This essay is concerned about how to evaluate positive theories on Latin American development. Its content is nested in a broader discussion on theoretical decay and theoretical progress by using Imre Lakatos’ approach of sophisticated falsificationism. The main argument states that theory driven research on Latin American development provides further evidence to the assumption that methodologi...

The aim of the article is to discuss issues related identifying etymology Polish surnames derived from appellatives. It also proposes a study containing more thorough explication motivation behind effects word-formation that have been used as surnames. argued use appropriate methods for analysing personal proper names may significantly contribute revealing pragmatic aspects created in past. fir...

This special issue originated from the Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management 2010 Conference. From fifty-one submissions, seven articles from seven different countries are in this issue. In consequence to the wealthy etymology of the word “knowledge”, knowledge management (KM) is equally rich in variety of aspects. Some aspects directly consider humans as users of knowledge, whereas others ...

Dealing with interpretation, we first revisited the theoretical models of hermeneutics (hermeneutical cycle), semantics (triangle) and information sciences, as well model heritage interpretation pedagogy. To design a more appropriate that meets requirements full public participation, defined key concepts (on top itself): memory, knowledge values. The arguments for such choice have been expounde...

Adaptationism has prompted many a debate in philosophy of biology but the focus is usually on empirical and explanatory issues rather than methodological adaptationism (MA). Likewise, the context of evolutionary biology has provided the grounding for most discussions of the heuristic role of adaptationism. This paper extends the debate by drawing on case studies from physiology and systems biol...