6.0344 MS; Qs: Terms; Sources; Ethics; Housing (6/95)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 5 Nov 1992 07:31:44 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0344. Thursday, 5 Nov 1992.


(1) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 07:49:59 +0200 (7 lines)
From: sokoloff@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il (Prof. Sokoloff Michael)

(2) Date: 02 Nov 1992 00:57:32 -0500 (EST) (14 lines)
From: Ezra Zubrow <APYEZRA@UBVMS.BITNET>
Subject: Q's Exchanges and housing information

(3) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 15:58:00 EST (23 lines)
From: Peter_Hirtle@occshost.nlm.nih.gov
Subject: Synonym for Terminator?

(4) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 11:32:23 -0500 (18 lines)
From: bjoe@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Barry W. K. Joe)
Subject: Vox connection

(5) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 15:48:39 GMT (15 lines)
From: "J.J.Higgins - Education" <J.Higgins@bristol.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Circularity in defining

(6) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 21:08:12 GMT (18 lines)
From: Richard Giordano <rich@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Computer Ethics Query

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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 07:49:59 +0200
From: sokoloff@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il (Prof. Sokoloff Michael)

For an article together with a colleague I am working on a
selendromium in Aramaic. We are aware of the existence of similar
texts in Greek from the Byzantine Period. Any information concerning
selendromia in earlier Greek or Laatin sources would be appreciated.
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Date: 02 Nov 1992 00:57:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Ezra Zubrow <APYEZRA@UBVMS.BITNET>
Subject: Q's Exchanges and housing information

My wife and I will be taking our sabbaticals in Cambridge
England beginning Jan. 15, 1992. We would be interested in
renting an apartment or house for that period. We would also
be interested in exchanging. We are both faculty members at
SUNY Buffalo. Please contact us at:
apyezra@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu

Thank you.
Marcia Zubrow
Ezra Zubrow
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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 15:58:00 EST
From: Peter_Hirtle@occshost.nlm.nih.gov
Subject: Synonym for Terminator?

A scholar who is cataloging the library's collection of
Arabic manuscripts has run into a translation problem. She
has asked if I could request assistance from the good people
who read HUMANIST.

The work in question has in the title a noun which she would
define as "the thing (specifically in this case writing)
which supercedes or makes obsolete an earlier version." We
don't seem to have in everyday English a word such as
"superceder" or "obsoleter." We suggested "the Terminator,"
but that seems a little anachronistic for a 13th century
Arabic manuscript. Can anyone suggest something better?
Note: it must if possible be a noun.

Peter B. Hirtle
Curator, Modern Manuscripts voice: 301-496-5963 or
History of Medicine Division 800-272-4787 1/3/2/2
National Library of Medicine fax: 301-402-0872
Bethesda, MD 20894 INTERNET: peter_hirtle@occshost.nlm.nih.gov
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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 11:32:23 -0500
From: bjoe@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Barry W. K. Joe)
Subject: Vox connection


Would anyone on the net know a voice phone # to connect to Princeton U.?
I'm looking in particular for the History Dept.

Please reply to my address in the header.

Thanks,

Barry W. K. Joe
Dept. of Germanic & Slavic Studies
Brock University
St. Catharines, Canada
<bjoe@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>

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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 15:48:39 GMT
From: "J.J.Higgins - Education" <J.Higgins@bristol.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Circularity in defining

I have been working with some students on dictionary definitions,
and we discussed circularity. I have a distant memory of a fairy
story in which the king was presented with a new dictionary. It
included the entries *Cockatrice: see basilisk* and *Basilisk: see
cockatrice*. The king promptly ordered the lexicographer's
execution.

Can anyone give me chapter and verse on this?

from John Higgins, University of Bristol, J.Higgins@Bristol.ac.uk

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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 21:08:12 GMT
From: Richard Giordano <rich@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Computer Ethics Query

A few months ago, someone from, I think, Southern Connecticut University
posted a message announcing the availability of a computer ethics
curriculum complete with videotape. I've lost that posting, and now I find
myself charged with designing none other than a computer ethics course! If
anyone has any details on this or other such programs, can you please email
them to me?

I know that I'm cluttering-up the Humanist with this request, but please be
patient. There must be some of you who have had similar resposnibilities
placed on them and know what it's like.

Thanks.

/rich