no faltan los huevos y el beicon — a breakfast which doesn't fail to include eggs and bacon

    no falta quien opina que... — there are those who think that...

    3) (=no ir)

    ¡no faltaré! — I'll be there!

    • faltar a una cita — [de negocios] to miss an appointment, not to turn up for an appointment; [con amigo] not to turn up for a date

    • faltar a clase — to miss school

    • faltar al trabajo — to be off work

    4) (=quedar)

    falta todavía bastante por hacer — there is still quite a lot to be done, quite a lot remains to be done

    • falta mucho todavía — there's plenty of time to go yet

    ¿falta mucho? — is there long to go?

    ¿te falta mucho? — will you be long?

    • faltar para algo, faltan tres semanas para las elecciones — there are three weeks to go to the election, the election is three weeks off

    faltan cinco para las siete — LAm it's five to seven

    • falta poco para las ocho — it's nearly eight o'clock, it's getting on for eight o'clock

    5) (=estar a punto de)
    6) (=insultar)

    ¡sin faltar!, ¿eh? — keep it polite, right?

    faltar a algn — (=ofender) to offend sb; (=ser infiel a) to be unfaithful to sb; (=no apoyar) to fail sb

    faltar a algn al respeto — to be rude to sb, be disrespectful to sb

    7) (=no cumplir)

    • faltar en algo, faltar en los pagos — to default on one's payments

    decencia 1), palabra 4), promesa 1., 1), respeto 1), verdad 1)
    8) euf (=estar muerto)
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo
    1)
    a) ( no estar) to be missing

    ¿quién falta? — who's missing?; (en colegio, reunión de trabajo) who's absent?

    falta de su domicilio — she has been missing from home; (+ me/te/le etc)

    más vale que sobre comida y no que falte — it's better to have too much food than too little; (+ me/te/le etc)

    2) ( quedar)

    yo estoy lista ¿a ti te falta mucho? — I'm ready, will you be long?

    falta poco para las diez — it's almost o nearly ten o'clock

    ¿te falta mucho para terminar? — will it take you long to finish?

    ¿falta mucho para que llegue? — will it be long until she arrives?

    nos falta poco para terminar/llegar — we're almost finished/there

    aún falta mucho — ( tiempo) there's plenty of time yet; ( distancia) there's a long way to go yet

    esto es lo único que faltaba! — (iró) that's all I/we needed! (iro)

    no faltaba or faltaría más! — ( respuesta - a un agradecimiento) don't mention it!; (- a una petición) of course, certainly; (- a un ofrecimiento) I wouldn't hear of it!; ( expresando indignación) whatever next!

    3)

    te esperamos, no faltes — we're expecting you, make sure you come

    faltar a algo — al colegio/a clase to be absent from something; a una cita to miss something

    faltar a algo: faltó a su promesa/palabra he didn't keep his promise/word; no me faltes al or (CS) el respeto! don't be rude to me; faltas a la verdad — you are not telling the truth

    * * *
    = lack, be lacking, be short of.
    Ex. I think that we have established a communication which we have lacked in the past.
    Ex. The blame was not theirs that they were so lacking in gumption.
    Ex. Libraries are ordinarily short of space for collections, staff, and readers = Generalmente, las bibliotecas andan faltas de espacio para las colecciones, el personal y los lectores.
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    * al que no se puede dejar de faltar = unmissable.
    * empezar a faltar = be in short supply, be at a premium.
    * faltar a clase = play + hooky, skip + class, play + truant, bunk off, bunk + classes, skive, bunk + school.
    * faltar al respeto = disrespect, diss.
    * faltar a una clase = miss + class, cut + class.
    * faltar a una promesa = go back on + Posesivo + promise.
    * faltar de = be absent (from).
    * faltar el canto de un duro para = by the skin of + Posesivo + teeth, come + very close to.
    * faltar el respeto = disrespect, diss.
    * faltar mucho = be a long way off.
    * faltar mucho (para) = there + be + a long way to go (before), have + a long way to go (before).
    * faltar poco (para) = have + a short way to go (before).
    * faltar un poco = be some way off.
    * faltar versatilidad = be a one-trip pony.
    * no faltar el respeto = be civil towards.
    * para que no falte = for good measure.
    * para que no falte de nada = for good measure.
    * para que no vaya a faltar = for good measure.
    * pieza clave que falta = missing piece.
    * trabajo + no faltar = have + Posesivo + work cut out for + Pronombre, have + Posesivo + job cut out for + Pronombre.
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo
    1)
    a) ( no estar) to be missing

    ¿quién falta? — who's missing?; (en colegio, reunión de trabajo) who's absent?

    falta de su domicilio — she has been missing from home; (+ me/te/le etc)

    más vale que sobre comida y no que falte — it's better to have too much food than too little; (+ me/te/le etc)

    2) ( quedar)

    yo estoy lista ¿a ti te falta mucho? — I'm ready, will you be long?

    falta poco para las diez — it's almost o nearly ten o'clock

    ¿te falta mucho para terminar? — will it take you long to finish?

    ¿falta mucho para que llegue? — will it be long until she arrives?

    nos falta poco para terminar/llegar — we're almost finished/there

    aún falta mucho — ( tiempo) there's plenty of time yet; ( distancia) there's a long way to go yet

    esto es lo único que faltaba! — (iró) that's all I/we needed! (iro)

    no faltaba or faltaría más! — ( respuesta - a un agradecimiento) don't mention it!; (- a una petición) of course, certainly; (- a un ofrecimiento) I wouldn't hear of it!; ( expresando indignación) whatever next!

    3)

    te esperamos, no faltes — we're expecting you, make sure you come

    faltar a algo — al colegio/a clase to be absent from something; a una cita to miss something

    faltar a algo: faltó a su promesa/palabra he didn't keep his promise/word; no me faltes al or (CS) el respeto! don't be rude to me; faltas a la verdad — you are not telling the truth

    * * *
    = lack, be lacking, be short of.

    Ex: I think that we have established a communication which we have lacked in the past.

    Ex: The blame was not theirs that they were so lacking in gumption.
    Ex: Libraries are ordinarily short of space for collections, staff, and readers = Generalmente, las bibliotecas andan faltas de espacio para las colecciones, el personal y los lectores.
    * al que no se puede dejar de faltar = unmissable.
    * empezar a faltar = be in short supply, be at a premium.
    * faltar a clase = play + hooky, skip + class, play + truant, bunk off, bunk + classes, skive, bunk + school.
    * faltar al respeto = disrespect, diss.
    * faltar a una clase = miss + class, cut + class.
    * faltar a una promesa = go back on + Posesivo + promise.
    * faltar de = be absent (from).
    * faltar el canto de un duro para = by the skin of + Posesivo + teeth, come + very close to.
    * faltar el respeto = disrespect, diss.
    * faltar mucho = be a long way off.
    * faltar mucho (para) = there + be + a long way to go (before), have + a long way to go (before).
    * faltar poco (para) = have + a short way to go (before).
    * faltar un poco = be some way off.
    * faltar versatilidad = be a one-trip pony.
    * no faltar el respeto = be civil towards.
    * para que no falte = for good measure.
    * para que no falte de nada = for good measure.
    * para que no vaya a faltar = for good measure.
    * pieza clave que falta = missing piece.
    * trabajo + no faltar = have + Posesivo + work cut out for + Pronombre, have + Posesivo + job cut out for + Pronombre.

