in this article, in order to demonstrate the pragmatic elements of rawls’s viewpoint, the developmental path of his a theory of justice shall first be investigated. this development has two phases: in the first phase, justice has an ethical-philosophical basis. in a theory of justice, this phase is specifically shown under the title of theory of justice. in the second phase, justice has no phil...

Contemporary medicine involves a lot more than technologies that now permit effective medical intervention where none was possible before. Among other things, changes in technology have been accompanied by changes in social and cultural attitudes that are having major effects on health care and medical practice. This article provides a brief overview of many of the more important changes and th...

Knowledge acqusition for expert systems is a purely practical problem to be solved by experiment, independent of philosophy. However the experiments one chooses to conduct will be influenced by one's implict or explicit philosphy of knowledge, particularly if this philosophy is taken as axiomatic rather than as an hypothesis. We argue that practical experience of knowledge engineering, particul...

In this short note we exemplify the problems that may arise when presenting computational theories based on theories of natural phenomena that lack computational complexity components. These problems may arise when the latter theories refers to environments of unbounded size. In contrast, the standard theory of computation (e.g., based on the model of Turing machines) refer implicitly to theori...