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Joe Biden is clearly too old to be president,…
Joe Biden is clearly too old to be president, don't you agree? (JEFF EDELSTEIN COLUMN)
By Jeff Edelstein | jedelstein@trentonian.com | The Trentonian
PUBLISHED: October 5, 2021 at 10:38 a.m. | UPDATED: October 5, 2021 at 10:38 a.m.
President Joe Biden is clearly every bit of 78 years old. It's clear when he talks, when he walks, when he does just about anything.
Am I saying the man is suffering from cognitive decline? Well, I guess. I mean, he's old! I know plenty of 78-year-olds (and up) and they're also not always all the way there. Even the old people I know who are all the way there are still, you know, old.
It's really a valid question: Should someone that old be president? Should someone who's 85 be president? Someone who's 100? There should probably be an upper limit, don't you think?
Fact is, there isn't. There is no upper limit. There is a lower limit — you have to be 35 years old to become president of the United States. Says so right there in the Constitution. Article II, Section 1, Clause 5: "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
Clear as day. Have to be at least 35 years old. The rationale our founding fathers had for the 35-year barrier? Not entirely clear, though a few of them had some ideas. James Monroe, for instance, noted that "in the course of nature very few fathers leave a son who has arrived to that age," thereby preventing the possibility of dynastic rule.
Isn't that something? Monroe's point was that the idea of someone living long enough to see their son reach the ripe old age of 35 was somewhat laughable. Of course, the average life expectancy of a white man back then was about 38 years old. (Today's life expectancy of a white dude? It's 79.) (Of course, back then, just getting past the toddler stage was a grand success, as roughly half of people born didn't make it to five years old. Anyway …)
But it is worth noting life was a lot more … dangerous back then. It took a lot of luck to make it into old age. I would imagine "cognitive decline" was not exactly high on the list of worries our forefathers had when it came to the presidency.
In fact, outside of William Henry Harrison — who died 30 days into his term at age 68 — the oldest president we ever elected before Ronald Reagan (who was 69) was Zachary Taylor at 64. In fact, from Abraham Lincoln right through Jimmy Carter, the oldest president was Dwight Eisenhower, elected at age 62.
If Joe Biden wins a second term in 2024, he will be 86 years old when he leaves office.
Listen: It's time Congress seriously debates a constitutional amendment to put an upper limit on the age of the presidency. We can't be having doddering old fools running the show. That's insane.
In fact, Biden should immediately announce A) that he's not running in 2024 and B) that he demands Congress take this up. What better time to tidy this up?
Honestly, the age should be somewhere no older than 70 when you take office. No one is bellyaching about the 35-year-old minimum, and thus no one should be bellyaching about setting some sort of maximum.
I don't want to say our democracy depends on it, but really, it kinda does. While modern medicine has certainly extended our lifespan, we haven't yet cracked the nut on what keeps our brain humming at a reasonable level.
It's time we prevent old fogies who can't keep up from running for president. The time is now to put an end to this nonsense.
Related: Donald Trump will be 78 years old on Inauguration Day, 2025.
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Symposia. Rethinking Rorty's Pragmatism: Ethics after Epistemology
Does Rorty have a Blindspot about Truth?
David Macarthur
Criticisms of Rorty's view of truth are so frequent and from such sagacious sources that it is reasonable to suspect that there must be some truth in them. But what? In this paper I consider perhaps the strongest form of such criticism, Huw Price's claim that without a distinct norm of truth Rorty is unable to make sense of how someone, justified by her own lights (say, local communal standards), could improve her commitments by reference to another better informed community. My aim in the present paper is twofold: In the first place, I shall argue that Price's criticism is off-target missing the perfectionist character of the justificatory norms that are criterial for truth on Rorty's account. Secondly, I argue that Rorty's actual blindspot concerns the way in which truth figures in internal reflection upon a system of beliefs, e.g., 1st-person reflection upon one's own beliefs. But this blindspot should not blind us to the lasting insight in Rorty's resistance to Price's attempt to instrumentalize truth as if it were an isolable tool of our linguistic practices.
Rorty on the Normativity of Justification
A Rortian Response to Price
Rorty's Blindspot
1 McDowell (2000: 109-22).
2 Putnam (1992: 67-71).
3 In response to McDowell (2000), Rorty can agree that a disquotational use of the term "true" may al (...)
1Richard Rorty has often been criticized as having a blindspot about the normative role of truth. To give three prominent examples: John McDowell criticizes Rorty for missing the normativity embedded in the disquotational use of truth;1 Hilary Putnam accuses Rorty of a sophisticated relativism, which fails to take seriously the objective normativity of truth, the way in which truth transcends communal standards.2 And Huw Price argues that on Rorty's view of truth one is unable to make sense of the idea that a speaker, warranted by her own lights, could improve her commitments by consulting the commitments and justificatory practices of the wider community. Of these Price's criticism is perhaps the strongest and the one I would like to critically examine in this paper.3
4 Habermas (2000: 32) writes, "Rorty assimilates truth to justification at the expense of everyday re (...)
2Variants of Price's criticism have also been voiced by other well-known philosophers (e.g. Habermas4) and it is initially quite compelling. If we do not recognize a truth that transcends our practices and the agreements that are forged within them, then what could motivate us to improve our commitments if they meet the only operative standard in the vicinity, namely, being accepted by one's own standards, say, of coherence?
3My aim in the present paper is twofold: in the first place, I want to respond on Rorty's behalf to Price's conception of where Rorty's blindspot about truth lies. I shall argue that Price's criticism is off-target missing the perfectionist character of the justificatory norms that are criterial for truth. Secondly, I want to argue that despite sidestepping Price's criticism, Rorty does indeed have a blindspot which concerns the way in which truth figures in internal reflection upon a system of beliefs, e.g., 1st-person reflection upon one's own system of belief. For the most part Rorty exclusively focuses upon truth and justification as norms of belief maintenance in a critical communal setting; and even when he accepts that there are other contexts in which the question of truth is at issue he tends to model them on justification to one's peers.
5 Price (2010).
4In articulating his own pragmatist account of truth as a "convenient friction" that makes disagreements matter, Huw Price argues that Rorty – whose anti-representationalist outlook inspired his own – has a blindspot about the normativity of truth.5 In particular, Price accuses Rorty of failing to acknowledge that truth is a third norm apart from the norms of sincerity and personal justification. As a consequence, Price claims, Rorty is unable to make sense of the idea that an individual speaker, warranted by her own lights, could improve her commitments by consulting the commitments and justificatory practices of the community. Or, rather, to bring the argument directly to bear on Rorty: Rorty is unable to make sense of the idea that communal justification, which is warranted by its own lights, could improve its commitments by consulting the commitments of a broader better informed or more critically astute community.
5It is worth observing that Price's objection cannot be that Rorty refuses to admit that truth plays some normative role or other. Rorty follows Davidson in holding that the concept of truth is part of a package-deal of concepts including belief and meaning that is required to make sense of the idea of rational agents rationally responsive to both their natural-causal and social-linguistic environments. Truth is a norm at least in the sense that it is a standard in terms of which we assess beliefs. That is the insight in the thought that belief "aims at" the truth. Criticizing a belief by saying "That's not true" or praising a belief by saying "That's true" have prima facie normative implications: the first puts some pressure on the believer to give up the belief or at least to defend it with appropriate reasons; the latter gives some (additional) reason to stand by the belief in the face of criticism. Rorty calls these respectively dis-endorsing and endorsing uses of the term "true."
6 Price (2010: 167).
7 Rorty (1998: 2).
6Price's criticism, then, cannot be that truth for Rorty plays a purely disquotational role without any normative import – a criticism he has levelled at Paul Horwich.6 Rather what Price objects to is Rorty's view that truth is not a distinct norm whose function is independent of that of justification. Rorty takes it that the normative role of truth can be exhaustively spelled out in terms of norms of communal justification, actual and possible. Justification is, on Rorty's view, our best criterion for what counts as true but he admits that the latter is not reducible to the former. As Rorty puts it, "Granted that 'true' is an absolute term [in so far as truth is not relative to purposes, times or places], its conditions of application will always be relative [in so far as justification is relative to purposes, times and places]."7 So Rorty understands the endorsement or disendorsement of a belief as true, or not, as a way of expressing whether the belief in question is accepted as appropriately justified in one's community. Rorty's attitude to the normativity of truth is summed up in the following remarks:
The only difference between truth and justification which makes […] a difference is, as far as I can see, the difference between old audiences and new audiences […]
8 Rorty (2000: 4-5).
