Subtlety
Title | Subtlety PDF eBook |
Author | Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi |
Publisher | Divine Cool Breeze Books |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2020-10-17 |
Genre | Religion |
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It is only possible for people who are of a subtler nature to understand the value of Sahaja Yoga, to hold to the values of Sahaja Yoga and to retain it in this fragmented world. In this magazine, one landmark talk from 1980 is presented in full. Shri Mataji tells us that, as subtler people, we are "a little different from the mundane crowd." Her message is then expanded with related excerpts of Shri Mataji words from other years.
The Age of Subtlety
Title | The Age of Subtlety PDF eBook |
Author | Javier Patiño Loira |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2024-06-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1644533464 |
A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century Italy and Spain, reshaping reality in highly creative ways. The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe situates itself at the crossroads of rhetoric, poetics, and the history of science, analyzing technical writings on conceits by such scholars as Baltasar Gracián, Matteo Peregrini, and Emanuele Tesauro against the background of debates on telescopic and microscopic vision, the generation of living beings, and the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. It contends that in order to understand conceits, we must locate them within the early modern culture of ingenuity that was also responsible for the engineer’s machines, the juggler’s sleight of hand, the wiles of the statesman, and the discovery of truths about nature.
The Subtlety of Emotions
Title | The Subtlety of Emotions PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Ben-Ze'Ev |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 642 |
Release | 2001-08-24 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780262523196 |
An informal yet rigorous exploration of human emotions in all their complexity and subtlety. Why do we cry at the movies? What is the best way to manage destructive feelings such as jealousy? Although emotions pervade our lives, their nature, causes, and effects have only recently been studied by social scientists and philosophers. Despite growing scientific interest in the subject, empirical findings have not yet caught up with our intuitive knowledge. In this book Aaron Ben-Ze'ev carries out what he calls "a careful search for general patterns in the primeval jungle of emotions." In an engaging, informal style he draws on a variety of theoretical approaches and popular sources to produce a coherent account of emotions in all their subtlety. All of the ideas are illustrated with examples drawn from everyday life. The book is organized into two parts. The first presents an overall conceptual framework for understanding emotions. It looks at the typical characteristics and components of emotions, distinguishes emotions from other affective phenomena, classifies the emotions, and covers such related issues as emotional intelligence, regulating emotions, and emotions and morality. The second part discusses individual emotions, including envy, jealousy, pleasure-in-others'-misfortune, pity, compassion, anger, hate, disgust, love, sexual desire, happiness, sadness, pride, regret, and shame. The text is laced with insightful and often amusing quotations from sources ranging from Mae West to Montesquieu.
The Subtlety of Sameness
Title | The Subtlety of Sameness PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Matthew French |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 9780262061803 |
The research described in this book is based on the premise that human analogy-making is an extension of our constant background process of perceiving--in other words, that analogy-making and the perception of sameness are two sides of the same coin. Foreword by Daniel Dennett While it is fashionable today to dismiss the "bad old days" of artificial intelligence and rave about emergent self-organizing systems, Robert French has created a model of human analogy-making that attempts to bridge the gap between classical top-down AI and more recent bottom-up approaches. The research described in this book is based on the premise that human analogy-making is an extension of our constant background process of perceiving--in other words, that analogy-making and the perception of sameness are two sides of the same coin. At the heart of the author's theory and computer model of analogy-making is the idea that the building-up and the manipulation of representations are inseparable aspects of mental functioning, in contrast to traditional AI models of high-level cognitive processes, which have almost always depended on a clean separation. A computer program called Tabletop forms analogies in a microdomain consisting of everyday objects on a table set for a meal. The theory and the program rely on the idea that myriad stochastic choices made on the microlevel can add up to statistical robustness on a macrolevel. To illustrate this, French includes the results of thousands of runs of his program on several dozen interrelated analogy problems in the Tabletop microworld. French's work is exciting not only because it reveals analogy-making to be an extension of our complex and subtle ability to perceive sameness but also because it offers a computational model of mechanisms underlying these processes. This model makes significant strides in putting into practice microlevel stochastic processing, distributed processing, simulated parallelism, and the integration of representation-building and representation-processing. A Bradford Book
Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea
Title | Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2023-11-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520913213 |
Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei, a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts on traditional Chinese medicine translated into a Western language, this work offers an unprecedented view of the practice of medicine, and specifically eye care, in premodern China. Superbly rendered from the classical Chinese and extensively annotated by Paul U. Unschuld and Jürgen Kovacs, the text provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and therapy of every eye disease known to fifteenth-century Chinese practitioners. The translators' introduction also provides the first in-depth analysis of the development of this specialty within Chinese medicine. As a source for comparative studies of Chinese and Western medicine and numerous other issues in the history of medicine and Chinese thought, the Yin-Hai Jing-Wei has no equal in the Western world.
Subtleties of Scientific Style
Title | Subtleties of Scientific Style PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Lindsay Stevens |
Publisher | ScienceScape® Editing |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Authorship |
ISBN | 0957887728 |
A guide to scientific editing
The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin
Title | The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin PDF eBook |
Author | Idries Shah |
Publisher | Octagon Press Ltd |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Arabic wit and humor |
ISBN | 0863040217 |
"Nasrudin is an international folk hero of medieval origin, but timeless appeal. His role changes, sometimes he is a sage, sometimes the fool: he is courtier, beggar, physician, judge and teacher. Whether his anecdotes are studied for their hidden wisdom, or enjoyed for their pungent humour, they are an enduring part of the world's culture."--Cover.