In the spirit of this enlightening conversation and indeed of this entire volume—promoting mutual understanding and learning between philosophers, logicians and linguists working on vagueness related issues—I shall in these comments consider three points, which if not kept in mind have significant potential to promote misunderstanding between practitioners of these three disciplines. All three ...

follow this method of treatment in similar cases, with results so encouraging that any enthusiasm then shown in its favour is if possible more pronounced. It is not my intention to dilate further on the general haemostatic and curative properties of the treatment, beyond mentioning that in these respects it has since amply fulfilled the sanguine expectations I then formed of its value, but it i...

The worn-out phrase, “Already the ancient Greeks...,” involves attitudes and views that make an Assyriologist stir uneasily. Its basic message is that Western culture was born in ancient Greece. The little word “already” betrays, on the one hand, admiration of the achievements of the Greeks, and on the other hand disparagement of previous cultures, as if nothing worth mentioning had been accomp...

Two triphenylamine derivatives, N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(4-methoxyphenyl)-1,4-phenylenediamine TPPA and N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(4-methoxyphenyl)-1,1'-biphenyl-4,4'-diamine TPB, were successfully prepared and combined with HV to fabricate the electrochromic device as a panchromatic shutter for the application of transparent display. The obtained electrochromic device exhibits exceptional novel electrochrom...

I summarize the status of three–neutrino oscillations that follow from combining the relevant world’s data. The discussion includes the small parameters α ≡ ∆m2 sol /∆m2 atm and sin2 θ13, which characterize the strength of CP violation in neutrino oscillations, the impact of oscillation data on the prospects for probing the absolute scale of neutrino mass in ββ0ν and the robustness of the neutr...

Psychological analysis of language has repeatedly shown that an individual’s rate of mentioning 1st person singular pronouns predicts a wealth of important demographic and psychological factors. However, these analyses are performed out of context — syntactic and semantic — which may change the magnitude or even direction of such relationships. In this paper, we put “pronouns in their context”,...

There is a table with four coins in the positions north, east, south and west, and the player’s goal is to get them all in the same orientation, i.e. all heads or all tails. The player never sees the coins but will be informed as soon as he has reached his goal. A move consists of the player mentioning one or more positions in which the coins will then be turned over; the complication is that, ...

Keyword search is an intuitive paradigm for searching linked data sources on the web. We propose to route keywords only to relevant sources to reduce the high cost of processing keyword search queries over all sources. We propose a novel method for computing top-k routing plans based on their potentials to contain results for a given keyword query. We employ a keyword-element relationship summa...

We investigate matter symmetries of cylindrically symmetric static spacetimes. These are classified for both cases when the energymomentum tensor is non-degenerate and also when it is degenerate. It is found that the non-degenerate energy-momentum tensor gives either three, four, five, six, seven or ten independent matter collineations in which three are isometries and the rest are proper. The ...

This paper addresses the problem of estimating the eigenvalues and condition numbers of matrices of the form R = r(ti tj). We begin by mentioning some of the problems in which such matrices occur, and to which the results obtained in this paper may be applied. Examples of such problems include (i) approximation by sums of irregular translates (ii) the missing data problem and incomplete samplin...