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)

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)

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)

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)

organizing articles on novels

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

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)

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)

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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Grønlands Spejderkorps

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

Double redirects.

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

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)

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)

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)

Śīla (disambiguation)

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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)

Thanks

Dear Physis,

Thanks so much for your note regarding my edits to the Shamanism in Siberia article. Also, your areas of interest sound very, well, interesting! :)

Regards, Peer Gynt (talk) 06:56, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

For articles in the Indonesian area - could you please help by using project tags as well on the talk page - thanks SatuSuro 03:50, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes that is the article - and yes I have put two project templates on the discussion/talk page - if you are going to create or edit extensively on similar articles that fall within the Indonesian ae- I would recmmend you simply copy the templates to the new articles talk pages as it helps defend the articles from any sense of orphan status if they can be seen to be associated with the projects - and cripes i wish everyone was as polite as you! cheers and thanks for your response! SatuSuro 12:19, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Very strictly speaking the correct usage of orphan is when no links are made in the body of the article and consequently it does not link to any other articles at all - my usage is somewhat perverse in that I have a thing about articles that do not belong to projects - (discussion or talk page remains 'red' when viewed from main article page) when possible I try to link articles to projects wherever possible. I do hope I havent skewed the terminology too far away from what is meant in usual wikipedia meanings SatuSuro 14:19, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Category

Please take it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board before doing that - an edit summary is insufficient - discussion is needed as there are very large number of articles that are being incorporated into something which requires more than just an addition of such a category - SatuSuro 09:52, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

OK - the problem with any category term is that there is a whole history behind its creation - the history of anthropology is as important as the subject itself. There have been arguments as to the nature of the broad experience of Indigenous Australians and it could be argued that from a serious academic pont of view to use such a term or phrase as hunter and gathereer is in fact appropriating a particular terminology for a far more complex experience of the indigenous population over time. I do not have references to hand to back me up on this - but I would say that anyone who has been at university in australia studying in anthropology in the last two decades would be loath to put certain labels on the whole australian experience as there is clearly a wide range of organisation and cultural experiences that have been more stringently explained than those of thirty or or fourty years ago - and it is my impressin that such a term - although always found in classic anthropology texts of thirty years ago might not be as applicable now. Thngs move, things happen in academic streams of thought - and to me such a label reflects an outmoded form of explanation - I could be wrong - and if I am - please accept my apology. SatuSuro 11:24, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your response - I suspect that the particular forms of analysis of the behaviour and typologies(conceptual frameworks and methods of analysis of behaviour) of the indigeous australians have developed in the last couple of decades since I studied aboriginal anthropology at university - preoccupations with kinships systems, and linguistic systems were a dominant force in anthropolgical studies in the 1960's and 1970's - and I was fortunate enough to research a society outside of australia for post graduate fieldwork - but each generation of students and teachers tend to have their favourites/fad/fashions/topics/terms - and I suspect that there are current forms of analysis, and terminology about the society of the indigenous australians that I am not aware of. So please do not take me as an authority by any means - just someone who went through the system some time ago. SatuSuro 13:03, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Hadza

Thanks for your additions to Hadza people! I move one small section to Talk. kwami (talk) 18:06, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

How did you ever read Kohl-Larson? You don't have German down as one of your languages, and I'm not aware that he was ever translated. kwami (talk) 18:08, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Okay, email me if you have particular questions about the language. One problem with all the contradictory accounts of the mythology is that half the time I think no-one knows, and much of the time it may be variable. For example, I've seen your Ishoko creation story in Berger, but with Haine in place of Ishoko. Perhaps the only outsider who does know this stuff is Woodburn, and he's not publishing. kwami (talk) 17:02, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

A few people have unpublished field notes, but there is almost no linguistic material that's been published on Hadza. Berger 1943 is good Hadza, but bad translation. Bala 1998 is much better but just as obscure and maybe even more difficult to obtain. [Both of these are in the bibliography you linked to.] There are a couple linguistic accounts which should come out in the next year or so, so until then you just need to know people. kwami (talk) 20:15, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Revert review

Hi Physis. You seem to have an interest in Template:Cite book/doc. Please look over this revert. I disagree with it and if you do as well, please change it back. Thanks. Suntag (talk) 23:09, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