    * * *
    faltar [A1 ]
    vi
    A
    1 (no estar) to be missing
    aquí faltan tres recibos there are three receipts missing
    falta dinero de la caja there's some money missing from the till
    ¿estamos todos? — no, falta Inés are we all here? — no, Inés is missing o Inés isn't here
    (+ me/te/le etc): te falta un botón you have a button missing, you're missing a button
    revisen sus bolsos a ver si les falta algo check your bags to see if there's anything missing
    le faltan todos los dientes de abajo he's lost all his bottom teeth
    a esta taza le falta el asa there's no handle on this cup
    a la muñeca le falta un brazo the doll is missing an arm, the doll has an arm missing
    falta de su domicilio desde hace un mes she has been missing from home for a month
    el día que yo falte ¿qué va a ser de este chico? ( euf); what will become of this boy when I'm gone? ( euph)
    2
    (no haber suficiente): no faltará vino there will be plenty of wine, there will be no shortage of wine
    más vale que sobre comida y no que falte it's better to have too much food than too little
    (+ me/te/le etc): me falta el aire I can't breathe
    nos faltó tiempo para terminar we didn't have enough time to finish
    le falta experiencia he lacks experience, he doesn't have enough/any experience
    ganas no me faltan, pero no tengo dinero I'd love to, but I haven't got any money
    (no haber): no falta quien piensa que fue un error there are those who think it was a mistake
    no faltará oportunidad de retribuirles la atención there will be plenty of opportunities to return their kindness
    4
    (hacer falta): le falta alguien que la aconseje she needs someone to advise her
    le falta un objetivo en la vida he needs a goal in life
    B
    (quedar): yo estoy lista ¿a ti te falta mucho? I'm ready, will you be long?
    a la carne le faltarán unos 15 minutos the meat needs another 15 minutes or so
    sólo me falta pasarlo a máquina all I have to do is type it out, I just need to type it out
    el pastel está listo, sólo falta decorarlo the cake is ready, it just needs decorating
    todavía me falta pintar la puerta I still have to paint the door, I've still got the door to paint
    falta poco para Pascua it's not long until Easter
    faltaba poco para las diez it was almost o nearly ten o'clock, it was going on for ten o'clock ( BrE)
    sólo faltan cinco minutos para que empiece la carrera there are just five minutes to go before the race starts
    ¿falta mucho para que llegue la abuela? will it be long until grandma arrives?
    ya falta poco para llegar we're nearly o almost there now
    se puso furioso, poco faltó para que me pegara he got so angry, he nearly hit me
    me faltan tres páginas para terminar el libro I have three pages to go to finish the book
    ¿te falta mucho para terminar? will it take you long to finish?, have you got much more to do?
    todavía faltan muchas cosas por hacer there are still a lot of things to do
    ¡esto es lo único que faltaba! ( iró); that's all I/we needed! ( iro)
    ¡lo que me faltaba por oír! now I've heard everything!
    ¡faltaría or no faltaba más! (en respuesta — a un agradecimiento) don't mention it!, you're welcome!; (— a un pedido) of course, certainly; (— a un ofrecimiento, una atención) I wouldn't hear of it!; (expresando indignación) can you imagine!, whatever next!
    pase usted primero — ¡no faltaba más! after you — no, after you!
    C
    1
    (no asistir): te esperamos, no faltes we're expecting you, make sure you come
    faltar A algo to be absent FROM sth
    falta mucho a clase he's often absent (from school), he misses a lot of classes
    esta semana ha faltado dos veces al trabajo she's been off work twice this week, she's stayed home from work twice this week ( AmE)
    nunca falta a una cita he never misses an appointment
    2 (no cumplir) faltar A algo:
    faltó a su promesa/palabra he didn't keep his promise/word, he broke his promise/word
    ¡no le faltes al or (CS) el respeto a tu padre! don't be rude to your father
    no le falté I wasn't rude to him
    faltas a la verdad you are not telling the truth
    * * *

     

    faltar ( conjugate faltar) verbo intransitivo
    1

    ◊ ¿quién falta? who's missing?;


    (en colegio, reunión) who's absent?;

    a esta taza le falta el asa there's no handle on this cup


    nos faltó tiempo we didn't have enough time


    les falta cariño they need affection
    2 ( quedar):
    ◊ yo estoy lista ¿a ti te falta mucho? I'm ready, will you be long?;

    nos falta poco para terminar we're almost finished;
    me faltan tres páginas para terminar el libro I have three pages to go to finish the book;
    solo me falta pasarlo a máquina all I have to do is type it out;
    falta poco para Navidad it's not long until Christmas;
    faltan cinco minutos para que empiece there are five minutes to go before it starts;
    ¡no faltaba más! ( respuesta — a un agradecimiento) don't mention it!;

    (— a una petición) of course, certainly;
    (— a un ofrecimiento) I wouldn't hear of it!
    3
    a) ( no asistir):

    ◊ te esperamos, no faltes we're expecting you, make sure you come;

    faltar a algo ‹ al colegio› to be absent from sth;

    ‹ a una cita› to miss sth;

    ha faltado dos veces al trabajo she's been off work twice
    b) ( no cumplir):


    ¡no me faltes al respeto! don't be rude to me
    faltar verbo intransitivo
    1 (estar ausente) to be missing: falta el jefe, the boss is missing
    2 (no tener) to be lacking: le falta personalidad, he lacks personality
    3 (restar) to be left: aún falta para la Navidad, it's a long time until Christmas
    faltó poco para que ganaran, they very nearly won
    no falta nada por hacer, there's nothing more to be done
    sólo me falta el último capítulo por leer, I've only got the last chapter to read
    4 (no acudir) tu hermano faltó a la cita, your brother didn't turn up/come
    5 (incumplir) eso es faltar a la verdad, that is not telling the truth
    faltar uno a su palabra, to break one's word
    6 (insultar) faltar a alguien, to be rude to someone: ¡sin faltar!, don't be rude!
    (ofender) no era mi intención faltarte al respeto, I didn't mean to be rude to you
    ♦ Locuciones: ¡lo que faltaba!, that's all it needed!
    ¡no faltaba más!, (but) of course!
    ' faltar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ahogarse
    - quedar
    - respeto
    - tornillo
    English:
    default setting
    - go back on
    - missing
    - unaccounted
    - word
    - absent
    - go
    - hooky
    - miss
    - skip
    - truant
    * * *
    faltar vi
    1. [no haber] to be lacking, to be needed;
    falta aire there's not enough air;
    le falta sal it needs a bit of salt;
    faltó comida there wasn't enough food;
    a esta casa no le falta nada this house lacks nothing o has everything;
    después del robo faltaban dos cuadros after the robbery, two paintings were missing;
    abrí la cartera y me faltaban varios documentos I opened my briefcase and several documents were missing
    2. [estar ausente] to be absent o missing;
    falta Elena Elena is missing;
    el día que yo falte when I have passed on;
    falta de su domicilio desde hace tres semanas she has been missing (from home) for three weeks
    3. [no acudir]
    sólo faltaron mis padres only my parents weren't there o failed to turn up;
    faltar a una cita not to turn up at an appointment;
    ¡no faltes (a la cita)! don't miss it!, be there!;
    ha faltado a clase tres veces esta semana she has been absent o off three days this week;
    últimamente ha faltado mucho al trabajo he's been off work a lot recently, he's had a lot of time off work recently
    4. [no cumplir]
    faltó a su palabra she went back on her word, she broke o didn't keep her word;
    faltó a su obligación he neglected his duty;
    faltó a la verdad she wasn't being truthful, she wasn't telling the truth
    5. [ofender]
    faltar a alguien en algo to offend sb in sth;
    faltar a alguien al respeto to be disrespectful to sb;
    ¡a mí no me faltes!, ¡sin faltar! don't you speak to me like that!
    6. [no tener]
    le faltan las fuerzas he lacks o doesn't have the strength;
    le falta experiencia she lacks experience;
    le falta una mano he has got only one hand;
    al equipo le faltan buenos defensas the team is short of good defenders;
    le falta una pata a la mesa the table is missing a leg;
    me faltan palabras para expresar mi agradecimiento I can't find the words to express my gratitude
    7. [hacer falta]
    me falta tiempo I need time;
    nos va a faltar cerveza we're going to run out of beer, we're not going to have enough beer;
    para que su felicidad fuera completa sólo faltaba que viniera su hijo all it needed to make her happiness complete was for her son to arrive;
    ganas no nos faltan, pero no vamos a poder ir it isn't because we don't want to, but we won't be able to go;
    sólo le faltó ponerse a llorar he did everything but burst into tears;
    ¡lo que me faltaba! that's all I needed!;
    ¡lo que faltaba, otro pinchazo! that's all I needed, another flat tyre!
    8. [quedar]
    falta mucho por hacer there is still a lot to be done;
    falta poco para llenar del todo el camión the truck o Br lorry is almost completely full now;
    sólo te falta firmar all you have to do is sign;
    falta un mes para las vacaciones there's a month to go till the holidays;
    ¿falta mucho para el final? is there long to go?;
    falta poco para las once it's nearly eleven o'clock;
    falta poco para que llegue it won't be long till he arrives, he'll soon be here;
    ¿cuánto falta para Bogotá? how much further is it to Bogota?;
    aún faltan 10 kilómetros there are still 10 kilometres to go;
    faltó poco para que lo matase I very nearly killed him;
    ¿lo mató? – poco faltó did she kill him? – very nearly
    9. Euf [morir] to pass away
    10. [en frases]
    ¡no faltaba o [m5] faltaría más! [asentimiento] of course!;
    [rechazo] that tops it all!, that's a bit much!;
    claro que puedes usar mi teléfono, ¡no faltaba o [m5] faltaría más! of course you can use my telephone, there's no need for you to ask;
    por supuesto que no te dejo ir, ¡faltaría más! of course I'm not letting you go, what can you be thinking of!
    * * *
    v/i
    1 be missing;
    cuando falten mis padres when my parents die
    2 ( quedar)
    :
    falta una hora there’s an hour to go;
    faltan 10 kilómetros there are 10 kilometers to go;
    sólo falta hacer la salsa there’s only the sauce to do;
    falta poco para las diez it’s almost o nearly ten o’clock;
    falta poco para que empiece la película it won’t be long before the film starts, the film will be starting soon;
    faltó poco para que me cayera I almost o nearly fell;
    y por si faltaba algo … and as if that wasn’t enough …
    3
    :
    faltar a be absent from;
    faltar a clase miss class, be absent from class
    4
    :
    faltar a alguien be disrespectful to s.o.;
    faltar a su palabra not keep one’s word
    5
    :
    ¡no faltaba o
    faltaría más! ( por supuesto) certainly!, of course!; (de ninguna manera) certainly not!;
    ¡lo que faltaba! that’s all I/we etc needed!
    * * *
    faltar vi
    1) : to be lacking, to be needed
    me falta ayuda: I need help
    2) : to be absent, to be missing
    3) quedar: to remain, to be left
    faltan pocos días para la fiesta: the party is just a few days away
    4)
    ¡no faltaba más! : don't mention it!, you're welcome!
    * * *
    faltar vb
    1. (no estar) to be missing
    2. (no haber suficiente) not to be enough
    3. (carecer de) to lack
    4. (no acudir) to miss
    5. (quedar tiempo) to be left
    6. (quedar por hacer) to have to do
    7. (ofender, molestar) to be rude
    faltar a tu palabra to break your word [pt. broke; pp. broken]
    no faltaba más / faltaría más (desde luego) of course / certainly (ni pensarlo) no way

