Terezinha Nunes, Peter Bryant, Diana Burman, Daniel Bell, Deborah Evans, Darcy Hallett, and Laura Montgomery
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195368673
- eISBN:
- 9780199894161
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195368673.003.0007
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
The understanding of inversion plays a key role in children's learning about arithmetic and algebra. This chapter focuses on deaf children's understanding and use of the principle of inversion. It is ...
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The understanding of inversion plays a key role in children's learning about arithmetic and algebra. This chapter focuses on deaf children's understanding and use of the principle of inversion. It is shown that deaf children under-perform in inversion problems in relation to their age and intelligence, which suggests that something must be done so that they have a good chance for a sound start in their mathematics learning in school.Less
The understanding of inversion plays a key role in children's learning about arithmetic and algebra. This chapter focuses on deaf children's understanding and use of the principle of inversion. It is shown that deaf children under-perform in inversion problems in relation to their age and intelligence, which suggests that something must be done so that they have a good chance for a sound start in their mathematics learning in school.
Jerome Murphy‐O'Connor
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199564156
- eISBN:
- 9780191721281
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199564156.003.00016
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
After a discussion of the validity of the methodology normally used to determine interpolations, i.e. additions to a text after it had left its author's hands, the chapter passes in review thirteen ...
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After a discussion of the validity of the methodology normally used to determine interpolations, i.e. additions to a text after it had left its author's hands, the chapter passes in review thirteen passages in 1 Cor, which various authors have suggested were interpolations. Only 1 Cor 4: 6 and 1 Cor 14: 34–35 are accepted as post‐Pauline additions. 1 Cor 7: 29–31 is more likely to be Paul's citation of a formed apocalyptic tradition similar to 6 Ezra 16: 41–45 than an interpolation. It is entirely probable that 1 Cor 15: 56 is an embryonic articulation of an insight which Paul developed fully only several years later in writing Romans.Less
After a discussion of the validity of the methodology normally used to determine interpolations, i.e. additions to a text after it had left its author's hands, the chapter passes in review thirteen passages in 1 Cor, which various authors have suggested were interpolations. Only 1 Cor 4: 6 and 1 Cor 14: 34–35 are accepted as post‐Pauline additions. 1 Cor 7: 29–31 is more likely to be Paul's citation of a formed apocalyptic tradition similar to 6 Ezra 16: 41–45 than an interpolation. It is entirely probable that 1 Cor 15: 56 is an embryonic articulation of an insight which Paul developed fully only several years later in writing Romans.
Cordelia Beattie
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199283415
- eISBN:
- 9780191712616
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199283415.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
In 1413, the Statute of Additions attempted to standardize personal designations (or additions) in legal writs and appeals. When justices in the king's courts discussed what additions were ...
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In 1413, the Statute of Additions attempted to standardize personal designations (or additions) in legal writs and appeals. When justices in the king's courts discussed what additions were appropriate for women, the term ‘singlewoman’ was suggested for unmarried women, including widows. Yet, because ‘widow’ continued to be seen as an appropriate designation, ‘singlewoman’ was largely, although not exclusively, applied to the never married. It is argued that while in theory the Statute only applied to certain kinds of legal documents, in practice it had an impact on a wide range of documents over the course of the 15th century and beyond. This is demonstrated with particular reference to York's civic records. The argument has implications for early modern evidence too and some of this is briefly considered.Less
In 1413, the Statute of Additions attempted to standardize personal designations (or additions) in legal writs and appeals. When justices in the king's courts discussed what additions were appropriate for women, the term ‘singlewoman’ was suggested for unmarried women, including widows. Yet, because ‘widow’ continued to be seen as an appropriate designation, ‘singlewoman’ was largely, although not exclusively, applied to the never married. It is argued that while in theory the Statute only applied to certain kinds of legal documents, in practice it had an impact on a wide range of documents over the course of the 15th century and beyond. This is demonstrated with particular reference to York's civic records. The argument has implications for early modern evidence too and some of this is briefly considered.
David Benatar
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199296422
- eISBN:
- 9780191712005
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296422.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter discusses the implications of the earlier arguments for population and extinction. It is argued that the anti-natal view solves various problems in moral theory about population, ...
