This article gives an account of what makes achievements valuable. Although the natural thought is that achievements are valuable because of the product, such as a cure for cancer or a work of art, I argue that the value of the product of an achievement is not sufficient to account for its overall value. Rather, I argue that achievements are valuable in virtue of their difficulty. I propose a n...

Building on earlier work, Vendler (1957) identifies four aktionsart classes for predicates in English: states, activities, accomplishments, and achievements. These classes reflect predicates’ shared behavior in various grammatical constructions that are sensitive to certain components of their meaning. This raises a core question in the literature on aspect. “What exactly,” as Filip (2011:1192)...

The project was organised in two consecutive phases, which ran between January 2004 and March 2008. During the first phase, MUSE defined and demonstrated a multi-service access architecture based on IP (Internet Protocol) / Ethernet technology. The second phase advanced the architecture into a more mature solution and extended it with additional service capabilities for multimedia and fixed mob...

classicism is the first literary school that emerged in europe after the great scientific movement in the 16th century a.d. and tried to revive the old literature of greece and latin considering the technical and humanistic themes in that era. literary societies like divan and apolo in the east and the society of writers and andolosian group in the west in opposition to the classicism of barood...

This paper looks at the value of achievements by examining the implications of a highly plausible axiological principle, the principle of Recursion, as developed by Thomas Hurka. According to Recursion, the pursuit of a good is itself good, and the pursuit of a bad is bad. I consider three possible ways of understanding how Recursion works, and the implications of these construals for the value...