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PSoC3/5 Reference Book

Notes on Aristotle’s Topics, Book III

In Book III of the Topics, Aristotle focuses on practical arguments, that is to say, arguments within the space of practical reason—which have an imperative, an ought, or some other normative term (e.g., ‘good’. ‘better’, ‘best’) in their conclusions. He gives commonplaces relating to action, in effect listing reasons for someone to do something. This book of the Topics thus has great interest ...

The Reference Book

John Hawthorne and David Manley wrote an excellent book on the many issues surrounding the twin notions of reference and singular thought. The book is divided into two parts corresponding to two main objectives. In Part I, which is titled " Against Acquaintance " and includes Chapters 1-3, they present a first case in favour of what they call liberalism — the view according to which neither ref...

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Two Topics in Online Auctions

This thesis studies two operations management topics in online auctions, and is di-vided into two parts.Motivated by the increasing use of ShopBots to scan Internet auctions, the firstpart of the thesis analytically examines whether or not two competing auctioneersselling the same commodity should share, or pool, some or all of their bidders. Un-der pooling, the bidding popu...