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Review Of Kant's Platonic Revolution In Moral And Political Philosophy, Harry Van Der Linden Jan 1996

Review Of Kant's Platonic Revolution In Moral And Political Philosophy, Harry Van Der Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Article reviews the book "Kant's Platonic Revolution in Moral and Political Philosophy," by T.K. Seung.

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Election Day Puzzle, 1996, Jeremiah Farrell Jan 1996

Election Day Puzzle, 1996, Jeremiah Farrell

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Jeremiah Farrell's famous 1996 Election Day Puzzle. The puzzle was released the day before the results of the election were announced and the answer to 39 across could have been either CLINTON or BOBDOLE.

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The Role Of Hindu Scripture In Salvation, William C. Allen, Bibhuti S. Yadav Jan 1996

The Role Of Hindu Scripture In Salvation, William C. Allen, Bibhuti S. Yadav

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

In this paper we reflect on the role of scripture in salvation in Hinduism and Christianity. We all know that differences among various Hindu scripturologies are severe and profound. Diversities of understandings of the nature and role of scripture in salvation abound no less within the various Christian traditions. There is no Hindu consensus regarding the scripture's role in salvation. Even within orthodox Hinduism the differences on this theme are fundamental. For instance. the Vedanta of Sankara reads the Vedas as descriptive of Brahman, the knowledge and realization of which constitutes moksa which Sankara equates with meta-material, meta-social, pure being. …

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Saved By The Word: The Christian Understanding Of The Relationship Between Scripture And Salvation, Michael Deroche Jan 1996

Saved By The Word: The Christian Understanding Of The Relationship Between Scripture And Salvation, Michael Deroche

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Scripture and salvation -- from a Christian point of view, both are gifts from God. yet they are not of equal import. For Christianity salvation is fundamental: it is the goal of life, indeed it is life eternal. Scripture, on the other hand, is instrumental: it leads one to salvation. As the Christian scriptures themselves put it: "... the sacred writings ... are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus" (2 Tim 3:15b).

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Book Review: "The Indian Christiad", Bettina Bäumer Jan 1996

Book Review: "The Indian Christiad", Bettina Bäumer

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of The Indian Christiad by Anand Amaladass and Richard Fox Young.

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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 28 Issue 4 Nov 1995

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 28 Issue 4

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

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Some Men Enjoy Oysters, A. Ross Eckler Nov 1995

Some Men Enjoy Oysters, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

On October 30, 1994, puzzlermaster Will Shortz of the Weekend Edition on National Public Radio, challenged his listeners to construct chain-link sentences, ones in which the last two letters of each word are repeated as the first two letters of the succeeding word. He gave his audience extra time, allowing them two weeks in which to send in answers before announcing the winner on November 13. The winner, followed by the four runners-up, was

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A Line-End Alphabet Poem, Sir Jeremy Morse Nov 1995

A Line-End Alphabet Poem, Sir Jeremy Morse

Word Ways

...alphabetic telestics in which the alphabet is at line-end appear to be quite rare. I know of none; I challenge readers to create one that rhymes...

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8-Letter And 9-Letter Word Networks, Leonard Gordon Nov 1995

8-Letter And 9-Letter Word Networks, Leonard Gordon

Word Ways

My first contributions to Word Ways were on word ladders and networks. In "Word Network Spans in the OSPD" in Feb 1989, I analyzed 4-letter, 5-letter and 6-letter word lists; in "More Network SPans in the OSPD" in AUgust 1990 I briefly studied 7-letter and 8-letter words. This was the limit of my computer capabilities at the time. Since then I have doubled the side of my lists, mostly with Webster's Second words, but I have also upgraded my computer and DOS. Here is a new study of 8-letter and 9-letter words. Part of my objective was to find ideal …

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Possessionlessness Pluralized?, David G. Armstrong Nov 1995

Possessionlessness Pluralized?, David G. Armstrong

Word Ways

I cannot let pass without protest the use, in Susan Thorpe's otherwise excellent article (Word Ways, Aug 1995) of POSSESSIONLESSNESSES. People who have possessions may have a wide variety of kinds and numbers of possessionfulnesses. But if several such persons were to lose their possessions would all be reduced to the null set and they would share in common a unique and singular possessionlessness, for which no plural is admissible.

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Colloquy Nov 1995

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

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A Spooner-Assisted Ten-Square, Jeff Grant Nov 1995

A Spooner-Assisted Ten-Square, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

"In Search of the Ten-Square" in the November 1990 Word Ways featured in a manually-constructed square with reasonable 10-letter terms in every position. The ASTRALISED 10-square is arguably the finest of its type so Spooner, an interesting variation of this square is possible.

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Rejoinders, Stephen Sniderman Nov 1995

Rejoinders, Stephen Sniderman

Word Ways

Would you like to join the tennis club? I'd LOVE to! How about the Sierra Club? NATURally! And the cereal club? Not on your LIFE! The Action Club? AFFIRMATIVE! You get the idea. In the two puzzles below, try to match each invitation in the left-hand column with the appropriate reJOINder in the right-hand column. If you think some are unforgivably awful puns, join the club! Se Answers and Solutions for the answers.

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Senescent Sentences: Ten Scenes, Nyr Indictor Nov 1995

Senescent Sentences: Ten Scenes, Nyr Indictor

Word Ways

Staring at my tube of toothpaste the other morning, I noticed the word GINGIVITIS. It occurred to me that this was an anagram of IS IT GIVING. Having nothing better to do while brushing my teeth, I started pondering the significance of sentences that may be broken down into components which are anagrams of each other, like "Is it giving ! gingivitis?" and "The potato's ! short a poet, ! past the too-!hot-to-paste ! toothpaste." By the time I had finished brushing, the basic of the game of Senescent Sentences had been formulated.