• Hi Physis. I'm not sure what "the page number of the citation must be modularized off from the bibliographical data" means. However, if a book is 300 pages and you use information from page 167, the citation should contain page=167 so the reader doesn't have to read through all 300 pages of a book to verify a cite. Also, if you are using material from a book, you know the page number and there would be no need to modularize off the page number. For example, if you use information about "NASA's Interstellar Probe Science" from this book, it tells you that the information is on page 43. It doesn't seem that difficult to add that information to the citation. As for the location parameter, few English books provide the location of the publisher. If you randomly look at books on the google website, such as Building Harlequin's Moon, you will not see any location listed. Publishers relocate their main office all the time and it would take a tremendous amount of time to find the geographic location of a publisher at the time they published a particular book. Also, I'm not sure what benefit is offered by indicating the location of a publisher in a citation or how it helps verify the cite. authorlink= seems a rare parameter because it is not often that Wikipedia has an article on the author. I never knew about the ref= parameter, but it looks very valuable since it removed citation clutter from the raw article text. I'll try to start using it. As for "The best solution for the debate would be introducing a {{User talk:Physis}}-like metatemplate that would be capable of rendering even attribute-value style parameter lists. Then the typesetting questions could be modularized off from the logical representation," if you can do this, that would be great. -- Suntag (talk) 15:07, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

• Hi again, Physis. Given the different interests of editors, the solution is to have several examples for the "Most commonly used fields" in the Template:Cite book instructions, just as they do for Template:Cite web. I'll try to get around to posting different examples at Cite book. Suntag (talk) 22:23, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Request

Hello, User:Physis. I have noticed from your user page that you are a fan of or have an interest in The Smurfs series. There is currently a discussion concerning the merging of all individual articles on Smurf video games into one bigger article. I do not believe that any of the editors involved in the discussion (myself included) know much about the games and I was hoping you could provide us with the benefit of your opinion as an editor knowledgeable about the subject. If you are not interested in helping or if you believe yourself incapable at this time then please disregard this message. The discussion is currently under way here. Thanks for your time. -Thibbs (talk) 22:30, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Imre Ruzsa

I saw (i) IR's obit and (ii) your many cites from his texts. Might you be interested in starting an article on him? — Charles Stewart (talk) 12:47, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Articles: Imre Ruzsa, Intensional logic, Hilbert system

Moved from User talk:Chalst

Dear Chalst,

Articles

Thank You very much for Your attention and patience.

At the time I initiated Hilbert system, I was yet unable to recognize that writing an article needs much more than having a fleeting acquaintance or knowing some fragments, because it needs also a deep matured overview and an ability to measure the significances and motivations behind the details, in short, it needs judgments. That's why I have not initiated any new articles in science topic in the past year.

As for Intensional logic, the same remarks hold, although this article has been originally not initiated by me, originally I just tried to fix a stub that was already there.

Excuse me that You have to work after me, I am sorry but I cannot make the fixings myself which You demanded on the affected talk pages, because, as far as I could grasp Your concerns, it needs more overview than I have.

Imre Ruzsa

Thank You for Your confidence to asking me to initiate an article about Imre Ruzsa. (I have not known that he recently died, I am sorry to hear that.) First I'd like to ask whether You think I am the right person to do it.

What I can provide

I have read parts out of his several books in original (Hungarian)

What I have not in my knowledge

I do not know anything more about his life than any average Google user does. I have not visited his lectures, I did not attend to philosophy department of Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University (where he worked), I finished in mathematics, on Faculty of Science (he was not a visiting professor there, as far as I know). I have read no more biographies about him than the short reward texts on the back/prologue of his own books.

If I can help with that, then I shall initiate the article about him, but I am afraid I have not much more competence than anyone else. The only thing that would give me some advantage is a direct access to his books, but these provide scientific details, not a general biographical overview. The knowledge I now have would suffice not much more than a stub (at best, something between a Stub Class and a Start Class quality). If I can help with such an initiation, then I shall do that with pleasure, please let me know if that would be a help, or rather I should I leave it to someone else.

Thank You for Your attention and patience,

Best wishes

Physis (talk) 13:01, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your explanations, which is more than required. I should think that I am much less well placed to put together Imre Rusza, since that would be a biographical article, and my knowledge of academic life in Hungary is slight, and of Hungarian life outside the academy is slighter still. I don't think I could do much more that paraphrase the obituary.

There is no problem with intensional logic - you did, after all, add some good content there - and less still with Hilbert system since that is purely a matter of naming. I generally don't look at edit histories before saying what I think needs changing in an article, since I want what I say to be driven by the text's needs, and not the feelings of the previous contributors; I am sorry this attitude means I seem rather hard, since I am grateful to anyone who contributes to the logic pages in good faith. — Charles Stewart (talk) 14:02, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for starting the article. — Charles Stewart (talk) 11:24, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Imra Rusza: quick or dead

It would be useful to distinguish the deceased logician from the living number theorist. Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 15:04, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Dear Physis, I thank you for your very kind and helpful reply. Reading this page, I have seen that your kindness and helpfulness have been sustained for a long time, even while you were helping on many articles. You have so many obvious gifts and have made so many valuable contributions! I much prefer that my friends be honest, kind, and straightforward like you, and that they tell me exactly what they think. I am sorry to hear about the PTSD, which another dear friend of mine has. I trust that you have all the support you need from your circle of friends, and I welcome you to write whenever "the spirit moves you", as my Quaker friends say. Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 00:20, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Hungarian help needed

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