"Volkekunde": Open system and closed minds? - some critical remarks on criticism

SOME REMARKS ON GENERALIZATIONS OF MULTIPLICATIVELY CLOSED SUBSETS

Let R be a commutative ring with identity and Mbe a unitary R-module. In this paper we generalize the conceptmultiplicatively closed subset of R and we study some propertiesof these genaralized subsets of M. Among the many results in thispaper, we generalize some well-known theorems about multiplicativelyclosed subsets of R to these generalized subsets of M. Alsowe show that some other well-kno...

Some Critical Remarks on Incompatibility Semantics

In his fifth Locke Lecture (2006)1 Robert Brandom has presented a new type of semantics for propositional classical and modal logic (‘incompatibility semantics’) that is embedded in his quite general programme (‘inferential pragmatism’) addressing major challenges to analytic philosophy. Inferential pragmatism is an important, comprehensive, and widely discussed contribution to contemporary phi...

Critical Thinking and EFL Students’ Performance on Open and Closed Reading Tasks

Critical Remarks on "critical Remarks on Some Public-key Cryptosystems" by T. Herlestam

Tore Herlestam, in his note "Critical Remarks on Some Public-Key Cryptosystems", [5] suggests a method for attacking the RSA public-key cryptosystem. In this note we show that Herlestam's proposed attack is highly impractical, and that his analysis is erroneous. The RSA cryptosystem [1] encodes a message M using the key (e,n) via the equation: (1) C =E ~ ( M ) M e (modn) . Here the original mes...

Experience and concept attainment : some critical remarks

The aim of this paper is to reconsider certain assumptions about conceptual structure which have become influential in recent Cognitive Science and which are associated in particular with the Cognitive Linguistics research agenda. I will outline three areas within the Cognitive Linguistics theory of concepts which seem to create some difficulties in their present formulation: the 'embodied cogn...