    Spanish-English dictionary > faltar

  • 6 Philosophy

       And what I believe to be more important here is that I find in myself an infinity of ideas of certain things which cannot be assumed to be pure nothingness, even though they may have perhaps no existence outside of my thought. These things are not figments of my imagination, even though it is within my power to think of them or not to think of them; on the contrary, they have their own true and immutable natures. Thus, for example, when I imagine a triangle, even though there may perhaps be no such figure anywhere in the world outside of my thought, nor ever have been, nevertheless the figure cannot help having a certain determinate nature... or essence, which is immutable and eternal, which I have not invented and which does not in any way depend upon my mind. (Descartes, 1951, p. 61)
       Let us console ourselves for not knowing the possible connections between a spider and the rings of Saturn, and continue to examine what is within our reach. (Voltaire, 1961, p. 144)
       As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of "mind" with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l'esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part. (Koestler, 1964, p. 148)
       It has been made of late a reproach against natural philosophy that it has struck out on a path of its own, and has separated itself more and more widely from the other sciences which are united by common philological and historical studies. The opposition has, in fact, been long apparent, and seems to me to have grown up mainly under the influence of the Hegelian philosophy, or, at any rate, to have been brought out into more distinct relief by that philosophy.... The sole object of Kant's "Critical Philosophy" was to test the sources and the authority of our knowledge, and to fix a definite scope and standard for the researches of philosophy, as compared with other sciences.... [But Hegel's] "Philosophy of Identity" was bolder. It started with the hypothesis that not only spiritual phenomena, but even the actual world-nature, that is, and man-were the result of an act of thought on the part of a creative mind, similar, it was supposed, in kind to the human mind.... The philosophers accused the scientific men of narrowness; the scientific men retorted that the philosophers were crazy. And so it came about that men of science began to lay some stress on the banishment of all philosophic influences from their work; while some of them, including men of the greatest acuteness, went so far as to condemn philosophy altogether, not merely as useless, but as mischievous dreaming. Thus, it must be confessed, not only were the illegitimate pretensions of the Hegelian system to subordinate to itself all other studies rejected, but no regard was paid to the rightful claims of philosophy, that is, the criticism of the sources of cognition, and the definition of the functions of the intellect. (Helmholz, quoted in Dampier, 1966, pp. 291-292)
       Philosophy remains true to its classical tradition by renouncing it. (Habermas, 1972, p. 317)
       I have not attempted... to put forward any grand view of the nature of philosophy; nor do I have any such grand view to put forth if I would. It will be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the history of "howlers" and progress in philosophy as the debunking of howlers. It will also be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the enterprise of putting forward a priori truths about the world.... I see philosophy as a field which has certain central questions, for example, the relation between thought and reality.... It seems obvious that in dealing with these questions philosophers have formulated rival research programs, that they have put forward general hypotheses, and that philosophers within each major research program have modified their hypotheses by trial and error, even if they sometimes refuse to admit that that is what they are doing. To that extent philosophy is a "science." To argue about whether philosophy is a science in any more serious sense seems to me to be hardly a useful occupation.... It does not seem to me important to decide whether science is philosophy or philosophy is science as long as one has a conception of both that makes both essential to a responsible view of the world and of man's place in it. (Putnam, 1975, p. xvii)
       What can philosophy contribute to solving the problem of the relation [of] mind to body? Twenty years ago, many English-speaking philosophers would have answered: "Nothing beyond an analysis of the various mental concepts." If we seek knowledge of things, they thought, it is to science that we must turn. Philosophy can only cast light upon our concepts of those things.
       This retreat from things to concepts was not undertaken lightly. Ever since the seventeenth century, the great intellectual fact of our culture has been the incredible expansion of knowledge both in the natural and in the rational sciences (mathematics, logic).
       The success of science created a crisis in philosophy. What was there for philosophy to do? Hume had already perceived the problem in some degree, and so surely did Kant, but it was not until the twentieth century, with the Vienna Circle and with Wittgenstein, that the difficulty began to weigh heavily. Wittgenstein took the view that philosophy could do no more than strive to undo the intellectual knots it itself had tied, so achieving intellectual release, and even a certain illumination, but no knowledge. A little later, and more optimistically, Ryle saw a positive, if reduced role, for philosophy in mapping the "logical geography" of our concepts: how they stood to each other and how they were to be analyzed....
       Since that time, however, philosophers in the "analytic" tradition have swung back from Wittgensteinian and even Rylean pessimism to a more traditional conception of the proper role and tasks of philosophy. Many analytic philosophers now would accept the view that the central task of philosophy is to give an account, or at least play a part in giving an account, of the most general nature of things and of man. (Armstrong, 1990, pp. 37-38)
       8) Philosophy's Evolving Engagement with Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
       In the beginning, the nature of philosophy's engagement with artificial intelligence and cognitive science was clear enough. The new sciences of the mind were to provide the long-awaited vindication of the most potent dreams of naturalism and materialism. Mind would at last be located firmly within the natural order. We would see in detail how the most perplexing features of the mental realm could be supported by the operations of solely physical laws upon solely physical stuff. Mental causation (the power of, e.g., a belief to cause an action) would emerge as just another species of physical causation. Reasoning would be understood as a kind of automated theorem proving. And the key to both was to be the depiction of the brain as the implementation of multiple higher level programs whose task was to manipulate and transform symbols or representations: inner items with one foot in the physical (they were realized as brain states) and one in the mental (they were bearers of contents, and their physical gymnastics were cleverly designed to respect semantic relationships such as truth preservation). (A. Clark, 1996, p. 1)
       Socrates of Athens famously declared that "the unexamined life is not worth living," and his motto aptly explains the impulse to philosophize. Taking nothing for granted, philosophy probes and questions the fundamental presuppositions of every area of human inquiry.... [P]art of the job of the philosopher is to keep at a certain critical distance from current doctrines, whether in the sciences or the arts, and to examine instead how the various elements in our world-view clash, or fit together. Some philosophers have tried to incorporate the results of these inquiries into a grand synoptic view of the nature of reality and our human relationship to it. Others have mistrusted system-building, and seen their primary role as one of clarifications, or the removal of obstacles along the road to truth. But all have shared the Socratic vision of using the human intellect to challenge comfortable preconceptions, insisting that every aspect of human theory and practice be subjected to continuing critical scrutiny....
       Philosophy is, of course, part of a continuing tradition, and there is much to be gained from seeing how that tradition originated and developed. But the principal object of studying the materials in this book is not to pay homage to past genius, but to enrich one's understanding of central problems that are as pressing today as they have always been-problems about knowledge, truth and reality, the nature of the mind, the basis of right action, and the best way to live. These questions help to mark out the territory of philosophy as an academic discipline, but in a wider sense they define the human predicament itself; they will surely continue to be with us for as long as humanity endures. (Cottingham, 1996, pp. xxi-xxii)
       In his study of ancient Greek culture, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche drew what would become a famous distinction, between the Dionysian spirit, the untamed spirit of art and creativity, and the Apollonian, that of reason and self-control. The story of Greek civilization, and all civilizations, Nietzsche implied, was the gradual victory of Apollonian man, with his desire for control over nature and himself, over Dionysian man, who survives only in myth, poetry, music, and drama. Socrates and Plato had attacked the illusions of art as unreal, and had overturned the delicate cultural balance by valuing only man's critical, rational, and controlling consciousness while denigrating his vital life instincts as irrational and base. The result of this division is "Alexandrian man," the civilized and accomplished Greek citizen of the later ancient world, who is "equipped with the greatest forces of knowledge" but in whom the wellsprings of creativity have dried up. (Herman, 1997, pp. 95-96)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Philosophy

