The terms “state” and “government” are often used interchangeably in political discourse, but they can also refer to very different entities. In political geography, a distinction between the two is often not made, or made weakly. Thus, this article reviews how these terms have been used in political geography and across allied disciplines, especially in international law. Political geographers...

In his seminal work Moral Notions, Julius Kovesi presents a novel account of concept formation. At the heart of this account is a distinction between what he terms the material element and the formal element of concepts. This paper elucidates his distinction in detail and contrasts it with other distinctions such as form-matter, universal-particular, genus-difference, necessary-sufficient, and ...

A theory is presented that establishes a dominance hierarchy of potential distinctions (order relations) between two distributions. It is proposed that it is worthwhile for researchers to ascertain the strongest possible distinction, because all weaker distinctions are logically implied. Implications of the theory for hypothesis testing, theory construction, and scales of measurement are consid...

Abstract Within Kant scholarship, there is an entrenched tendency to distinguish, on Kant’s behalf, between pure and ‘schematized’ categories. There also a widespread view the schematized categories as conceptually richer than I argue that this reading of distinction, which call standard view, should be rejected. In its place, draw neglected part theory marks – namely, his account ‘synthetic at...

Licensed human vaccines can induce various adverse events in vaccinated patients. Many known vaccine adverse events (VAEs) have been recorded in the package inserts of commercial vaccine products. To better represent and analyse VAEs, we developed the Ontology of Vaccine Adverse Events (OVAE) as an extension of the Ontology of Adverse Events (OAE) and the Vaccine Ontology (VO). OVAE has been us...

How is the outcome of the categorization process represented? This question has gone virtually unaddressed. A notable exception is Barsalou (2012) which proposes that categorization results in a type–token predication, whereby the type representation (e.g. DOG) is predicated of the token representation of the categorized individual (e.g. Fido). Another is Jackendoff (1983) which proposes that c...

Some researchers based on the distinction theory, believe that religious influence on other spheres of social life reduce and in spite of traditional life spheres lead by a set of its values, not by a coherent unit and driven by fragmentation theory of values.  The effect of religion on public life and private areas such as work and family over the area of public policy is effective. The relat...

reincarnation (tan?sokh) and return (raj?t) are two similar, and at the same time controversial, issues in religious beliefs domain. the first is an important doctrine among great number of religions and philosophical and theosophical schools in world; and the second has also a significant position in some religions. this similarity is so that some people consider them as one doctrine. but this...