The final sentence of Stephan F. Barker’s Philosophy of Mathematics (1964) can be paraphrased as follows: The house of semiotics has many mansions, and in it many games are played. But we can ask ourselves whether consistency and completeness-logical concepts in the first place are effective in approaching the legitimacy of semiotics, not to mention that after Gödel’s (1931) research on the rel...

The Dutch Republic offers a remarkable picture of two parallel elites that developed side by in the early modern period. While other European countries high officials and merchants were eventually admitted to peerage, here knighthoods remained closed, even most powerful urban regents. How can we understand this almost hermetic standards unique separation nobility patriciate? Why did aristocrats...

Agriculture has been a widespread activity in Kashan since a long time ago which has developed traditions and local skills. The said traditions and skills of earning living from farming has created a system which could be recognized as an agricultural heritage due to its values. This heritage possesses significant structural dimensions; as the form and feature of farms as well as their location...

Pasabahce, a Bosphorus village on the Anatolian Side, was originally Greek settlement. Muslims began to settle there in second half of 18th century. The centre shore, has texture attached structures. In surroundings, many wooden houses and mansions which are located large gardens, shape thought have been used as summer by senior government officials. Two at Sunaziri Street Sekerpare Pasabahce s...

There is a widely accepted myth in New Zealand that the Elam School of Fine Arts in the University of Auckland is an organised anarchy, internally divided and cantankerously unbiddable, and further, that this is largely inevitable given the nature of artists and designers. Its unique culture, however, is shown in this paper to have been generated and reinforced over decades by the exigencies of...