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This chapter discusses the implications of the earlier arguments for population and extinction. It is argued that the anti-natal view solves various problems in moral theory about population, including many made famous by Derek Parfit. Anti-natalism is compatible with his Theory X. It solves the non-identity problem, avoids the repugnant conclusion and the mere addition problem, and explains asymmetry. Turning to contractarianism, the chapter shows how anti-natalism is a consequence of maximin in John Rawls' original position. It considers the question whether human extinction, an implication of anti-natalism, may be phased or whether it should come as quickly as possible. Finally, it is argued that the state of human extinction, where it is brought about by failing to produce new people (rather than by killing off existing people), is not bad.Less
This chapter discusses the implications of the earlier arguments for population and extinction. It is argued that the anti-natal view solves various problems in moral theory about population, including many made famous by Derek Parfit. Anti-natalism is compatible with his Theory X. It solves the non-identity problem, avoids the repugnant conclusion and the mere addition problem, and explains asymmetry. Turning to contractarianism, the chapter shows how anti-natalism is a consequence of maximin in John Rawls' original position. It considers the question whether human extinction, an implication of anti-natalism, may be phased or whether it should come as quickly as possible. Finally, it is argued that the state of human extinction, where it is brought about by failing to produce new people (rather than by killing off existing people), is not bad.
Pierluigi Frisco
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199542864
- eISBN:
- 9780191715679
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199542864.003.0004
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Biology
This chapter studies Petri nets and P/T systems as computing devices and it links some components present in them to their computational power. This chapter proves that the combination of different ...
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This chapter studies Petri nets and P/T systems as computing devices and it links some components present in them to their computational power. This chapter proves that the combination of different components leads to a hierarchy of computational processes. The results presented in this chapter facilitate the study of the computational power of abstract devices. The following chapters show how these results can be applied to the models of membrane systems that are considered.Less
This chapter studies Petri nets and P/T systems as computing devices and it links some components present in them to their computational power. This chapter proves that the combination of different components leads to a hierarchy of computational processes. The results presented in this chapter facilitate the study of the computational power of abstract devices. The following chapters show how these results can be applied to the models of membrane systems that are considered.
Larry S. Temkin
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199759446
- eISBN:
- 9780199932214
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199759446.003.0011
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General, Moral Philosophy
A fundamentally important question for practical reasoning is how best to understand the goodness of outcomes and the nature of moral ideals: Is the Internal Aspects View correct, is the Essentially ...
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A fundamentally important question for practical reasoning is how best to understand the goodness of outcomes and the nature of moral ideals: Is the Internal Aspects View correct, is the Essentially Comparative View correct, or is, perhaps, some other view correct? This chapter distinguishes between the Internal Aspects View and the Essentially Comparative View, and illustrates some of the implications of adopting one or the other. In doing this, it begins by exploring an important example that illuminates the appeal of the Essentially Comparative View, Derek Parfit's Mere Addition Paradox. Analyzing the Mere Addition Paradox, its implications, and various possible responses to it provides a much better understanding of a number of important views that stand or fall together. One of these views, called the Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives Principle, is also, along with the transitivity of “better than,” widely regarded as a fundamental principle of practical rationality.Less
A fundamentally important question for practical reasoning is how best to understand the goodness of outcomes and the nature of moral ideals: Is the Internal Aspects View correct, is the Essentially Comparative View correct, or is, perhaps, some other view correct? This chapter distinguishes between the Internal Aspects View and the Essentially Comparative View, and illustrates some of the implications of adopting one or the other. In doing this, it begins by exploring an important example that illuminates the appeal of the Essentially Comparative View, Derek Parfit's Mere Addition Paradox. Analyzing the Mere Addition Paradox, its implications, and various possible responses to it provides a much better understanding of a number of important views that stand or fall together. One of these views, called the Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives Principle, is also, along with the transitivity of “better than,” widely regarded as a fundamental principle of practical rationality.
E. Brian Davies
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199219186
- eISBN:
- 9780191711695
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199219186.003.0003
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
This chapter explains why our concept of number is not nearly as simple as most people think. It argues that a long historical process has resulted in the creation of a powerful numerical structure ...