I think that, once one has explicated the distinction between justification and truth by that between present and future justifiability, there is little more to be said.8
9 Somewhat surprisingly, Rorty's account of justification is analogous to Peirce's incrementalist con (...)
7Apart from disquotational and endorsing uses of the term "true" Rorty recognizes a cautionary use in such expressions as "Your belief is fully justified but it may not be true." Of the three uses of the word "true" the cautionary use is the only indispensable one. But, as one might expect, Rorty refuses to see this as granting any independent normative status to the concept of truth. He interprets cautionary uses of "true" in terms of a distinction between what is justified according to current communal norms and what is justified according to an idealized community: one that is better-informed, more demandingly critical or richly imaginative than ours. Idealization here is to be understood as idealization from the perspective of our current lights; it is idealization without a transendent ideal or limit concept. Rorty's incrementalist progressive approach to justification only requires that we can always imagine the possibility of an improvement in our standards of belief-formation and assessment.9 But this is precisely what Price argues Rorty is not entitled to assume without the addition of a distinctive norm of truth.
8As we have seen, Price argues that Rorty's norm of communal warranted assertibility suffers the same fate as the norm he calls personal warranted assertibility, namely, that without a distinct norm of truth neither norm can make sense of improvements in one's epistemic standing whether in terms of the actual community or future extensions and improvements of it. But this alleged incoherence is based on treating the norm of communal warranted assertibility as a static norm rather than the revisable update-able norm that Rorty intends. Price treats satisfaction of both norms of warranted assertibility as equivalent to getting full marks on an exam – a model which, of course, leaves no room for improvement. But a better analogy would be determining the number of moons of Jupiter with Galileo's telescope – a case that allows that a bigger better telescope might be capable of finding more moons; and so providing a better answer to the question.
10 This is how Putnam, e.g., reads Rorty on the ground that, for Rorty, justification is a sociologica (...)
9Price's misreading here is closely related to a familiar misinterpretation of Rorty as having a majoritarian conception of justification according to which one is justified in a belief if it would be accepted by a majority of one's communal peers.10 This majoritarian reading would indeed make allowance for one to meet the norm of justification in a given community – by being part of its majority opinion – without caring in the least about a different consensus within another better informed community. In that case Price's criticism that there would be no normative pressure to improve would go through. It is in virtue of more or less the same argument that Price motivates his introduction of a distinct norm of truth to make disagreements matter.
11 Rorty appeals to "curiosity," and "concrete fears of regression" in order to explain what motivates (...)
10To get Rorty straight here we need to draw a distinction between a static (say, majoritarian) and a progressive perfectionist conception of communal norms. Perfectionist norms of justification are implicit in our practices of inquiry: that is, norms of justification that appeal to our best information, our best investigative techniques and our best arguments. Such norms are not, for Rorty, a matter of counting heads within a fixed well-defined group but, rather, doing the best we can along the dimensions of information, investigation and argument wherever, whenever and however we can. What we count as best, of course, changes as we acquire more and better information, more and better investigative techniques and more and better arguments.11
12 Rorty speaks of "justifying our belief to the audience we think relevant (perhaps our own intellect (...)
11It is important to note, in addition, and in spite of some of Rorty's rhetoric, that the relevant notion of community is not to be understood in general as a more or less stable cultural or political entity but as a plastic epistemic one defined for each specific subject matter in terms of those whose information, and techniques of investigation and arguments are most relevant for the case at hand.12 For example, if it is a question about the sub-structure of the atom then researchers who work in physics departments and laboratories around the world contribute to determining what we count as best justified on the matter. If it is a question about the artistic value of a painting then those with experience and good judgment about paintings (those with, as we say, "good taste" in this visual art) are part of the relevant community of peers.
13 Peirce, "The Fixation of Belief."
14 I have discussed this notion of scientific method as a method that is not exclusive to the sciences (...)
12Another way to make the same point is to see that Rorty's deference to communal norms of justification is a version of Dewey's theory of inquiry – itself a liberalization of Peirce's theory. It is well-known that Peirce treats beliefs as part of a default-and-challenge structure of truth-commitments.13 On this model one is default entitled to a belief that is part of one's evolving worldview unless and until there is some good reason to doubt it. Peirce appeals to what he calls (somewhat misleadingly) "the scientific method of inquiry" as the best means to settle opinion on some disputed matter.14 On Dewey's elaboration of this approach "the scientific method" is understood as a form of democratic experimentalism, a set of quasi-moral quasi-political principles of virtuous inquiry combined with a fallibilist experimental attitude that is just as applicable to art criticism and moral or political dilemmas as to problems in chemistry, economics and paleontology. The scientific method in this sense is not exclusively a method of the successful empirical sciences, just one that the natural sciences happen to best exemplify. On this view, beliefs are to be understood as justified in terms of perfectionist epistemic norms implicit in our best practices of inquiry where the implicit reference to a "we" is understood in terms of expertise or good taste or some other normatively-laden grouping based on relevant training, experience and good judgment.
13A person who meets the norms of communal warranted assertibility within a particular community is, contrary to Price's criticism, put under immediate normative pressure to adjust or change his or her views in light of better information and argument and more critically robust methods of inquiry. Consequently, Price's criticism of Rorty misses its target since it is aimed at a static view of communal justification of which majoritarianism about justification is one familiar example.
14Nonetheless, although Rorty can avoid Price's criticism, I now want to argue that there remains a residual problem for his conception of the normative role of truth – even if we grant with him that truth is not a separate stand-alone norm wholly distinct from matters of justification.
15 Rorty (1995: 298). Rorty's point here expands into an argument against Misak's Peircian account of (...)
15On Rorty's view while truth cannot be reduced to justification, justification is our best criterion for truth. Or, more fully, justification within the relevant epistemic community is our best criterion for truth. That is to say, it is on the basis of appropriate justification that we count something as true. And while truth is a normative notion in so far as it is a standard according to which beliefs are assessed it is not a distinctive norm since we must often appeal to our norms of justification to determine what it true. It is for this reason that Rorty denies that truth is an independently identifiable goal of inquiry at which we might aim. If we can only determine truth by way of what is best justified and what is best justified is, as Rorty puts it, "an ever-retreating goal"15 – in so far as it is likely, based on a plausible induction from the past, that we will in the future discover more and better information, arguments, and criticism – then there is no fixed something called "truth" for inquiry to locate and aim at.
16But even if we accept this general picture of truth there still remains a question about whether the normative function of truth is exhausted by appeal to the norms of communal justification. We can approach this matter by considering the following passage in which Rorty is discussing the term "true":
16 Rorty (1995: 286).
I see no significance in the fact that we use the same word to designate what is preserved by valid inference as we use to caution people that beliefs justified to us may not be justified to other, better, audiences.16
17Here Rorty distinguishes two different jobs that truth does for us: 1) to single out what is preserved in valid inference (by which I take him to mean valid argument); and 2) to caution people that no matter how well justified they are it is possible that this justification may not hold for a better informed more critically sophisticated audience. In the outward perspective of inquiry truth is a norm regulating the formation of new beliefs, the answering of new questions, the resolution of new doubts. In these sorts of cases Rorty argues that both the endorsing and cautionary uses of truth can be plausibly interpreted in terms of norms of justification to one's peers: in the first case one expresses solidarity with the norms of justification of one's interlocutor(s); and in the second case one imagines a contrast between conforming to the norms of one's actual community and those of a better one, at least from the epistemic perspective.
17 For example, even Misak, who is more careful than most in this regard, claims that "[Rorty] asserts (...)
18 Occasionally, Rorty demonstrates an awareness that there is more to the normativity of truth than t (...)
19 Rorty (1998: 25, fn 23).
