On contradictory regulations

On Being Contradictory

This paper discusses recognizing and producing contradictions. After illustrating the phenomena of contradiction, the paper presents conceptual classes of contradiction and gives an overview of the how they can be recognized. The next part discusses the construction of contradictions, in particular with respect to contradicting historic events. The object of this paper is to examine the computa...

Contradictory purposes in prisons.

Contradictory Behavior During Genocides

In all large-scale genocides, rescuing occurs alongside killing. Some members of the aggressors’ ethnic group even risk their own lives to save members of the targeted group. Killing and rescuing occur closely together, and even the same persons may engage in both behaviors—killing on one occasion and rescuing on another. This article examines such cases—where the same individuals kill and resc...

Safety Regulations Safety Regulations Environments for Safety Regulations

Environments for Safety Regulations A common factor in whether regulation is used is the seriousness of the outcome being addressed in terms of human health. For this reason regulation is more common in transportation and the workplace, where the potential for fatal injury is perceived to be relatively great, and less common in the home and in sports environments, where the potential for fatal ...

Multiple Criteria project Selection based on Contradictory Sorting Rules

This paper considers the techniques for selecting a collection of projects which are estimated by several experts with many qualitative criteria and sorted beforehand into some classes by diverse individual sorting rules. These tools are based on the theory of multiset metric spaces and allow to generate classes of such objects and define a general classification rule which approximates the set...