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...

This paper explores the relationship between special-interest groups and volatility of GDP growth. In an unbalanced panel of 108 countries, we find a significant negative relationship between the number of interest groups in a country and the volatility of GDP growth. Citation: Coates, Dennis, Jac Heckelman, and Bonnie Wilson, (2007) "Special-Interest Groups and Volatility." Economics Bulletin,...

Across nearly all cultures, sharing a lifelong committed relationship with an intimate partner comprises an almost universal and strongly held ambition. Nevertheless, cross-national data reliably indicate a high prevalence of relationship distress and dissolution, with adverse emotional and physical health consequences for adult partners and their children. This introduction to the special sect...

Intuitionistic fuzzy special sets is a special case of intuitionistic fuzzy sets. In this paper, under the framework of information systems, the relationship between intuitionistic fuzzy special sets and rough sets is analyzed. Based on basic intuitionistic fuzzy special sets of information systems, intuitionistic fuzzy special σ-algebra are generated, and rough sets are embedded in the intuiti...