“学而”记疑

《论语》开篇“学而时习”之“学”应是动词“学习”。《论语》“学”共有66处,大多作“学习”解。以“学习”解读“学而时习”,更有助于把握《论语》的主旨:人贵在学,学贵在道、在取友,取友贵在忠恕,忠恕之道贵在教,“学”是贯穿始终的主线。     

中国上古岁时观念论考

上古岁时观念萌发于中国特定的地理人文环境之中 ,它具有自然性、前宗教性、政治性三大文化特征。人世的时间秩序依托于神秘的自然秩序 ,上古时令与政令合一 ,时间的政治性质明显     

Foundations of Intrinsic Habit Formation

We provide theoretical foundations for several common (nested) representations of intrinsic linear habit formation. Our axiomatization introduces an intertemporal theory of weaning a decision‐maker from her habits using the device of compensation. We clarify differences across specifications of the model, provide measures of habit‐forming tendencies, and suggest methods for axiomatizing time‐nonseparable preferences.     

Complexity,simplicity, simplexity

“In the midst of order, there is chaos; but in the midst of chaos, there is order”, John Gribbin wrote in his book Deep Simplicity (p. 76). In this dialectical spirit, we discuss the generative tension between complexity and simplicity in the theory and practice of management and organization. Complexity theory suggests that the relationship between complex environments and complex organizations advanced by the well-known Ashby’s law, may be reconsidered: only simple organization provides enough space for individual agency to match environmental turbulence in the form of complex organizational responses. We suggest that complex organizing may be paradoxically facilitated by a simple infrastructure, and that the theory of organizations may be viewed as resulting from the dialectical interplay between simplicity and complexity.     

真 实 与 间 离——《追忆似水年华》内在性研究

马塞尔.普鲁斯特的意识流小说《追忆似水年华》,从充满主体色彩的回忆出发,重新建构了一个与现实世界呈现明显间离色彩的＂马塞尔的世界＂。在后者的世界中,叙述者却再三申明自己所表现的乃是真实的生活本质。这种从内在出发,对生活本质所进行的重估,宣示了意识流小说作为一种新的小说体式对于唯一、超验之＂理式＂的反叛。这一反叛绝不仅是马塞尔梦幻般的私语,更体现了整个时代的精神诉求。     

时间意识：鲁迅研究的一个支点——读吴翔宇《鲁迅时间意识的文学建构与嬗变》

吴翔宇《鲁迅时间意识的文学建构与嬗变》一书,在鲁迅研究中独辟蹊径,从时间角度考察鲁迅文学创作的本质,探究其时间意识的文学建构,揭示其时间意识的本质内涵,阐显其时间意识的现实意义,具有突出的学术价值。     

A robust regression model for a first-order autoregressive time series with unequal spacing: application to water monitoring

Summary.  Time series arise often in environmental monitoring settings, which typically involve measuring processes repeatedly over time. In many such applications, observations are irregularly spaced and, additionally, are not distributed normally. An example is water monitoring data collected in Boston Harbor by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. We describe a simple robust approach for estimating regression parameters and a first-order autocorrelation parameter in a time series where the observations are irregularly spaced. Estimates are obtained from an estimating equation that is constructed as a linear combination of estimated innovation errors, suitably made robust by symmetric and possibly bounded functions. Under an assumption of data missing completely at random and mild regularity conditions, the proposed estimating equation yields consistent and asymptotically normal estimates. Simulations suggest that our estimator performs well in moderate sample sizes. We demonstrate our method on Secchi depth data collected from Boston Harbor.     

科学理性的边界

史蒂芬·霍金被认为是继爱因斯坦之后最伟大的物理学家。他的“奇点证明”和“虚时间假说”是新的世纪之交物理学和宇宙学最重要的成就。奇点预言了时间的起点和终结,那是科学规律失去规定性的地方,而虚时间假说却又否定时空奇点,试图在量子不确定的前提下重新恢复科学预见性,这使得霍金的科学思想极富思辨特质。借助思辨哲学家海德格尔有关“世界”、“时间”、“存在”的思想对霍金思想的思辨特质敞开一种可能的理解或说理解的可能。