Patrick Allo, Paraconsistency and the logic of ambiguous connectives. Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. E-mail : [email protected] URL Address: http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~pallo Non-dialetheic proponents of paraconsistency have often appealed to ambiguity to explain away the apparent acceptance of true contradictions in their paraconsistent ap...

(formerly from) Mathematics Education Research Centre Chengdu University University of Warwick Chengdu Coventry, CV4 7AL P. R. China United Kingdom As a transition between an informal paradigm in which a limit is seen as a never-ending process and the formal ε–N paradigm we introduce a programming environment in which a sequence can be defined as a function. The computer paradigm allows the sym...

China was the unwilling host of the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women. China held up the entry visas of thousands of women who wanted to attend the conference, the Huairou Forum site was completely unsuitable for a world conference, and journalists were treated like nuisances by the Chinese government. Despite these obstacles, the conference was a success which should produce permanent re...

This report gives a brief history of the UN General Assembly's activities preparatory to the Fourth World Conference on Women, a review of the General Assembly's debate on the Beijing Platform Agenda Item 165, and a description of the resolution passed by the Third Committee of the General Assembly on implementation of the Beijing Action Plan. Other resolutions related to the status of women a...