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Sorin Stati was a prestigious Romanian scientist whose 54-year of scientific activity included 220 papers and 130 lectures. Born in Romania, he studied at the University of Bucharest and worked from the beginning as a member of large research teams within the Romanian Academy. Single and collaborative works written up until 1972 and published in the country were exceptional, decisively changing the movement of Romanian linguistic ideas. After 1972, when he emigrated to Italy, the distinguished professor held a second doctorate and a chair at the University of Bologna. From then until his death, through his works and throughout his activity, he opened new theoretical perspectives both in the study of syntax and pragmatics, dialogue, in the analysis of the 'transfrastic' relationships, lexicology and semantics. His ability to influence these fields lies in the volumes that the international academic community offered at the age of 65, but also in the number of articles and homage volumes dedicated to Sorin Stati after 2008, the year of his death. The publication of his works continued ten years after his death. I personally owe him a large part of my linguistic thinking, being decisively influenced by his wonderful and fertile ideas during the period when I was preparing my PhD thesis. The bibliography of Sorin Stati's works, as seen above, was made up of two incomplete editions, without being unified so far with his other works. That is what we intended in this article. In addition to the previous bibliographies, we record here the understandings, respectively the reviews of his works, but also the homage articles and volumes without which, we think, a bibliography of any scientist remains incomplete. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The name “Tiergarten Programme” was given to Russell’s early philosophical project by Nicholas Griffin (1988) because it was conceived during a walk through the Tiergarten in Berlin. Russell’s plan was to develop a comprehensively Hegelian dialectic of the sciences, from mathemathics to physiology, using the tools of dialectical logic and the metaphysical categories of the Absolute Spirit. Russell wrote a lot of notes about the new developments in Mathemathics and Physics and he tried to put them in a neo-hegelian framework. The only completed work the Essay on the Foundations of Geometry (1897), which could be understood as an attempt to offer a new version of Kantian transcendentalism. My goal in this paper is to propose a reconstruction of these contributions and to point out their philosophical significance both in the context in which they were elaborated and in relation to Russell’s philosophical development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alain Sokal conceived his paper “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Mechanics” (1996) as a test through which he aimed to reveal the partisan sensitivity and conformist superficiality of the editors towards a text that flattered their ideological prejudices. In fact, the study is a parody of post-modern thought disguised as the promise of revealing the philosophical and political implications of twentieth-century physics. One of his main targets was the social constructivism theory proposed by Bruno Latour. My goal in this paper is to outline Latour’s theory in its main aspects so that we can see to what extent it is vulnerable to such criticism. It follows that Latour’s theory cannot be reduced to a simple lexical and ideological conformism, but there are other much more serious critical arguments that raise issues worthy of being taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper describes and discusses map 96 of the Romanian Regional Linguistic Atlas. Synthesis I, regarding the use of the term ‘chew’ (mestec) in Dacoromanian subdialects. The first chapter classifies the terms registered as answers and discusses the etymology and the geographical distribution of the 33 categories of words and phrases. Chapter 2 investigates some semantic motivation patterns observed, while the third chapter proposes a semantic analysis of the terms used in Dacoromanian for mestec. The paper concludes that the term mestec is used in all Dacoromanian subdialects, but other terms are also frequent, especially in the regions of Muntenia–Dobrogea and Oltenia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this paper is to describe and discuss the terms used for ‘noise’ in Romanian dialects. The discussed data comes from Romanian Regional Linguistic Atlas. Synthesis I, as well as numerous other dialect atlases, dialectal and folkloric resources. Besides the geographical distribution and etymology of all the registered answers, discussed in the three separate chapters (Dacoromanian terms used in Romania, Dacoromanian terms used outside Romania and terms used in the other dialects of Romanian), the paper includes an onomasiological and lexico-semantic approach of the Dacoromanian terms. The present paper proves the use of a large number of terms, with various etymologies, for expressing the notion of ‘noise’ in Romanian language. The use of common terms both inside and outside the borders of Romania provides evidence for the unity of Romanian language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper goes on with the presentation of Alexandru Surdu’s reconstruction of the theory of notion from classical logic by means of analyzing the relation between notion and word and showing the double subsistence of notion, its double partn the conventional character terms, and the relation among words and notion as definition and, on the other hand, by exposing notion as mediation between word and object through the three hypostases of the word – uttering, denomination, and name. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I have reviewed some of the most interesting ideas and arguments concerning what has been called the ‘post-truth condition’. I set out to find answers to two questions. First, I have tried to understand whether we are dealing with a new phenomenon, specific for the contemporary world, or, on the contrary, we are facing an older human tendency, which manifests itself today in a new and more aggressive form. Secondly, I have tried to provide an answer to the question of whether or not post-truth is a phenomenon necessary connected to human nature itself, that is, whether man is, as some scholars have claimed, a ‘post-truth species’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The categoricity problem for a system of logic reveals an asymmetry between the model-theoretic and the proof-theoretic resources of that logic. In particular, it reveals prima facie that the proof-theoretic instruments are insufficient for matching the envisaged model-theory, when the latter is already available. Among the proposed solutions for solving this problem, some make use of new proof-theoretic instruments, some others introduce new model-theoretic constrains on the proof-systems, while others try to use instruments from both sides. On the proof-theoretical side, two main approaches for solving the categoricity problem for propositional classical logic consist in the enforcement of the formal systems of this logic by introducing rules of inference of a new kind. A multiple-conclusions logic allows rules of inference with more than one conclusion, while a bilateralist system contains rules of inference formulated in terms of assertion and rejection. Both these approaches reveal interesting formal features of logical reasoning. This paper analyses some of the advantages and limitations of these two approaches as solutions for a full formalization of logic, i.e., for a categorical formalization [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In my paper, I attempt to investigate Dimitrie Cantemir’s view on science as we may find it in his Sacrosanctae.... I argue that he believes that only knowledge revealed in the form of charity provides access to the transcendent; to understand the actuality of Cantemir’s views, I place them in the context of the beginning of the modern science and the continuation of the Aristotelian tradition in southeastern Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A critical re-evaluation of the entire ancient tradition about the Sarmatians -- literary, epigraphic, numismatic, iconographic and onomastic data --, with the exhaustive cataloguing and analysis of the available sources, would not only allow a clearer overview of the generic term 'Sarmatians' (respectively on other ethnonyms associated with them), but would also provide a more appropriate term of comparison for archaeologists concerned with the phenomenon of Sarmatian culture. Announcing for the coming years the compilation of a compendium entitled Fontes Sarmatarum orae septentrionalis Ponti Euxini, the author proposes in this paper a catalogue containing 46 inscriptions, with the Romanian translation and brief comments in the case of most documents. When compiling this compendium, account was taken of inscriptions from North- Pontic cities or outside the Euxine Pontus that refer only to North-Pontic Sarmatians (or to some ethnonyms associated with them), disregarding the numerous attestations of the title Sarmaticus assumed by some Roman Emperors, the documents in which the Bosporan Kings Sauromates IIII appear, the tamga-signs and the onomastic material (found mainly in the inscriptions of the imperial period from Olbia and Bosporan cities). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public spaces in Algeria are characterized by the strong lack of interest among people who rely entirely on public authority. Not any tendency here to make of it a common good. The purpose of the paper is to exhibit the extent of popular indifference from in situ observations in Algiers and to explain this attitude through historical analysis. Indeed, the collective imaginary and practices have not always been insensitive to public spaces. On the contrary, in traditional rural society, public spaces were perceived as a continuity of domestic space. The peasant was obliged to take charge of its maintenance as well as for his home, his intimate space. To understand the later behavioural evolution, we must refer to the Ottoman and colonial domination processes. Each period had its own way of considering public spaces, but the urban management systems have always been based on a discrimination policy against natives and a strict control of the public spaces to the point of making them appear as the State property in the collective mentality. This perception of a grabbing of public spaces by the Turkish governor (Beylik) and later by the French colonial administration (for security reasons) has led amongst city dwellers to a feeling of exclusion and a disaffection that still characterize their attitude today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to answer a series of questions resulting from the presence of incomplete and superficial documentation gathered over time in the context of rehabilitation and restoration of historic houses in Turda, some of which are classified as monuments. Therefore, the following questions are considered: What is the value of a historical study in the context of an intervention? What is the structure of a historical study of a building? Who is in a position to carry out such a study and to impose permissions and restrictions? How can the research results be used? Does the history of one building illustrate wider policies of the Austro-Hungarian authorities to urbanise and modernise smaller towns in the realm? Although, this study is dedicated to a single building, located in the historical centre of the town, its detailed study and the reconstruction of its historical and architectural path can provide clues concerning the implementation of urban policies of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in provincial context. The building was classified as a historical monument, but its aspect today reflects its complicated history and the many unfortunate and misguided interventions it has undergone. It has also been neglected by existing research, and thus, its position within the „Art 1900” [Art Nouveau] has not been explored. Consequently, the present research attempts to make the most of the data recorded sporadically in various sources covering the history of Turda. On the other hand, the lack of conservation strategies for this type of heritage, reflected in a coherent legislative framework, has led until recently to a lax and confusing approach at the local administration level as well, as evidenced by the series of renovations and rehabilitation inappropriate to the original style, carried out by the local authority, owners or tenants over time. Good documentation forwarded to the authorities and current owners can, therefore, help these buildings and act as a method of educating the public, providing guidance concerning the value, functionality, and capacity of heritage to create more value for local communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In addition to administrative documents, narrative sources provide a wealth of information on the functioning of the town government. For almost 30 years, around the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, three Brașov biographers and diarists, Michael Weiss, Marcus Schunckabunck and Andreas Hegyes, recorded the complete annual lists of the town council. Set in the context of events in the town, these sources provide particularly valuable information on the organisation and functioning of the administration, the activities, conflicts, and grievances associated with the office of councillor, and not only list the names of the councilmen but also describe their duties in the various areas of the administration. In the absence of the minutes of the council meetings, these sources also make it possible to draw up an archontology of the town council of Brașov. In the appendix to this paper, a list of the councillors from 1590 to 1617 is presented, which can serve as a model for the development of a subsequent urban archontology covering the entire early modern period, including other administrative sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 1864, cities have played an increasingly important role in creating the norms and rules that governed human life, from economic activity to leisure. These rules had a very important role in the modernization process, contributing substantially to changing behaviours and practices, creating professional bodies, and adopting Western models. However, in Romanian historiography, this phenomenon is far from receiving the attention it deserves. Our paper aims to analyse the regulations, ordinances, and decisions issued by the Bucharest City Hall, regarding trade carried out in market halls, markets, in various places on the city streets, or by peddlers. Markets and market halls were, in the City Hall's conception, not just places intended for the trade of food and various other goods. They were supposed to be fundamental tools through which the municipality ensured that the citizens of Bucharest had access to safe food – from a hygienic and sanitary point of view – and that the numerous diseases transmitted through food had as few consequences as possible on the health of the capital's inhabitants. To attain this aim, the mayor, the Municipal Council, and the Hygiene Council elaborated and enacted numerous rules, which, under the combined pressure of the city's development, advances in the medical, chemical, and biological sciences, not least the professionalization of the municipal administration, experienced a rapid evolution during the chronologic span discussed. At the same time, the City Hall invested in the creation of an infrastructure that would allow the application of these measures (market halls and market, abattoir, laboratory for chemical and bacteriological analysis, etc.), and a body of officials that would ensure their compliance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes a lexical-semantic and etymological analysis of the words designating the generic emotion concept of love in the