18When Rorty considers the question of truth's normativity he tends to focus his attention almost exclusively on the perspective of inquiry where the question concerns justifying one's beliefs to one's peers in the setting of a communal activity. What this shows is that although Rorty is careful not to reduce the concept of truth to that of justification or verification (as he is often accused of doing17) he does have a tendency to reduce the normativity of truth to the normativity of justification to one's peers.18 Whatever normativity truth has is, on Rorty's view, borrowed from that of justification and idealizations of such. That there is a blind-spot here is evident, I take it, from Rorty's inability to see the connection between the truth-preservingness of valid implication – what we might think of as the systematicity of truth – and the question whether our ostensible beliefs are sufficiently justified to form part of our system of truth-commitments.19 That is, both valid implication and justification play important roles in the maintenance and revision of a world-view understood as an evolving system of truth-commitments rationally responsive to each other and to the empirical world.
20 We could also speak of this as a "logical" norm if we understand this term in the broad sense that (...)
19The normativity of truth is not, as Rorty often seems to suppose, reducible to the normativity of justification. To see this consider that in order to have a system of beliefs at all our truth-commitments must be bound by a rational norm of consistency.20 Of course, we must not think of this as merely a linguistic norm concerning speech acts for it is equally applicable to unexpressed beliefs or judgments. We may put the norm as follows:
20Norm of Consistency: If one judges that not-P and also judges that P – or there is a plausible inference from one's current beliefs to the conclusion that P – then one must adjust one's commitments to remove the inconsistency.
21Complying with the norm of consistency is something that we require of any rational system of beliefs or truth-commitments – this is part of what makes it rational. And, significantly, when reflecting upon our beliefs we do not suppose that we can treat this norm as a matter of justification to one's peers. One must comply with this norm quite independently of any question of justification for specific commitments. For example, it applies to beliefs that one did not form on the basis of deliberation as well as to beliefs one continues to hold despite having forgotten the basis or justification upon which one came to believe them. And where conflicting beliefs are held it tells us that we cannot continue to hold both beliefs prior to any comparison of the relative strength of their respective justifications, supposing that we are aware of such.
21 For a detailed discussion of the importance of the distinction between inference and implication se (...)
22 This is what Kant, from a "pure" a priori perspective (that a pragmatist would want to bring down t (...)
23 Harman (1986: 56).
22The norm of consistency is a principle of belief revision related to reasoned change in view in contrast to the law of non-contradiction (i.e. it is not the case that P and that not-P) which is a matter of formal logic. The norm of consistency concerns rational inference, what it is reasonable or not to believe in light of what one already believes, rather than simply logical implication, what logically follows from what – which puts constraints on the structure of our truth-commitments without prescribing what to believe.21 Following the norm of consistency is part of what is required to achieve the rational integration of one's truth-commitments.22 In so far as one has a world-view that is inferentially articulated (constrained though not determined by the laws of logic) and rationally responsive to the empirical world (including the social world) then, as Gil Harman puts it, "one always has a reason to avoid inconsistency."23
24 Kant, e.g., recognizes social and personal dimensions of the norm of consistency. Two of the three (...)
23The norm of consistency, which is better understood in terms of avoiding inconsistency if and when it arises rather than of striving for consistency, applies at the social level too.24 For example, consider Price's norm of truth:
24Norm of Truth: if Not-P then it is incorrect to assert that P; if Not-P there are prima facie grounds for censure of an assertion that P.
25 This is Price's expression (e.g. 2011: 47). It might be better to speak of "no-blame disagreements" (...)
25This can be understood as a social version of the norm of consistency, one which presupposes a notion of social reason and a normative demand to achieve a unified world-view amongst fellow speakers (or, at a minimum, fellow speakers within the same field or specialization) within a society – at least about matters where we do not tolerate "no-fault disagreements."25 Such a norm may be thought to function as a regulative ideal of human communicative practices. Again, it seems right to say, as Price does, that the normative force of the norm of truth, as he calls it, does not depend on any specific considerations of justification for given commitments. But that is not to say that Rorty is wrong to deny that truth is an additional norm of the sort that Price imagines, one wholly distinct from justification.
26What it shows is that Rorty routinely mischaracterizes the normativity of truth. The problem can be traced to Rorty's inability to see why truth should be involved in both logical implication and justification to one's peers (especially when we caution others that what is justified to them might not be justified to other better informed audiences).26 What Rorty is seeing, I suggest, is only one half of the Janus-faced relation between truth and reason. By focusing exclusively on the public reason-giving dimension of the relation Rorty misses its personal or reflective dimension. Public justification that provides reasons to support a commitment (perhaps as a response to a question or doubt) is the external face of reason in its maintenance of a relatively stable world-view in a context of disputes, disagreements and arguments. But there is also the internal face of reason in 1st-personal or social reflection on the unity of one's (or our) world-view which shows up as a demand for consistency (that is, a demand to eliminate inconsistency) in one's (or our) thinking quite independently of matters of justification to one's peers or even justification to oneself in self-reflection. To come to appreciate that two truth-commitments are inconsistent, either because they are logically inconsistent (in so far as they cannot both be true together) or because there is a plausible argument to that conclusion, is to see that one or the other must be given up. It is a further question whether one has any better justification for one than for the other.
27 Price (2011: 164).
28 Wittgenstein remarks: "Think of the tools in a toolbox: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdr (...)
27Notwithstanding this blindspot, Rorty's does have a genuine insight, namely, that truth is not "an additional norm" that we might have done without.27 This is the mistake Price arguably makes. Over-generalizing Wittgenstein's comparison of the functions of words with "tools in a toolbox" Price conceives of our ordinary concept of truth as a tool that makes disagreements matter – a tool designed for a specific function that we can imagine having done without.28 To highlight this instrumental approach, Price devises a thought-experiment according to which there is a so-called Mo'an tribe whose members enjoy speech and reason and conform to the norms of subjective assertibility (sincerity) and personal warranted assertibility (justification by one's own lights) which he elucidates thus:
28Subjective Assertibility: A speaker is incorrect to assert that P if she does not believe that P; to assert that P in these circumstances provides prima facie grounds for censure, or disapprobation.
29Personal Warranted Assertibility: A speaker is incorrect to assert that P if she does not have adequate (personal) grounds for believing that P; to assert that P in these circumstances provides prima facie grounds for censure.
30What Mo'ans lack is the concept of truth. By picturing Mo'an practices before and after the introduction of the concept of truth Price aims to isolate and identify the function of truth and the difference it makes to our practices. In a more sophisticated version of the thought-experiment, Mo'ans are granted a truth predicate, but lack "the norm of truth." Their "truth" predicate operates as a mere device of disquotation without any normative force. As Price imagines it, Mo'ans in this scenario have a practice of expressing merely opinionated assertions (from whence their name is derived) which do not critically engage with one another – much like personal preferences for food (e.g. dark chocolate) or drink (e.g. guinness).
29 Price (2010). Price is unfazed by the admission since he appeals to the incoherence as itself a dem (...)
30 Price admits that "circularity threatens" in various places in his account of the Mo'ans although i (...)
31An immediate problem with Price's thought experiment is that it is obviously incoherent – a point Price himself now concedes.29 All the key terms in which Price describes the Moans prior to having the concept of truth – such as opinion, disagreement, assertion – simply presuppose the concept of truth. For example, to be of the opinion that p is to take p to be true. To disagree with someone about their assertion that p is to take p to be false. And the same point applies to the more sophisticated version of the thought-experiment too: all the terms in which the Mo'ans are described presuppose a normative concept of truth rather than a merely disquotational one. So a disagreement that did not put some prima facie pressure upon one to defend one's belief or to criticize one's interlocutor's contrary belief would not be a disagreement at all but, at best, a mere difference. Consequently, the threat of vicious circularity that Price acknowledges, vitiates his thought experiment and its explanatory point.30 The description of the Mo'ans before they have the normative concept of truth is one that simply presupposes what it is being used to explain i.e. the normative concept of truth.
31 Price's instrumentalist assumption that truth performs a distinctive stand-alone function is clear (...)
