The book contributes to the longstanding debate surrounding the mind-body problem and focussing in particular on René Descartes's dualism.

Further, drawing upon Donald Davidson's criticism of the dualism between conceptual scheme and empirical content, he challenges the sense of questioning whether our particular concepts are related to the world in an appropriate way, whether we can justify our ways of describing the world as compared with other ways.

It is concerned with questions about the very nature of mind, the qualities of experience, and particular issues like the debate between dualism and monism.

On becoming acquainted with Messenger, Helen Reed, who holds the traditional — and seemingly almost old-fashioned — views that consciousness is the business of the humanities, in particular of the novel and of literary criticism ; and that there is and should be a clear-cut Cartesian dualism between mind and body, this Helen Reed is confronted by the new ( or even not-so-new ) trend of considering the mind a mere function of the body.

For example, questions about the very nature of mind, the qualities of experience, and particular issues like the debate between dualism and monism have been discussed in philosophy for many centuries.

In his book Regierung und Volkswille ( 1914 ), Delbrück attempted a defence of the old system of government in Germany and Prussia with particular reference to its “ dualism ,” that is parliamentary representation and simultaneously a certain degree of autocracy on the part of the sovereign in Prussia and of the federated government in the empire.

In particular, the dependence of an emergent mind on its base means there is no metaphysical possibility of life after death, in contrast with substance dualism.

Dennett says that, when the dualism is removed, what remains of Descartes ' original model amounts to imagining a tiny theater in the brain where a homunculus ( small person ), now physical, performs the task of observing all the sensory data projected on a screen at a particular instant, making the decisions and sending out commands.

Aside from controversies over the merits of particular conspiratorial claims, the general discussion of conspiracy theory is itself a matter of some public contention.

# Commonality — there must be one or more legal or factual claims common to the entire class ( in some cases, it must be shown that the common issues will predominate the proceedings over individual issues, such as the amount of damages due to a particular class member ),

In particular, Eisenhower was criticized for failing to defend George Marshall from attacks by Joseph McCarthy, though he privately deplored McCarthy's tactics and claims.

In particular, Hofstadter claims that our sense of having ( or being ) an " I " comes from the abstract pattern he terms a " strange loop ", which is an abstract cousin of such concrete phenomena as audio and video feedback, and which Hofstadter has defined as " a level-crossing feedback loop ".

Echols testified that Ridge's description of the conversation ( which was not recorded ) regarding those particular details was inaccurate ( and indeed that some other claims by Ridge were " lies ").

Nozick further claims this condition addresses a case of the sort described by D. M. Armstrong: A father believes his son innocent of committing a particular crime, both because of faith in his son and ( now ) because he has seen presented in the courtroom a conclusive demonstration of his son's innocence.

Self-exile is often depicted as a form of protest by the person that claims it, to avoid persecution or legal matters ( such as tax or criminal allegations ), an act of shame or repentance, or isolating oneself to be able to devote time to a particular thing.

Environmental skepticism is an umbrella term that describes those that argue that particular claims put forward by environmentalists and environmental scientists who support the first are false or exaggerated, along with those who are critical of environmentalism in general.

Such support from particular sections of the population affects the agenda and policies of such parties, and call into question their claims of being universal representatives.

KR is most commonly used to refer to representations intended for processing by modern computers, and in particular, for representations consisting of explicit objects ( the class of all elephants, or Clyde a certain individual ), and of assertions or claims about them (' Clyde is an elephant ', or'all elephants are grey ').

Such strategic claims fostered a spirit of toleration among the Manicheans and the other religious communities and this particular feature greatly assisted them in gaining the approval of authorities to practice in different regions along the Silk Road.

Breach of warranty-based product liability claims usually focus on one of three types: ( 1 ) breach of an express warranty, ( 2 ) breach of an implied warranty of merchantability, and ( 3 ) breach of an implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose.

Christopher Hill claims that modern participants in the Olympic movement may defend this particular belief, " in a spirit similar to that in which the Church of England remains attached to the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, which a Priest in that Church must sign.

In particular they pointed out that the Russian group had altered the details of their claims several times over a period of 20 years, a fact that the Russian team does not deny.

Spitzer's own data showed that claims of change were reflected mostly in changes in self-labelling and behavior, less in attractions, and least in the homoerotic content during the masturbatory fantasies ; this particular finding was consistent with other studies in this area.

Although he believes some generalized statements about social life can be made, he is not interested in hard positivist claims, but instead in linkages and sequences, in historical narratives and particular cases.

He showed that even if one could never justify a particular claim, one can compare the verisimilitude of two competing claims by criticism to judge which is superior to the other.

