This paper addresses the proposal that the Unique Adequacy (UA) requirement of methods should be employed as a criterion for research evaluation. Initially, four types of research are identified. The UA concept is employed to distinguish between these different approaches to construction management research according to their relationship to theory. It is found that the distinction between stro...

Davidson advocates a radical and powerful form of anti-conventionalism, on which the scope of a semantic theory is restricted to the most local of contexts: a particular utterance by a particular speaker. I argue that this hyper-localism undercuts the explanatory grounds for his assumption that semantic meaning is systematic, which is central, among other things, to his holism. More importantly...

W e attempt to interpret Frank Knight by taking him on his own terns. Among our conclusions are the following. (1) Knight's distinction between risk and uncertainty is not solely a distinction between insurable and uninsurable risk. (2) Knight's explanation for the existence of firms does not reduce to a moral-hWd theory, except perhaps in the broadest and least-interesting sense. And (3) Knigh...

the coalition between terms and their meaning can be as the result of phonological repetition in its speech structure and specific semantic load. this can lead to meaning distinction in choosing words and also meaning association. therefore, literally and syntactically, the phonological level cannot be separated from semantic level. earlier, the phonological association in text has been discuss...

Subjectivity is essential to consciousness. But though subjectivity is necessary for consciousness it is not sufficient. In part one I derive a distinction between conscious awareness and unconscious subjectivity from a critique of Block’s (1995) distinction between access and phenomenal consciousness. In part two I contrast two historically influential models of unconscious thought: cognitive ...

Following the development of the selectionist theory of the immune system, there was an attempt to characterize many biological mechanisms as being "selectionist" as juxtaposed to "instructionist." But this broad definition would group Darwinian evolution, the immune system, embryonic development, and Chomsky’s language-acquisition mechanism as all being "selectionist." Yet Chomsky’s mechanism ...

The distinction between teleology and deontology is today almost universally accepted within practical philosophy, but deontology is and has from the beginning been subordinate to utilitarianism. ‘Deontology’ was constructed by Bentham to signify the art and science of private morality within a utilitarian worldview. The classical distinction was constructed by Broad as a refinement of Sidgwick...

Alan Newell famously asserted that "You can't play 20 questions with nature and win" (Newell, A. (1973). You can't play 20 questions with nature and win. In W.G. Chase (Ed.), Visual information processing. New York: Academic Press.), and specifically focused on the futility of studying binary distinctions. However, the distinction between categorical and coordinate spatial relations representat...

The representation of things and properties is a fundamental issue in conceptual modelling. Important theoretical issues surrounding the representation of things and properties remain unresolved. For example, proponents of object-role modelling argue that there should be no distinction between things and properties, while proponents of entity-relationship modelling argue that the distinction is...