  • 7 Salazar, Antônio de Oliveira

    (1889-1970)
       The Coimbra University professor of finance and economics and one of the founders of the Estado Novo, who came to dominate Western Europe's longest surviving authoritarian system. Salazar was born on 28 April 1889, in Vimieiro, Beira Alta province, the son of a peasant estate manager and a shopkeeper. Most of his first 39 years were spent as a student, and later as a teacher in a secondary school and a professor at Coimbra University's law school. Nine formative years were spent at Viseu's Catholic Seminary (1900-09), preparing for the Catholic priesthood, but the serious, studious Salazar decided to enter Coimbra University instead in 1910, the year the Braganza monarchy was overthrown and replaced by the First Republic. Salazar received some of the highest marks of his generation of students and, in 1918, was awarded a doctoral degree in finance and economics. Pleading inexperience, Salazar rejected an invitation in August 1918 to become finance minister in the "New Republic" government of President Sidónio Pais.
       As a celebrated academic who was deeply involved in Coimbra University politics, publishing works on the troubled finances of the besieged First Republic, and a leader of Catholic organizations, Sala-zar was not as modest, reclusive, or unknown as later official propaganda led the public to believe. In 1921, as a Catholic deputy, he briefly served in the First Republic's turbulent congress (parliament) but resigned shortly after witnessing but one stormy session. Salazar taught at Coimbra University as of 1916, and continued teaching until April 1928. When the military overthrew the First Republic in May 1926, Salazar was offered the Ministry of Finance and held office for several days. The ascetic academic, however, resigned his post when he discovered the degree of disorder in Lisbon's government and when his demands for budget authority were rejected.
       As the military dictatorship failed to reform finances in the following years, Salazar was reinvited to become minister of finances in April 1928. Since his conditions for acceptance—authority over all budget expenditures, among other powers—were accepted, Salazar entered the government. Using the Ministry of Finance as a power base, following several years of successful financial reforms, Salazar was named interim minister of colonies (1930) and soon garnered sufficient prestige and authority to become head of the entire government. In July 1932, Salazar was named prime minister, the first civilian to hold that post since the 1926 military coup.
       Salazar gathered around him a team of largely academic experts in the cabinet during the period 1930-33. His government featured several key policies: Portuguese nationalism, colonialism (rebuilding an empire in shambles), Catholicism, and conservative fiscal management. Salazar's government came to be called the Estado Novo. It went through three basic phases during Salazar's long tenure in office, and Salazar's role underwent changes as well. In the early years (1928-44), Salazar and the Estado Novo enjoyed greater vigor and popularity than later. During the middle years (1944—58), the regime's popularity waned, methods of repression increased and hardened, and Salazar grew more dogmatic in his policies and ways. During the late years (1958-68), the regime experienced its most serious colonial problems, ruling circles—including Salazar—aged and increasingly failed, and opposition burgeoned and grew bolder.
       Salazar's plans for stabilizing the economy and strengthening social and financial programs were shaken with the impact of the civil war (1936-39) in neighboring Spain. Salazar strongly supported General Francisco Franco's Nationalist rebels, the eventual victors in the war. But, as the civil war ended and World War II began in September 1939, Salazar's domestic plans had to be adjusted. As Salazar came to monopolize Lisbon's power and authority—indeed to embody the Estado Novo itself—during crises that threatened the future of the regime, he assumed ever more key cabinet posts. At various times between 1936 and 1944, he took over the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of War (Defense), until the crises passed. At the end of the exhausting period of World War II, there were rumors that the former professor would resign from government and return to Coimbra University, but Salazar continued as the increasingly isolated, dominating "recluse of São Bento," that part of the parliament's buildings housing the prime minister's offices and residence.
       Salazar dominated the Estado Novo's government in several ways: in day-to-day governance, although this diminished as he delegated wider powers to others after 1944, and in long-range policy decisions, as well as in the spirit and image of the system. He also launched and dominated the single party, the União Nacional. A lifelong bachelor who had once stated that he could not leave for Lisbon because he had to care for his aged mother, Salazar never married, but lived with a beloved housekeeper from his Coimbra years and two adopted daughters. During his 36-year tenure as prime minister, Salazar engineered the important cabinet reshuffles that reflect the history of the Estado Novo and of Portugal.
       A number of times, in connection with significant events, Salazar decided on important cabinet officer changes: 11 April 1933 (the adoption of the Estado Novo's new 1933 Constitution); 18 January 1936 (the approach of civil war in Spain and the growing threat of international intervention in Iberian affairs during the unstable Second Spanish Republic of 1931-36); 4 September 1944 (the Allied invasion of Europe at Normandy and the increasing likelihood of a defeat of the Fascists by the Allies, which included the Soviet Union); 14 August 1958 (increased domestic dissent and opposition following the May-June 1958 presidential elections in which oppositionist and former regime stalwart-loyalist General Humberto Delgado garnered at least 25 percent of the national vote, but lost to regime candidate, Admiral Américo Tomás); 13 April 1961 (following the shock of anticolonial African insurgency in Portugal's colony of Angola in January-February 1961, the oppositionist hijacking of a Portuguese ocean liner off South America by Henrique Galvão, and an abortive military coup that failed to oust Salazar from office); and 19 August 1968 (the aging of key leaders in the government, including the now gravely ill Salazar, and the defection of key younger followers).
       In response to the 1961 crisis in Africa and to threats to Portuguese India from the Indian government, Salazar assumed the post of minister of defense (April 1961-December 1962). The failing leader, whose true state of health was kept from the public for as long as possible, appointed a group of younger cabinet officers in the 1960s, but no likely successors were groomed to take his place. Two of the older generation, Teotónio Pereira, who was in bad health, and Marcello Caetano, who preferred to remain at the University of Lisbon or in private law practice, remained in the political wilderness.
       As the colonial wars in three African territories grew more costly, Salazar became more isolated from reality. On 3 August 1968, while resting at his summer residence, the Fortress of São João do Estoril outside Lisbon, a deck chair collapsed beneath Salazar and his head struck the hard floor. Some weeks later, as a result, Salazar was incapacitated by a stroke and cerebral hemorrhage, was hospitalized, and became an invalid. While hesitating to fill the power vacuum that had unexpectedly appeared, President Tomás finally replaced Salazar as prime minister on 27 September 1968, with his former protégé and colleague, Marcello Caetano. Salazar was not informed that he no longer headed the government, but he never recovered his health. On 27 July 1970, Salazar died in Lisbon and was buried at Santa Comba Dão, Vimieiro, his village and place of birth.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Salazar, Antônio de Oliveira

  • 8 только

    I нареч.
    ( совсем недавно) just, just only

    я то́лько вошёл — I've just come in

    ••

    то́лько что (сейчас, недавно) — just, just now (ср. только III)

    II союз
    1) (сейчас же, едва лишь) as soon as; hardly

    то́лько он вошёл, как э́то слу́чилось — hardly had he come in when this happened

    2) ( однако) but, only; except that

    он согла́сен, то́лько име́йте в виду́, что — he agrees, only / but bear in mind that

    она́ хо́чет пойти́, то́лько у неё не хвата́ет де́нег — she wants to go, but / only she hasn't got enough money

    ••

    е́сли то́лько — if only

    как / лишь то́лько — as soon as, barely; the moment...

    я позвоню́ вам, как то́лько смогу́ — I'll call you back as soon as I can

    лишь то́лько он вошёл — as soon as he came in, just as he came in; barely [no sooner] had he come in

    III частица
    1) ( всего лишь) merely, only

    сейча́с то́лько два часа́ — it is only two o'clock now

    ей то́лько 20 лет — she is only 20 (years old)

    он то́лько хоте́л узна́ть — he only / merely wanted to know

    2) ( не считая других) alone (после сущ.)

    то́лько за 2003 год — in 2003 alone

    то́лько в центра́льном райо́не го́рода — in the town's central district alone

    3) (единственно, исключительно) only, solely

    он ест то́лько хлеб — he eats nothing but bread

    э́то могло́ произойти́ то́лько случа́йно — it could not have happened except by accident / chance

    то́лько для же́нщин — ladies only

    то́лько потому́, что — just / only because

    вы ви́дите то́лько —... all you can see is...

