unlike the languages we know, some of the arabic sentences form without any verbs. arab grammarians call these sentences, which contain a subject and a predicate without any linking verbs, nominal sentences. examining theses sentences indicates that their predicate is composed of one of the following words or structures: 1. noun, 2. prepositional phrase, 3. an adverb of time or place, 4. a nomi...

Abduction is a topic that attracts much interest in AI and automated reasoning research. Diierent approaches have been devised, that give a formalized account of explanatory reasoning, propose methods to compute explanations, frame abduction in the context of logic programming. However, the logical nature of abduction is still far from being clear and diierent speciications of the key underlyin...

gadamer’s critique of methodologism is one of the fundamental teachings of his philosophical hermeneutics. gadamer sees truth much beyond the ability of method to grasp it completely. he criticizes the exclusive restriction of truth in methodical processes but does not reject the need for methodical work.the present article explores the origins of methodologism in ancient greece and modern time...

Logic (from ancient Greek “λογικὴ τέχνη (logiké téchnē)”—“thinking art”, “procedure”) is a multidisciplinary field of research studying the formal principles reasoning [...]

Abduction is a topic that attracts much interest in AI and automated reasoning research. Diierent approaches have been devised, that give a formalized account of explanatory reasoning, propose methods to compute explanations, frame abduction in the context of logic programming. However, the logical nature of abduction is still far from being clear and diierent speciications of the key underlyin...

The xgreek package provides rudimentary support for Greek language typesetting with XƎLATEXand LuaLATEX. In particular, it provides support for modern Greek (either monotonic or polytonic) and ancient Greek.

This paper delimits and analyzes the effects of the harassment perpetrated by ETA's terrorist network in the Basque Country. The aim was to provide a taxonomy of the consequences of psychological violence and to validate this taxonomy, by means of a content analysis of 37 testimonies of victims of terrorist violence. The taxonomy of consequences of psychological violence is made up by four comp...

Were the ancients Greeks “racists” in the modern sense of the term “racist”? The terms ancient Greek “proto-racism”, tribalism (and/or racism) are used here to denote the abstract, narcissistic notion that not only the non-Greek barbarians, but also certain ancient Greek tribes (like the Macedonians, the Boeoteans etc.) should be excluded from the Hellenic community, for they were considered to...

In this paper, we discuss our endeavors for the Named Entities Workshop (NEWS) 2016 transliteration shared task, where we focus on English to Thai transliteration. The alignment between Thai orthography and phonology is not always monotonous, but few transliteration systems take this into account. In our proposed system, we exploit phonological knowledge to resolve problematic instances where t...