In this paper, I will discuss a well-known oscillation in Frege’s conception of sense. My point is only partially concerned with his two different criteria of sense identity, and touches upon a more specific point: what happens if we apply Frege’s intuitive criterion for the difference of thoughts to logically equivalent sentences? I will try to make a schematic argument here that will preempt ...

In this paper, I will discuss a well-known oscillation in Frege's conception of sense. My point is only partially concerned with his two different criteria of sense identity, and touches upon a more specific point: what happens if we apply Frege’s intuitive criterion for the difference of thoughts to logically equivalent sentences? I will try to make a schematic argument here that will preempt ...

We examine the argument, put forward by modern management writers and, in a somewhat different guise by Austrian economists, that authority is not a viable mechanism of coordination in the presence of “distributed knowledge” We define authority and distributed knowledge and argue that authority is compatible with distributed knowledge. Moreover, it is not clear on theoretical grounds how distri...

Background In the last years, social and economic phenomena have attracted the interest of scientists belonging to hard sciences, as mathematics, physics and computer science. As result, the interdisciplinary fields of social dynamics [1, 2] and econophysics [3] have rapidly emerged. For instance, several analytical and computational approaches have been developed for studying behaviors such as...

Based on the date from China’s high technology statistics, this paper compares the competitiveness of high technology enterprises of three different regions in China from the three angles for judging the competitiveness of enterprises, respectively, the indicator values of the competitiveness of sizes of enterprises, the indicator values of the competitiveness of management of enterprises, and ...

Data from 43 countries were used to examine the negative association between ambient temperature and economic prosperity during the 1965±1994 period from a cross-cultural perspective. Surprisingly, the inhabitants' overall level of cultural competitiveness does not a€ect economic growth. However, positive temperature±competitiveness and negative competitiveness±wealth relations do account for t...

An informal argument shows that common knowledge of rationality implies the iterative elimination of strictly dominated strategies. Rationality here means that players do not play strategies that are strictly dominanted relative to their knowledge. We formalize and prove this claim. When by rationality we mean that players do not play strategies that are weakly dominanted relative to their know...