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| bio | website | seamusbradley.net |
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| location | Munich, Germany | |
| age | 27 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 8 months |
| seen | Apr 12 at 2:14 | |
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I am a postdoc in philosophy.
I contribute to a blog for philosophers who use LaTeX. If you fall in to that niche, check it out: PhilTeX. (The blog will be of use to all kind of humanities scholars using LaTeX, I imagine, but it was started by, and is run by philosophers...) The blog is currently defunct, but may be resurrected soon.
I made this beamer colour change package that slowly changes the colour of structure elements of beamer presentations. Feedback welcome.
I also made this moreenum package which adds new enumeration options.
The TeX goodies page of my website includes some other bits and bobs I've done.
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Mar 9 |
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How/From where did the term “paradigm shift” originate? @kiamlaluno The origin of the phrase is in Kuhn's use of it in 1962. Structure made a big splash in the philosophy community so I believe it was probably an established phrase very soon after that. As for when it became more widely used I don't know. But that's a separate question to which Kuhn's coining of the phrase is irrelevant. |
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Mar 9 |
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How/From where did the term “paradigm shift” originate? Then that's a downvote for NOAD |
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Mar 9 |
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How/From where did the term “paradigm shift” originate? No. It was the early 60s |
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Mar 9 |
awarded | Critic |
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Mar 9 |
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How/From where did the term “paradigm shift” originate? Also, OED has its first mention as p.66 of Structure |
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Mar 9 |
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How/From where did the term “paradigm shift” originate? Actually, "paradigm" doesn't appear in the index for The Copernican Revolution and a quick google books search doesn't find any mentions. Sorry. False alarm! |
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Mar 8 |
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How/From where did the term “paradigm shift” originate? It might actually occur in Kuhn's earlier book The Copernican Revolution |
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Jan 24 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Nov 30 |
answered | What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them? |
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Nov 30 |
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What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them? I'm going to start calling it the Su-PER-bol-EE |
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Nov 28 |
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What are some examples of awkward sounding but grammatically correct sentences? @Midhat Well, when I wrote that snarky comment this site was in beta... |
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Nov 2 |
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Successfull/successful - is this a UK/US difference? There seems to be a trend of "Is X/Y a British English/American English difference?" questions where X is a word, and Y is a typo. |
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Nov 2 |
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How to indicate possession by e.g. passers-by, mothers-in-law My favourite internal pluralisations: Advocates General and Procurators Fiscal. |
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Oct 29 |
accepted | Descriptivism and widespread misspelling |
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Oct 29 |
asked | Words with roots from different languages |
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Oct 15 |
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Is there a correct gender-neutral, singular pronoun (“his” versus “her” versus “their”)? Pedant alert: Am I right in thinking that the gender neutral pronoun would be "it". What the questioner is after is a pronoun for "indeterminate gender" |
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Oct 15 |
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Is there a correct gender-neutral, singular pronoun (“his” versus “her” versus “their”)? "Questions should be kept to the end" avoids the indeterminate pronoun problem. I think this sort of solution is often less awkward than the "singular they" construction. |
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Oct 14 |
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-phile word for someone who loves frogs I really want to know some context for this question. Why would you ever need a word for someone who loves frogs? |
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Oct 13 |
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Is “not eating or drinking” equal to “not eating or not drinking”? not (X or Y) = (not X) and (not Y). But without the ability to use parentheses to point how a sentence should be parsed, the "neither" solution is superior. |
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Oct 13 |
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XXIII, neither IIIXX nor XIIIX, represents 23. Is it correct grammar? The problem is that it's not clear in "not X or Y" whether the "not" distributes over the disjunction. "neither" makes it clear that it does. Equally unambiguous would be "not X and not Y" (although I guess one could interpret this as "not (X and not Y)" but that would be a rather awkward construction |
