Now, some distinctions we draw are merely distinctions between ways in which we might think or talk about things, but don't reflect any difference in reality. So, we can distinguish between a thing's essence and its existence, between what it is and the fact that it is. That is to say, you know that human beings exist. Substitute some other definition if you prefer.) Second, you know that there really are human beings. (Though once again, it doesn't matter for present purposes whether you agree with this traditional definition of a human being or not. That is the nature or essence of a human being. You know, for instance, that what a human being is is a rational animal. Notice that what we thereby know about them are two distinct things. We know what these things are, and we know that they are part of reality outside our minds. The world of our experience contains stones, trees, dogs, human beings, and a wide variety of other things. Selection from Edward Feser, Five Proofs of the Existence of God, (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2017), 117-118.
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Russell is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, the World Technology Award (Policy category), the Mitchell Prize of the American Statistical Association and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, the ACM Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and the AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery at UC San Francisco and Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Council on AI and Robotics. He then joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is Professor (and formerly Chair) of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering. in computer science from Stanford in 1986. with first-class honours in physics from Oxford University in 1982 and his Ph.D. OL465335W Page_number_confidence 77.63 Pages 230 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210917141249 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 463 Scandate 20210916231931 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780689837210 Tts_version 4. He leaves his family and cozy country home and sets off by train for the big city. A mouse has to do what a mouse has to do. 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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:08:23 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA40239723 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Richard Mason’s The World of Suzie Wong is dated, but a classic and nonetheless shows the old Hong Kong, one that people were reminiscing about in ’97, as attested by the many old Hong Kong-themed parties that summer. Jan Morris’ Hong Kong is something I read back in 1990 or 1991, but she came out with a new edition just before the Handover and it was all the rage in Hong Kong in 1997. I’ve listed them here along with some others that were published years or even decades before the Handover. In Hong Kong just before the Handover, some new books and some old favorites were all the rage in the expat community. POPULAR BOOKS BEFORE AND DURING THE HANDOVER None of these are listed in any particular order. While few have anything to celebrate and it’s no more than a morose milestone, I thought I’d put together a list of books that people were reading in Hong Kong 20 years ago as the Handover approached, and books that pertain to it either pre-1997 or post. Today marks the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s Handover from Great Britain to China. The Fellowship eventually splits up and Frodo continues the quest with his loyal companion Sam and the treacherous Gollum. Set in the fictional world of Middle-earth, the films follow the hobbit Frodo Baggins as he and the Fellowship embark on a quest to destroy the One Ring, to ensure the destruction of its maker, the Dark Lord Sauron. The films feature an ensemble cast including Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Lee, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Andy Serkis and Sean Bean. Produced and distributed by New Line Cinema with the co-production of WingNut Films, the series is an international venture between New Zealand and the United States. The films are subtitled The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003). The Lord of the Rings is a series of three epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist and is poised to become one of the first Black female anchors of the top news channel in their hometown of Philadelphia.īut the deep bond they share is severely tested when Jen’s husband, a city police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager. Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finally pregnant. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. Both characters received equal play and the book doesn’t ask you to take sides but to see each of their different perspectives. I thought the authors-Christine Pride and Jo Piazza-really painted the picture of both Riley and Jen’s very different circumstances. It’s one I’ll be thinking about for a long time. It’s a fiction story but everything about it felt so real. This is a fantastic novel! Emotional, heartbreaking and full of so much truth. But the umbrella turned inside out, and Jerry hit the ground-hard. Fly, seagull! Let’s see you fly!” He had actually tried to fly once, jumping off the garage, holding an umbrella. He had been bullied for years, kids taunting him with rhymes like “Siegel, Seagull, bird of an eagle. Jerry, a nerd with glasses, had had few friends at Glenville High-ignored not just by the girls but the boys, too. It involved a character like Samson, Hercules, and Moses all rolled into one-a new character that was an amalgamation of everything he had ever written or read. Twisting and turning, Jerry had a new idea for a story in his head. It wasn’t the summer heat that was keeping him awake nor his snoring older brother Leo snoozing noisily beside him. In a small attic bedroom in Cleveland, in the Jewish neighborhood of Glenville, Jerry Siegel tried to sleep. What are your favorite Spider-Man stories? Are there any in particular you’ll be drawing inspiration from on the new series? That’s the fun of Spider-Man, you’re playing with the outside perception of two characters. Peter could get a new job, a new girlfriend, but Spider-Man is accused of a crime and is public enemy number one. There are still periods where one is doing better than the other and I’ve always loved that aspect of secret identities. And part of the fun of the character is seeing how he gets out of the holes he digs for himself. But inevitably his “Parker luck” spoils things, even as Spider-Man. Peter can be having a crummy time of things, put on his Spider-Man outfit and feel like he can do anything. Can you imagine? Spider-Man is kind of like when you’re a kid and you go to camp or a new school, and you think, “I can be a new person here,” but you invariably end up with the same problems because you’re still, you know, the same person. In a lot of ways, I feel that “Peter Parker” is the mask and-just kidding. How do you see the interplay between the Peter Parker and Spider-Man identities? In Athens, Plato celebrates the divine madness that the poet experiences when the muse descends, but he also kicks the poets out of his ideal republic as unreliable, disruptive sorts. In Jerusalem, proscriptions against idols and graven images coexist with paeans to the craftsmanship of God and Bezalel, the artificer (described in Exodus) of the desert tabernacle. The ambivalence about beauty at the heart of western culture begins at the beginning. I don’t mean to say that beauty in art or nature hasn’t been appreciated throughout history-though there have been times when beauty has been the subject of frontal assaults-but simply that when we start getting official, when we get theological or philosophical, beauty becomes a hot potato. In the history of the West, beauty has played the role of Cinderella to her sisters, goodness and truth. STRANGE AS IT MAY SEEM, beauty still needs to be defended. |