    4) (выражает удивление, подчёркивает особый характер ситуации) only, just

    то́лько вчера́ я с ним ви́делся — I saw him only yesterday

    каки́х то́лько книг он не чита́л! — what books has he not read!

    где то́лько он не быва́л! — where has he not been!

    поду́май(те) то́лько, то́лько поду́мать — just think

    то́лько в после́днюю мину́ту — not until the last moment

    то́лько по́здно ве́чером — it was not until late in the evening

    отку́да [кто, заче́м] то́лько — where [who, why] on earth

    то́лько когда́ — not until

    5) с повелит. накл. ( выражает угрозу) just

    то́лько попро́буй э́то сде́лать — you just try to do it

    то́лько пи́кни! — (don't you) just open your mouth!

    ••

    и то́лько? — is that all?

    то́лько бы — if only; as long as

    то́лько бы не заболе́ть — if only I do not fall ill; as long as I don't fall ill, I hope I don't fall ill

    мне всё равно́, то́лько бы ты был со мной — I don't care as long as you are with me

    то́лько его́ и ви́дели! — and that was the last they saw of him!

    то́лько и всего́ — and that is all, and nothing more

    то́лько что не (разве что не) — except / save perhaps (that); ( почти что) almost, all but, nearly

    я вся́чески ублажа́л их, то́лько что не танцева́л перед ни́ми — I did all I could think of to please them, except / save perhaps that I didn't dance in front of them

    он то́лько что ру́ки ей не целова́л — it seemed he might start kissing her hands

    не то́лько..., но и — not only... but also; as well as

    он не то́лько приле́жен, но и спосо́бен — he is not only painstaking but also clever; he is clever as well as painstaking

    да и то́лько — just; it's nothing but; that's all there is to it

    врёт, да и то́лько — he is just lying; it's only a pack of lies

    смех, да и то́лько — it's enough to make a cat laugh

    Новый большой русско-английский словарь > только

  • 9 Angola

    (and Enclave of Cabinda)
       From 1575 to 1975, Angola was a colony of Portugal. Located in west-central Africa, this colony has been one of the largest, most strategically located, and richest in mineral and agricultural resources in the continent. At first, Portugal's colonial impact was largely coastal, but after 1700 it became more active in the interior. By international treaties signed between 1885 and 1906, Angola's frontiers with what are now Zaire and Zambia were established. The colony's area was 1,246,700 square kilometers (481,000 square miles), Portugal's largest colonial territory after the independence of Brazil. In Portugal's third empire, Angola was the colony with the greatest potential.
       The Atlantic slave trade had a massive impact on the history, society, economy, and demography of Angola. For centuries, Angola's population played a subordinate role in the economy of Portugal's Brazil-centered empire. Angola's population losses to the slave trade were among the highest in Africa, and its economy became, to a large extent, hostage to the Brazilian plantation-based economic system. Even after Brazil's independence in 1822, Brazilian economic interests and capitalists were influential in Angola; it was only after Brazil banned the slave trade in 1850 that the heavy slave traffic to former Portuguese America began to wind down. Although slavery in Angola was abolished, in theory, in the 1870s, it continued in various forms, and it was not until the early 1960s that its offspring, forced labor, was finally ended.
       Portugal's economic exploitation of Angola went through different stages. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade (ca. 1575-1850), when many of Angola's slaves were shipped to Brazil, Angola's economy was subordinated to Brazil's and to Portugal's. Ambitious Lisbon-inspired projects followed when Portugal attempted to replace the illegal slave trade, long the principal income source for the government of Angola, with legitimate trade, mining, and agriculture. The main exports were dyes, copper, rubber, coffee, cotton, and sisal. In the 1940s and 1950s, petroleum emerged as an export with real potential. Due to the demand of the World War II belligerents for Angola's raw materials, the economy experienced an impetus, and soon other articles such as diamonds, iron ore, and manganese found new customers. Angola's economy, on an unprecedented scale, showed significant development, which was encouraged by Lisbon. Portugal's colonization schemes, sending white settlers to farm in Angola, began in earnest after 1945, although such plans had been nearly a century in the making. Angola's white population grew from about 40,000 in 1940 to nearly 330,000 settlers in 1974, when the military coup occurred in Portugal.
       In the early months of 1961, a war of African insurgency broke out in northern Angola. Portugal dispatched armed forces to suppress resistance, and the African insurgents were confined to areas on the borders of northern and eastern Angola at least until the 1966-67 period. The 13-year colonial war had a telling impact on both Angola and Portugal. When the Armed Forces Movement overthrew the Estado Novo on 25 April 1974, the war in Angola had reached a stalemate and the major African nationalist parties (MPLA, FNLA, and UNITA) had made only modest inroads in the northern fringes and in central and eastern Angola, while there was no armed activity in the main cities and towns.
       After a truce was called between Portugal and the three African parties, negotiations began to organize the decolonizat ion process. Despite difficult maneuvering among the parties, Portugal, the MPLA, FNLA, and UNITA signed the Alvor Agreement of January 1975, whereby Portugal would oversee a transition government, create an all-Angola army, and supervise national elections to be held in November 1975. With the outbreak of a bloody civil war among the three African parties and their armies, the Alvor Agreement could not be put into effect. Fighting raged between March and November 1975. Unable to prevent the civil war or to insist that free elections be held, Portugal's officials and armed forces withdrew on 11 November 1975. Rather than handing over power to one party, they transmitted sovereignty to the people of Angola. Angola's civil war continued into the 21st century.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Angola

  • 10 Babbage, Charles

    [br]
    b. 26 December 1791 Walworth, Surrey, England
    d. 18 October 1871 London, England
    [br]
    English mathematician who invented the forerunner of the modern computer.
    [br]
    Charles Babbage was the son of a banker, Benjamin Babbage, and was a sickly child who had a rather haphazard education at private schools near Exeter and later at Enfield. Even as a child, he was inordinately fond of algebra, which he taught himself. He was conversant with several advanced mathematical texts, so by the time he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1811, he was ahead of his tutors. In his third year he moved to Peterhouse, whence he graduated in 1814, taking his MA in 1817. He first contributed to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1815, and was elected a fellow of that body in 1816. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society in 1820 and served in high office in it.
    While he was still at Cambridge, in 1812, he had the first idea of calculating numerical tables by machinery. This was his first difference engine, which worked on the principle of repeatedly adding a common difference. He built a small model of an engine working on this principle between 1820 and 1822, and in July of the latter year he read an enthusiastically received note about it to the Astronomical Society. The following year he was awarded the Society's first gold medal. He submitted details of his invention to Sir Humphry Davy, President of the Royal Society; the Society reported favourably and the Government became interested, and following a meeting with the Chancellor of the Exchequer Babbage was awarded a grant of £1,500. Work proceeded and was carried on for four years under the direction of Joseph Clement.
    In 1827 Babbage went abroad for a year on medical advice. There he studied foreign workshops and factories, and in 1832 he published his observations in On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. While abroad, he received the news that he had been appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. He held the Chair until 1839, although he neither resided in College nor gave any lectures. For this he was paid between £80 and £90 a year! Differences arose between Babbage and Clement. Manufacture was moved from Clement's works in Lambeth, London, to new, fireproof buildings specially erected by the Government near Babbage's house in Dorset Square, London. Clement made a large claim for compensation and, when it was refused, withdrew his workers as well as all the special tools he had made up for the job. No work was possible for the next fifteen months, during which Babbage conceived the idea of his "analytical engine". He approached the Government with this, but it was not until eight years later, in 1842, that he received the reply that the expense was considered too great for further backing and that the Government was abandoning the project. This was in spite of the demonstration and perfectly satisfactory operation of a small section of the analytical engine at the International Exhibition of 1862. It is said that the demands made on manufacture in the production of his engines had an appreciable influence in improving the standard of machine tools, whilst similar benefits accrued from his development of a system of notation for the movements of machine elements. His opposition to street organ-grinders was a notable eccentricity; he estimated that a quarter of his mental effort was wasted by the effect of noise on his concentration.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1816. Astronomical Society Gold Medal 1823.
    Bibliography
    Babbage wrote eighty works, including: 1864, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher.
    July 1822, Letter to Sir Humphry Davy, PRS, on the Application of Machinery to the purpose of calculating and printing Mathematical Tables.
    Further Reading
    1961, Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines: Selected Writings by Charles Babbage and Others, eds Philip and Emily Morrison, New York: Dover Publications.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Babbage, Charles