32That the Mo'an thought-experiment is more or less obviously incoherent shows that truth cannot be treated instrumentally as a stand-alone norm fulfilling a distinctive function which might be sensibly substracted from and then added to linguistic practice in the way Price supposes.31 As Rorty, following Davidson, saw, truth is part of a package-deal of fundamental concepts including reason, meaning and belief no one of which can be explained without invoking the others. Truth is implicated in the very ascription of beliefs and meanings to speakers – rational agents with communicative intentions – given the principle of charity in interpretation that implies a general presumption of rationality when interpreting another speaker.
32 (Ibid.: 174).
33Consequently, an important moral of the Price-Rorty exchange for a neo-pragmatist approach to truth is that it is a mistake to treat truth as doing "a distinctive job" in our thought and talk that we might imagine having done without.32 One cannot instrumentalize truth as if it were an isolable tool performing a function in terms that do not presuppose it. Despite Rorty's blindspot about the normativity of truth, his awareness of the deep and inextricable embeddedness of truth in our linguistic and interpretative practices – which undermines Price's Mo'an thought-experiment – is an important insight that survives criticism.
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3 In response to McDowell (2000), Rorty can agree that a disquotational use of the term "true" may also be an endorsing use – without glossing that in terms of answerability to the world. Whether it is necessarily so, as McDowell argues, is something for further debate. And in response to Putnam, Rorty distinguishes ethnocentrism – the view that our thought and talk is inevitably embedded in a cultural and social context – from relativism about truth. It is only the former view that he endorses. See Rorty (1993).
4 Habermas (2000: 32) writes, "Rorty assimilates truth to justification at the expense of everyday realist intuitions."
9 Somewhat surprisingly, Rorty's account of justification is analogous to Peirce's incrementalist convergence account of truth which Rorty roundly criticizes. In both accounts there is a tension between present commitment and possible future revision. In Rorty this is the tension between the endorsing use of "true" underwritten by current standards of justification and the cautionary use of "true" underwritten by possibly better standards in the future. For Peirce, truth is what stands up to present scrutiny (hence we can endorse what now looks satisfactory to believe by our current lights) but it must also stand up to future scrutiny (hence we might be mistaken in what we now take to be true although we hope that we are not).
10 This is how Putnam, e.g., reads Rorty on the ground that, for Rorty, justification is a sociological matter. See Putnam (2000: 84).
11 Rorty appeals to "curiosity," and "concrete fears of regression" in order to explain what motivates one to engage in further inquiry even if one has satisfied communal standards of justification. Rorty (2000: 17, 61).
12 Rorty speaks of "justifying our belief to the audience we think relevant (perhaps our own intellectual conscience, or our fellow-citizens, or the relevant experts)" (ibid.: 56). In referring to an "epistemic community" I am aware that pragmatists politicize epistemology in so far as the theory of inquiry concerns a community of inquirers ideally operating according to relations of trust, openness, sincerity, respect, and toleration.
14 I have discussed this notion of scientific method as a method that is not exclusive to the sciences and defended its philosophical importance against Rorty's criticisms in "A Kant-Inspired Conception of Pragmatism as Democratic Experimentalism" (2015).
15 Rorty (1995: 298). Rorty's point here expands into an argument against Misak's Peircian account of true belief as "a belief that could not be improved upon, a belief that would forever meet the challenges of reasons, argument and evidence" (Misak 2000: 49). Another more succinct formulation: "A true belief is a permanently settled or indefeasible belief" (Misak 2006: 7). To identify true belief with indefeasible belief in this way is to make truth hostage to fortune and put it out of reach of our practices – an unintended unpragmatic consequence. Since in any given case one cannot know whether a putatively true belief will meet all the challenges of reasons, argument and evidence in the future then we cannot claim it to be true now. We simply have no way of knowing whether a belief is indefeasible or not. Rorty's alternative, to say that justification is the criterion of truth, without identifying truth with anything, allows one to take hold of truths in the present; and it allows for the fallible updating of truths as one's justifications change for the better as a result of better reasons, argument and evidence.
17 For example, even Misak, who is more careful than most in this regard, claims that "[Rorty] asserts that 'truth' and 'objectivity' are merely labels for what our peers will let us get away with saying." Although the passage that Misak is paraphrasing is Rorty at his most rhetorical, she leaves out the crucial qualification "ceteris paribus" in the original text i.e. Rorty (1979: 176). Misak (2013: 30).
18 Occasionally, Rorty demonstrates an awareness that there is more to the normativity of truth than that. Consider this passage: "The need to justify our beliefs and desires to ourselves and to our fellow-agents subjects us to norms, and obedience to these norms produces a behavioural pattern which we must detect in others before confidently attributing any beliefs to them. But there seems to be no occasion to look for obedience to an additional norm, the commandment to seek the truth. For […] obedience to that commandment will produce no behaviour not produced by the need to offer justification." (1995: 287).
What I want to draw attention to is Rorty's awareness that we justify beliefs and desires "to ourselves." But the insight is immediately obscured since Rorty treats the 1st-person case of reflection on the model of justification within a community of peers: that is, one's own "intellectual conscience" is considered to be an audience that one must convince. But there are important differences between the 1st-person deliberative case of making up one's mind and providing justification to others: 1) others can simply not listen in a way that has no analogue in one's own reflections; 2) in the case of a genuine audience one is not in a position to make up their minds for them no matter how overwhelming the justifications might seem to us; and 3) in the 1st-person case it can be responsible to maintain a belief that one already holds even if one does not know what would justify it. If one already believes then justification to oneself is irrelevant.
20 We could also speak of this as a "logical" norm if we understand this term in the broad sense that Wittgenstein uses it when he speaks of his philosophical investigations as concerning "the logic of language," e.g. (2009: § 93).
21 For a detailed discussion of the importance of the distinction between inference and implication see Gil Harman's Change in View (1986). Note, too, that in the quoted passage on p. 8 Rorty uses the term "inference" for what I am calling "implication".
22 This is what Kant, from a "pure" a priori perspective (that a pragmatist would want to bring down to earth), calls the "transcendental unity of apperception" (2000: B139).
24 Kant, e.g., recognizes social and personal dimensions of the norm of consistency. Two of the three maxims of "the common human understanding" (sensus communis) are: "always to think in accord with [or consistently with] oneself"; and "to think in the position of everyone else" (2000 5: 294).
25 This is Price's expression (e.g. 2011: 47). It might be better to speak of "no-blame disagreements" since one might not blame another for thinking what one takes to be false in, say, aesthetic, moral or political matters given their different sensibility, upbringing, self-image (etc.). But one might still find fault in the sense that one thinks they are missing something. Cavell calls such cases matters of "rational disagreement" which registers the fact that there can be, in a sense, equally legitimate but conflicting rational responses to an artwork or a moral or political conundrum. Cavell (1979: 254).
28 Wittgenstein remarks: "Think of the tools in a toolbox: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, glue, nails and screws. – The functions of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects. (And in both cases there are similarities.)" (2009: § 11).
29 Price (2010). Price is unfazed by the admission since he appeals to the incoherence as itself a demonstration that truth plays the distinctive normative role of "making disagreements matter" that the Mo'an thought experiment was originally intended to isolate. But all he is entitled to conclude from the incoherence of the case of the Mo'ans is that the concept of truth (including its normative dimension) is not independent of the concepts (hence the normativity) of justification, belief, assertion, reason, and meaning.
30 Price admits that "circularity threatens" in various places in his account of the Mo'ans although it also seems clear that he originally believed that it could be avoided (2011: 176, fn 17).
31 Price's instrumentalist assumption that truth performs a distinctive stand-alone function is clear from his attempt "to imagine a linguistic practice which had those norms [of sincerity and personal justification] but not truth. By seeing what such a practice lacks we see what truth adds" (2011: 168). As originally conceived Price was of the view that if we subtracted the norm of truth we would still be left with intelligible linguistic practices, albeit "radically different" (ibid.: 166). He remarks: "Without truth the wheels of argument do not engage; disagreements slide past one another" (ibid.: 179). But all we are entitled to say here is that without truth there would be no such thing as argument or disagreement.
David Macarthur, "Does Rorty have a Blindspot about Truth?", European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy [Online], XII-1 | 2020, Online since 16 June 2020, connection on 19 January 2021. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ejpap/1851; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ejpap.1851
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Q: Writing a print statement to a text file I am trying to print all files with *.txt to a text file, the folder looks like this
\folder
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.csv
my python code looks like this:
import glob
for text in glob.glob('*.txt'):
    print text

