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K R Balachandran is Professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University and Bin Srinidhi is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University. Growing competition from foreign companies, notably from Japan, has resulted in increased attention being paid to cost and quality issues in the US. The traditional view is that improvemen...

David Kaplan’s ([Kaplan, 1989b], [Kaplan, 1989a]) philosophical work on indexicals has been influential not only with philosophers, but also with psychologists and linguists (e.g., Miller and Nunberg). Nevertheless, Kaplan’s account of indexicals has several problems. In this paper, I discuss his view that lexical meaning and context are sufficient for determining the reference of what he calls...

In this paper I discuss some objections raised by Donnellan (1977) and by Soames (2005) against the examples of contingent a priori truths proposed by Kripke (1980) and by Kaplan (1989). According to Kaplan and Kripke, the mechanism of direct reference alone can guarantee that some contingent truths can be known without any relevant experience. Both Donnellan and Soames claim that the examples ...

On the other hand, tokens of (1), recorded on millions of answering machines and voicemail systems worldwide, apparently express something true. It appears, then, that our best theory makes predictions at odds with the (quite banal) facts, and so must be amended. But how? In this paper I’ll defend a solution that (i) collapses onto Kaplan’s classic semantics for non-answering-machine cases, (ii...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the survival patterns of a group of family firms which have already spent at least twenty-five years in the market. To this end, we use the Kaplan-Meier product limit estimator supplemented with qualitative information gathered by direct observation and discussions with entrepreneurs. The main findings of the paper are that small family firms which have reach...

On the other hand, tokens of (1), recorded on millions of answering machines and voicemail systems worldwide, apparently express something true. It appears, then, that our best theory makes predictions at odds with the (quite banal) facts, and so must be amended. But how? In this paper I’ll defend a solution that (i) collapses onto Kaplan’s classic semantics for non-answering-machine cases, (ii...

A sentential theory of attitudes holds that propositions (the things that agents believe and know) are sentences of a representation language. Given such a theory, it is natural to suggest that the proposition expressed by an utterance of natural language is also a sentence of a representation language. This leads to a straightforward account of the semantics of attitude verbs. However, this ki...

Generalization of the fundamental rough set discernibility tools aiming at searching for relevant patterns for complex decisions is discussed. As an example of application, there is considered the postsurgery survival analysis problem for the head and neck cancer cases. The goal is to express dissimilarity between different survival tendencies by means of clinical information. It requires handl...

The behavior of structures in generic extensions of the universe has been studied from a number of different angles; for example, Baldwin, Laskowski, and Shelah [2] studied the conditions under which non-isomorphic structures may become isomorphic, and Knight, Montalban, and Schweber [8] (and independently Kaplan and Shelah [7]) studied structures existing in every generic extension of the univ...