Year: 2007

Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.20
Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science
This book review assignment was due today, and the other book I had originally chosen still wasn’t finished reading; it seemed I wouldn’t have time, so I dug out this thinner book I had read before and wrote up a filler submission. If the TA is willing to wait a few more days, I might write another book review and hand that in instead…… G•E•R•Lloyd: Early Greek Science—From Thales to Aristotle, translated by Sun Xiaochun, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, December 2004 Ancient Greece is the source and beginning of science. There is no doubt that research on the history of science and technology in ancient Greece is of…
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2007年5月20日
The Eternal Dragon Ball

Life & Notes2007.05.20
The Eternal Dragon Ball
A while ago, when A Fei and I went to study at A Zhu’s place, every time we would see a set of Dragon Ball Complete Collection glowing brilliantly on the shelf at the Third Wave bookstore next door…… dazzling…… resplendent…… multicolored…… sure enough, in the end I still couldn’t help buying a set…… When I announced that I was going to buy a set of Dragon Ball, Mist also thought of buying a set of Doraemon (later he transferred it to me; I’ll talk about that next time). As expected, once these two sets of books were placed in the dormitory (mainly Dragon Ball, of course), they immediately attracted…
everyday life culture China anime
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2007年5月20日
The Eternal Dragon Ball

Life & Notes2007.05.20
The Eternal Dragon Ball
A while ago, when A Fei and I went to study at A Zhu’s place, every time we would see a set of *Dragon Ball Complete Collection* glowing brilliantly on the shelf at the Third Wave bookstore next door…… dazzling…… resplendent…… multicolored…… and sure enough, in the end I still couldn’t help buying a set…… When I announced that I was going to buy a set of *Dragon Ball*, Mist also thought of buying a set of *Doraemon* (later he transferred it to me; I’ll talk about that next time). As expected, once these two sets of books were placed in the dormitory (mainly *Dragon Ball*, of course), they immediately…
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2007年5月20日
In ordinary times, one should write more blog posts as an outlet

Site Matters2007.05.17
In ordinary times, one should write more blog posts as an outlet
Yesterday in the ontology seminar, we were chatting about writing academic papers. Lao Yang said that a certain junior female student’s homework papers — and, incidentally, mine too — contained a lot of personal, experiential material, and thus might seem very good and highly original to some teachers, while receiving very, very low grades from others (Lao Yang was definitely thinking of my grade in metaphysics class… ). On the other hand, there are some people who know how to write and produce papers that are proper and standard, and no matter which teacher reads them, they can still get a high score. That is indeed so. A good paper…
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2007年5月17日
Later Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mathematics of Intuitionism

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.15
Later Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mathematics of Intuitionism
Late Wittgenstein and the Mathematical Philosophy of Intuitionism Abstract: This essay takes intuitionism as its guiding thread to explicate Wittgenstein’s late philosophy of mathematics, with the hope that it may contribute to a grasp of his late philosophy; on the other hand, it also cites Wittgenstein’s philosophical claims to provide support for intuitionism. Thus, this essay attempts both to sort out the mathematical philosophy of Wittgenstein’s later period and, at the same time, to offer a brief critical account of intuitionism. The author discusses separately the views of intuitionism and of late Wittgenstein on themes such as constructivism, empiricism, positivism, Platonism, logicism, formalism, conventionalism, the axiomatization movement, and the development…
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2007年5月15日
This Issue’s Music: Orff, Carmina Burana

Life & Notes2007.05.15
This Issue’s Music: Orff, Carmina Burana
http://vod.lpes.tyc.edu.tw/vod/files/2_400df694bd3c57fa34de7d2d031d7ae3.mp3 Latest Comments Gu Du 2007-05-17 00:17:54 http://epr.ycool.com/ [Reply] (The background music that often appears in the anime Death Note, and that I often heard on television before) Reposting an introduction: (Because reposts are everywhere online, the original source is almost impossible to trace; a quick search turns up a huge pile, so I won’t indicate the source here either.) —-Have you seen pop king Michael Jackson’s MTVs? ——Have you seen the film Natural Born Killers? ——Or have you ever heard boxer Holyfield’s entrance music?…… Then you should not forget a majestic and imposing chorus—that is the opening section of Carmina Burana, one of the most popular classical music…
everyday life culture Middle Ages
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2007年5月15日
Midterm Discussion Outline for “Deng San” (On the Scientific Outlook on Development and Coordinating the Harmonious Development of Humanity and Nature)

Culture & Public Commentary2007.05.07
Midterm Discussion Outline for “Deng San” (On the Scientific Outlook on Development and Coordinating the Harmonious Development of Humanity and Nature)
……Would the teachers in the School of Marxism go insane after reading this? Outline for the Midterm Discussion of “Deng San” Requirement: choose one aspect of the “five coordinated balances” in the concept of scientific development and talk about your reflections. “The scientific outlook on development is, in essence, people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable development.” We say that “people-oriented” is the essence and core of the scientific outlook on development—“Adhering to people-oriented development means taking the all-round development of people as the goal, seeking and promoting development from the fundamental interests of the people, continuously satisfying the people’s ever-growing material and cultural needs, earnestly safeguarding the people’s economic, political, and…
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2007年5月7日
Lawns Are Meant to Be Trampled!

Life & Notes2007.05.06
Lawns Are Meant to Be Trampled!
It is said that a few days ago there was a dispute on the BBS at Sanjiao Di. It seems a well-meaning student saw many people trampling the landscaped lawn on Peking University’s campus, went over and said a few words, but the other side paid no attention; the student came back and posted on the BBS to denounce them, and later the person who had actually trampled the lawn also went online to reply. Some even said that lawns are precisely for trampling, and so on. Exactly right! Lawns are precisely for trampling! …Why on earth did I actually say something like that? Didn’t I still pride myself on…
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2007年5月6日
This Issue’s Music: Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor for Strings (BWV 1052)

Life & Notes2007.05.05
This Issue’s Music: Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor for Strings (BWV 1052)
http://hyl510.googlepages.com/Bach-BWV1052.MP3 Bach: Concerto for Harpsichord and String Orchestra in D minor (BWV 1052), first movement (Allegro) (conducted by Trevor Pinnock) It is said that Bach is one of the greatest composers in music history, second only to Beethoven in terms of his status in music history and his wide appeal among listeners today. Although I had long since heard of these great musicians by name, my first real encounter with Bach’s distinctiveness actually began with that famous work on logical paradoxes, Gödel, Escher, Bach. Indeed, Bach’s music is full of a sense of “circulation” (I don’t know how else to put it…), and its depth, harmony, and complexity can also…
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2007年5月5日
Traditional Textbook-Style Argumentative Tactics

Culture & Public Commentary2007.05.05
Traditional Textbook-Style Argumentative Tactics
Good question! The trouble with traditional textbooks is not really their views, though I do dislike many of the views in traditional textbooks. After all, they represent a certain popular way of understanding problems, and that in itself is not too bad. But the problem lies in their style of argument and their attitude. In a sense, the strategy of traditional textbooks is quite powerful and ingenious (otherwise how could they have had such a profound influence in the Soviet Union and China?). Similar strategies are actually used quite often in many other places as well. We ourselves may even use them unconsciously quite often. In short, it is to…
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2007年5月5日