W. V. Quine famously argues that though all knowledge is empirical, mathematics is entrenched relative to physics and the special sciences. Further, entrenchment accounts for the necessity of mathematics relative to these other disciplines. Michael Friedman challenges Quine’s view by appealing to historicism, the thesis that the nature of science is illuminated by taking into account its histor...

The structure of the Woodcock-Johnson Cognitive Battery-Third Edition (WJ Cog) has been extensively explored via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with its normative sample, but there has been little research to verify that the same structure holds for students referred for special education services. Likewise, research on the structure of the WJ Cog with exploratory factor analysis (EFA) meth...

let $g={rm sl}_2(p^f)$ be a special linear group and $p$ be a sylow‎ ‎$2$-subgroup of $g$‎, ‎where $p$ is a prime and $f$ is a positive‎ ‎integer such that $p^f>3$‎. ‎by $n_g(p)$ we denote the normalizer of‎ ‎$p$ in $g$‎. ‎in this paper‎, ‎we show that $n_g(p)$ is nilpotent (or‎ ‎$2$-nilpotent‎, ‎or supersolvable) if and only if $p^{2f}equiv‎ ‎1,({rm mod},16)$‎.