Can National Identity Ever Have “Fundamental Values”?

Why Identity Is Fundamental

Identity and Indeterminacy in -ever Free Relatives

An -ever free relative (FR) is felicitous only when the speaker doesn't know, or doesn't care about, the identity of the entity denoted. (1) is felicitous if, for example, the speaker doesn’t know if Mary is cooking pea soup or spinach (although he may know it is green). That is, the basic level nominal (in the sense of Cruse 1977) must be undetermined. When an -ever FR contains a nominal head ...

Can viruses ever be useful?

M ost of the terms used for computer viruses arc metaphors: they have a largely medical origin, and are seductive if not literally sexy. The very real worries WC have about AIDS, for example, no doubt colour the way we talk about computer viruses. At the extreme, abstractly viruses arc clearly just algorithms, and like any other algorithm they arc good for some things and not good for others. T...

What Have Ontologies Ever Done For Us - Potential Applications at a National Mapping Agency

Current developments within the information technology industry are creating new opportunities for traditional information suppliers such as Ordnance Survey. In particular the ability to electronically trade information creates opportunities to increase the use of Ordnance Survey’s topographic information in ways that can be go beyond the delivery of such data in the form of a map. The future d...

Have you ever Considered Being a Seismologist ?

Undergraduate Seismology Internship (pdf) As a Math major I loved the beauty of high level Mathematics but struggled to see the application. In Physics I found a relevant and tangible application to the beauty of Mathematics. However, I wanted to apply my new craft to a field that would affect people's day to day lives. When I stumbled across exploration seismology as an undergraduate student, ...