the meaningfulness of religion’s language is taking part in a form of life. without it, words, language and religious beliefs have no meaning at all. perceiving a religious belief and judge about it only in light of a form of life becomes possible. form of life as kai nielsen in his famous article “wittgensteinian fideism” (1967) explains, if viewed as a whole, could not be objected, because ea...

Concurrent pattern calculus (CPC) drives interaction between processes by comparing data structures, just as sequential pattern calculus drives computation. By generalising from pattern matching to pattern unification, interaction becomes symmetrical, with information flowing in both directions. CPC provides a natural language to express trade where information exchange is pivotal to interactio...

There are times in your life where you entertain a passion and you want to find other people who share the same passion, are troubled by the same concerns, active in the same domain. They will understand your passion and will be glad to get into profound discussions on the finer points and angles of your shared issue of interest. Among one’s direct circle of acquaintances one can find a few fri...

Previous work has established the value of goaloriented approaches to requirements engineering. Achieving clarity and agreement about stakeholders’ goals and assumptions is critical for building successful software systems and managing their subsequent evolution. In general, this decision-making process requires stakeholders to understand the implications of decisions outside the domains of the...

We discuss the r^ ole Type Theory should play in the formal development of correct programs. We view veriication as a programming problem in a sophisticated programming language and evaluate this approach by presenting a number of examples developed in the ALF system. Thereby we exploit the recent advantages in the presentation of Type Theory in particular by using pattern matching as proposed ...