stylistics is one of the literary topics that the literati and writers have had a special attention to it during the past decade. literary style is a method or a special way of expressing thoughts that the writer or the narrator tries to transfer his ideas and thoughts about the realities through selecting words, terms and specific interpretations. amir-al-moemenin has expressed his intended mo...

We asked respondents how many people they knew in many subpopulations. These numbers, averaged over large representative samples, should vary proportionally to the size of the subpopulations. In fact, they do not. We give two different interpretations of this finding. The first interpretation notes that the responses are linear in subpopulation size for small subpopulations, but with a non-zero...

in this research, the viewpoint of mīzā mahdī iṣfahānī, as the founder of tafkīk school (separatism), concerning the most important epistemological issues like the quiddity of cognition (or episteme), types of cognition, truth, and justification of knowledge (ma‘rifa) are studied. given the fact that epistemology has not been regarded as an independent science in the muslim world, but the musli...

In this paper, a series of knowledge fusion operators are motivated and analyzed. They are defined in a semantic way, although syntactical facets of knowledge are taken into account. More precisely, they rely on a rank-ordering of interpretations that is based on the number of formulas that the interpretations falsify. It is briefly discussed how these operators could be refined, by talung into...

Polysemous adjectives seem to make irregular contributions to the meaning of adjective-noun phrases. This thesis provides a systematic explanation of this problem. Polysemous adjectives are considered semantically underspecified. The underspecified semantic meaning has to be pragmatically enriched with due consideration of world-knowledge and linguistic context. The treatment follows Blutner’s ...