6.0660 Qs: Media Life Expectancy; Journal; Quote IDs (4/130)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 9 Apr 1993 15:56:50 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0660. Friday, 9 Apr 1993.


(1) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 20:52:58 -0400 (EDT) (31 lines)
From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel)
Subject: life expectation?

(2) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 08:33:54 -0400 (47 lines)
From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin)
Subject: The "rational dog"

(3) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 93 10:34:11 -0400 (30 lines)
From: pwright@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Phyllis Wright)
Subject: journal identification

(4) Date: 08 Apr 1993 10:59:19 -0500 (EST) (22 lines)
From: FZINN@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu
Subject: sources for two quotations

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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 20:52:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel)
Subject: life expectation?

What is the average life length of information stored on
"electronic" media/devices.

- Paper tapes
- Punched cards
- Floppy disks
- hard disks
- magnetic tapes
- video casettes
- CD-ROM
- magneto-optic disks
- any other media?

Could anybody point to literature on this subject?

P.S. By the way is it life expectation or life expectancy?
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Date:   Thu, 8 Apr 1993 08:33:54 -0400
From:   warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin)
Subject: The "rational dog"
 
 
Luciano Floridi, a grad student in Philosophy at Oxford who belongs to
the e-list FICINO, has sent the following query, which I am
cross-posting to Humanist because of the wide range of interests among
subscribers.  Please reply directly to Floridi <floridi@VAX.OX.AC.UK>,
as I expect to be away for a week and will not be able to forward
messages to him.  Many thanks! GW.
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At the moment I am working on the variations on the them of the rational dog in
philosophy and iconology and I would really appreciate any suggestion
concerning philosophers who may have talked about the dog at the trivium.
 
This is the passage in question: "[Chrysippus] declares that the dog makes use
of the fifth complex indemostrable syllogism when, on arriving at a spot where
three ways meet, after smelling at the two roads by which the quarry did not
pass, he rushes off at once by the third without stopping to smell. For, says
the old writer, the dog implicitly reasons thus: 'The animal went either by
this road, or by that, or by the other: but it did not go by this or that,
therefore he wents the other way'".  Sextus Empiricus,  Outlines of Pyrrhonism
I, 69-70
 
So far, I have discovered that have talked about the dog (alphabetic order)
Aelianus, Chrysippus, Cleomedes, Hugh of St Victor, John of Salisbury,
Montaigne, Henry More, Philo, Plutarchus, Porphyrius, Cesare Ripa, Saunier de
Beaumont and Thomas Aquinas.
 
Do not seem to mention the dog: Bayle, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Peirce.
 
May mention the dog: St Augustine, Hume, Lucretius and Plato.
 
Do you remember to have read any passage in which a rational dog plays a part ?
 
Please, forward this mesage to as many lists as you wish, and ask
those who have helpful information to reply directly to me.
 
Luciano Floridi
Floridi@vax.oxford.ox.uk
 
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Germaine Warkentin                                     warkent@epas.utoronto.ca
English, Victoria College, University of Toronto
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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 93 10:34:11 -0400
From: pwright@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Phyllis Wright)
Subject: journal identification
 
 
I am trying, without success, to identify the following journal
title:
 
International journal for the empirical study of the foundations
of science and their methodology
 
I would like to know where it is (was) published?  If it still
exists? Who the publisher is?
 
I have checked all the standard library tools without luck.
 
Can someone help?
 
Many thanks
 
Phyllis Wright
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
Canada
L2S 3A1
 
pwright@spartan.ac.brocku.ca
(416)688-5550, exxt. 3961
 
 
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Date: 08 Apr 1993 10:59:19 -0500 (EST)
From: FZINN@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu
Subject: sources for two quotations
 
A colleague of mine has asked me to post the following request:
 
I am looking for the sources for two quotations
from a book published in 1794
 
1)      "Of martial men in glitt'ring arms display'd,
        "And all the shining pomp of war array'd;
        "Determin'd soldiers, and a gallant host,
        "As e'er Britannia in her pride cou'd boast."
 
2)      "Whilst memory dwells on virtues only thine,
        "Fame o'er thy relics breathes a strain divine.
 
Thanks in advance for the assistance of the collective power of a "Humanist
Search" query!
 
Grover Zinn
FZINN@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu