... been a major one, a vade mecum for a very important dimension of Shakespeare’s art. JOHN W. VELZ University of Texas Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England: A Study of the Relation- ships between Natural Science...

...” of autobiography, it argues that the term stands for a contemporary disturbance in the entire autobiographical field—a disturbance that, thanks in large part to the queer and feminist genealogies that inform it, helps disrupt the close association of autobiography and the prizing of ontological certainty...

... takes the form of a three-cornered conversation that links Pascalian thinking not only to the Hobbes of Leviathan but to the Hegel of the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Elements of Right and to the Wittgenstein of the late, sadly fruitless notebook On Certainty . [email protected]...

... that for the nine letters not addressed by Petrarch addressees have been found with “complete or virtual certainty,” so that there remain unknown only the addressees of I, 9, and of the two-line fragment EMV 12, quoted by Pctrarch in his Coronation Oration. Part I11 of the manual givcs...

... in the certainty of knowl- edge in different fields, Descartes teaches that the various sciences belong to a single science.e Man’s discernment remains one and the same, even if the objects to which it is directed differ (A.T., IX, 5-6; X, 360) .’ According to Rule 2 of the Regulue, only one kind...

...- work for deploying reason to arrive at truth and certainty in science. Determining that the only thing beyond doubt is his own self-reflecting existence, Descartes famously distinguishes thinking from material sub- stances and maintains that human beings are the only creatures that synthesize...

... to his edition of Pascal’s Pensies that all those who have attacked the certainty of human knowledge have committed the same mistake. They have established (nor was it difficult to establish) that neither in the physical sciences nor in the moral sciences can we obtain...

... of this (110-32). As in the opening soliloquy, the pattern is a series of alternatives followed by a certainty. But here the paradoxical parallelism with the first soliloquy rests in Faustus’ pained consciousness that the alternatives to damnation are im- possibilities for him and that he...

... and characters, episodes, or points of view from the plays. Although this approach makes for lively reading, it does not take us very far toward greater factual certainty. The attempt to portray Webster’s education and early intellectual experience by examining the lives of Richard Mulcaster, famous...

... Friday.” In sum, then, Pope’s known contributions to the Spectator may be stated with reasonable certainty as follows : No. 378 (May 14, 1712) : Messiah. No. 406 (June 16, 1712) : letter on city and country life. 4 This was Lintot’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1712) contain...

... to the establishment of an evolution in Rabelais's thought; just as the Quart Livre has its origin in the Tiers, the fifth book continues what has already been established in the third and the fourth. Although it might be tempting to.claim it with certainty as Rabelais's own and then to discuss...

... through the poem which embodies the ideal in the permanence of expression. In the Rupe of the Lock (1714), normally read as social satire, the dual themes of time and the imagination are fused in the certainty that the “quick” eyes of the sun-goddess Belinda “shall sett, as sett they must...

... may feel, is perhaps too much certainty. The fact that the authors’ ideas have been so widely publicized in connection with their earlier works-HuppC’s Doctrine and Poetry, Robertson’s Preface to Chaucer, and their collaborative work on Piers Plowman-and the fact that the present...

... a Petrarchan love poem about the familiar unhappiness of loving an icily unattainable woman, Descartes setting out his plan for grounding all human knowledge in a newly scientific certainty, yet their joint appeal to classical antiquity’s most successful engineer of military hardware is not a momen...

... is writing a Petrarchan love poem about the familiar unhappiness of loving an icily unattainable woman, Descartes setting out his plan for grounding all human knowledge in a newly scientific certainty, yet their joint appeal to classical antiquity’s most successful engineer of military hardware...

... a Petrarchan love poem about the familiar unhappiness of loving an icily unattainable woman, Descartes setting out his plan for grounding all human knowledge in a newly scientific certainty, yet their joint appeal to classical antiquity’s most successful engineer of military hardware is not a momen...

... a Petrarchan love poem about the familiar unhappiness of loving an icily unattainable woman, Descartes setting out his plan for grounding all human knowledge in a newly scientific certainty, yet their joint appeal to classical antiquity’s most successful engineer of military hardware is not a momen...

... certainties by dem- onstrating that certainty is the most improbable thing of all. (p. 144) Throughout the book Rayner shows the same thoughtful consid- eration of theoretical issues and the same straightforward, lucid style of argumentation that this passage demonstrates. If my...

... einzige Waffe,” “mein einziger Schmuck.” In contrast to the speaker’s strong feelings, the bird’s most con- spicuous qualities are a detached aloofness and an imperturbable calm tranquillity. Even the certainty which the speaker has regarding the bird, expressed by the repeated “Was auch...

... is at one with Locke in the conviction that sensible knowl- edge provides a certainty “as great as our condition needs” (IV.xi.8). He would add, at the same time, that the senses do but converse “about the Surface” of things: it is the province of “reason,” now more broadly defined, to establish...