Legislative drafting is a crucial element in the formation of legal norms. The success these norms depends on accuracy words used and appropriateness its tools, as it subject to set rules mechanisms that legislator must follow, whether at level form or content. Our study will focus rule related using definitions exact way include them legislative drafting. It aims standardize terms by text orde...

This paper mirrors an invited talk to ISCISC 2011. It is not a conventional paper so much as an essay summarizing thoughts on a little-talked-about subject. My goal is to intermix some introspection about definitions with examples of them, these examples drawn mostly from cryptography. Underpinning our discussion are two themes. The first is that definitions are constructed. They are i...

talking about ego, in the sufis’ works, two terms of “endeavor” and “austerity” have been sometimes used focused on each other and sometimes alone. did they have similar definitions and positions in sufis’ opinion or had they been different from each other? we claim that “endeavor” and “austerity” had had different positions and of course different definitions in old texts.  it was made clear, ...

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grotesque was introduced to european literature by the middle of sixteenth century, though previous definitions of this terminology were available before. although this term was introduced to aesthetics at the same time with its introduction to philosophy of arts, kayser made it official and defined it as an expression of alienation and the chaotic world in the nineteenth century. grotesque, as...

This paper is a contribution to the theoretical foundations of strategies. We first present a general definition of abstract strategies which is extensional in the sense that a strategy is defined explicitly as a set of derivations of an abstract reduction system. We then move to a more intensional definition supporting the abstract view but more operational in the sense that it describes a mea...