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Square And Triangular Number-Names, Monte J. Zerger Nov 1995

Square And Triangular Number-Names, Monte J. Zerger

Word Ways

In the mathematics of sets the cardinality of a collection of object is defined to be the number of objects in the collection, and is denoted by placing vertical bars around a listing of that collection. Following that convention we write !FOUR! = 4 or !SEVEN! = 5.

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A Modest Proposal, Bob Maier Nov 1995

A Modest Proposal, Bob Maier

Word Ways

As you already know, a palindrome is a word or phrase that spells the same way forward and backward. Some examples are BOB, MADAM I'M ADAM and A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL: PANAMA.

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Madam, I'M Adam (Sir, I'M Iris), Howard Richler Nov 1995

Madam, I'M Adam (Sir, I'M Iris), Howard Richler

Word Ways

Given names figure prominently in palindromic utterances. There are two main reasons for this. Many are quite short, and thus easy to manipulate palindromically. Also, a higher percentage of given names than ordinary English words end in the vowels A or I which serve as excellent palindromic connectors.

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Sending Messages By Telephone, A. Ross Eckler Nov 1995

Sending Messages By Telephone, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Although the telephone conveys the spoken word with ease, it is illsuited for the written one needed for pagers or communication with the deaf. The telephone keypad contains only ten alternatives (something twelve), far fewer than the 26 alphabetic letters plus space, which means that a single press of a button is ambiguous. The traditional arrangement ABC/DEF/GHI/JKL/MNO/PRS/TUV/WXY omits Q and Z, but these can be understood to be in their normal positions.

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In Words Of One Syllable, Frederick Crane Nov 1995

In Words Of One Syllable, Frederick Crane

Word Ways

There are those who claim that the best way to set free the work of one who would make art is to set curbs, that one must clip one's own wings to be free to fly. There are the twelve tone folks, and there are some who write whole books that have not one word at all with an e in it (see Word Ways of May of two years back, page four score less nine).

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The Morristown Fables: Part 4, Peter Newby Nov 1995

The Morristown Fables: Part 4, Peter Newby

Word Ways

Ross and Faith Begorrah enjoyed their roast chicken with relish. At last, they had rid themselves of that stupid talking hen which had been the bane of their life and mantlepiece of what seemed like an age.

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Paper Caper, Stephen Sniderman Nov 1995

Paper Caper, Stephen Sniderman

Word Ways

The object of this game is to find more sets of rhyming words on a particular page than your opponents. To start the game, each player is given a magazine or book, which s/he should open to nay page s/he wishes. Players are then given a specified amount of time (three minutes seems reasonable) to find and write down sets of rhyming words on the page in front of them. To qualify as a rhyme, two words must have the same number of syllables, must be accented on the same syllable, must have different sounds at the beginning of the …

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The Information Superhighway, Mike Morton Nov 1995

The Information Superhighway, Mike Morton

Word Ways

Recently I received email which informed me that INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY anagrams to I'M ON A HUGE WISPY RHINO FART. I couldn't let this pass without comment, and enclose a list which Word Ways readers might enjoy.

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A Story With A Palindromic Larom, Andrew Belsey Nov 1995

A Story With A Palindromic Larom, Andrew Belsey

Word Ways

It is not often that science comes to the aid of literature. But here is a case in which a development in science makes a difference to literature, and indeed could have made a difference to life and death themselves.

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The Anglo-American Hyphen, Peter Newby Nov 1995

The Anglo-American Hyphen, Peter Newby

Word Ways

When Queen Victoria was offered a choice of four names for one of her newer overseas possessions, she opted for Fiji as she linked its three dots. In contrast to this word-loving monarch (who is credited with having invented the double acrostic), a conspiracy of lexicogrpahers, those responsible for the OED, spent a large part of her reign introducing a form of word vandalism, the unnecessary hyphen.

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See It Now On Tv!, Mary J. Hazard Nov 1995

See It Now On Tv!, Mary J. Hazard

Word Ways

Luv Is Void A best-bet arty film. Betty Boop's ex (gimpy guy) seen in Rome. He tried to buy a hot forty-foot one-ton lorry; now the jig is up!

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Another Dictionary Curio, Christopher Mcmanus Nov 1995

Another Dictionary Curio, Christopher Mcmanus

Word Ways

Abridged basic dictionaries are rarely plumbed by serious word-watchers. In the February 1995 Word Ways, I enumerated the unique and fascinating features of one such elementary dictionary. In continuing to search for its antecedents and variants, I discovered a separate family of intriguing student dictionaries.

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Familiarity Breeds Confusion, Richard Lederer Nov 1995

Familiarity Breeds Confusion, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

Here's a game to whet your appetite, or (great expectorations!) wet your appetite for spelling challenges.

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Updating Gary Gray And Edna Dean, A. Ross Eckler Nov 1995

Updating Gary Gray And Edna Dean, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

In the May 1986 Word Ways I described a search of telephone directories of individuals whose given names are transpositions of their surnames, as examplified by the title of this article. Such a search has been made far easier by the advent of PhoneDisc, described in the May 1991 Word Ways, which consists of two CD-ROM disks that claim to include 90 million names, addresses and telephone numbers of US residents. The table below extends the one given in the earlier article; numbers in parenthesis give the counts found earlier.

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Kickshaws, David Morice Nov 1995

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

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Unlikely Menus, Mary Christie Craig Nov 1995

Unlikely Menus, Mary Christie Craig

Word Ways

Ever since I heard the joke "What do honeymooners eat" (Lettuce alone). I've been making up unlikely menus to fit every taste, mood and culture. Here are a few.

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