Aromanian dialect (as a representative part of its basic lexicon of affectivity), with constant reference to their Daco-Romanian counterparts. The lexicographic corpus brings forward a divers and semantically complex lexical inventory, of various origins, including old terms (inherited from Latin) and lexical borrowings from different languages of historical and cultural contact (especially Greek, Turkish, and Albanian). Particularly noteworthy is the preservation in Aromanian of a series of Latin words designating love, with the innovative development of an affective meaning (such as voi/vreare), which is convergent with the semantic mutations undergone by corresponding lexemes from the Western Romance languages. As referred to their etyma, the affective meaning is an innovation for other lexemes as well; the semantic change usually involves cognitive processes of abstractisation, amelioration, metonymic and metaphorical semantic associations (starting from a concrete, cognitive, or evaluative meaning). Moreover, the occurrences of the words in the dialectal texts under scrutiny point out relevant data: terms, syntagms, or particular meanings, instantiated in context, which are not lexicographically recorded as such. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of our present paper is to share some observations on the toponymy of Lapusului County. The study focuses exclusively on minor toponymy, as discussed in the volume with the same name Toponimia din Tara Lapusului de Stefan Visovan, or TTL. Upon analysing the toponymic analysis of that book, we have been drawn to some perceptible peculiarities at its surface. The place names frequently belong to the dialect vocabulary, which is only natural since the owners of the plots on a shared agricultural land subsequently become the creators of the local place names. We have examined the formation of the topolexems as grouped according to their creation procedures. What has been found was that more toponyms appeared through agglutinative composition or joining, but also through derivation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is a mere fact nowadays that linguistic loans are progressively adopted by a great amount of native Romanian speakers. Facing this reality, linguists tend to respond either by accepting the fatality of influence or by attempting to reject the entire process, turning language into a battle field of such extreme ideas as imposing laws against excessive linguistic borrowings. Even the middle path that was taken by researchers since 1990 (the reference point for the linguistic boom of English words in Romanian language, a boom that currently affects our floating communicational standards) relies on extralinguistic criteria such as necessity or futility, linguistic trends or linguistic supremacy, political correctness or cultural decadence, mass colonization or snobbery. Nevertheless, these criteria do not exclude a well-balanced statistical analysis, a moderate tone, and a dual perspective that, in the end, brings forth the intrinsic speakers' motivations along to their extrinsic ones. Under these circumstances, our paper discusses the influence that English loanwords bring upon the communicational level of contemporary Romanian language. Namely, we focus on two loanwords (target and hostess), as well as on a semantic calque (ospitalitate - hospitality), in order to grasp the hidden complexity entailed in the process of linguistic globalization. Our explanatory endeavour integrates the corpus within the conceptual frame of normative grammar, lexicology, and semantics. Generally speaking, we illustrate how particular lexical-semantic phenomena, namely calques and barbarisms, may generate discourse trends and, moreover, communicational patterns or habits which, in time, become vectors indicating more or less dramatic linguistic changes. From a lexical and semantic perspective, these shifts are a sign of creativity and dynamics. From a normative perspective, they show some points of vulnerability regarding the communicational dimension of language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

John Rawls focuses in his writings on one of the most important concepts of political thinking, more specifically on the concept of justice. He tries to conceive a new kind of theory, an ideal one, and to do that he uses two important concepts: The Original Position and the Veil of Ignorance. In this paper we will try to find out to what extent the society proposed by Rawls is moving towards an utopian one. What are the utopic elements of his theory and what can be applied in a society that is already created? How can people put themselves in the Original Position, or under the Veil of Ignorance if they are already part of this society. These are only some questions of which this paper is trying to answer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is, for the most part, an answer to Raymond Geuss's opinion about the value of John Rawls's philosophical contributions. Rawls, Geuss argued, “is not a major moral and political theorist, whose work self-evidently deserves and repays the most careful scrutiny. Rather he was a parochial figure who not only failed to advance the subject but also pointed political philosophy firmly in the wrong direction.” A similar, although more nuanced, conclusion about Rawls was also recently suggested by Katrina Forrester. My main objective in the paper is to show that such opinions are poorly argued and false (and that Rawls is, as most political philosophers think, a major, if not the greatest contemporary political philosopher – and one of the few recent thinkers comparable in scope and depth to giants in the history of political philosophy such as Plato, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau or John Stuart Mill). