E PIDEICTIC RHETORIC—THE RHETORIC OF ‘‘PRAISE AND BLAME’’— grounds itself in a culture’s mainstream values. People or things (in this study, lifestyles and products) that purport to demonstrate or embody currently favored values are praised and thus reinforced in epideictic rhetoric, and those out of favor and perceived as nonmainstream in common culture are criticized. Chaim Perelman and Lucie...

Eternal and m-eternal domination are concerned with using mobile guards to protect a graph against infinite sequences of attacks at vertices. Eternal domination allows one guard to move per attack, whereas more than one guard may move per attack in the m-eternal domination model. Inequality chains consisting of the domination, eternal domination, m-eternal domination, independence, and clique c...

Ontology is a part of metaphysics; it concerns what there is. Is possible to consider being and reality not in traditional metaphysical way—that is, as ground, an origin, cause, but movement, flux, dynamogenic principle? I will set out from seminal aphorism by Nietzsche, occurring Human, all too Human (§2): “A lack the historical sense hereditary fault philosophers. But everything has evolved; ...

Abstract. Eternal solutions of parabolic equations (those which are defined for all time) are typically rather rare. For example, the heat equation has exactly one eternal solution – the trivial solution. While solutions to the heat equation exist for all forward time, they cannot be extended backwards in time. Nonlinearities exasperate the situation somewhat, in that solutions may form singula...

The article analyzes the assessment of philosophy Hrihoriy Skovoroda, which does not fit into traditional historical and philosophical image, based on method philosophizing Western European New Age. reasons for different, often mutually exclusive, versions interpretation Ukrainian thinker's are determined. It is proved that H. Skovoroda a unique example syncretism original system his own life p...

Inflation is known to be generically eternal to the future: the false vacuum is thermalized in some regions of space, while inflation continues in other regions. Here, we address the question of whether inflation can also be eternal to the past. We argue that such a steady-state picture is impossible and, therefore, that inflation must have had a beginning. First, it is shown that the old infla...

This more than cursory analysis of the concept “freedom” is an attempt not only to capture actual ways reading and interpretation, but also justify need disclose its content in words understandable a contemporary. Freedom as purely human event, closely connected with spiritual moral consciousness, prescribes self-sufficiency absence coercion actions thoughts individual. The realization principl...

We investigate the condition for eternal inflation to take place in the noncommutative spacetime. We find that the possibility for eternal inflation’s happening is greatly suppressed in this case. If eternal inflation can not happen in the low energy region where the noncommutativity is very weak (the UV region), it will never happen along the whole inflationary history. Based on these conclusi...