SPACES FROM CONCRETE REALITY 1. FRÉCHET AND POINCARÉ’S CONVENTIONALISM In several of his works Fréchet made important commentaries on Poincaré’s ideas on such topics as conventionalism, mathematical language, intuition and logic, and geometry and experience. In this part of our study we will refer to the relation between these ideas, how both of them have been conceptualised, mainly with regard...

Of the branches of mathematics, geometry has, from the earliest Hellenic period, been given a curiOZlS position that straddles empirical and exact scien;e. Its standing Os an empirical and approximate science stems from the practical ]1U1'SJlits of artistic drafting. land surveying and measuring in general. From the prominence of vi.sua/ applicatiom, such as figures and constructions in the twe...

Traditionally , information security management standards listing generic means of protection have received a lot of attention in the field of information security management. In the background a few information security management-oriente d maturity criteria have been laid down. These criteria can be regarded as the latest promising innovations on the information security checklist standard fa...

Previous research has hypothesized that conservative ideologies are the result of a worldview within which the world is viewed as a dangerous and threatening place, and where individuals are essentially hedonistic and need extrinsic rules in order to behave morally. Research has also indicated that conservatives are generally higher in authoritarianism, intolerance for ambiguity, dogmatism, and...

I argue that if we distinguish between ontological realism and semantic realism, then we no longer have to choose between platonism and formalism. If we take category theory as the language of mathematics, then a linguistic analysis of the content and structure of what we say in and about mathematical theories allows us to justify the inclusion of mathematical concepts and theories as legitimat...

Experiences of art involve exercise of ordinary cognitive and perceptual capacities but in unique ways. These two features of experiences of art imply the mutual importance of aesthetics and cognitive science. Cognitive science provides empirical and theoretical analysis of the relevant cognitive capacities. Aesthetics thus does well to incorporate cognitive scientific research. Aesthetics also...

Research on the basis of political ideology indicates that psychological variables influence ideological positions. In particular, the role of authoritarianism is of long-standing interest to political scholars. This article looks at how political expertise conditions the ideological implications of the authoritarian predisposition. Although theories of authoritarianism imply that it is a const...

Seventy-five years of theory and research on personality differences between political liberals and conservatives has produced a long list of dispositions, traits, and behaviors. Applying a “Five Factor Model” framework to this yield, we find that two traits, Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness, parsimoniously capture many of the ways in which individual differences underlying politica...

I will present paraconsistent logic in three different contexts: i) the experimental context, in which a statement is considered as concerning an experimental datum (Vasiliev); ii) the theoretical context, in which a statement is considered in a provisional way, as a candidate for playing inside a theoretical framework the role of a principle; iii) the foundational context, where a same stateme...

In much research, the motivation to be mindful is expected to result in greater tolerance of deviant groups. Contrary to this expectation, the present research shows that this is the case only when individuals are relatively low in authoritarianism. Across two studies, we found a robust interaction effect of authoritarianism (right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation) and need f...