This paper endorses a view of argumentation and arguments that relates both to special type speech action, namely, the performance acts arguing. Its aim is advance an analysis those takes into account two kinds norms related their correct performance, felicity conditions objective requirements “correspondence with facts.” It assumes requirement certain be satisfied among set Taking this helps c...

The contribution of this paper is to propose and justify two general rules that can help to argue the costeffectiveness of use of the formal modelling language Coloured Petri Nets (CPN): (1) Construction of CPN models should be explicitly based on high-quality documentation that software developers already produce; (2) Use of CPN models should be explicitly seen as prototyping. Rule (1) enables...

Aims: To analyse how social services relate to compulsory care legislation in applications for compulsory care for substance abuse in cases involving pregnant women, given that such commitments cannot be made solely for the sake of the fetus/unborn child. Design: Applications for compulsory care to administrative courts involving pregnant women categorized according to how the pregnancy was pre...

The problem of devising a theory for paranormal phenomena (psi) may be separated into, first, the basic physical mechanism and second, the psychological aspects of how and when people are able to elicit psi. Observational theory addresses primarily the first aspect, the basic physical mechanism of psi. A problem is that the known types of physical interaction do not fit the existing data. The m...

Computer science has been a discipline for some years, and its position in the school curriculum has been contested differently in several countries. This paper looks at its role in three countries to illustrate these differences. A reconsideration of computer science as a separate subject both in primary and secondary education is suggested. At EDUsummIT 2015 it was argued that the major ratio...

In the Lancet in the 1850s a series of reports described gruesome levels of adulteration in Londoners' food. Following a government inquiry, The Times lauded the supposed hero of the hour, Arthur Hill Hassall MD. In response a furious and acrimonious argument erupted in the letters-pages of The Times and two other medical journals. The details of this argument reveal that not everybody agreed t...