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Three Stages of Semantic Articulation in Izutsu’s Understanding of Zen Buddhism: A Comparison with Blocker’s Understanding
Get PDFThis paper aims to elucidate Toshihiko Izutsu’s conception of three stages of semantic articulation to philosophically elaborate the experience of Zen Buddhism in comparison with Gene Blocker’s understanding of Zen. Blocker proposes three stages of semantic investigation to clarify the nature of meaning, asserting that it is a projection. Additionally, Blocker discovers a similar understanding in Zen masters’ sayings. Likewise, Izutsu identifies three stages of semantic articulation in Zen masters’ thoughts: (1) articulation that posits an essence (essentialism), (2) non-articulation, and (3) articulation that does not posit an essence (non-essentialism). However, Izutsu interprets these thoughts as implying a metaphysical structure of self-articulation of non-articulation. Conversely, Blocker does not adopt the metaphysical perspective of reality in his interpretation of Zen. This discrepancy between their interpretations becomes apparent when considering that Blocker’s third stage can be assimilated into the ontological possibilities of Izutsu’s first stage, rather than those of his third stage. Moreover, Izutsu indicates that the Buddhist terms “emptiness” and “nonduality” imply the elimination of all semantic articulations to reveal metaphysical reality. By contrast, Blocker indicates that these terms only imply the removal of non-projective meanings that we naively believe attach themselves to objects
Philosophical Thought in Toshihiko Izutsu's Metaphysics of Consciousness from the Multilayered Structures of Being and Consciousness Viewpoint
Get PDFThis paper purposes to elucidate the philosophical reflections in Toshihiko Izutsu's Metaphysics of Consciousness (Ishiki no Keijijōgaku) from the perspective of the multilayered structures of being and consciousness. The paper first explains the multilayered structures of being and consciousness and describes the philosophical significance of mysticism as the methodological basis of Izutsu's conception of oriental philosophy as detailed in A Fountainhead of Islamic Philosophy (Islam Tetsugaku no Genzo). The paper subsequently elucidates his analyses of the semantic structures of shinnyo (真如, thusness), shin (心, mind), and alayashiki (アラヤ識, store consciousness). It further illuminates his unique attempt to translate the word shin, a Buddhist term, as ishiki (意識, consciousness), a modern Japanese word. According to Izutsu, this attempt denoted his experiment with intercultural semantics and triggered the exchange of kunjū (熏習, perfume) between the terms shin and ishiki, interculturally extending the semantic field of ishiki to incorporate the connotations of shin. The paper finally highlights the correlations between the multilayered structures constituted by the words and the preceding configurations described as Izutsu's methodological foundations
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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Sucre to Dollar, Franc to Euro: the Cultural Impact of Currency Change in Ecuador and France
Get PDFThis thesis is a comparative study of the two processes of currency change that occurred in Ecuador in 2000 and in France in 2002. Although the background of these two countries and the motivations behind each currency change varied, Ecuador and France have experienced many similar outcomes. Each of the two countries also has nevertheless faced different problems, that
the other country did not encounter, due to the cultural differences between them.
In general, economic developments are expected as a result of
currency changes, and a government may focus only on economic-related outcomes. However, the cultural shifts in people's everyday lives, brought about by a currency change, are drastic, and this aspect of currency change must not be ignored.
The research for this thesis is based on local media, the observation of people's reactions, personal interactions with the people of the two countries, and all other previous international experiences of the author.
The currency changes in Ecuador and France both had impacts on
many people, including their neighboring countries and the rest of the world, and both the Ecuadorian and French people are still experiencing cultural changes in their lives that will continue as globalization proceeds, involving every citizen of the planet
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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