This article argues that the Haitian Vodou spirits(lwas)of fertility and death,Gede,do not promote homosexuality or the fluidity of sexuality in Haitian culture.The latter position is a Western reading of Gede grounde...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42107147);Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(2017388);National Science and Technology Fundamental Resources Investigation Program of China(2019FY100603);the Open Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology of China(SKLURE2021-2-5).
Deciphering biogeographic patterns of microorganisms is important for evaluating the maintenance of microbial diversity with respect to the ecosystem functions they drives.However,ecological processes shaping distribu...
This article attempts to outline Paul C.Mocombe’s nominalism as highlighted in his theory of phenomenological structuralism(PS).Mocombe posits that the human mind or consciousness is presented with brute facts and th...
Growth in arthropods in general and in insects in particular, is supposed to be discontinuous and occurs during moulting. In Culicidae in general and Anopheles<...
This article is sponsored by the program“Research on Network Language under the Background of Internet Plus”(No.X202010452050).
The relationship between language and thinking has always been the focus of discussion at home and abroad not only in linguistics but also in psychology,philosophy,anthropology,and so on.However,because of the intrica...
Willingness to communicate illustrates anyone’s tendency and wish to commence a communication.Besides,socio-cognitive strategies are used when people want to interact with others and face some difficulties.The aim of...
This paper is a dialogue between Thalia Wheatley and Terence Horgan. Horgan maintains that philosophy is a broadly empirical discipline, and that philosophical theorizing about how concepts work treats certain intuiti...
Different from his naturalistic followers,Stephen Crane develops his naturalism in a restricted and special sense that contains many non-naturalistic elements.In his masterpiece The Red Badge of Courage,Crane scrutini...
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis(SWH) highlightsSapir's and Whorf's viewpoints of the relationship between language and thought. They hold that language and thought are somewhat interwoven. Language is not simply a way of v...
The existing interpretation of quantum mechanics is contrary to common sense. The existing quantum mechanical interpretation schemes are puzzling. The confusing theory is unconvincing, and needs to be amended and comp...