wittgenstein is one of the most prominent philosophers in the twentieth century; his views in both periods of his thinking have influenced many issues, including religion. his view on religion is expressed in his tractatus logico-philosophicus. in terms of the picture theory of meaning and the distinction between the meaningless and meaningful propositions, he has made an attempt to show that t...

This paper generates a variety of general-systems theoretic concepts and a range of systems theories using a minimal set of primitives. The notion of a distinction is taken as primitive and the natural hierarchy of distinctions becomes the primitive structure. A number of system theories are then analysed in terms of these primitives: Zadeh’s fuzzy sets theory; Klir’s epistemological hierarchy ...

We present some examples of dialogues from the literature on first language acquisition where children appear to be learning word meanings from corrective feedback and argue that in order to be able to account for them all in a formal theory of semantic change and coordination, we need to make a distinction between compositional and ontological semantics. We suggest how TTR (Type Theory with Re...

The product/process distinction with regards to “argument” has a longstanding history and foundational role in argumentation theory. I shall argue that, regardless of one’s chosen ontology of arguments, arguments are not the product of some process of arguing. Hence, appeal to the distinction is distorting the very organizational foundations of argumentation theory and should be abandoned. Resu...

Abstract. Quantum theory makes a sharp distinction between bound states and scattering states, the former associated with point spectrum and the latter with continuous spectrum. Resonances associated with quasi-stationary states bridge this distinction, and have posed mathematical challenges since the beginning of the Schrödinger theory. Here the development of mathematical aspects of resonance...

The product/process distinction with regards to “argument” has a longstanding history and foundational role in argumentation theory. I shall argue that, regardless of one’s chosen ontology of arguments, arguments are not the product of some process of arguing. Hence, appeal to the distinction is distorting the very organizational foundations of argumentation theory and should be abandoned. Resu...