The great historical importance of this argument, not to speak of its intrinsic power, recommends that reflection on the problem begin with a rehearsal of it.
Another consequence of Buridan's account is found in some early sixteenth-century logicians whose reflection on the problem of identity through time led them to adopt an even more restrictive account of proper names than Buridan himself had countenanced, and one which has much in common with Roger Bacon's theory (see §7).
"It's a reflection on the problem of humanity that has or hasn't been afforded to blacks around the world and African Americans, particularly under slavery, where there was an equation of human and animal".
In the second chapter, called "Transreading" (the author's penchant for "poetic" diction like this is an irritating tic; you get "Lifeleading" and "Wifewishing" too), Gass the critic makes himself felt in a brilliant extended "reflection on the problems of translation".
Here, I nonetheless bracket them out because awareness of their actual and potential consequences is already quite widespread, whereas reflection on the problems addressed in the present article is only just beginning.
In the last thirteen years of his life, Schutz was preparing a comprehensive phenomenology of the natural attitude, and one manuscript, edited by Richard Zaner, was posthumously published as Reflections on the Problem of Relevance, and another, co-authored by Thomas Luckmann, appeared as The Structures of the Life World.
The researchers also completed written reflections on the problem's implementation.
"Reflections on the problems of translation"?
READING RILKE: Reflections on the Problems of Translation.
READING RILKE: Reflections on the Problems of Translation, by William H. Gass.