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This chapter explains why our concept of number is not nearly as simple as most people think. It argues that a long historical process has resulted in the creation of a powerful numerical structure which we now use with confidence. However, the chapter states, this must not blind us to the fact that the properties of numbers which we regard as self-evident were not always so. Topics discussed include whole numbers, small numbers, medium numbers, what large numbers represent, addition, subtraction, multiplication, inaccessible and huge numbers, Peano's postulates, and infinity.Less
This chapter explains why our concept of number is not nearly as simple as most people think. It argues that a long historical process has resulted in the creation of a powerful numerical structure which we now use with confidence. However, the chapter states, this must not blind us to the fact that the properties of numbers which we regard as self-evident were not always so. Topics discussed include whole numbers, small numbers, medium numbers, what large numbers represent, addition, subtraction, multiplication, inaccessible and huge numbers, Peano's postulates, and infinity.
Gustaf Arrhenius
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199282951
- eISBN:
- 9780191712319
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199282951.003.0013
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
What is the role of equality in the evaluation of populations of different sizes in respect to their goodness? The field of population ethics has been riddled with paradoxes which purport to show ...
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What is the role of equality in the evaluation of populations of different sizes in respect to their goodness? The field of population ethics has been riddled with paradoxes which purport to show that our considered beliefs are inconsistent in cases where the number of people and their welfare varies. Parfit's well-known Mere Addition Paradox is a case in point. These paradoxes challenge at a fundamental level the existence of a satisfactory theory of our duties to future generations and intergenerational justice. This chapter discusses whether egalitarian concerns can help us solve these paradoxes. It is claimed that whereas egalitarian considerations are applicable in different number cases and can help us solve the Mere Addition Paradox, such considerations are not of much help in another paradox. The implications of the Priority View in different number cases are also examined.Less
What is the role of equality in the evaluation of populations of different sizes in respect to their goodness? The field of population ethics has been riddled with paradoxes which purport to show that our considered beliefs are inconsistent in cases where the number of people and their welfare varies. Parfit's well-known Mere Addition Paradox is a case in point. These paradoxes challenge at a fundamental level the existence of a satisfactory theory of our duties to future generations and intergenerational justice. This chapter discusses whether egalitarian concerns can help us solve these paradoxes. It is claimed that whereas egalitarian considerations are applicable in different number cases and can help us solve the Mere Addition Paradox, such considerations are not of much help in another paradox. The implications of the Priority View in different number cases are also examined.
Alan M. Slater, J. Gavin Bremner, Scott P. Johnson, and Rachel A. Hayes
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195366709
- eISBN:
- 9780199863969
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195366709.003.0005
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Vision
One of the major areas of research into early cognitive development concerns infants' ability to understand number, given that it leads into later numerical and mathematical competence. Accordingly, ...
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One of the major areas of research into early cognitive development concerns infants' ability to understand number, given that it leads into later numerical and mathematical competence. Accordingly, there is considerable research on this topic and there is a large body of research suggesting that infants have a least some ability to discriminate between small number sets and large number sets. This chapter begins by describing the evidence for two types of representations of number—one for small item sets, the other for large—together with evidence that these systems are modality-general. This is followed by evidence suggesting that infants may sometimes be responding to continuous variables that are found in displays of discrete items rather than number per se. It then turns to the main focus of the chapter, which is whether infants can add and subtract, or whether their purported arithmetical abilities can be explained in lower-level perceptual terms. It is in this context that the relative contributions of information-processing perspectives are compared with other theoretical views on our understanding of infants' numerical abilities.Less
One of the major areas of research into early cognitive development concerns infants' ability to understand number, given that it leads into later numerical and mathematical competence. Accordingly, there is considerable research on this topic and there is a large body of research suggesting that infants have a least some ability to discriminate between small number sets and large number sets. This chapter begins by describing the evidence for two types of representations of number—one for small item sets, the other for large—together with evidence that these systems are modality-general. This is followed by evidence suggesting that infants may sometimes be responding to continuous variables that are found in displays of discrete items rather than number per se. It then turns to the main focus of the chapter, which is whether infants can add and subtract, or whether their purported arithmetical abilities can be explained in lower-level perceptual terms. It is in this context that the relative contributions of information-processing perspectives are compared with other theoretical views on our understanding of infants' numerical abilities.
Kenneth McK Norrie
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781845861193
- eISBN:
- 9781474406246
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781845861193.003.0048
- Subject:
- Law, Family Law
This commentary discusses a number of cases from both the Scottish and English courts in which children with additional support needs in learning have sought remedies. City of Edinburgh Council v MDH ...