  • 11 Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi

    [br]
    b. 1 June 1796 Paris, France
    d. 24 August 1831 Paris, France
    [br]
    French laid the foundations for modern thermodynamics through his book Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu when he stated that the efficiency of an engine depended on the working substance and the temperature drop between the incoming and outgoing steam.
    [br]
    Sadi was the eldest son of Lazare Carnot, who was prominent as one of Napoleon's military and civil advisers. Sadi was born in the Palais du Petit Luxembourg and grew up during the Napoleonic wars. He was tutored by his father until in 1812, at the minimum age of 16, he entered the Ecole Polytechnique to study stress analysis, mechanics, descriptive geometry and chemistry. He organized the students to fight against the allies at Vincennes in 1814. He left the Polytechnique that October and went to the Ecole du Génie at Metz as a student second lieutenant. While there, he wrote several scientific papers, but on the Restoration in 1815 he was regarded with suspicion because of the support his father had given Napoleon. In 1816, on completion of his studies, Sadi became a second lieutenant in the Metz engineering regiment and spent his time in garrison duty, drawing up plans of fortifications. He seized the chance to escape from this dull routine in 1819 through an appointment to the army general staff corps in Paris, where he took leave of absence on half pay and began further courses of study at the Sorbonne, Collège de France, Ecole des Mines and the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers. He was inter-ested in industrial development, political economy, tax reform and the fine arts.
    It was not until 1821 that he began to concentrate on the steam-engine, and he soon proposed his early form of the Carnot cycle. He sought to find a general solution to cover all types of steam-engine, and reduced their operation to three basic stages: an isothermal expansion as the steam entered the cylinder; an adiabatic expansion; and an isothermal compression in the condenser. In 1824 he published his Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu, which was well received at the time but quickly forgotten. In it he accepted the caloric theory of heat but pointed out the impossibility of perpetual motion. His main contribution to a correct understanding of a heat engine, however, lay in his suggestion that power can be produced only where there exists a temperature difference due "not to an actual consumption of caloric but to its transportation from a warm body to a cold body". He used the analogy of a water-wheel with the water falling around its circumference. He proposed the true Carnot cycle with the addition of a final adiabatic compression in which motive power was con sumed to heat the gas to its original incoming temperature and so closed the cycle. He realized the importance of beginning with the temperature of the fire and not the steam in the boiler. These ideas were not taken up in the study of thermodynartiics until after Sadi's death when B.P.E.Clapeyron discovered his book in 1834.
    In 1824 Sadi was recalled to military service as a staff captain, but he resigned in 1828 to devote his time to physics and economics. He continued his work on steam-engines and began to develop a kinetic theory of heat. In 1831 he was investigating the physical properties of gases and vapours, especially the relationship between temperature and pressure. In June 1832 he contracted scarlet fever, which was followed by "brain fever". He made a partial recovery, but that August he fell victim to a cholera epidemic to which he quickly succumbed.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1824, Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu; pub. 1960, trans. R.H.Thurston, New York: Dover Publications; pub. 1978, trans. Robert Fox, Paris (full biographical accounts are provided in the introductions of the translated editions).
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 1971, Vol. III, New York: C.Scribner's Sons. T.I.Williams (ed.), 1969, A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, London: A. \& C.
    Black.
    Chambers Concise Dictionary of Scientists, 1989, Cambridge.
    D.S.L.Cardwell, 1971, from Watt to Clausius. The Rise of Thermodynamics in the Early Industrial Age, London: Heinemann (discusses Carnot's theories of heat).
    RLH

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  • 12 Gibson, R.O.

    [br]
    fl. 1920s–30s
    [br]
    English chemist who, with E.O.Fawcett, discovered polythene.
    [br]
    Dr Gibson's work towards the discovery of polythene had its origin in a visit in 1925 to Dr A. Michels of Amsterdam University; the latter had made major advances in techniques for studying chemical reactions at very high pressures. After working with Michels for a time, in 1926 Gibson joined Brunner Mond, one of the companies that went on to form the chemical giant Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). The company supported research into fundamental chemical research that had no immediate commercial application, including the field being cultivated by Michels and Gibson. In 1933 Gibson was joined by another ICI chemist, E.O.Fawcett, who had worked with W.H. Carothers in the USA on polymer chemistry. They were asked to study the effects of high pressure on various reaction systems, including a mixture of benzaldehyde and ethylene. Gibson's notebook for 27 March that year records that after a loss of pressure during which the benzaldehyde was blown out of the reaction tube, a waxy solid was observed in the tube. This is generally recognized as the first recorded observation of polythene. By the following June they had shown that the white, waxy solid was a fairly high molecular weight polymer of ethylene formed at a temperature of 443°K and a pressure of 2,000 bar. However, only small amounts of the material were produced and its significance was not immediately recognized. It was not until two years later that W.P.Perrin and others, also ICI chemists, restarted work on the polymer. They showed that it could be moulded, drawn into threads and cast into tough films. It was a good electrical insulator and almost inert chemically. A British patent for producing polythene was taken out in 1936, and after further development work a production plant began operating in September 1939, just as the Second World War was breaking out. Polythene had arrived in time to make a major contribution to the war effort, for it had the insulating properties required for newly developing work on radar. When peacetime uses became possible, polythene production surged ahead and became the major industry it is today, with a myriad uses in industry and in everyday life.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1964, The Discovery of Polythene, Royal Institute of Chemistry Lecture Series 1, London.
    LRD

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  • 13 Lind, James

    SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology
    [br]
    b. 1716 Edinburgh, Scotland
    d. 13 July 1794 Gosport, England
    [br]
    Scottish physician and naval surgeon whose studies and investigations led to significant improvements in the living conditions on board ships; the author of the first treatise on the nature and prevention of scurvy.
    [br]
    Lind was registered in 1731 as an apprentice at the College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. By 1739 he was serving as a naval surgeon in the Mediterranean and during the ensuing decade he experienced conditions at sea off Guinea, the West Indies and in home waters. He returned to Edinburgh, taking his MD in 1748, and in 1750 was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Edinburgh, becoming the Treasurer in 1757. In 1758 he was appointed Physician to the Naval Hospital at Haslar, Gosport, near Portsmouth, a post which he retained until his death.
    He had been particularly struck by the devastating consequences of scurvy during Anson's circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. At least 75 per cent of the crews had been affected (though it should be borne in mind that a considerable number of them were pensioners and invalids when posted aboard). Coupled with his own experiences, this led to the publication of A Treatise on the Scurvy, in 1754. Demonstrating that this condition accounted for many more deaths than from all the engagements with the French and Spanish in the current wars, he made it clear that by appropriate measures of diet and hygiene the disease could be entirely eliminated.
    Further editions of the treatise were published in 1757 and 1775, and the immense importance of his observations was immediately recognized. None the less, it was not until 1795 that an Admiralty order was issued on the supply of lime juice to ships. The efficacy of lime juice had been known for centuries, but it was Lind's observations that led to action, however tardy; that for economic reasons the relatively ineffective West Indian lime juice was supplied was in no way his responsibility. It is of interest that there is no evidence that Captain James Cook (1728–79) had any knowledge of Lind's work when arranging his own anti-scorbutic precautions in preparation for his historic first voyage.
    Lind's other work included observations on typhus, the proper ventilation of ships at sea, and the distilation of fresh from salt water.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1754, A Treatise on the Scurvy, Edinburgh.
    1757, An Essay on the most effectual means of Preserving the Health of Seamen in the Royal Navy, Edinburgh.
    Further Reading
    L.Roddis, 1951, James Lind—Founder of Nautical Medicine. Records of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Records of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
    MG

