A Plea for Semantic Localism

A Plea for Semantic Localism

The purpose of this paper is to defend a conception of language that does not rely on linguistic meanings, and use it to address the Sorites and Liar paradoxes. I would like to contrast two different answers to the following question: What sort of semantic information must a subject associate with the members of a language's basic lexicon in order to master the language? Both answers will be a ...

A Plea For Microsimulation

German demographic or educational projections are conventionally based on macrosimulations. Macrosimulation models use average values of the simulation parameters to compute the updating process. Additionally, the proportions of educational graduate rates stay constant in these models. In this paper I introduce a discrete event microsimulation model which is designed to project the graduate rat...

A Plea for Barabbas.

A Plea for Malaria

A Plea for Hakeems

Provinces, we were deeply interested, and strongly impressed, by that part of the returns which gave information as to the number of hakeems and baeds in the different districts of that Government. From this we gather that there are 7,000 practitioners of medicine and surgery in that division of the country, giving a proportion of one medical man to every 4,285 of the general population. This i...