Why is zero spatial curvature special?

Why is health care special?

Why Is Zero Marking Important in Korean?

This paper argues for the necessity of zero pronoun annotations in Korean treebanks and provides an annotation scheme that can be used to develop a gold standard for testing different anaphor resolution algorithms. Relevant issues of pronoun annotation will be discussed by comparing the Penn Korean Treebank with zero pronoun mark-up and the newly developing Sejong Teebank without zero pronoun m...

Why the Theory R Is Special

Is it possible to give coordinate-free characterizations of salient theories? Such characterizations would always involve some notion of sameness of theories: we want to describe a theory modulo a notion of sameness, without having to give an axiomatization in a specific language. Such a characterization could, e.g., be a first order formula in the language of partial preorderings that describe...

Why Believe That There Is a God?

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...

Why religion is nothing special but is central.

It is proposed that explaining religion in evolutionary terms is a misleading enterprise because religion is an indissoluble part of a unique aspect of human social organization. Theoretical and empirical research should focus on what differentiates human sociality from that of other primates, i.e. the fact that members of society often act towards each other in terms of essentialized roles and...