The Growth of Meaning and the Limits of Formalism: In Science, in Law A natural language is an organic living thing; and meanings change as words take on new, and shed old, connotations. Recent (post-Fregean) philosophy of language has paid little attention to the growth of meaning; radica...
A theory, like the theory of evolution, is more than a guess: it's grounded in fact. A hypothesis is an assumption constructed for the sake of testing
Heteronormativity refers to sets of structures and beliefs and about gender/sex and sexuality. These position heterosexuality as normal, regular, healthy, universal, and desired in general, and specifically over bisexual, lesbian, and gay sexualities among other minoritized existences (Warner,1991). A...
for her part, simply ignores the challenge that same-sex pornography poses to the argument that pornography is essentially misogynist, despite the fact that critics like Waugh (1995), Burger (1995),
Therefore, tweaking Newton's Third Law, "For every action, there is an equal and opposite universe." Level Four - Other Mathematical Structure This is a catch-all for all other multiverses that could exist that don't fall into the other types. Prof. Greene Professor Brian Greene of ...
The Earth had a history, while operating in a law-like manner, so as to be in a steady-state when viewed on a grand scale. We can also credit Hutton with advancing the concept known today as ‘deep time’ – and for doing so by geological reasoning. Show moreView chapterExplore book...
or have any negative impact on the functioning of competitive markets and the rule of law. Under these circumstances, individuals do not, in general, consider their personal data to constitute a valuable asset. The zero data value assumption fails however, hence IDP > 0, if individuals are...
However, by the law of contraposition, both definitions admit alternative formulations, whereby sufficiency may be rewritten as \(\lnot y \rightarrow \lnot x\) and necessity as \(\lnot x \rightarrow \lnot y.\) By pairing the original definition of sufficiency with the latter definition ...
SQL, the language of the relational database, provides the ability to define views, which are collections of data organized as though they were tables, but which are in fact derived from other tables. Figure 2-29 shows view and table as sub-types of the more general concept data group. ...
Say's Law ran counter to the mercantilist view thatmoneyis the source of wealth. Under Say's Law, money functions solely as a medium to exchange the value of previously produced goods for new goods as they are produced and brought to market. In turn, by their sale, they produce money ...