User talk:Physis

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Re: Hunter-gatherer

My apologies for deleting that paragraph. I did that by mistake. I have now reinserted it with slight revision. Thank you for drawing that to my attention.

See the following revision:

01:04, 7 August 2006 Losecontrol (Talk contribs) (edited and reinserted paragraph into appropriate section)
The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is not necessarily a one way process.

It has been argued that hunting and gathering represents an adaptive strategy which may still be exploited, if necessary, when environmental change causes extreme food stress for agriculturalits.

It is indeed an interesting point. Please let me know if you're satisfied with this.

--LC | Talk 01:19, 7 August 2006 (UTC)


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[edit] Thanks

Thanks for correcting my accent on Szathmári and especially for the explanation! I have corrected the Esperanto page that I translated now as well. O'RyanW (☺ ₪) 18:22, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] date Voyage to Faremido was first published?

Hi, do you know when Voyage to Faremido was first published and in what language? --Jtir 13:39, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about those edit conflicts, I guess you are still developing the article. I was going to do some formatting and arranging of the end notes but will wait until you are done. --Jtir 15:09, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] formating posts to talk pages

Hi, here are some guidelines for formating posts to talk pages that I find helpful. I usually use: "1) Each post indents by one regardless of user: ..." --Jtir 09:59, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] organizing articles on novels

Hi, here are some conventions for organizing articles on novels. --Jtir 00:31, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Style tip

Hi. Just a note on linking. If a concept shows up in the text, it should be linked to. However one should not link to every occurance of that concept, that's just hard to read. Just a tip. :) Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 04:02, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sorts

In the article Signature (mathematical logic) you introduce "sorts" and I can't find any definition of this term. Can you elucidate that? I'm trying to learn category theory with the help of Wikipedia :-) -- Bartosz 18:28, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the links. I have also searched for many-sorted logic and even found Zarba's article. But this guy starts with
    We fix an enumerable set Sort of sorts
so it isn't a big help. Unless sort just means enumerable set. I see it used in CS as describing typing information.
BTW, I'm trying to understand "Specification Structures and Propositions-as-Types for Concurrency" paper by Abramsky, Gay, and Nagarajan. It's not so much the math that's killing me as the notation, which is new to me. I'm not giving up yet ;-)
Thank You for Your letter, and also for the suggestion in the physics topic (the topic is not mine, just I saved it from deletion by copying it onto my user page. In childhood I wanted to be a physicist, it is awonderful science). To make Your efforts easier in learning many-sorted logic, I hereby created such an article, but it is very embryonic. and contatin only new one reference that I have not mentioned yet to You (because I have found that book just now). Musch succes and best wishes to You, Physis 23:22, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Matter and Energy

Being a physicist, I could add to what you write: In quantum physics, Fermions are condidered matter and Bosons, energy. -- Bartosz 22:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Soul dualism

Alright, and thanks for the notification. I removed the speedy. That's what sometimes happens with the db-empty tags, and your article seems to be on the right track. Good luck with your article, and happy editing! P.S. (Stubs typically go on the bottom of the page. I fixed that for you.) Cheers! BlackBear 16:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Eskimo shamanism

I just worked some on the article you started on Eskimo shamanism. It's a great start. Please look through the parts I changed and make sure I didn't inadvertently change any meaning. I was fairly drastic in my editing of the article, but I think it has benefited from what I have done. I'm planning on doing more with it later and continuing the copyedit I started.

Best, -Fenevad 22:48, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

In response to your comments on my user page, igen tudok magyarul, de nem anyanyelvként. Magyarorzágon laktam két évig. Thanks for the confirmation of Diószegi’s name. -Fenevad 02:05, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] article improvements

I've been meaning to say, thanks for your attention to the concerns about the article now known as Shamanism among Eskimo peoples. Thanks for taking my concerns seriously. I'm also impressed with Fenevad's work in making the text read more smoothly in English -- no offense to you, but I take it that English is not your first language, & Fenevad's work has greatly improved the readability, hopefully without losing any factual info. I've been working on the Yup'ik article (re: Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimos), & will undoubtedly be able to add Yup'ik-specific info to the shamanism article as well -- but not until after the two-week vacation I'm about to embark upon. Meantime, best wishes. --Yksin 23:20, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grønlands Spejderkorps

Can you help render "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Kalaallisut? Thanks! Chris 03:51, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Világfa

I think you can upload the image in question to Commons, or, if possible, look for a more appropriate picture, since I do not remember the details of my Világfa. I mean, where it was found? When was it drawn? These are important, especially when you write about shamanistic remains in Hungarian folklore, since it does matter whether this stuff comes from the 12th or 19th century. Et cetera.

