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	Kurt Lewin
		The concept of "genidentity", which Kurt Lewin introduced in his 1922 Habilitationsschrift, "Der Begriff der Genese in Physik, Biologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte" ("The concept of genesis in physics, biology, and the evolutionary history") is today perhaps the only surviving evidence of Lewin's influence on the philosophy of science.and observed.
		For Lewin, "genidentity" is an "existential relationship" underlying the genesis of an object from one moment to the next.
		Two objects are not genidentical because they have the same properties and characteristics, but because one has developed from the other.
	www.psicopolis.com /Kurt/lewinsintesi.htm (1099 words)

	Genidentity at AllExperts
		The concept of genidentity, introduced by Kurt Lewin in his 1922 Habilitationsschrift "Der Begriff der Genese in Physik, Biologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte" is today perhaps the only surviving evidence of Lewin's influence on the philosophy of science.
		Lewin's idea was to compare and contrast the concept of genidentity in various branches of science, thereby laying bare the characteristic structure of each and making their classification possible in the first place.
		Genidentity so defined is postulated to have various characteristics, such as symmetry, transitivity, density, and continuity.
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/ge/genidentity.htm (607 words)

	Amazon.com: "material genidentity": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Of such kind is, for example, the view of individuality that Reichenbach calls "material genidentity," grounded on the conditions of "continuity of change" and "spatial exclusion." See Reichenbach, "The Genidentity of Quantum Particles" (chapter 4).
		For macroscopic objects, we define material genidentity in terms of several characteristics, which can be divided into three groups.
		of his principle contains no restriction to causal chains which are either materially genidentical, such as stones, or possess the quasi-material genidentity o£ individual light rays.
	amazon.com /phrase/material-genidentity (343 words)

	Kurt Lewin - Psychology Wiki
		He pioneered the use of theory, using experimentation to test hypothesis and was one of the first researchers to study group dynamics and organizational development, and action researchHe is particularly remembered as a proponent of Gestalt psychology.
		Lewin coined the notion of "genidentity", which has gained some importance in various theories of space-time and related fields.
		He also proposed the interactionist perspective as an alternative to the Nature versus nurture debate, in that he suggested that neither nature (inborn tendencies) nor nurture (how we are shaped by experiences in life) alone can account for individuals' behavior and personalities, but rather that both nature and nurture interact to shape each person.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Kurt_Lewin (376 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Kurt Lewin
		When Eric Trist, and A T M Wilson wrote to him proposing the establishment of a journal in partnership between their newly founded Tavistock Institute and his group at MIT, Lewin agreed, and the Tavistock Journal Human Relations was founded, with two early papers by Lewin entitled "Frontiers in Group Dynamics".
		Lewin coined the notion of genidentity (1922), which has gained some importance in various theories of space-time and related fields.
		He also proposed Herbert Blumer's interactionist perspective of 1937 as an alternative to the nature versus nurture debate, in that he suggested that neither nature (inborn tendencies) nor nurture (how experiences in life shape individuals) alone can account for individuals' behavior and personalities, but rather that both nature and nurture interact to shape each person.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Kurt_Lewin (668 words)

	Ecological Boundaries in Mentality and Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		However, the interesting thing Lewin points out is that if you construe a relation connecting the successive moments of existence of each of these two things, this relation is conceived quite differently by the physical sciences for the stone and by the biological sciences for the fly.
		The physical sciences deal with objects whose genidentity constructs series of "things" which issue one from the other without rest or addition, the series is open at both ends, it is time-symmetrical, and none of its cross-sections are distinguished among all others (except, in the last respect, the "dissipative structures" of Prigogine).
		On the other hand, biological sciences construe their objects in genidentity series which have a first and a last cross-section (conception/birth and death), and they cannot formulate time-symmetrical laws (life is directional).
	www.psy.unibe.ch /ukp/langpapers/pap1980-89/1985_ecological_boundaries.htm (4895 words)

	Amazon.com: Interpreting Bodies: Books: Elena Castellani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Key Phrases: material genidentity, minimalist haecceities, quasiset theories, Dalla Chiara, New York, International Journal of Theoretical Physics (more...
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		material genidentity, minimalist haecceities, quasiset theories, counterfactual switching, functional genidentity, supervaluation rule, nonsupervenient relations, semantic universalism, dynamical reduction theories, nonsymmetric states, microphysical objects, metaphysical underdetermination, partial indiscernibility, unsharp properties, dynamical reduction models, feline tissue, semantic indecision, transcendental individuality, orthodox quantum mechanics, identity simpliciter, psychophysical correspondence, quantum machine, quantum entity, primitive thisness, particle labels
	www.amazon.com /Interpreting-Bodies-Elena-Castellani/dp/0691017255 (725 words)

