Abstract Stratified properties such as ‘happy unhappiness’, ‘ungrounded ground’, ‘fortunate misfortune’, and evidently ‘true falsity’ may generate dialetheias (true contradictions). The aim of the article is to show that if this case, then we will have a special, conjunctive , kind dialetheia: true state description form ‘Fa not Fa’ (for some property F object a), wherein two conjuncts, separat...

As pointed out by Woodall and Montgomery (1999), there are a number of disputes in the area of statistical quality control (SQC). There are differences of opinion in all areas of statistical science, but disagreements tend to be more common and more intense in the quality area. This could be due in part to the diversity of those working in the quality field, including quality gurus and their fo...

The growing interest in public sociologies marks an increasing gap between the ethos of sociologists and social, political, and economic tendencies in the wider society. Public sociology aims to enrich public debate about moral and political issues by infusing them with sociological theory and research. It has to be distinguished from policy, professional, and critical sociologies. Together the...

Introduction Constructivism is the most influential ‘theory’ of learning in education. In mathematics education in particular, many and if not most educators would claim to be constructivist in one form or another. The word ‘theory’, however, is inappropriate, for constructivism is not a structured framework of ideas or concepts that can determine an approach to mathematics education (a notable...