Oh, and I've almost forgotten, your article is nice. It is really hard to find such an accurate one nowadays, when it is proven the Hungarians came from space and colonised the Earth as Sumerians, but only after they had left behind the Carphatian Basin, the place where they landed, and where they later returned to in two waves, first under Attila, then Árpád. Best wishes, --Cserlajos (talk) (contribs) 11:13, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hermeneutical circle

I wonder if you could flesh out your additions to the article Hermeneutic circle. I'm trying to understand your point, but its still not clear to me how these additions explain the concept of a Hermeneutic circle. It seems rather the reverse - that the concept of a hermaneutic circle is helping you understand something in AI. In that case, your observations probably belong in the AI article where they will be better understood. Thanks, Egfrank 16:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Your suggestion of taking the items (temporarily) off the article until you have worked through the subject seems like the best approach. You sound like you have the interests and background to do something interesting with the material so I look forward to seeing what you eventually come up with. Best, Egfrank 18:36, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hermeneutic circle

Hello, can you source this? I only see two parenhtetical citations that go nowhere. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 01:52, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. Way over my head. I almost tagged it for deletion as a WP:BOLLOCKS. I doubt I would eve grasp the "fundamentals." Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 16:06, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hilbert-style system

I think that the presentation in the article needs to stay close to standard published expositions. I am just starting to work on the article, so I haven't needed to consult published sources yet, but I will add them as I consult them. I would prefer for the article to cite English-language sources, which I am certain is possible. The typical reader here will not be able to read many languages outside English.

It is very standard to use only a limited set of connectives for a Hilbert-style system. This is one of the benefits of bothering with these systems, because it makes it faster to prove metatheorems about deductions if there are fewer inductive cases to consider. My general impulse is to find one particular book's exposition and stick to that; I just haven't looked one up yet.

I like your image, and already put it in the article. I prefer to use 'schemes' instead of 'schemata'; the Latin version is more and more unused in texts. I'm not sure about the 'mechanical' introduction.

I think it would be more productive to edit the main article, rather than duplicate effort working on a version in your user space. Please join in. — Carl (CBM · talk) 16:56, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Double redirects.

Rather than edit every article that links to a given double redirect, it's easier to simply fix the double redirect. :-) —RuakhTALK 02:15, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Ket people

I've been interested in that article for a long time (if you lool back in it's history you will see). For a while it was being vandalized a lot - people adding all sorts of things that were speculation and that they had no sources to back it up.

This time I copy edited it to put on http://en.veropedia.com/a/Ket_people where it cannot be vandalized. If you do more work on it, I can move the new copy to veropedia. I really am interested in the subject but I do not know Russian at all so I have very little ways of getting information. I was very happy to see all the work you have done! Regards, Mattisse 23:18, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Do you know anything about the Yaghnobi people? They had a horrible 20th century experience. Mattisse 23:24, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Great work with that tableau. I think you deserve this.

The Original Barnstar
For having a great idea on Shaman, and succeeding in convincing me of it's merits. Cheers. --Mad Tinman T C 19:42, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Elementary substructure

Szervusz Physis! I see you are gradually transforming this stub into a proper article. I wonder where the (for me unfamiliar) term "material equivalence" comes from in this context - it looks like philosophy to me, but your background seems to be closer to computer science. --Hans Adler (talk) 18:16, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I was quite fascinated when I saw what a great mix of interests you have. I think the combination makes as much sense as it is unusual. (For the unlikely case that you don't know it yet, let me recommend Language Log to you. Recently it has been mentioning Eskimo languages quite a lot because of the well-known snowclone.)
No, unfortunately my active hungarian is only a few words, and my passive hungarian is just enough to survive in Hungary as a tourist. And like so many ungrateful Germans I haven't been there since the wall fell. Before that my family learned Hungarian for a while, and given a dictionary I should be able to get at least a general meaning of what a text is about. We expected to go to Hungary a lot, to meet our East German friends there, but instead my main use for the language nowadays is to tease people who claim that the basic things are never a problem in a foreign country as long as it uses the Latin alphabet. I just ask them to choose between "Nők" and "Úrok", and it always turns out they would enter the wrong toilet. But my brother is learning Hungarian now to communicate with his in-laws in Târgu Mureş/Marosvásárhely. --Hans Adler (talk) 22:39, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Śīla (disambiguation)

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[edit] Don't worry

Hi Physis, I hope you don't think this debate has anything to do with you. There is currently a large conflict between Gregbard and the rest of the world, and this has led to a climate where some secondary conflicts such as this one can easily happen. It's just an accident that it happened at "your" article. It was much worse (and my tone much less "humane") at formal language, for example. --Hans Adler (talk) 14:56, 30 May 2008 (UTC)