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper presents the author's ongoing doctoral thesis: it is a philological edition of an old Romanian manuscript dictionary of the Transylvanian School, while it, also, provides a sample of the transcription. It briefly discusses the history of the manuscript and its contents, and it argues that, albeit difficult for a number of technical reasons, the paternity of the dictionary is certain. It, also, describes the dictionary in lexicographical terms, and discusses in footnotes each peculiarity encountered in the sampled manuscript. The paper provides a solution to an enigma in the Romanian philology: the name of the dictionary, which is nowhere explicitly given, yet, the analysis of the word-list supports the hypothesis that Ștefan Crișan himself might have opted for the wording Cuvântariu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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For some ones, the topic of the paper may sound somehow outdated (“content” and “form”), since at least the tradition of the last century avoided the first and reduced the second to formal or rhetorical figures. The paper highlights, however, that the mentioned couple is not only present in a ubiquitous manner in the entire process of thinking/speaking/understanding, but also in the sophisticated theories about knowledge and language. The problems of the content of concepts and judgements are examined through the development of the logic of form and content in the popular intuition, the analytic philosophy of language, the relationship between the empirical and the abstract concepts, the abstract and concrete concepts. The truth is when we come to understand as comprehensively as possible the concrete object (in its particular characteristics). And this means that, first, we must name the way (i.e., formal) we understand the concrete object. The form is the set of patterns or formal frames, criteria, milestones without which there is no knowledge and which, therefore, have autonomy from the contents of knowledge. While in the modes of knowledge, the object to be known is the content to which the concept refers; thus, the content is the set of meanings of a concept. Therefore, it demands the transcendence of the unilateral view of things, that is, of concepts and judgments. The paper gives many current examples/concepts/problems that transform the apparently dry theories about cognition and comprehension into clear, familiar understanding. The content of knowledge is the synthesis of information and interpretation, involving overcoming and evaluating them from the point of view of certain criteria. From a concrete point of view, the criteria are historical, so the understanding is historical. But the criteria also have a methodological aspect, so universal, because only in this way it is possible to establish the meanings. The content is the one who refers to the telos, that is, to the complex purpose of the idea and its communication: therefore also to the purpose of the form. The telos of a concept is its content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the situation of the food supply in Sibiu given the war conditions of the years 1939-1945. The author shows that the population of Sibiu increased suddenly after the Vienna Diktat from 30 August 1940, due to which Romania was obligated to give up the northern part of Transylvania to Hungary, because the University of Cluj, with over 3 000 people, moved here. Simultaneously, many refugees came from the ceded area. On 22 June 1941 Romania went to war along with Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union. The state of war caused difficulties in supplying food to the city's population. The paper presents the changes that took place in supply and consumption, price evolution, consumption limits, food quality, the population's reaction to the shortcomings in supply. Another aspect presented is the situation of public consumption supply: entertainment venues (restaurants, terraces, pubs etc.), as well as the canteens for pupils and students, for military units, for civil and military hospitals, which were numerous in the city on the Cibin river during the war. The author tries to outline the specifics of the supply and consumption situation in Sibiu and to compare it to the state of affairs of those years in other urban centers throughout the country and even from cities in Germany, the great power that dominated Europe in those years. The author concludes that the supply of Sibiu in the years 1939-1945 was seriously disturbed during the war years, although there were no battles in the city. Authorities did not find solutions for the satisfactory supply and equitable distribution of food, the lives of the people of Sibiu being thus much harder than those of the inhabitants of other less industrialized urban centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper proposes a semantic account of intersective, subsective and intensional