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This commentary discusses a number of cases from both the Scottish and English courts in which children with additional support needs in learning have sought remedies. City of Edinburgh Council v MDH [2011] CSIH 13 concerned a placing request made by parents of an autistic child. RO v East Riding of Yorkshire Council [2011] EWCA Civ 196 concerned attempts by parents to restore their child's “looked after” status in order to be able to access certain after-care provisions in the Children Act 1989, only to be met with the defence that the child was accommodated under the Education Acts which contained no after-care provisions.Less
This commentary discusses a number of cases from both the Scottish and English courts in which children with additional support needs in learning have sought remedies. City of Edinburgh Council v MDH [2011] CSIH 13 concerned a placing request made by parents of an autistic child. RO v East Riding of Yorkshire Council [2011] EWCA Civ 196 concerned attempts by parents to restore their child's “looked after” status in order to be able to access certain after-care provisions in the Children Act 1989, only to be met with the defence that the child was accommodated under the Education Acts which contained no after-care provisions.
EVA FEDER KITTAY
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198242468
- eISBN:
- 9780191680472
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198242468.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind
This chapter critically examines some alternative approaches which involve theories of interpretation as well as the inadequacies of the theories of metaphor which are based on the major ...
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This chapter critically examines some alternative approaches which involve theories of interpretation as well as the inadequacies of the theories of metaphor which are based on the major non-relational theories of word meaning. There are intentional and interactional approaches although it appears that one cannot consistently hold the interactionist position and maintain that interpretation is a process of predicate transfers, literally applied. The formulaic approach, on the other hand, puts more emphasis on the process of making comparisons. A lot of writers, however, have taken the position that the question of metaphorical interpretation presents characteristically linguistic problems whose resolution requires the application of specifically linguistic devices. These are just among many theories and indeed a theory of word meaning is none the less important for the full account of metaphor.Less
This chapter critically examines some alternative approaches which involve theories of interpretation as well as the inadequacies of the theories of metaphor which are based on the major non-relational theories of word meaning. There are intentional and interactional approaches although it appears that one cannot consistently hold the interactionist position and maintain that interpretation is a process of predicate transfers, literally applied. The formulaic approach, on the other hand, puts more emphasis on the process of making comparisons. A lot of writers, however, have taken the position that the question of metaphorical interpretation presents characteristically linguistic problems whose resolution requires the application of specifically linguistic devices. These are just among many theories and indeed a theory of word meaning is none the less important for the full account of metaphor.
Derek Parfit
- Published in print:
- 1986
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198249085
- eISBN:
- 9780191598173
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019824908X.003.0019
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Argues whether an outcome could be made worse by the mere addition of extra people who have lives worth living;why we should reject the view that it is best if the average quality of life is as high ...
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Argues whether an outcome could be made worse by the mere addition of extra people who have lives worth living;why we should reject the view that it is best if the average quality of life is as high as possible. It discusses a paradox involving mere addition and the attempted solutions. It also explores new versions of this paradox.Less
Argues whether an outcome could be made worse by the mere addition of extra people who have lives worth living;why we should reject the view that it is best if the average quality of life is as high as possible. It discusses a paradox involving mere addition and the attempted solutions. It also explores new versions of this paradox.
Peter Knoepfel
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781447345053
- eISBN:
- 9781447345091
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447345053.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter contains an in-depth definition of the aforementioned resource-based approach to public policy resources, which is usually used for analysing the institutional conditions for sustainable ...
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This chapter contains an in-depth definition of the aforementioned resource-based approach to public policy resources, which is usually used for analysing the institutional conditions for sustainable resource use in connection with the postulate of sustainable development. It exploits the concept of institutional resource regimes (IRR) rooted in constitutional and civil law, which is illustrated by the analysis of the governance of the resource ‘public documentary information’ (big data) conducted by Olgiati Pelet.Less
This chapter contains an in-depth definition of the aforementioned resource-based approach to public policy resources, which is usually used for analysing the institutional conditions for sustainable resource use in connection with the postulate of sustainable development. It exploits the concept of institutional resource regimes (IRR) rooted in constitutional and civil law, which is illustrated by the analysis of the governance of the resource ‘public documentary information’ (big data) conducted by Olgiati Pelet.
