Abstract At first glance, Iran and Lebanon may appear to have very little in common when it comes state intervention the media economy. The Iranian government oversees nearly every aspect of production, distribution, exhibition, while Lebanese exercises relatively oversight offers no financial or infrastructural support country’s robust creative industries. Given divergent approaches regulating...

Abstract This paper is inspired by and develops on E. J. Lowe’s work, who writes in his book The Possibility of Metaphysics that ‘metaphysical possibility an inescapable determinant actuality’ (1998: 9). deals with possibilities – metaphysical but not able to determine what actual without the help empirical research. Accordingly, a delimitation space required. resulting controversial picture we...

The problem of converting possibility measures into probability measures has received attention in the past, but not by so many scholars. This question is philosophically interesting as part of the debate between probability and fuzzy sets. The imbedding of fuzzy sets into random set theory as done by Goodman and Nguyen (1985), Wang Peizhuang (1983), among others, has solved this question in pr...

We show that truth conditions for counterfactuals need not always be given in terms of a vague notion of similarity. To this end, we single out the important class of historical counterfactuals and give formally rigorous truth conditions for these counterfactuals, employing a partial ordering relation called “comparative closeness” that is defined in the framework of branching space-times. Amon...

A method is described for proving “always possibly” properties of specifications in formalisms with linear-time trace semantics. It is shown to be relatively complete for TLA (Temporal Logic of Actions) specifications.

Our team of research works on diagnosis by pattern recognition using Fuzzy Pattern Matching (FPM) as a classification method, for data coming from industrial and medical sectors. FPM uses a transformation from probability to possibility in order to construct densities of possibilities. These densities are used to assign each new sample to its suitable class which corresponds to a functioning mo...

3 Preliminaries 5 3.1 Rational Preference Relations (RPRs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2 Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3 Choice Sets, Choice Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.4 Social Choice Functions (SCFs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.5 Social Welfare F...