file=open('output.txt', 'w')
file.write(text)
file.close()

after running this, i get in the idle window
    file1.txt
    file2.txt
but my output.txt only has file2.txt written in it.
I thought this would be a quick way of getting the results, is there a way i can force "text" in its entirety to the output file?

A: You are in fact putting the entire value of text in the output file; text just isn't what you think it is.
The only place that text gets assigned to is in the for text in glob.glob('*.txt') loop. After the loop, it'll remain as the last value that got assigned to it, ie 'file2.txt'.
There are a few ways to approach what you want to do. If you were running your script from the command line rather than from IDLE, you could do something like (in Unix)
python my_script.py | tee output.txt

to copy all the output from your script to the file output.txt without having to do anything in your Python code at all other than normal prints.
You could also write it out directly instead of calling print as suggested by Lattyware, though this won't do both unless you manually do both.
To make that a little easier, you could write a function to call instead of print that does both more conveniently. Something like:
with open('output.txt', 'w') as f:
    def my_print(str):
        print str
        f.write(str + '\n')

    for filename in glob.glob('*.txt'):
        my_print(filename)

You could also do something a little fancier if you really wanted to use print statements: reassign sys.stdout, the special object that does all the printing from Python. This is probably more complicated than you need, but if you want to see it ask and I'll show you.

A: print() only outputs to the console, nothing more. If you want to write to the file, then just do that.
You need to write the data inside the loop, otherwise you will only write the last value of text:
import glob

with open('output.txt', 'w') as file:
    for filename in glob.glob('*.txt'):
        file.write(filename+'\n')

Do note the newlines I have added, as file.write() will not do that by default. You could naturally do your print() as well if you wanted it. Another option would have been to build up a list and then write the list of items to the file, but that is a little roundabout.
Note my use of the with statement to open a file, this closes the file for you, and does so even on exceptions, so it's good practice to keep your code more readable and thorough.

A: Here is how I would do it using modern Python.
from __future__ import print_function

import glob

with open("output.txt", "w") as fo:
    for name in glob.glob("*.txt"):
        print(name, file=fo)

This puts the loop in the context manager and uses the forward-compatible print function.

A: Most of the solutions already presented rightly involve using a file's write method, so here's an alternate take, using only print.
The print statement (/!\ python 2.x) offers an easy way to write to a file:
with open('myfile.txt', 'w') as f:
    print >> f, 'StuffToWrite'

Or you could replace sys.stdout with your file:
import sys
with open('myfile.txt', 'w') as f:
    sys.stdout = f
    print 'StuffToWrite'

For reference, you can always get back your terminal's original stdout at sys.__stdout__.

Let me however insist on the fact that these are quick and dirty solutions.
The main advantage is that you don't have to bother what you try to write not being compatible with write, the print magic will work (so print >> f, [1,2,3,4] would work, when f.write([1,2,3,4]) wouldn't).