Nancy Cartwright
- Published in print:
- 1983
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198247043
- eISBN:
- 9780191597152
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198247044.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
The facticity view of fundamental laws of physics takes them to state facts about reality. To preserve the facticity of laws in the face of complex phenomena with multiple intervening factors, ...
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The facticity view of fundamental laws of physics takes them to state facts about reality. To preserve the facticity of laws in the face of complex phenomena with multiple intervening factors, composition of causes, often by vector addition, is invoked. However, this addition should be read only as a metaphor, for only the resultant force is real. The truth and the explanatory power of laws can both be preserved by viewing laws as describing causal powers (or capacities) that objects possess, but this view would require a new account of explanation.Less
The facticity view of fundamental laws of physics takes them to state facts about reality. To preserve the facticity of laws in the face of complex phenomena with multiple intervening factors, composition of causes, often by vector addition, is invoked. However, this addition should be read only as a metaphor, for only the resultant force is real. The truth and the explanatory power of laws can both be preserved by viewing laws as describing causal powers (or capacities) that objects possess, but this view would require a new account of explanation.
John Broome
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199243761
- eISBN:
- 9780191602900
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019924376X.003.0010
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter demonstrates how the assumptions made so far in the book imply that there is a single neutral level for existence. That is, there is a single level of wellbeing such that adding a person ...
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This chapter demonstrates how the assumptions made so far in the book imply that there is a single neutral level for existence. That is, there is a single level of wellbeing such that adding a person at that level is neither better nor worse than not adding her. It explains how this conclusion conflicts strongly with an intuition shared by many people: the ‘neutrality intuition’ that adding a person to the world’s population is generally ethically neutral. It uses examples such as the mere addition paradox. It outlines various ways in which the conflict with intuition might be circumvented.Less
This chapter demonstrates how the assumptions made so far in the book imply that there is a single neutral level for existence. That is, there is a single level of wellbeing such that adding a person at that level is neither better nor worse than not adding her. It explains how this conclusion conflicts strongly with an intuition shared by many people: the ‘neutrality intuition’ that adding a person to the world’s population is generally ethically neutral. It uses examples such as the mere addition paradox. It outlines various ways in which the conflict with intuition might be circumvented.
John Broome
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199243761
- eISBN:
- 9780191602900
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019924376X.003.0015
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter opens the question of aggregating wellbeing across time to determine the value of a single person’s life. It explains the imperfect analogy between this sort of aggregation and ...
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This chapter opens the question of aggregating wellbeing across time to determine the value of a single person’s life. It explains the imperfect analogy between this sort of aggregation and aggregation across time to determine the overall value of a world. It assesses the principle of temporal good, the analogue of the principle of personal good. It shows there are plausible grounds for doubting the principle, which derive from various putative pattern goods. Nevertheless, this chapter eventually adopts the principle of temporal good as a default position. From this default position, it derives a same-lifetime addition theorem, which says that wellbeing is aggregated within a life additively.Less
This chapter opens the question of aggregating wellbeing across time to determine the value of a single person’s life. It explains the imperfect analogy between this sort of aggregation and aggregation across time to determine the overall value of a world. It assesses the principle of temporal good, the analogue of the principle of personal good. It shows there are plausible grounds for doubting the principle, which derive from various putative pattern goods. Nevertheless, this chapter eventually adopts the principle of temporal good as a default position. From this default position, it derives a same-lifetime addition theorem, which says that wellbeing is aggregated within a life additively.
John Broome
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199243761
- eISBN:
- 9780191602900
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019924376X.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter uses separability of lives to apply the same-number addition theorem, which derives originally from John Harsanyi, to arrive at a broadly utilitarian conclusion about aggregation across ...
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This chapter uses separability of lives to apply the same-number addition theorem, which derives originally from John Harsanyi, to arrive at a broadly utilitarian conclusion about aggregation across people when the population is constant. It outlines the assumptions required by the theorem.Less
This chapter uses separability of lives to apply the same-number addition theorem, which derives originally from John Harsanyi, to arrive at a broadly utilitarian conclusion about aggregation across people when the population is constant. It outlines the assumptions required by the theorem.