For example, those things that are owned by a person may be said to be natural goods, but over which a particular individual ( s ) may have moral claims.

Since Viz claims to offer £ 10 for the best letter published in a particular issue, many letters end with the inquiry, " Do I win £ 10?

It is deeply influenced by Maoist thought, in particular as developed by the RCP USA, but claims members who arrive from other traditions, such as anarchism.

Much French republican thought has been suspicious of the claims of " particular interests ," which are often contrasted with the " general interest " of the nation.

# Prohibition of Third Party Standing: A party may only assert his or her own rights and cannot raise the claims of a third party who is not before the court ; exceptions exist where the third party has interchangeable economic interests with the injured party, or a person unprotected by a particular law sues to challenge the oversweeping of the law into the rights of others.

In particular, Gilbert in his book De Magnete claims that electrical attraction is caused by the effluence of a humour, that the humid seeks the humid and this is the cause of the attraction.

One species is restricted to statements which are neither explicit nor precise regarding a particular person, place, time or thing.

It is possible to prove many theorems using neither the axiom of choice nor its negation ; such statements will be true in any model of Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory ( ZF ), regardless of the truth or falsity of the axiom of choice in that particular model.

Moreover, neither element can be tied to a particular physical type.

Visitors and merchants were especially struck by the beautiful monasteries and churches of the city, in particular, Hagia Sophia, or the Church of Holy Wisdom: A Russian 14th-century traveler, Stephen of Novgorod, wrote, " As for St Sophia, the human mind can neither tell it nor make description of it.

The three main types of monism are physicalism ( which holds that the mind consists of matter organized in a particular way ), idealism ( which holds that only thought truly exists and matter is merely an illusion ), and neutral monism ( which holds that both mind and matter are aspects of a distinct essence that is itself identical to neither of them ).

If the firm is a perfect competitor in all input markets, and thus the per-unit prices of all its inputs are unaffected by how much of the inputs the firm purchases, then it can be shown that at a particular level of output, the firm has economies of scale if and only if it has increasing returns to scale, has diseconomies of scale if and only if it has decreasing returns to scale, and has neither economies nor diseconomies of scale if it has constant returns to scale.

One point agreed on is that fractal patterns are characterized by fractal dimensions, but whereas these numbers quantify complexity ( i. e., changing detail with changing scale ), they neither uniquely describe nor specify details of how to construct particular fractal patterns.

Blue was a particular problem, and skies and blue robes were often added a secco, because neither azurite blue nor lapis lazuli, the only two blue pigments then available, works well in wet fresco.

The Hausa people of Sudan have a term equivalent to lesbian, kifi, that may also be applied to males to mean " neither party insists on a particular sexual role ".

This move to the radical left, however, was neither universal, nor definitional, and there is no particular reason to associate modernism, fundamentally, with ' the left '.

That particular way of definition of entropy is largely beyond the scope of the present article, but here it may be said that it is entirely derived from the concepts of classical thermodynamics ; in particular, neither flow rates nor changes over time are admitted into the definition of the entropy of the small local region.

" In political systems based on the Westminster system, which is a particular style of parliamentary democracy based on the British model and found in many commonwealth countries, a majority party will form the government and the minority party will form the opposition, and coalitions of lesser parties are possible ; in the rare circumstance in which neither party is the majority, a hung parliament arises.

It should be noted, however, that neither decision relied on the concept of corporate personhood, and the Buckley decision in particular deals with the rights of individuals and political committees, not corporations.

There is credible subjective evidence that the particular accused neither foresaw nor desired the particular outcome, thus potentially excluding both intention and recklessness.

Like most of the Southern members of Congress, neither Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson nor Representative James Madison had any particular interest in two of Hamilton's tripartite recommendations: the establishing of an official government Mint, and the chartering of the Bank of the United States.

Iron was one commodity in particular which the mission relied solely on trade to acquire, as the missionaries had neither the know-how nor the technology to mine and process metal ores.

In particular the latter is still sometimes explicitly proposed as a primitive loon as they both were initially, but other authors consider Neogaeornis a hesperornithiform ; note however that neither Gaviiformes nor Hesperornithiformes are known from the Southern Hemisphere or anywhere near it.

When someone asked her how she had obtained such a commanding influence over Augustus, she answered that it was by being scrupulously chaste herself, doing gladly whatever pleased him, not meddling with any of his affairs, and, in particular, by pretending neither to hear nor to notice the favourites of his passion.

They also agree that neither the overall size of the instrument nor the particular number of strings on it are essential to the classification of these instruments.

For Trevor-Roper, history was full of contingency, and the story of the past was neither a continuous advance nor decline, but was rather resolved by accident and through the particular choices that particular individuals made in the time at question.