It all depends on what the meaning of "is" is: 02-What a wicked game we play...
So that we're clear on the stakes we're playing for here, I'll respond to a common meme going around. When someone says that what we're discussing is"mere semantics" or that we're"playing semantic...
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It all depends on what the meaning of "is" is: 03-Are we even talking about...
First, to be sure what everyone means in this discussion, we'll review the discussion of "meaning" from the previous discussion, to make sure that we're all on the same page about foundational things:...
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It all depends on what the meaning of "is" is: 04-Pandas and raccoons and...
So that we can take this discussion further, there is a certain amount of foundational background knowledge that we need, and Wikipedia sums it up well enough for our purposes. Metaphysics is a branch...
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It all depends on what the meaning of "is" is: 05-Augean Stable Song, part 1...
Two stories from ancient Greek mythology about jobs that, at first glance, seem impossible. The twelve labours of Hercules or dodekathlon (Greek: δωδέκαθλον, dodekathlon) are a series of episodes...
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It all depends on what the meaning of "is" is: 05-Augean Stable Song, part 2...
The need Full disclosure: I'm a member of the research group (the Structural Informatics Group at the University of Washington) who carried out a lot of this work, although my work is different from...
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Another MT saves a client's life: Davies 2003-- Syphilis referred from...
We're all clear (I hope) on the principle that MTs--at least in the US--do not diagnose or prescribe. It would be a massive overreach to do so, and we'd deserve the smackdown that would result if we...
View ArticleIt's not just us it's happening to--family-practice physicians and...
There is a great deal of turbulence and disruptive change across the massage education landscape lately. What should be taught in massage school, and how students' learning of those skills should be...
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Are you mandated? (#23/31)
I always looked forward to my trip over the bridge to see my client, Mrs. Ford, in her skilled nursing facility in West Seattle. Mrs. Ford had a long history of smoking before the stroke that took...
View ArticleSilence is not always consent (#25/31)
Many times, on the Internet, people assume that if someone states something, and no one contradicts that statement, then everyone agrees with what is said. Sometimes that's true--and sometimes, the...
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Looking into the abyss (#26/31)
It's not easy to face the realization of having been misled. And the misleading does not have to be intentional; it could have been done with the best intentions in the world. But those good...
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Campbell 2012: Skin cancer education among MTs (#27/31)
I can't really say much about the article itself until I get to the University later this week, and can get behind the paywall, but the abstract certainly served its purpose--it alerted me that this...
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Massage in a biopsychosocial model (#29/31)
Psychosocial and cognitive approaches don't require that you become a clinical psychologist but that you have a broad concept of the influence of those factors and that you account for them in your...
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Why you may want to know this While the statistics on domestic violence vary widely, we know at the very least that it is a large and underreported worldwide problem. It doesn't respect class,...
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Massage in a biopsychosocial model
[reposted from Massage in a biopsychosocial model (#29/31)] Psychosocial and cognitive approaches don't require that you become a clinical psychologist but that you have a broad concept of the...
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Skillful discernment and the principle of non-contradiction: Knowing how to...
Many of us who attended junior high or high school in the United States had to read and analyze "The Road Not Taken", a poem published in 1916 by Robert Frost. It reads: 1. The Road Not Taken TWO...
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