Something About All or Nothing (Transforms)

Ontological Pluralism, the Gradation of Being, and the Question “Why is there something rather than nothing?”

More generally being wrong about being often leads to being wrong about many ontological questions. Besides denying that there are modes of being, a second, and perhaps even more widespread, mistake made about being is the denial that there are gradations of being, that some things exist more than others, or enjoy more being than others. The claim that there are gradations of being also makes m...

Analyzing Massively Collaborative Mathematics Projects

In the increasingly rare segment, the stage curtain is raised to reveal an individual or team performing an unusual stunt, often accompanied by music from the CBS Orchestra ... after about thirty seconds the curtain is lowered and Letterman discusses with [Paul] Shaffer whether the act was ‘something’ or ‘nothing’ ... it was resurrected on the March 22, 2006, episode. A man balanced himself on ...

Analysis on SL ( 2 ) Representations of SL 2 ( R )

This essay is about representations. It says nothing about what might be called invariant harmonic analysis on G. It does not discuss orbital integrals at all, and says very little about characters. Nor does it prove anything deep about the relationship between representations of G and those of its Lie algebra, or about versions of Fourier transforms. These topics involve too much analysis to b...

Exposure-Resilient Fun tions and All-Or-Nothing Transforms

All It Takes for Corruption in Health Systems to Triumph, Is Good People Who Do Nothing; Comment on “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems”

Numerous investigations demonstrate that the problem of corruption in the health sector is enormous and has grave negative consequences for patients. Nevertheless, the problem of corruption in health systems is far from eminent in the international health policy debate. Hutchinson, Balabanova, and McKee have identifed in their Editorial five reasons why the health policy community has been relu...