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Lebron or Perkins wrong???
Who's Wrong???
LeBron James will not be apologizing to Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins for tweeting about Blake Griffin's dunk over Perkins last week. And while he's at it, he's tired of getting blamed for things that he doesn't feel are his fault.
"I would never apologize about anything like that when I'm connecting to my fans," James said of Perkins telling Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday that he was upset with the Heat forward's public reaction to Griffin's dunk.
You could be watching cartoons with your kids and you don't like it, you say, 'Blame it on LeBron.' If you go to the grocery store and they don't have the milk that you like, you just say, 'It's LeBron's fault.'
-- LeBron James
Earlier Wednesday, Perkins said he was upset that James had sent out a tweet to his 3.5 million followers about Griffin's play.
"Dunk of the Year! @blakegriffin just dunked on Kendrick Perkins so hard!!! Wow! I guess I'm No. 2 now. Move over #6," James tweeted on Jan. 30 shortly after Griffin's soaring jam.
"Did I call him out? I mean, did you read the tweet? Did I call him out? I can see why he felt embarrassed. I don't think I was the only one to react to the unbelievable play by Blake and that's what it was all about," James said after the Miami Heat's 102-89 loss to the Orlando Magic on Wednesday night.
"Now, if Kendrick Perkins dunked on somebody like that on the other end, I would have done the same thing," James said. "If Perkins dunked on Blake Griffin or DeAndre Jordan or whatever the case may be, it would be the same thing. That's just my love for the game and connecting with my fans."
The highlight quickly went viral with numerous other NBA players commenting about it on Twitter. But James' tweet upset Perkins.
"You don't see Kobe [Bryant] tweeting," Perkins told Yahoo! Sports. "You don't see Michael Jordan tweeting. If you're an elite player, plays like that don't excite you.
"At the end of the day, the guys who are playing for the right reasons who are trying to win championships are not worrying about one play. They also are not tweeting about themselves talking about going down to No. 2," Perkins added, according to the report. "I just feel [James] is always looking for attention and he wants the world to like him."
James also referenced Indiana Pacers president Larry Bird telling Grantland.com's Bill Simmons on "The B.S. Report" that, while James is the league's best player, Bird would prefer to play with Bryant.
"It's simple, [Kobe] has five rings and I have none, so it's easy to say that," James said. "If I had five rings and Kobe had none, it'd probably be the other way around.
"I'm an easy target; if someone wants to get a point across -- just throw LeBron's name in there," James said. "You could be watching cartoons with your kids and you don't like it, you say, 'Blame it on LeBron.' If you go to the grocery store and they don't have the milk that you like, you just say, 'It's LeBron's fault.' "
VIA: ESPN.....
IMHO.... Perkins is actng like a baby..
And this sounds like a mature adult to you? Sounds like someone wants a pity party.
To answer the question though, Perkins should just let it go.
I agree Lebron was wining too.... But does he have a point??? Seems like he's public enemy #1.
They didnt treat A-Rod like that when he left the Rangers...
Maybe, but A-Rod isn't to baseball what Lebron is to basketball, and A-Rod SURE wasn't to the Rangers what Lebron was to the Cavs. The people of Texas didn't treat A-Rod like a king like the people of Cleveland did with Lebron.
Also, I'm not even sure it's the fact that Lebron left Cleveland that makes people dislike him. At least that's not it for me. The thing is, when is the last time you can remember a player making a huge ordeal about signing with a new team the way he did? I mean "The Decision"? Come on! Then that huge welcome to Miami party? Maybe instead of having a huge party and counting how many championships they were going to win down there in Miami he should have just kept his mouth shut, showed up, and played basketball. That's the problem I have with him. Everything about that move was extremely unprofessional and unnecessary, at least in my opinion.
The "Decision" was a dumb mistake... But even he admits that now...
But how can you blame "The Party" on him?? That blame falls on the team... So what now? He's a villain for the way he made his decision?
Riddle me this Mike and everyone else.....
Would ppl have negative feelings towards Lebron if he was playing for their favorite teams?
Everyone forgets things like everyone on the Heat taking less money per year.... My fav player Haslem could have signed for OVER $40 Million more had he left and signed with Dallas. Lebron, Wade, Bosh and everyone else took less money... Is that not commendable?
Not to make excuses for Lebron but he came into the league as a teenager.... I dont expect him or his peers to make the most mature decisions.
Honestly, I wouldn't want him on my team. Granted, he might be the best regular season player to ever play the game, that does not win championships. He choked come playoff time in Cleveland, and he did it last year with Miami. Maybe you can blame that on immaturity, and maybe he'll get past it. Until that time, again, I wouldn't want him on my team.
So you wouldn't want him unless he had a championship ring???
I wouldn't want him unless he could prove that he could play at a higher level in the playoffs than he does in the regular season.
Well.. wheres my "both are wrong" choice Jeremy?
Perkins is a crybaby, and only half the US is after LeBron..
Imo, the way half of the states hate him, and they other likes or doesnt have an opinion is really so incredibly dumb.. but it generates interest. People who like him tune in to see be the best overall player in the league. The people who don't like him tune in to see the best overall player in the league lose.. its like wrestling.. there needs to be a heel/bad guy for the business to go around.. and in the NBA, the biggest player is the biggest heel.. Kobe isnt well liked everywhere either..
Oh, and Mike is a crybaby too when it comes to LeBron :flapper:
waxgeeks
see sig.
What if Mark Cuban felt the exact same way about Dirk? Dirk was known as a choker in the playoffs since he came into the league... Everyone knew it.... He always cooled off in the playoffs..... I wonder what would have happened if Mark thought the same way and traded him early....
Cool_Hand_Flash said:
Sorry, brother... I forgot,
No prob.. I just think they're both acting like kids about this
I wonder what would have happened if Mark thought the same way and traded him early....
They might have beat Miami the first time.


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Video: Man allegedly forced his 15-year-old apprentice to drink maggot-infested water
15-year-old boy, Chinedu Okonkwo has narrated how his boss allegedly subjected him to catalogue of cruel and sadistic treatment at Festac area of Lagos state.
Narrating his ordeal, the indigene of Abagana in Njikoka Local Government area of Anambra state alleged that his master identified as Wisdom Chukwudi Odera Dim routinely beat him with wire, abused him, sometimes forcing him to drink maggot infested water.
The teenager added that Mr Wisdom violently hit his penis with wire, threatening to cut it off.
According to Chinedu, the man also threatened to kill him and dump his body in a river after which he will go down to his village and also kill his parents.
"He said that my twin would be used to replace me after he must have killed me. He said the government would no do anything to him because he had a brother in the army," the boy said.
Chinedu was rescued when one of the girls living with them, who was allegedly molested alongside others by the man, ran away and contacted some human rights activists.
"The activists reported the matter to the police station and the police came and rescued us from his house." the boy added.
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After years of the zoom, click-zoom, click-click-zoom, click-click-...-click-zoom problem, in a context wherein it always finally started, I finally got a no-start away from home, late at night.
The mechanic found a loose connection of the wire that attaches to the starter solenoid, and claims to have it fixed. It will be interesting to see if the same old problem recurs, or whether the bad connection was a part of the resistance drop that was causing the problem.
Another tid-bit: The Pettit racing relay that some report fixes the problem is now $39, if you don't want to assemble your own relay.
The broken wire was a new problem, and the click, click nothing, click start phenomenon started up again. So I put in the Pettit relay. It has been over a month, and every turn of the key has resulted in the starter engaging since the relay was installed. I am hoping this continues, but I'm happy for now.
Just wanted to give some input that this relay bypass solved a starting problem on a customer's car. Thanks Rich and Brent.
I'm trying this the second I get home!!!
Anybody know how to completely disable the stock security system? Mine goes off intermittently when I unlock the doors and I'd just as well get rid of it.
Forgo about this thread. Got to do this some time.
Ok i made my own relay boster however i don't know how pettit wires goes, does anyone have the pettit wiring guide on how to installed it to the starter?
I have the jumper relay AND starter booster, but not installed yet, tho I don't have any starting issues. Starts cranking right away, tho it may take a couple secs before engine fires up.
And to (GoodFella) what was the part number of that fastener that Ray mentioned. I will add that to my next order from him. thnx.
Thank you so much for posting this! I had a main relay overnighted that I was able to cancel in time.
I just fixed the click click start problem on my car by using a jumper wire before the big clutch switch. I already had the security relay bypassed with a jumper wire, and I had the clutch switch locked in with a zip tie so my car would start with a remote starter and not have to push in the clutch. So apparently that clutch switch doesn't flow enough juice through it, now that switch is bypassed with a jumper wire and the starter works great now first try everytime so far today. Before I did this it was still clicking twice and usually working on the 3rd try, then after doing this it works everytime even when the battery voltage was dropping down to 11.6, it was 11.9 when i first started messing with it today.
I think if you disconnect the wires going to the hood latch switch for the alarm, the alarm won't work at all.
It took me ten minutes to do this procedure.
Now my car starts every-time! I followed what it said to do and it is working perfectly! I am thinking of taking this to my local dealer who has no clue so they can read this.
It worked for me for about 2 weeks then for some reason the problem came back. It seems like if I leave anything on after the car is off it wont work, but if I shut the radio and turn the fans off before I shut the car down it will work just fine.
Ya sometimes there is no clicks and sometimes there are 3 before it works. It comes down to the battery voltage for mine I think.
I might try to get a relay this weekend and wire up a starter booster too, because I am damn sick and tired of the click click start. I am always paranoid that one of these times I'm gonna get stranded somewhere cause my car won't start!
What gauge wire have you guys used when wiring up the relays?
I think almost every post on here people experience the click click...start. One other person described the no click no click then start. I've had to jump it a few times, other times it just starts, others it does'nt. Did the Pettit relay with no help. I have a Miata battery relocated to the inside.
I guess I will also try to jump this relay when I get it back. Currently about to go single.
I also did the cluth switch fix. What a pain.
Glad this got bumped up. Here's the part numbers and such I used for my starter booster realy.
The relay is a high quality Omron relay, and the socket is also very high quality. The socket already has the wires connected and terminated.
The bottom of the relay has a "skirt" that the socket fits up into. There's a rubber seal in there. Also, where the wires enter the socket are all sealed with rubber seals. No way that moisture and water will get in there and corrode the relay or terminals.
I mounted the relay to the driver's side frame rail. You can use the instructions for the Pettit starter booster as a guide to which wire goes where. I used high quality connectors everywhere, I think they were all gold plated, I got them from the parts store.
There is a middle wire in the socket that isn't used, I cut that wire off close to the socket and dabbed a little RTV in there. It's still weather tight with the cut wire, but that's how I roll .
When you install it, make sure there's enough slack on the wires for the engine to move if you mount it to the frame of the car. If it's too tight, the engine torquing can yank on the wires and break them over time.
My intention was to do this ONCE, not have some cheapie Ebay relay that would last a year before the contacts corroded. The price on the weathertight relay is very reasonable and it's easy to assemble and get going. This has totally solved my click-click-start problem.
I still think running a smaller than stock battery can contribute to the problem. Everything else on my car is as good as possible for a healthy electrical system.
Ordered these parts last week and built/installed the booster over the weekend. They didnt have the socket with pigtails so I got the regular WP socket and wired it up myself. I made the wires long enough so that the relay mounts in the engine bay. So far as of today I got no embarrassing clicks thank god.
The alarm relay by-pass did not work for me.
What gauge wire did you use when wiring this up?
does jumping that relay cause the door alarm to no longer work?
I used 14 for power & ground and 16 for signal. Works so good now and starts with authority.
Thanks. I'm hoping to do this soon. Glad to hear this worked for you.


