[Tip] Word of the day: AKRASIA

**Diane** · 24-01-2012, 04:05 AM

Akrasia: "The state of mind in which someone acts against their better judgment through weakness of will."

Same as capitulation, do you think?
Wikipedia entry on akrasia.

Looks like it's sort of like failure to inhibit, in order to appear to be socially acceptable, possibly, or something. Can happen at organizational levels probably, where everyone is tractable, no one takes a strong stand, and stuff slides through, like visceral manipulation at the level of APTA.

**Diane** · 29-01-2012, 01:57 PM

Alternative medicine can be scientific, say besieged academics

They don't distinguish between "evidence-based"(outcome measurement) and "science-based" (prior plausibility - does the tooth fairy even exist?)

Sounds like the academics are rationalizing irrationality after the fact.

24-01-2012, 04:05 AM	#1
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,664 Thanks: 1,484 Thanked 3,180 Times in 1,562 Posts	Word of the day: AKRASIA Akrasia: "The state of mind in which someone acts against their better judgment through weakness of will." Same as capitulation, do you think? Wikipedia entry on akrasia. Looks like it's sort of like failure to inhibit, in order to appear to be socially acceptable, possibly, or something. Can happen at organizational levels probably, where everyone is tractable, no one takes a strong stand, and stuff slides through, like visceral manipulation at the level of APTA. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

29-01-2012, 01:57 PM	#2
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,664 Thanks: 1,484 Thanked 3,180 Times in 1,562 Posts	Alternative medicine can be scientific, say besieged academics They don't distinguish between "evidence-based"(outcome measurement) and "science-based" (prior plausibility - does the tooth fairy even exist?) Sounds like the academics are rationalizing irrationality after the fact. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

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