http://www.51flyblog.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:52:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en her and she will open the gate. On the door of the palace inside, there is a vajra knocker. Use it to knock. One hundred deva maidens will then appear and present you with precious stones. Do not converse with them; knock again on the door. Finally the naga girl, ... http://www.51flyblog.com/2010/09/respectfully-in-your-sleeve/ It is a curiosity of our intellectual history that problems of acquisition of knowledge and belief have generally been investigated in a way that to a scientist might seem rather perverse. There has been little attention to the problem of characterizing "what is learned". Rather, certain a priori assumptions have ... http://www.51flyblog.com/2010/08/a-more-natural-approach/   King who, during the very wet summer of 1876, likened the Powder River Valley to the Sahara. Overall, and irrespective of whether conditions were very wet or moderately dry, the most frequently cited criteria for negative assess­ments of the plains during nondrought years were the absence of trees and the presence ... http://www.51flyblog.com/2010/08/james-in-1820/     The Plains squirrel is well equipped to survive in his en­vironment. He exemplifies what frequently happened when men crossed the line. In the East men were accustomed to a squirrel that climbed trees; when they struck the Plains they found that the animal no longer went up but down. The ... http://www.51flyblog.com/2010/08/the-plains-squirrel/ Holds also collectively of all cxpcricncc, and that experience as such and in its totality owes whatever truth it may be posscsscd-of to its correspondence with absolute realities outside of its own being. This evidently is the popular and traditional position. From the fact that fi­nite experiences must draw support ... http://www.51flyblog.com/2010/08/holds-also-collectively/ As the causes of this disease must always have pre­vailed, its antiquity is probably high. Some of its symp­toms are mentioned by Hippocrates, and it seems to •be mentioned distinctly by Strabo, lib. xvi. sub finem. Uousseus also supposes it to be the disease which so severely afflicted the Roman ... http://www.51flyblog.com/2010/08/the-disease-of-the-east/ Par unguals. The ninth pair of nerves from the head. Par menta'le. See Levatores labii infe- rioris. Par va'gum. The eighth pair of nerves from the hepd, uervi vagi, and sympathrtia rnettii. This pair is n^ade up of several small chords which come from almost the whole length of the medulla oblongata, ... http://www.51flyblog.com/2010/08/par-mentale/     He recommcnds the mandragora in a dose below that, which produces delirium, and thinks it useful in the violent paroxysms to which those affected with melan­cholia are sometimes subject. The juice of the man­dragora, and the wild cucurbit diluted with milk, is to be injected into the anus to relieve ... http://www.51flyblog.com/2010/08/the-surgery-of-hippocrates/ berries are chiefly brought to us from Holland or from Italy. They should be chosen fresh, not much shrivelled, and free from mouldiness. They have a mo­derately strong, but not disagreeable, smell; a warm pungent sweetish taste, which, if previously bruised, is followed by a considerable bitterness. The sweetness seems ... http://www.51flyblog.com/2010/08/the-berries-are-chiefly/ The presen¬tation of this purposiveness has nothing to do with a feeling of you. THE LOGICAL PRESENTATION pleasure in things but rather with the understanding in our judging of them. When the concept of an object is given and we use it for cognition, the task of judgment is to exhibit (exhibere) ... http://www.51flyblog.com/2010/07/the-logical-presentation/