10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DORMITIVE»
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dormitive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Paradox of Social Order: Linking Psychology and Sociology
For Arrow, many socioeconomic phenomena are explained in terms of the "
dormitive principle" (Swedberg, 1990, p. 142), which, he says, simply repeats the
phenomenon being explained. (In spite of that, the economic study of social facts
has ...
Dormitive Principles If we examine traditional explanations of behavior through
the lens of recursion, we will sometimes find what Bateson called "dormitive
principles," a form of circular description. A "dormitive principle" is a more abstract
...
3
Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers
I claim that what makes opium put people to sleep is its dormitive power. When
Moliere and others jeer at my suggestion, I explain that the sense of makes"
which I am using should not be puzzling, for it is inferential. "The doctor's remark
that ...
4
Beyond the Text: A Holistic Approach to Liturgy
The "geographical" method approaches what has been described by Gregory
Bateson as a "dormitive hypothesis." His description is worth quoting at some
length. Moliere long ago, depicted an oral doctoral examination in which the
learned ...
Lawrence A. Hoffman, 1989
5
Provability, Computability and Reflection
In that theory the dormitive virtue is characterized as being whatever it is in opium
that is responsible for opium's having a soporific effect. If within a theory Y is
characterized completely or largely in this way then I shall say that Y is
completely ...
6
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Molière's most famous example of this kind of humbuggery concerned the “
dormitive powers” of opium. He has a bachelor of medicine recite the following: “
Mihi à docto doctore/ Domandatur causam et rationem quare/ Opium facit
dormire/ A ...
Stephen P. Turner, Paul A. Roth, 2008
7
Causation and Laws of Nature
If we believed that there was nothing in the draught which could be singled out as
the ground or source of the dormitive power, (here is the intuition which leads to
categorical realism) then the property would indeed be a strange one, and the ...
8
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 15: Pluralism in Self Psychology
structure ̄ is nothing but a®dormitive principle. ̄ By invoking it, we«ve
addednothing to what already is ourdescription oflanguage orpsychic reality,
butwe«vecome up with a fine-sounding abstraction for what we assume must be
behind the ...
9
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in ...
The candidate triumphantly answers in dog Latin, "Because there is in it a
dormitive principle (virtus dormitiva) ." Characteristically, the scientist confronts a
complex interactive system — in this case, an interaction between man and
opium.
10
Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self Deception
He used the word "dormitive" to denote an obfuscation, a failure to see things as
they are. "Dormitive" is derived from the Latin dormire, to sleep. "I stole the word
from Moliere," Bateson once explained to me. "At the end of his Bourgeois ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DORMITIVE»
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dormitive is used in the context of the following news items.
Why We Wonder Why
Answer: “Because they have a dormitive virtue.” This doesn't actually explain anything, but introducing a concept such as dormitive virtue might ... «Scientific American, Sep 14»
Soft Costs Make A Bigger Difference As Solar Gets Cheaper
In other news, sleeping pills have a dormitive virtue. Jouni Valkonen. note that soft costs are not economic problem, because money does not ... «CleanTechnica, Aug 13»
The Dawn of Politics
Like the doctor in Molière who explains that opium causes sleepiness because it has a “dormitive power,” Fukuyama attributes the human susceptibility to ... «City Journal, Jun 11»
