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the first conceptions of intellect are a beign and an essence, we must begin exploring how they are related to each other. everything that receives   something from another is potential with regard to what it receives and what is receives in it is the actuality. thus st.thomas returns to the doctrine of potency and act of being to explain the relation of a being and an essence by developing in ...

In Spescha and Strahm [15], a system PET of explicit mathematics in the style of Feferman [7, 8] is introduced, and in Spescha and Strahm [16] the addition of the join principle to PET is studied. Changing to intuitionistic logic, it could be shown that the provably terminating operations of PETJ are the polytime functions on binary words. However, although strongly conjectured, it remained ope...

We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. We find a strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more prominent, with age. Females are more frequently clas...

I discuss the issue of meaning, and the definition of “meaning” in music. I propose that it is a mistake to import the linguistic notion of semantics into a musical context on the grounds that musical communication serves a different function and is of a different nature from linguistic communication, and that there is no evidence to support the suggestion that the two should function in a stro...