(46)
Intransitivity is the logical equivalent of opacity.
(10) Bader, "Neutrality and Conditional Goodness"; Heyd, "Procreation and Value: Can Ethics Deal with Futurity Problems?"; and Temkin, "
Intransitivity and the Mere Addition Paradox" and Rethinking the Good.
Recalling Goodman's observation that it is this quality of the georgic that accounts for its "ongoing theoretical as well historical significance in the longer course of modernity" (11), I suggest that this attention to "verbal tekhne" is the key to what Wallace's Victorian cultural-studies account of the poem omits and what, in our post-Foucaudian world, is too often omitted in such cultural-studies approaches: a keen sensitivity to the "radical
intransitivity" of modern literature.
Lorenz, "Can chaos and
intransitivity lead to interannual variability?" Tellus, Series A, vol.
Su poesia explora la capacidad testimonial de la musica: 'The language of music is, as it were, intransitive, and it is just this
intransitivity which makes it meaningless for a listener to ask: 'Does the composer really mean what he says, or is he only pretending?'".
In Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick points out that for many scholars of sexuality, "what is presumed to define modern homosexuality 'as we understand it'" is the "straight-acting and--appearing gay male," a figure marked by his stark "gender
intransitivity" (46).
When he realized that an electorate composed of all consistent voters may be utterly inconsistent, Black was deeply upset: "On finding that the arithmetic was correct and the
intransitivity persisted," he later explained, "my stomach revolted in something akin to physical sickness." Arrow extended the nausea to all economists and political scientists who study the issue.
The principle of ecumenical
intransitivity is another challenge for the church as the number of these ecumenical accords increase.
Now, the assumption of revealed preference is non-controversial, as it is adopted also by the Austrians under the label "demonstrated preference." (2) What seems to be problematic is the assumption of the stability of preferences: if it were not for this assumption, it would be impossible to distinguish between
intransitivity and a preference change (Rosenberg, 1992).
Intransitivity : ([for all] x) ([for all] y) ([for all] z) ((Rxy [conjunction] Ryz) [right arrow] [??] Rxz)).
intransitivity is often observed across athletic contests: in league competition, for example, we often observe that team A will beat team B, team B will beat team C in a subsequent contest, but team C will beat team A in yet another contest ...
In this paper I show how transitivity and
intransitivity are not directly related to auxiliary selection for Italian compound tenses: in Italian, while transitive verbs only select avere, intransitive verbs can select both avere or essere.
