Benveniste’s experiments were at the origin of a scientific controversy that has never been satisfactorily resolved. Hypotheses based on modifications of water structure that were proposed to explain these experiments were generally considered as quite improbable. In the present paper, we show that Benveniste’s experiments violated the law of total probability, one of the pillars of classical probability theory. Although this could suggest that quantum logic was at work, the decoherence process is however at first sight an obstacle to describe (...) this macroscopic experimental situation. Based on the principles of a personalist view of probability, a modeling could nevertheless be built that fitted the outcomes reported in Benveniste’s experiments. Indeed, in QBism, there is no split between microscopic and macroscopic, but between the world where an agent lives and his internal experience of that world. The outcome of an experiment is thus displaced from the object to its perception by an agent. By taking into account both the personalist view of probability and measurement fluctuations, all characteristics of Benveniste’s experiments could be described in a simple modeling: change of the biological system from resting state to “activated” state, concordance of “expected” and observed outcomes and apparent “jumping” of “biological activities” from sample to sample. No hypothesis on change of water structure was necessary. In conclusion, a modeling of Benveniste’s experiments based on a personalist view of probability offers for the first time a logical framework for these experiments that have remained controversial and paradoxical till date. (shrink)

The essence of temporal universe creation is that any analytical solution has to comply with the boundary condition of our universe; dimensionality and causality constraints. The essence of this book is to show that everything has a price within our temporal (t > 0) universe; energy and time.

Excerpt from Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis To the King: acts performed by Kings and others for the advancement of learning (p. Three parts of human learning (p. 75) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged (...) copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. (shrink)

(from t.p.) qui continet Historiam Regni Henrici Septimi, Regis Angliae -- Sermones fideles, sive, Interiora rerum -- Tractatum de sapienta veterum -- Dialogum de bello sacro -- Et Novam Atlantidem ... -- in hoc volumine, iterum excusi, includuntur Tractatus de augmentis scientiarum -- Historia ventorum -- Historia vitae [et] mortis.

This paper focuses on the prologue of the Old French Partonopeus de Blois. The author analyses the narrator's style of writing and argues that he puts the receivers at the very centre of the experience, relying on them to analyse the material with his subtle help. The author argues that it is therefore not the intrinsic nature — good or bad — of the story which is important, but what the receivers may gain from it. Via a series of reworkings, (...) the creator of Partonopeus orients the reception of the story and establishes his narrative style by an innovative use of literary tradition. (shrink)

Cet article a déjà paru dans la revue Projet n° 273, p. 35-42, en mars 2003. Il remet en question avec efficacité et élégance un certain nombre d'idées reçues, de clichés et de généralisations abusives concernant les évolutions contemporaines des régimes temporels. À lire absolument. L'individualisme contemporain serait-il la nouvelle maladie de nos sociétés, comme le laisse entendre le discours sur la crise du lien social ? Répondre à cette question suppose que l'on conçoive précisément ce que signifie (...) - (...) Sociologie – Nouvel article. (shrink)

Cet article a déjà paru dans Informations sociales, 2006/2, N° 130, p. 60-71. - Sociologie – Nouvel article.

La complexité inédite de notre époque tend à rendre anachroniques les prétentions totalisantes du savoir non moins que du croire. Ces conditions nouvelles pourraient inciter philosophes et théologiens à ne plus s'affronter en vue d'une hégémonie suspecte, mais à s'allier pour garder sa pertinence à la responsabilité d'une pensée d'expérience soucieuse de s'opposer également à la stupidité et à la violence mortifères des illusions et des idoles.0Loin de confondre, cependant, les démarches d'une raison s'ouvrant au risque éclairé de la confiance (...) et celles d'une foi s'exposant aux interrogations partagées de l'existence, ce livre d'un " chrétien philosophe " plaide pour la reconnaissance d'une juste distance entre des convictions et des trajectoires contrastées qui pourraient contribuer, ensemble mais de manière distincte, à maintenir la liberté de l'esprit au travail dans la vie du monde et de l'histoire. (shrink)

La philosophie ici perçue comme exigence de se mouvoir dans un espace d'intelligibilité commune ouvert par les Grecs, mais en l'éveillant ou la rendant disponible à ce qui l'appelle sans qu'elle ne puisse le maîtriser : l'infini. F. Guibal avec Levinas exprime que la raison vaut comme langage et responsabilité métaphysique.

However, metaphysics itself has presuppositions. In the order of explanation the governing presupposition of intelligible metaphysics is that the world itself is intelligible. By 'intelligible' I mean 'free from contradiction'. By 'the world' I mean the range of things that possess being of any kind, or, in other words, the realm of being. If the presupposition referred to is accepted metaphysics is possible; if not, it is not. The word 'presupposition' must be taken literally. The presupposition in question is, in (...) fact, a presupposition and cannot be proved. It is not possible to prove that the world--the aggregate of things--is intelligible. Any attempted proof is circular. It would, in essence, be obliged to say: the world is noncontradictory for, were it contradictory, this circumstance itself would involve a contradiction. But this is equivalent to the assumption that the contradictory is impossible; which in turn is nothing but the conclusion given as a premise. To say that the contradictory is impossible is simply to say, in other words, that nothing is or can be contradictory, which was the point to be proved. Hence, though the presupposition that the world is intelligible is necessary, it is, nevertheless, a presupposition and cannot be demonstrated. (shrink)

1. L'aube.--2. Le matin.--3. Le plein jour.--4. Exquisse d'une doctrine de l'humanisme chrétien.

RésuméOn discute ľapplicabilityé de la convention T de Tarski à une théorie de la signification. A cet effet, deux aspects de la communication sont distingués. ?une part il sembie essentiel de déployer la communication à partir ?un réseau de croyances communes. ?autre part ľessence de la communication est de rendre maximal ľaccord épistémique entre les interlocuteurs. La solution proposé consiste à rappeler qu'avant ?être commune, la croyance a été communiquée dans un contexte privilégié, appelé ici dialogue référentiel. On tire alors (...) les conséquences, ?abord sur la fonction de référence, ensuite sur ľélargissement qu'il faut apporter aux conditions de base ?une théorie de la signification, si ľon veut tenir compte de ce procés de maximisation lui‐même.SummaryIn order to discuss the applicability of Tarski's convention T to a theory of meaning, we have to draw a distinction between two aspects of communication. On the one hand, we have to consider the grounding of communication in a network of common beliefs. On the other hand, and indeed primarily, maximizing the epistemic agreement between locutors is essential to communication. The solution proposed consists in showing that, before becoming common, a belief has to be communicated in a priviledged context, i. e. in a so‐called “referential dialogue”. Consequences are drawn first upon the role of reference, secondly upon the necessary extension of the basic conditions for a theory of meaning, in order to give an account of the maximizing process itself. (shrink)