This paper describes a universal storage structure (a dialectic storage structure), which is settled between relational and hierarchical approach. It aims to marry XML files with the TID concept and rowwith column-oriented storage. We support at first glance only nesting level of proper collections of two. Therefore, records are in general greater than in relational model (clustering of data wi...

Killer applications, such as Excel and other ones, may be retrospectively considered as potential excellent Learning Environments in different specific domains and also in meta-cognitive skills even if there was no learning intention neither in the designer nor in the user. We present here a patented methodology for knowledge acquisition and construction widely and successfully used for five ye...

Models are constructed that satisfy each dialectical scheme TAS1, TAS2, TAS3. Significantly different finite models that satisfy TAS1 and TAS2, a denumerable model that satisfies schemes TASi, i = 1, 2, 3 and an infinite hyperfinite model, with a single antithesis, that satisfies TAS1 and TAS2 are defined. It is shown that no finite model satisfies TAS3. Mathematics Subject Classifications 03B2...

Formal dialectic systems have been suggested as a means to model inter-agent communication in multi-agent systems. The formal dialectic systems of Hamblin are practical models for the computational implementation of such a system of argumentative dialogue. This paper introduces a formal framework for the specification of Hamblintype systems that has a range of benefits for theoretical work in t...

The philosophy of dialectic has always been among the most controversial and least well understood aspects of Hegelian and Marxist thought. It is rejected by many writers who are otherwise sympathetic to Marxism. One such is Marquit. In a recent article (Marquit, 1990), he criticizes the dialectical concept of contradiction. Many of his arguments will be familiar to anyone acquainted with the r...

ing vantage points that bring out the differences between two or more aspects of an interactive system also highlights the asymmetry in their reciprocal effect. Granted such reciprocal effect, production was said to play the dominant role on all five levels of generality on which Marx operates. But it is only by abstracting production as a vantage point that its special influence on other econo...

Computational dialectics are a powerful way to structure the communicative acts that are expressed during the process of argumentation. Many such systems have been proposed but there has been no consensus over what constitutes a good system, or on what basis such a consensus could be built. This paper introduces a testbed for computational dialectics that enables disparate systems to be easily ...

Peter Henrici coined the term “algorithmic mathematics” and “dialectic mathematics” in a 1973 talk. I will borrow these two terms and attempt to synthesize the two aspects from a pedagogical viewpoint with illustrative examples gleaned from mathematical developments in Eastern and Western cultures throughout history. Some examples from my teaching experience in the classroom will also be given.