adjectives within a framework of possible world semantics. It is argued that intersective and subsective adjectives describe properties and restrict the set denoted by the nouns they modify. Unlike these types, intensional adjectives do not express properties, but behave like logical operators: they modify the properties expressed by the nouns to which they apply and give back new properties that are a function of the intension of the noun with which they combine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the statute of some function words, i.e. prepositions, in a lexicographical masterwork of the Transylvanian School, namely The Lexicon of Buda (1825). Based on an inventory of 47 articles, the paper approaches the treatment of preposition from a lexicographical perspective, highlighting their lexical, functional and discoursive values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The early reception of the Kierkegaardian oeuvre in Norway has a two-fold complication in our inquiry - one is cultural and the other theological. This paper tries to reconstruct these two by following the way in which Kierkegaard's "attack upon Christendom" in Denmark is essentially a reformation movement and is transmitted into the Norwegian intellectual circles as a mark of cultural aestheticization. The point of convergence upon which this paper focuses is the artistical representation of the Kierkegaardian concept of anxiety into the works of Edvard Munch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from a discussion of Kant's idea of a dialectic of pure reason and going through some key interpretations in recent Kant-scholarship, the paper investigates the way in which reason relates to experience in Kant's first Critique. It is shown how the three principles of reason make the use of the understanding possible by systematizing empirical knowledge as such, in a regulative, non-constitutive, manner. The paper reaches the conclusion that Kantian reason can relate to experience only by projecting infinite objects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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For one of the specific and significant features of the style of current scientific knowledge is the integration of the historical perspective in the actual scientific construction, due to the fact that the deep methodological and conceptual changes that affect the general frameworks, assumptions and structures require to put to work the entire history of science in order to determine its possible directions of future development, my paper is an attempt to set forth a brief account on French historical epistemology, mainly on Bachelard’s work and his influence on Foucault. Therefore, I will focus on his reflections on the relationship between consciousness and reality, rational knowledge and affective knowledge, on the significance of the “epistemological obstacles”, on the sources of errors in the process of knowledge, on how to purify the process of knowledge in order to ensure scientific certainty, with a particular emphasis on his “psychoanalysis of scientific knowledge”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I focus on a different perspective on Blaga’s epistemology and its particular relationship with his metaphysics of knowledge (part 1); in order to achieve that I will put together the elements of a reconstruction of Blaga’s conception on the possibility, the structure and the dynamics of science understood as an extraordinary anticipation of the historical trend in contemporary philosophy of science inaugurated by Th. Kuhn (part 2), on the one hand; from the methodological perspective on science, especially that in the Experiment and the mathematical spirit, I propose a new reading and analysis of the concept of „stylistic matrix”, where the „supermethod” will play a central role, on the other hand (part 3). This interpretation aims at highlighting new dimensions of Blaga’s reflections on science than those foreshadowing the historical trend in the philosophy of science inaugurated by Th. Kuhn that may advocate for an interpretation of his epistemology beyond the mere label of historical „relativism”, (that Kuhn himself was accused of after the first edition of his Structure of scientific revolutions). In this respect, I try to show how Blaga’s programme in the philosophy of science includes and exceeds the ideational core of some of his works, considered as foreshadowing the Structure...(1962), through a parallel with Kuhn’s standpoint from the answers to his critics, that also proposes overcoming the socalled relativism of the first edition of his work by reconfiguring its position, especially with respect to the concept of paradigm. At the end of my analysis I attempt to show a deep similarity in the epistemological standpoints of the two. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Although separated by centuries, Hegel and Kuhn support the same ideas concerning worldview change. Both consider such changes real „revolutions”. Through them, the human spirit (in Hegel) and science (in Kuhn) replace their old fundamental concepts with new ones. The paper also highlights the necessary relationship of the Kuhnian paradigm shift with the cultural background of the epoch in which such a shift occurs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thomas Kuhn explicitly states that the paradigm-shift implies a change of the world. This is because the paradigm is seen as constitutive for nature itself. In this paper I will try to interpret this thesis by inscribing Kuhn's theory in the larger kantian theoretical framework. As the last chapter of the „Critique of pure reason” shows, Kant thought that reson is inherently historical and evolves through revolutions. This dynamical perspective on reason comes clearly to light especially in the „Appendix” to the „transcendental Dialectic”, where the Idea of reason is seen as an abstract theoretical framework that makes possible and guides the understanding. It will be shown that the kuhnian paradigm and the kantian transcendental Ideea function in similar ways. Both serve as an orientation for scientific research, they make rules possible, and constitute nature in a weak, indirect, way. The relation between Ideea and understanding in the first „Critique” parallels in many ways the kuhnian relation between paradigm and normal science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Interdisciplinary analysis methods are currently an indispensable set of tools for the investigation of archaeological artifacts. Startingfrom this premise, in this paper was studied a medieval bronze battle whip head using optical microscopy (OM) and scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy-dispersive X-ray analysis (SEM-EDX). The obtained results provided important data regarding the corrosion products and the deposition environment, as well as particular information related to the alloy used and its processing method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The faunal material analyzed in this paper comes from the archaeological site of Uroi-Sigheti, Hunedoara County. The animal remains, belonging to the Bronze Age, phases II and III of the Wietenberg culture (WII and WIII), are of domestic origin, as indicated by traces of butchery and burning. The specific methodology used consisted of anatomical and taxonomic identifications, quantification by determining the number of fragments (NR) and the minimum number of individuals (MNI), estimation of slaughter age and sex, assessment of the meat quantity from each species and estimation of withers height. The WII sample comprises 103 faunal remains, from mammals and molluscs, while the WIII sample has 647 remains from mammals, molluscs, and fish. Pig (Sus domesticus) is the most common mammal as NR in the level WII, but in WIII the importance of this species decreases, and the skeletal fragments of cattle (Bos taurus) are predominant. The most hunted wild mammals were red deer (Cervus elaphus) and wild boar (Sus scrofa) in both levels of the Wietenberg culture at Uroi-Sigheti. Other activities through which a surplus of meat could be obtained were mollusk gathering in both phases of the settlement and probably fishing in WIII. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a brief analysis of the literature related to complex plowing implements (ploughs), which had a considerable impact on agriculture, economy and, in general, on ancient human societies. The attempts to classify and analyze these types of agricultural tools are the research results of specialists from related scientific fields (archaeology, history, art history, ethnography, linguistics, geography, etc.). Taking all these contributions regarding the systematization of all informative material into account, the research presents a series of risks, which reside precisely in the subjective nature of such a scientific approach and, mainly, in the lack of documentary and material sources. For these reasons, the functional and formal classification is established as the most flexible, the criteria used in the present study being based mainly on written sources, the archaeological finds of some iron components of plowing implements (ploughshares and coulters), the iconographic representations in religious and secular art, as well as the study of ethnographic material. Obviously, our systematization was also based on the effective and useful classification systems created for the entire European space by scholars such as P. Leser, L. Niederle, B. Brentjes, A. G. Haudricourt and M. J.-B. Delamarre, A. Steensberg A. V. Černetsov, Z. Podwińska, N. A. Demčenko, Ch. Vakarelski, I. Balassa, Ju. A. Krasnov, G. A. Guliev, M. Stará, J. Henning or J. Myrdal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The analysis and cataloguing of the Roman imports from Vaslui County according to the methodology proposed by the "Corpus der römischen Funde im europäischen Barbaricum" (CRFB) series also implies a re-evaluation of the ancient tradition concerning the north-western Pontic regions, as well as the evolution of modern historiographical discourse. This paper examines only the epigraphic sources, based on a catalogue of inscriptions - as exhaustive as possible -, which provides more or less relevant information about the 'barbarian' ethnic groups in the north-western Black Sea area between the 3rd/2nd centuries BC and the 3rd/4th centuries AD. Such research allows a better understanding of the relations between the populations east of the Carpathians with the Greco-Roman world, respectively of the ways of penetration of the archaeological material discovered in this region on the periphery of the ancient world and included in the CRFB R2 corpus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]