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Мустафа Саттар оглы Салахов (азерб. Mustafa Səttar oğlu Salahov, 29 августа 1931, Баку, Азербайджанская ССР) — азербайджанский ученый, доктор химических наук, профессор, член-корреспондент НАНА.

Биография
М. С. Салахов родился в Баку в 1931 году, когда Азербайджан входил в состав СССР. После окончания школы поступил в Горьковский государственный университет на химический факультет, который окончил по специальности физическая химия. После окончания института М. С. Салахов в 1955 году начал работать на заводе синтетического каучука в г. Сумгаите и поступил в аспирантуру Института нефти АН Азербайджана. Некоторое время на заводе он возглавлял лабораторию резины. Салахов М. С. имеет звание профессора и ученую степень доктора химических наук. Он является членом-корреспондентом НАНА с 2001 года, и действительным членом Международной НА. Салахов М. С. имеет звание «Заслуженный изобретатель Азербайджанской Республики». Он является почетным членом Союза архитекторов Азербайджанской Республики. В настоящее время возглавляет лабораторию стереохимии мономеров и полимеров в Институте полимерных материалов НАНА (г. Сумгаит). Салахов М. С. совмещает научную и педагогическую деятельность. Он — профессор Бакинского государственного университета, является автором теории «Динамического пространственного мышления в образовании». Под руководством М. С. Салахова подготовлены 31 кандидат и 2 доктора наук. Салахов М. С. — автор нескольких книг: «Yarat, yaşa», «Akademik Yusif Məmmədəliyev», «Əshabi-Kəhf», «Şam-Əxi» и др., пишет стихи и поэмы.

Научная деятельность
М. С. Салаховым исследовано хлорирование углеводородов, установлена закономерность образования хлоруглеродов, возможность выделения фуллеренов С60 и предотвращение образования диоксиновых ксенобиотиков. Изучены реакции оксихлорирования и оксибромирования угловодородов. Исследована стереохимия реакции Дильса-Альдера гексахлорциклопентадиена и диалкокситетрахлорциклопентадиена с ангидридами, имидами и бисимидами тетрагидрофталевой и норборнендикарбоновой кислот и поликонденсация полученных бис-имидодиенов с бис- имидодиенофилами с образованием негорючих шарнирно-каркасных полиимидов с заданной структурой.

Избранные научные труды

 Flame-retardant monomers from chlorinated petroleum hydrocarbons // J. Chem. Mech., 1978, р. 44-51
 Внутримолекулярное /4+2/- циклоприсоединение // Успехи химии, 1986, т.55, вып.12, с. 2008—2044.
 Еновая сополимеризация бис-триазолиндионов с бисимидами цис-4-циклогексен-1,2-дикарбоновой кислоты // Высокомолек. соед., 1997, т. 39Б, с.1531.
 Contamination of the environment in Azerbaijan with dioxin xenobiotics // Organohalogen compounds, 2000, Vol.46, p. 510.
 Синтез новых классов хлорированных диимидов тетракарбоновых кислот // ЖОрХ, 1998, т. 34, вып.1, с.145.

Награды
В 2004 году Салахов М. С был награждён Орденом "Слава".

Он является лауреатом премий имени ак. Ю.Маммедалиева, и ак. М.Мехдизаде.

Примечания

Персоналии по алфавиту
Доктора химических наук
Члены-корреспонденты НАН Азербайджана
Химики по алфавиту

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In some regions or circumstances, electricity is the preferred energy source for a forced-air heating system—though electric furnaces are quite uncommon because of the high cost of electricity as a furnace fuel in most regions.
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An electric furnace is similar to a conventional gas forced-air furnace except that it produces heat with electric heating elements instead of gas burners. Circuit breakers that control the heating elements may be either inside or outside the cabinet.
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An electric-resistance furnace works like a big hair dryer. As with a gas forced-air furnace, it has a blower that draws air into the cabinet through a cold-air return and then pushes the air through the heat exchanger. There, electric heating elements heat the air, and the blower pushes the warmed air back into rooms through a system of duct work.
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One advantage of electric heating over gas and other combustion fuels is that electric heating doesn't give off carbon monoxide. This is good for the environment and makes the unit easier to install because it doesn't require a flue to carry combustion gases outside. But again, the big downside is the high cost of electricity in most regions. For this reason, heat pumps make more sense if you want to use electricity as a fuel. (For more, see the Heat Pumps Buying Guide.)
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3699 days ago Thanks for build much better tool that works with Awstat data.
1) on change month, only one month is not grayed out. On config.php i have 4 month logs configured for WSU Library. But it only show December 1999 which not the awstats data.
Not sure how to configure individual awstats data on jawstats.
2) December 1999 is also defaults on header page and don't know why? Here is the URL and config.php to look at it.
3698 days ago You don't need a configuration for each month, just one configuration where the "statspath" points to the folder where all your AWStats data lives. JAWStats will work out what months are available automatically.
Here my revised config.php with out "statsname" line that generates the error below.
Is this the correct folder? Is your config name, /etc/awstats/awstats.lib.wayne.edu.conf, correct?
3697 days ago It is working now. Thanks. Very impressing.


A champion water-skier, Timothy Carroll represented New Zealand at 4 World Championships and competed for his country for 16 years. Early along his path, he discovered what can only be described as a "peak experience" – and the secret to his later success in sport and business.
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Timothy works with current and future professional athletes, but also applies his experience and insight in elite sports in his consulting, coaching, training and keynote speech work in the business world.


