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1 day ago · Descartes holds that when you perceive something with perfect clarity, you are compelled to assent and cannot doubt. (This is a psychological claim.) Many commentators read him as endorsing Psychologism, according to which this compulsion is a matter of brute psychological force. I show that, in Descartes’s view, perfect clarity provides a reason for assent—indeed a perfect reason, which ...
4 days ago · The meaning of IRREPARABLE INJURY is serious injury to a party that justifies relief especially by preliminary injunction —called also irreparable damage, irreparable harm.
5 days ago · Anorexia Nervosa is widely recognized as having both cognitive and affective dimensions. Current accounts typically explain the perplexing behaviors associated with this eating disorder by emphasizing either its cognitive components—particularly false beliefs related to the denial of the patient’s actual conditions—or its affective components, such as the intense fear of gaining weight ...
3 days ago · The narcissist is the victim of incompatible inner dynamics, ruled by numerous vicious circles, pushed and pulled simultaneously by irresistible forces. A minority of narcissists choose the schizoid solution.
4 days ago · Your obsession triggers an uncomfortable emotion, and you do something to make yourself feel better; you perform a compulsion. For example, someone might have the intrusive thought that they have done something terrible in the past.
4 days ago · If this is you - not the surgery and associated elevated ideas about your reading matter but a general sense that things are not as they were, or are unsettled - then to you I say this: go gently. Do not force yourself. Do something else entirely. A brisk (or gentle) walk; yoga; a bath; a game of tennis; even a nap.
6 days ago · 5. Tension and compression. The tension force is the force that is transmitted through a string, rope, cable, or wire when it is pulled tight by forces acting from opposite ends. Compression force is the application of power, pressure, or exertion against an object that causes it to become squeezed, squashed, or compacted. 6.
