In this essay I respond to Quentin Smith’s charge that ‘the date-analysis version of the tenseless theory of time cannot give adequate accounts of the truth conditions of the statements made by tensed sentence-tokens’ (Smith 1999, 236). His argument is based on an analysis of certain counterfactual situations that is at odds with the date-analysis account of language and hence succeeds only in ...

Let M denote the Laplacian matrix of a graph G. Associated with G is a finite group Φ(G), obtained from the Smith normal form of M , and whose order is the number of spanning trees of G. We provide some general results on the relationship between the eigenvalues of M and the structure of Φ(G), and address the question of how often the group Φ(G) is cyclic.

A view has emerged which sees Adam Smith’s main contribution to economics in terms of his equilibrium theory. This paper argues that equilibrium economics was neither Smith’s main contribution nor his chief concern. It is true that Smith made a few observations which may be construed as equilibrium economics in some loose sense. For example, his observation that the market price of a commodity ...

Call Justificatory Probabilism (hereafter, JP) the thesis that there is some (classical) probability function Pr such that for an agent S with evidence E , the degree to which they are justified in believing a hypothesis H is given by Pr(H |E). As stated, the thesis is fairly ambiguous, though none of the disambiguations are obviously true. Indeed, several of them are obviously false. If JP is ...