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  • 14 Д-91

    ДЕЛО (чье) ПЛОХО coll ДЕЛО ДРЯНЬ (ШВАХ) highly coll NP these forms only VP subj. with бытье, pres only)
    1. s.o. is in very bad physical condition, is very ill, seriously injured etc: (Х-ово) дело дрянь — X is in bad shape (in a bad way)
    things look bad.
    ...Ему (Рослякову) было очень страшно опустить глаза, чтобы рану посмотреть... «Что? - спросил (Росляков) сестру, стоявшую все время возле него с нашатырём и шприцем. - Дрянь дело?» - «Да что вы, - ответила сестра. - Пустяки...» (Семенов 1)...Не IRoslyakov) was terrified of lowering his head to look at the wound... "How is it?" said Roslyakov to the nurse who stood beside him the whole time, holding the sal ammoniac and a hypodermic. "Do things look bad?" "What do you mean?" replied the nurse, "nonsense..." (1a).
    2. the situation is extremely unfavorable (for s.o.), nothing good will come of it: (Х-ово) дело дрянь - it (this) is (a) bad business
    this means trouble things are in a bad way things look bad (for X) X is in trouble (in hot water, in a real mess) the situation is bad.
    Прокурор давеча сказал - дело плохо, кто-то должен сесть в тюрьму (Тендряков 1). The Prosecutor had said yesterday that it was a bad business, and that someone could go to prison for it (1a).
    ...(Дядя Сандро) уныло поднялся в дом, где не только не нашли Тали, а, наоборот, обнаружили, что исчез патефон... Тут всем стало ясно, что дело плохо, и стали искать её обратные следы... (Искандер). Не (Uncle Sandro) climbed dolefully up to the house, where they not only had not found Tali, but, on the contrary, had discovered that the phonograph was gone....By now it was clear to everyone that this was bad business. They began hunting for her return tracks.. (3a).
    Жена прокурора... стала уверять (Хабуга), что прокурора нету дома, что он завтра будет у себя в кабинете и что он вообще теперь про дела разговаривает только у себя в кабинете. Тут старый Хабуг понял, что дело плохо, но решил подождать до следующего дня (Искандер 3).. The magistrates wife...assured him (Khabug) that the magistrate was not home, that he would be in his office tomorrow, and that nowadays he generally discussed business only in his office. Old Khabug realized that this meant trouble, but he decided to wait until the next day (3a).
    Он (адвокат) меня слушает, изредка задаёт вопросы, прикрывая рот ладонью, - признак, что алкаш... Я вижу перед собой алкаша, понимаю, что дело плохо... с таким алкашом мы дело проиграем... (Рыбаков 1). Не (the lawyer) listened to me, putting a question occasionally, and covering his mouth with his hand, the sure sign of a drunk....1 was looking at an alcoholic and I knew the situation was bad... with an alcoholic like this one we would lose the case... (1a).

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  • 15 дело дрянь

    • ДЕЛО( чье) ПЛОХО coll; ДЕЛО ДРЯНЬ < ШВАХ> highly coll
    [NP; these forms only; VPsubj with быть, pres only]
    =====
    1. s.o. is in very bad physical condition, is very ill, seriously injured etc:
    - (Х-ово) дело дрянь≈ X is in bad shape (in a bad way);
    - things look bad.
         ♦...Ему [Рослякову] было очень страшно опустить глаза, чтобы рану посмотреть... " Что? - спросил [Росляков] сестру, стоявшую все время возле него с нашатырём и шприцем. - Дрянь дело?" - "Да что вы, - ответила сестра. - Пустяки..." (Семенов 1)... Не [Roslyakov] was terrified of lowering his head to look at the wound... "How is it?" said Roslyakov to the nurse who stood beside him the whole time, holding the sal ammoniac and a hypodermic. "Do things look bad?" "What do you mean?" replied the nurse, "nonsense..." (1a).
    2. the situation is extremely unfavorable (for s.o.), nothing good will come of it:
    - (Х-ово) дело дрянь≈ it (this) is (a) bad business;
    - X is in trouble (in hot water, in a real mess);
    - the situation is bad.
         ♦ Прокурор давеча сказал - дело плохо, кто-то должен сесть в тюрьму (Тендряков 1). The Prosecutor had said yesterday that it was a bad business, and that someone could go to prison for it (1a).
         ♦...[Дядя Сандро] уныло поднялся в дом, где не только не нашли Тали, а, наоборот, обнаружили, что исчез патефон... Тут всем стало ясно, что дело плохо, и стали искать её обратные следы... (Искандер). Не [Uncle Sandro] climbed dolefully up to the house, where they not only had not found Tali, but, on the contrary, had discovered that the phonograph was gone....By now it was clear to everyone that this was bad business. They began hunting for her return tracks.. (3a).
         ♦...Жена прокурора... стала уверять [Хабуга], что прокурора нету дома, что он завтра будет у себя в кабинете и что он вообще теперь про дела разговаривает только у себя в кабинете. Тут старый Хабуг понял, что дело плохо, но решил подождать до следующего дня (Искандер 3). The magistrates wife...assured him [Khabug] that the magistrate was not home, that he would be in his office tomorrow, and that nowadays he generally discussed business only in his office. Old Khabug realized that this meant trouble, but he decided to wait until the next day (3a).
         ♦ Он [адвокат] меня слушает, изредка задаёт вопросы, прикрывая рот ладонью, - признак, что алкаш... Я вижу перед собой алкаша, понимаю, что дело плохо... с таким алкашом мы дело проиграем... (Рыбаков 1). Не [the lawyer] listened to me, putting a question occasionally, and covering his mouth with his hand, the sure sign of a drunk....I was looking at an alcoholic and I knew the situation was bad... with an alcoholic like this one we would lose the case... (1a).

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  • 16 дело плохо

    [NP; these forms only; VPsubj with быть, pres only]
    =====
    1. s.o. is in very bad physical condition, is very ill, seriously injured etc:
    - things look bad.
         ♦...Ему [Рослякову] было очень страшно опустить глаза, чтобы рану посмотреть... " Что? - спросил [Росляков] сестру, стоявшую все время возле него с нашатырём и шприцем. - Дрянь дело?" - "Да что вы, - ответила сестра. - Пустяки..." (Семенов 1)... Не [Roslyakov] was terrified of lowering his head to look at the wound... "How is it?" said Roslyakov to the nurse who stood beside him the whole time, holding the sal ammoniac and a hypodermic. "Do things look bad?" "What do you mean?" replied the nurse, "nonsense..." (1a).
    2. the situation is extremely unfavorable (for s.o.), nothing good will come of it:
    - X is in trouble (in hot water, in a real mess);
    - the situation is bad.
         ♦ Прокурор давеча сказал - дело плохо, кто-то должен сесть в тюрьму (Тендряков 1). The Prosecutor had said yesterday that it was a bad business, and that someone could go to prison for it (1a).
         ♦...[Дядя Сандро] уныло поднялся в дом, где не только не нашли Тали, а, наоборот, обнаружили, что исчез патефон... Тут всем стало ясно, что дело плохо, и стали искать её обратные следы... (Искандер). Не [Uncle Sandro] climbed dolefully up to the house, where they not only had not found Tali, but, on the contrary, had discovered that the phonograph was gone....By now it was clear to everyone that this was bad business. They began hunting for her return tracks.. (3a).
         ♦...Жена прокурора... стала уверять [Хабуга], что прокурора нету дома, что он завтра будет у себя в кабинете и что он вообще теперь про дела разговаривает только у себя в кабинете. Тут старый Хабуг понял, что дело плохо, но решил подождать до следующего дня (Искандер 3). The magistrates wife...assured him [Khabug] that the magistrate was not home, that he would be in his office tomorrow, and that nowadays he generally discussed business only in his office. Old Khabug realized that this meant trouble, but he decided to wait until the next day (3a).
         ♦ Он [адвокат] меня слушает, изредка задаёт вопросы, прикрывая рот ладонью, - признак, что алкаш... Я вижу перед собой алкаша, понимаю, что дело плохо... с таким алкашом мы дело проиграем... (Рыбаков 1). Не [the lawyer] listened to me, putting a question occasionally, and covering his mouth with his hand, the sure sign of a drunk....I was looking at an alcoholic and I knew the situation was bad... with an alcoholic like this one we would lose the case... (1a).

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  • 17 дело швах

    [NP; these forms only; VPsubj with быть, pres only]
    =====
    1. s.o. is in very bad physical condition, is very ill, seriously injured etc:
    - things look bad.
         ♦...Ему [Рослякову] было очень страшно опустить глаза, чтобы рану посмотреть... " Что? - спросил [Росляков] сестру, стоявшую все время возле него с нашатырём и шприцем. - Дрянь дело?" - "Да что вы, - ответила сестра. - Пустяки..." (Семенов 1)... Не [Roslyakov] was terrified of lowering his head to look at the wound... "How is it?" said Roslyakov to the nurse who stood beside him the whole time, holding the sal ammoniac and a hypodermic. "Do things look bad?" "What do you mean?" replied the nurse, "nonsense..." (1a).
    2. the situation is extremely unfavorable (for s.o.), nothing good will come of it:
    - X is in trouble (in hot water, in a real mess);
    - the situation is bad.
         ♦ Прокурор давеча сказал - дело плохо, кто-то должен сесть в тюрьму (Тендряков 1). The Prosecutor had said yesterday that it was a bad business, and that someone could go to prison for it (1a).
         ♦...[Дядя Сандро] уныло поднялся в дом, где не только не нашли Тали, а, наоборот, обнаружили, что исчез патефон... Тут всем стало ясно, что дело плохо, и стали искать её обратные следы... (Искандер). Не [Uncle Sandro] climbed dolefully up to the house, where they not only had not found Tali, but, on the contrary, had discovered that the phonograph was gone....By now it was clear to everyone that this was bad business. They began hunting for her return tracks.. (3a).
         ♦...Жена прокурора... стала уверять [Хабуга], что прокурора нету дома, что он завтра будет у себя в кабинете и что он вообще теперь про дела разговаривает только у себя в кабинете. Тут старый Хабуг понял, что дело плохо, но решил подождать до следующего дня (Искандер 3). The magistrates wife...assured him [Khabug] that the magistrate was not home, that he would be in his office tomorrow, and that nowadays he generally discussed business only in his office. Old Khabug realized that this meant trouble, but he decided to wait until the next day (3a).
         ♦ Он [адвокат] меня слушает, изредка задаёт вопросы, прикрывая рот ладонью, - признак, что алкаш... Я вижу перед собой алкаша, понимаю, что дело плохо... с таким алкашом мы дело проиграем... (Рыбаков 1). Не [the lawyer] listened to me, putting a question occasionally, and covering his mouth with his hand, the sure sign of a drunk....I was looking at an alcoholic and I knew the situation was bad... with an alcoholic like this one we would lose the case... (1a).