	American Composers Orchestra - November 3, 2002, "A Program of Psalms" Program Notes
		The three instances I have chosen have a predominant ten-syllable line, alternating with a three-syllable line (in Psalm 13), with six and eight syllable lines (in Psalm 40), and with six-syllable lines in Psalm 41.
		This verbal, metrical constancy necessarily was an initial, defining condition of the composition, which is mirrored musically in the genidentity of the musical "settings" by way of their shared referential norm.
		The syntax of the poetry may sometimes appear intricate, even convoluted; an occasional word is "archaic" (at least, for most of us), and familiar words occasionally are employed unfamiliarly, but the verses of this remarkable poet, essayist, and courtier are never ultimately obscure, but elegant, original, and-even-memorable.
	www.americancomposers.org /notes20021103.htm (2940 words)

	1994_Lewin_Vygotsky
		You might get a glimpse on that from a remark of Donald Adams, related by Marrow (1969:235): Lewin, shortly before his death, responded very soberly to D.K. Adams' question: "When are you going to get back to the comparative science of sciences?" - "I must do that.
		These things we are finding out will be discovered in five or ten years anyway, but this other might be fifty years away." But neither philosophers nor psychologists studied that genidentity book.
		In addition to my reviews (Lang 1964, 1991, 1992) Kurt Back (1986) appears to be the only contemporary Lewin scholar to have emphatically pointed at the importance of the book in the First of the Symposia of this Society in 1984.
	www.cx.unibe.ch /psy/ukp/langpapers/pap1994-99/1994_lewin_vygotsky.htm (5954 words)

	Time is of the essence
		How the relation of betweenness is defined differs a bit between Grünbaum and Reichenbach.
		Genidentity is the theory of how things remain themselves, maintain their identity, over a period of time.
		This is not the place for a detailed investigation of this concept; it suffices to say it uses the betweenness-relation to show how identity is preserved.
	free.prohosting.com /creosote/Stories/time.htm (10936 words)

	SIFA Bologna 98 Bottani
		According to other philosophers, material things differ from processes in having spatial but not temporal parts: they are three-dimensional entities which persist through time without extending through time (if a material object exists at a number of times, then it is - so to say - wholly present at each of them).
		An important difference between the two views is that according to the former there is no genuine relation of identity through time (but only, at most, some substitute of it such as Reichenbach's 'genidentity' or Perry's 'unity relation'), whilst according to the latter identity through time is just as genuine as identity at a time.
		In The Plurality of Words, Lewis named the two views respectively perdurance theory and endurance theory of continuants and defended the former by an argument hinged on what he called the problem of 'temporary intrinsics'.
	sifa.unige.it /2eve/ab98/bot.htm (1084 words)

	E.R.Douglas. Temporality, Intentionality, the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Causal Mechanisms of Memory in the ...
		genidentity is composed of a series of states foliated along the ‘temporal’ dimension space-time.
		However, isolating his intentionality’s physical origin in such a crystallized, inert state is absurd.
		His genidentical body is composed of alternating regions of space and material at best asymmetrically distributed.
	www.chronos.msu.ru /EREPORTS/douglas_temporality.htm (6037 words)

	Re: Reconciling quantum theory & relativity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Therefore, you're perfectly free to say they're the same.
		The relevant concept "genidentity" can be taken anywhere you please, as long as the prerequisite holds, of identity in the sense of counting.
		There is no prior notion of genidentity, so we're free to define it anyway we want and call any two things the same -- as long as they only "count once".
	www.lns.cornell.edu /spr/2004-12/msg0065693.html (138 words)

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		There is also a notion of intrinsic identity based on communality and communication; humans are entities, although rapidly undergoing decomposition.
		Reichenbach's genidentity may be of value here; it references the actual material substrate of a coherent object, held together over a substantial period of time, and undergoing change qua object.
		Such an object brings human phenomenology with it; objects out- gas, wear, dissolve, split, from what might temporarily be considered an origin.
	cyberculture.zacha.org /archive/Week-of-Mon-20050418/004028.html (505 words)

	Einstein and PHI
		Let me stress that the "negotiation" takes place within each and every infinitesimal "point" AB from the trajectory, and at each and every instant it fixes (or rather explicates) different states of the system stored in its Holon state (global mode).
		Philosophically speaking, you could not step twice into the same river, as stressed by Heraclitus, but the genidentity (Kurt Lewin's Genidentität) or "sameness" of the river will not be jeopardized from your steps, because it is being kept in the global mode of spacetime.
		Physically, in order to have a genuine dynamical evolution, there must exist an infinitesimal timelike displacement AB "during" which the system in consideration does not exist in the local mode of spacetime -- the so-called gaps of non-existence in the global mode of spacetime (cf.
	www.god-does-not-play-dice.net /Einstein.html (3468 words)

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