Within a framework of reasoning with respect to clausal definitions of atoms, four forms of judgement are distinguished: Direct and indirect assertion, and direct and indirect denial. Whereas direct assertion and direct denial are established by directly applying a definitional clause (“definitional closure”), indirect assertion and indirect denial result from showing that all possible premisse...

Abstract In this article I introduce constitutive norm accounts of assertion, and then give three arguments for giving up on the project. First begin with an updated version MacFarlane’s Boogling argument. My second argument is that ‘overriding response’ theorists offer to putative counterexamples unpersuasive dialectically risky. Third finally, suggest theorists, in appealing analogy games, ac...

Business processes that span organizational borders describe the interaction between multiple parties working towards a common objective. They also express business rules that govern the behavior of the process and account for expressing changes reflecting new business objectives and new market situations. We developed a service request language and support framework that allow users to formula...

The intermittent assertion technique of Burstall can be formulated and made rigorous in the formal-system/programming-language Lucid, in a very straightforward way. This reinforces the contention that Lucid is a framework within which many sorts of proofs of program properties may be expressed. This paper includes three proofs, all of which are the Lucid versions of intermittent assertion proof...