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  • 18 только

    1. нареч. (в разн. знач.) only, merely; ( единственно) solely

    он только хотел узнать — he only / merely wanted to know

    вы видите только... — all you can see is...

    только случайно — only by chance, not... except by chance

    это могло произойти только случайно — it could not happen, или have happened, except by chance

    только потому, что — just / only because

    подумай(те) только, ты только подумай — just think

    2. как союз only, but

    он согласен, только имейте в виду, что — he agrees, only / but bear in mind that

    ♢ если только — if only

    только что — just, just now

    только бы не заболеть — if only I do not fall ill, as long as I don't fall ill, I hope I don't fall ill

    лишь только, как только — as soon as; the moment...

    лишь только он вошёл — as soon as he came in, no sooner had he come in that

    откуда только, кто только, зачем только — where, who, why on earth

    только и всего — and that is all, and nothing more

    только-только — only just, barely

    не только..., но и — not only... but also:

    он не только прилежен, но и способен — he is not only painstaking but also clever

    пьеса не только не серьёзна, но и не интересна — far from being serious, the play is not even interesting

    только когда я узнаю, услышу и т. д. — not until I know, hear, etc.

    Русско-английский словарь Смирнитского > только

  • 19 Koepe, Friedrich

    [br]
    b. 1 July 1835 Bergkamen, Westphalia, Germany
    d. 12 September 1922 Bochum, Germany
    [br]
    German mining engineer, inventor of the friction winder for shaft hoisting.
    [br]
    After attending the School of Mines at Bochum, from 1862 he worked as an overseer in the coal-mining district of Ibbenbüren until he joined a mining company in the Ruhr area. There, as head of the machine shop, he was mainly concerned with sinking new shafts. In 1873 he became the Technical Director of the Hannover mine, near Bochum, which belonged to Krupp. When the shaft hoisting was to be extended to a lower level Koepe conceived the idea of applying a friction winder to the hoist instead of a drum, in order to save weight and costs. His method involved the use of an endless rope to which the cages were fixed without a safety catch. The rope passed over pulleys instead of coiling and uncoiling on a drum, and he consequently proposed to have the motor erected on top of the shaft rather than beside it, as had been the practice until then.
    Koepe's innovation turned out to be highly effective for hoisting heavy loads from deep shafts and was still popular in many countries in the 1990s, although the Krupp company did not accept it for a long time. He had severe personal problems with the company, and as Krupp refused to have his system patented he had to take it out in his own name in 1877. However, Krupp did not pay for the extension of the patent, nor did they pass the dossiers over to him, so the patent expired two years later. It was not until 1888 that a hoisting engine equipped with a friction winder was erected for the first time in a head gear, above the new Hannover II shaft. The following year Koepe left the Krupp company and settled as a freelance consulting engineer in Bochum; he was successful in having his system introduced by other mining companies. Ironi-cally, in 1948 the world's first four-rope winding, based on his system, was installed at the Hannover mine.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    For detailed biographical information and an assessment of his technological achievements see: H.Arnold and W.Kroker, 1977, "100 Jahre Schachtförderung nach dem System Koepe", Der Anschnitt 29:235–42.
    F.Lange, 1952, Die Vierseilförderung, Essen.
    WK

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  • 20 Mind

       It becomes, therefore, no inconsiderable part of science... to know the different operations of the mind, to separate them from each other, to class them under their proper heads, and to correct all that seeming disorder in which they lie involved when made the object of reflection and inquiry.... It cannot be doubted that the mind is endowed with several powers and faculties, that these powers are distinct from one another, and that what is really distinct to the immediate perception may be distinguished by reflection and, consequently, that there is a truth and falsehood which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding. (Hume, 1955, p. 22)
       Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas: How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless Fancy of Man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of Reason and Knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from Experience. (Locke, quoted in Herrnstein & Boring, 1965, p. 584)
       The kind of logic in mythical thought is as rigorous as that of modern science, and... the difference lies, not in the quality of the intellectual process, but in the nature of things to which it is applied.... Man has always been thinking equally well; the improvement lies, not in an alleged progress of man's mind, but in the discovery of new areas to which it may apply its unchanged and unchanging powers. (Leґvi-Strauss, 1963, p. 230)
       MIND. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. (Bierce, quoted in Minsky, 1986, p. 55)
       [Philosophy] understands the foundations of knowledge and it finds these foundations in a study of man-as-knower, of the "mental processes" or the "activity of representation" which make knowledge possible. To know is to represent accurately what is outside the mind, so to understand the possibility and nature of knowledge is to understand the way in which the mind is able to construct such representation.... We owe the notion of a "theory of knowledge" based on an understanding of "mental processes" to the seventeenth century, and especially to Locke. We owe the notion of "the mind" as a separate entity in which "processes" occur to the same period, and especially to Descartes. We owe the notion of philosophy as a tribunal of pure reason, upholding or denying the claims of the rest of culture, to the eighteenth century and especially to Kant, but this Kantian notion presupposed general assent to Lockean notions of mental processes and Cartesian notions of mental substance. (Rorty, 1979, pp. 3-4)
       Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to Victorians-threat, obsession, taboo, and fascination. (Turkle, 1984, p. 313)
       7) Understanding the Mind Remains as Resistant to Neurological as to Cognitive Analyses
       Recent years have been exciting for researchers in the brain and cognitive sciences. Both fields have flourished, each spurred on by methodological and conceptual developments, and although understanding the mechanisms of mind is an objective shared by many workers in these areas, their theories and approaches to the problem are vastly different....
       Early experimental psychologists, such as Wundt and James, were as interested in and knowledgeable about the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system as about the young science of the mind. However, the experimental study of mental processes was short-lived, being eclipsed by the rise of behaviorism early in this century. It was not until the late 1950s that the signs of a new mentalism first appeared in scattered writings of linguists, philosophers, computer enthusiasts, and psychologists.
       In this new incarnation, the science of mind had a specific mission: to challenge and replace behaviorism. In the meantime, brain science had in many ways become allied with a behaviorist approach.... While behaviorism sought to reduce the mind to statements about bodily action, brain science seeks to explain the mind in terms of physiochemical events occurring in the nervous system. These approaches contrast with contemporary cognitive science, which tries to understand the mind as it is, without any reduction, a view sometimes described as functionalism.
       The cognitive revolution is now in place. Cognition is the subject of contemporary psychology. This was achieved with little or no talk of neurons, action potentials, and neurotransmitters. Similarly, neuroscience has risen to an esteemed position among the biological sciences without much talk of cognitive processes. Do the fields need each other?... [Y]es because the problem of understanding the mind, unlike the wouldbe problem solvers, respects no disciplinary boundaries. It remains as resistant to neurological as to cognitive analyses. (LeDoux & Hirst, 1986, pp. 1-2)
       Since the Second World War scientists from different disciplines have turned to the study of the human mind. Computer scientists have tried to emulate its capacity for visual perception. Linguists have struggled with the puzzle of how children acquire language. Ethologists have sought the innate roots of social behaviour. Neurophysiologists have begun to relate the function of nerve cells to complex perceptual and motor processes. Neurologists and neuropsychologists have used the pattern of competence and incompetence of their brain-damaged patients to elucidate the normal workings of the brain. Anthropologists have examined the conceptual structure of cultural practices to advance hypotheses about the basic principles of the mind. These days one meets engineers who work on speech perception, biologists who investigate the mental representation of spatial relations, and physicists who want to understand consciousness. And, of course, psychologists continue to study perception, memory, thought and action.
    ... [W]orkers in many disciplines have converged on a number of central problems and explanatory ideas. They have realized that no single approach is likely to unravel the workings of the mind: it will not give up its secrets to psychology alone; nor is any other isolated discipline-artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, neurophysiology, philosophy-going to have any greater success. (Johnson-Laird, 1988, p. 7)

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