Susan Rennie
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199639403
- eISBN:
- 9780191741920
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199639403.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Lexicography, Historical Linguistics
This chapter describes Jamieson’s plans to revise the Dictionary, leading to the publication of a two-volume Supplement in 1825. It shows how Jamieson expanded his reading programme to encompass new ...
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This chapter describes Jamieson’s plans to revise the Dictionary, leading to the publication of a two-volume Supplement in 1825. It shows how Jamieson expanded his reading programme to encompass new works by Scott and others, and used this research for the interim, abridged edition of 1818. The chapter makes extensive use of manuscript material to show how Jamieson solicited information from a network of consultants, and reveals that major contributors, such as Sir Robert Liston and George Kinloch, had a significant impact on the text. It also details the nature and extent of Scott’s contributions to the Supplement, by reference to the annotated Dictionary copy in Abbotsford Library. The chapter includes a detailed analysis of the Supplement manuscript, revealing how Jamieson prepared and revised his copy for the press, and an overview of the unpublished Additions, for which Jamieson continued to gather material until his death in 1838.Less
This chapter describes Jamieson’s plans to revise the Dictionary, leading to the publication of a two-volume Supplement in 1825. It shows how Jamieson expanded his reading programme to encompass new works by Scott and others, and used this research for the interim, abridged edition of 1818. The chapter makes extensive use of manuscript material to show how Jamieson solicited information from a network of consultants, and reveals that major contributors, such as Sir Robert Liston and George Kinloch, had a significant impact on the text. It also details the nature and extent of Scott’s contributions to the Supplement, by reference to the annotated Dictionary copy in Abbotsford Library. The chapter includes a detailed analysis of the Supplement manuscript, revealing how Jamieson prepared and revised his copy for the press, and an overview of the unpublished Additions, for which Jamieson continued to gather material until his death in 1838.
Thomas A. Prendergast
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526129154
- eISBN:
- 9781526141996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526129154.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
Thomas A. Prendergast re-examines the fifteenth-century ‘Beryn’ manuscript, one of numerous continuations of and additions to the Canterbury Tales. Prendergast’s foremost concern is to identify the ...
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Thomas A. Prendergast re-examines the fifteenth-century ‘Beryn’ manuscript, one of numerous continuations of and additions to the Canterbury Tales. Prendergast’s foremost concern is to identify the logic guiding the Beryn-scribe’s addition of this text to the Tales. He argues that the scribe was compelled by an irresistible desire to complete the text of the Canterbury Tales, thus attributing agency to the text itself.Less
Thomas A. Prendergast re-examines the fifteenth-century ‘Beryn’ manuscript, one of numerous continuations of and additions to the Canterbury Tales. Prendergast’s foremost concern is to identify the logic guiding the Beryn-scribe’s addition of this text to the Tales. He argues that the scribe was compelled by an irresistible desire to complete the text of the Canterbury Tales, thus attributing agency to the text itself.
Robert Chazan
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520221277
- eISBN:
- 9780520923959
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520221277.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter is also concerned with the Solomon bar Simson Chronicle, and it aims to show how the editor treated the Mainz Anonymous and made it the basis for his report on the events in Speyer, ...
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This chapter is also concerned with the Solomon bar Simson Chronicle, and it aims to show how the editor treated the Mainz Anonymous and made it the basis for his report on the events in Speyer, Worms, and Mainz. It states that the longest unit found in the Solomon bar Simson Chronicle is a description of the fate of three major Rhineland Jewish communities: Speyer, Worms, and Mainz. The chapter discusses the parallels found between these two narratives and the possible relationship between these two compositions. One section looks at the deletions and the additions that were made, while another identifies the central themes in the recurrent editorial glosses to the Speyer-Worms-Mainz story.Less
This chapter is also concerned with the Solomon bar Simson Chronicle, and it aims to show how the editor treated the Mainz Anonymous and made it the basis for his report on the events in Speyer, Worms, and Mainz. It states that the longest unit found in the Solomon bar Simson Chronicle is a description of the fate of three major Rhineland Jewish communities: Speyer, Worms, and Mainz. The chapter discusses the parallels found between these two narratives and the possible relationship between these two compositions. One section looks at the deletions and the additions that were made, while another identifies the central themes in the recurrent editorial glosses to the Speyer-Worms-Mainz story.
