The Heraclitus languages are database programming languages that give prominence to \delayed updates" or deltas, which are rst-class values representing sets of proposed updates, such as inserts and deletes, to the underlying persistent store. Deltas can be created, inspected and combined without committing to the given updates. Deltas are useful for realizing advanced database features that ma...

There are many applications which arise in telecommunications information processing in which it is useful, and often necessary, to create and access multiple hypothetical states. These might correspond to future states reeecting pending updates (such as customer service orders), or hypothetical alternative states that would arise in the exploration of diierent solutions to a given problem. In ...

Central to this article is a basic philosophical concept of the nature of man’ knowledge which exists amongst Protagorians of the sophist era, who postulates that ‘man is the measure of all things’ Our daily experience of human nature however, continues to give us reasons to unlearn much of what has turned out to be prejudices and errors in our conception of man. Consequently, The question “Wha...

ΤΑ ΠΑΝΤΑ ΡΕΙ. (Everything Flows, Heraclitus of Ephesus, 535–475BC). When the EU Framework Program designers and policy makers were creating Horizon 2020 program, they could never imagine or anticipate that would turn out to be ANNO HORIBILIS GLOBALIS due COVID-19 depredations with socio-economic, socio-political socio-technical impacts implications for policies, practices politics. In this pape...

One of the teaching methods available to teachers in the ‘andragogic’ model of teaching is the method of ‘Socratic Seminars’. This is a teacher-directed form of instruction in which questions are used as the sole method of teaching, placing students in the position of having to recognise the limits of their knowledge, and hopefully, motivating them to learn. This paper aims at initiating the di...

Twentieth-century philosophers of religion made strides forward in advancing sophisticated arguments about religious knowledge, language, experience and arguments for the existence of the theistic God. However, by the end of the century Anglo-American philosophers in particular tended to treat philosophy of religion as synonymous with a Christian account of the divine. Male and female philosoph...

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Let me say at once, the tentative and rather speculative ideas I am presenting here are not intended to answer the question of what time is, in an ontological sense. I am interested in how the thinking mind might come to have a concept of time. This concept has been a problem from the beginning of Western philosophy. It was implicit in the irreconcilable conflict between Parmenides' notion of a...