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This showed up on my facebook feed as something I'd like to share from the past. Two years ago our kids skinned up to 10,000 feet on Mt. Rainier where there is a climbers high camp called Muir. In good weather it is a fairly casual day of backcountry skiing…assuming you are in top notch shape.
But Mt. Rainier has a bad habit of making it's own weather, which means you can be traveling to or from Muir and bad things can happen. For example clouds can roll in from nowhere and you are suddenly in a white out with zero visibility. Or the winds can come up and turn the snow to ice…at which point you will wish desperately for crampons and an ice ax. There are also large cravasses if you ski too far to left or right…so map and compass navigation skills can be a life saver. In a worse case scenario you may have to dig a snow cave and spend a night waiting out a sudden storm…though one can usually see those coming on the weather forecast. If that happens, you'd better have a thick puffy coat in your pack.
When I posted this photo I had been working, but Sue sent me a text saying they were overdue by a couple hours. Ideally you get back from Muir before dusk. But she said Clint's blue car was still sitting their in the parking lot. You can see it on the right. That got me worried and I started auto refreshing the web cam. As you can tell from the comments, we raised a couple kids who like adventures. I guess this is payback from when we used to make my mom nervous when Sue and I were climbing mountains…in the winter…miles and miles from the car.
Lisa and I tried to get to Muir a couple months ago but turned back when we hit a white out at 8500 feet. I hope to do it this year…assuming our politicians ever re-open the government.
Like many artists, I began drawing and painting as a child. In high school I found I could capture a fairly good likeness of my friends in pencil. My parents supplied me with watercolor and oil paints to encourage my early efforts.
Life got in the way for 15 years and I stopped painting while I focused on my day job. But when my son was born I drew his portrait in pencil and it re-awakened my inner artist.
Since then I have established a reputation as a landscape painter, winning a number of awards and honors in Puget Sound area juried art shows. I am primarily self taught. Most of my learning has been trial and error although studying art books in the library, and touring local museums and galleries has given me many ideas.
Many of my artist friends find that the studio is the place to create art. Perhaps it is my love of the outdoors or just the chaos of my garage/studio, but I have found that I do my best work on location. I have stood painting for hours in very unfavorable locations, such as on the shoulder of the road above a high cliff on the Oregon coast highway in 20 knots of wind, or in a meadow up at Mt. Rainier in sweltering heat and clouds of mosquitoes.
Two weeks ago I hiked 7 miles up into the high alpine meadows (Sahale Arm) with 50 pounds of painting gear. I shivered under a space blanket all night under the stars. In the morning I painted the morning alpenglow on the North Cascades.
Painting on location in the city has turned out to be easier than I feared. An artist working on the sidewalk is so unusual most people walk by as if I were invisible, which suits me just fine.
Due to the relative shortness of our time on earth many of us want to savor what little beauty we find amongst the asphalt. This urge to slow down and provide time for reflection is what drives artists and photographers alike.
I have often thought of my painting backpack full of paints and a lightweight easel as a 300 year old camera with a 4 hour exposure time, and a six year learning curve. When I am out painting on location, hikers and tourists, often wearing cameras, will occasionally stop and admire my work.
They photograph my painting like it's some kind of rare magic trick. They often lament their inability to draw. I never know what to say. Drawing can, and should, be taught like reading and writing, but the ability to paint collectable art is harder to explain…it may be a gift.
I sometimes go for long periods without selling any paintings at all…like years…which is why it's important to have a day job. But I never stop painting. I stack them up in attic. Painting is an itch I have to scratch.
We finally got around to revisiting Toleak Point, but this time with my painting gear. We'd been there 6 years earlier, but all I had was my camera and I'd regretted not bringing paints. Photos from our previous hike 6 years ago.
When we arrived at the trailhead Saturday night there was no possibility of parking. Cars were parked in every square inch of the lot. Cars were double and triple parked behind other cars, blocking the early arrivals in place. We'd planned to sleep at the trailhead and hike out in the morning. Instead we drove a couple miles West and slept in a pullout. I was glad to have the pickup bed to sleep in. In the morning there was a couple bad parking spots open and we were able to jockey our way into a very tight parallel parking slot.
Toleak is getting far too popular. Do not go on the weekend. We talked to a guy who arrived Friday at noon and only two spots were open even that early in the weekend. It's weird because the place isn't really that pretty. I mean it's very nice, but Shi Shi and Rialto or Ruby are just as pretty. Maybe it's the remoteness that draws the crowd. When we hiked out on Tuesday there were 40 open spots…if you don't mind double parking along the road, with cars backing out toward you broadside.
Weather was perfect Sunday as we hiked South but I arrived too tired to paint. Hiking 7 miles with a heavy pack is not something we do regularly. We woke up to fog but I could see this 100 foot high tower capped by a nesting bald eagle so that was what got painted.
We took a siesta, dipping into our meager food supplies, and then I walked South, hoping the fog over the main rocks would lift. It didn't, so I painted this little twenty foot tall tower right at the tip of Toleak Point. After dinner I tried to paint the Giants Graveyard 4 miles distant but that proved to be too difficult and I erased it. It would have been my third painting of the day anyway.
My homemade backpack isn't happy carrying 50 pounds, though really 50 pounds won't feel good with any backpack. I felt like a mule with a Grand Canyon tourist on my back. I had skipped the sleeping bag to save weight. I slept in my thin puffy ($40 on sale at Big 5) and my Feathered friends down vest. I also had on thin nylon pants over long johns.
The first night I put my legs in my backpack for warmth. That was not warm enough and it wasn't a great night sleep. The second night (Monday) I opened up the 3 ounce space blanket I've been carrying around for a decade and it was amazing. I felt as warm as if I'd been sleeping in a summer weight bag. I have to bring the two puffies anyway for standing around and painting in the ocean breezes, so it was awesome to sleep warm with just the mylar space blanket.
Bivying without proper sleeping gear is something I've been doing since my alpine climbing days. Mountain climbers have the same problem painters have: the gear is so heavy you have to cut corners on the normal gear that keeps backpackers comfortable.
All of my colors except Transparent Oxide Brown and Red (TOB & TOR).
Trail mix-granola. It would be lighter than the packaging for all the expensive energy bars we brought.
The hiking books advise you to stop at the ranger station in Port Angeles to get permits. We were shocked to read that it's $8 per person per night to camp out there. What they don't tell you is that you can also pick up a permit at the trailhead, fill it out, and mail it in with your check. And as it happened, we saw no rangers Sunday through Tuesday checking peoples tents or backpacks for permits.
It's sad that our parks have to charge so much for simply allowing us to enjoy the beauty. I know they have to maintain the trails, signs, ropes outhouses and parking lots, and that's expensive. But for cash strapped people trying to have some cheap fun by walking the coast…it's a shock. A party of two pays $16 a night…for backpacking!


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use Slim\Interfaces\RouterInterface;
use Slim\Views\Twig;
use Source\Models\Auth\Auth;
use Source\Models\DAOs\UserDAO;

abstract class AbstractController
{
    /** @var Twig */
    protected $view;
    /** @var RouterInterface */
    protected $router;
    /** @var UserDAO */
    protected $userDAO;
    /** @var Logger */
    protected $logger;
    /** @var Auth */
    protected $auth;

    //Constructor
    public function __construct(ContainerInterface $container) {
        $this->view = $container->get("view");
        $this->router = $container->get("router");
        $this->userDAO = $container->get("userDAO");
        $this->logger = $container->get("logger");
        $this->auth = $container->get("auth");
    }
}

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