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  • R.H.: The Chandrayaan mission is equipped with sensitive, state-of-the-art high resolution equipment -- cameras, radar, and a unique instrument designed to specifically record instances of "TLP" ( "transient lunar phenomenon" -- bright, minutes-long "lights" that have been appearing on the lunar surface for hundreds of years ...) close-up from lunar orbit.

    India's First Moon Mission and the Re-Discovery of ET Artifacts: A Dialogue with Richard C. Hoagland 2008

  • Here is one paragraph from TLP: If you want to see what the next ten years in medicine look like, stop looking at Astra Zeneca.

    Archive 2009-05-01 james gaulte 2009

  • "That is how a picture is attached to reality; it reaches right out to it" (TLP 2.1511).

    Ludwig Wittgenstein Biletzki, Anat 2009

  • Here is one paragraph from TLP: If you want to see what the next ten years in medicine look like, stop looking at Astra Zeneca.

    Is the latest medical world cahoots insurance companies and academia james gaulte 2009

  • This provides the means to go back and analyze all propositions into their atomic parts, since "every statement about complexes can be analyzed into a statement about their constituent parts, and into those propositions which completely describe the complexes" (TLP 2.0201).

    Ludwig Wittgenstein Biletzki, Anat 2009

  • TLP suggests that the drug promoted is as likely as not neither the cheapest nor the best but rather the one for which a deal has been struck between the drug manufacturer and the insurers and or the medication management company.

    Is the latest medical world cahoots insurance companies and academia james gaulte 2009

  • Not surprisingly, then, "most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical" (TLP 4.003).

    Ludwig Wittgenstein Biletzki, Anat 2009

  • TLP suggests that the drug promoted is as likely as not neither the cheapest nor the best but rather the one for which a deal has been struck between the drug manufacturer and the insurers and or the medication management company.

    Archive 2009-05-01 james gaulte 2009

  • Explaining that "Only the proposition has sense; only in the context of a proposition has a name meaning" (TLP 3.3), he provides the reader with the two conditions for sensical language.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein Biletzki, Anat 2009

  • I suspect that TLP reorganizes them so often just so she can take long, lingering shots of them empty.

    Putting on the ritz 2008

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  • "transient lunar phenomenon"

    flashes of light observed on the moon's surface.

    January 17, 2017