Are Social Innovation Paradigms Incommensurable?
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Temporal logics with incommensurable distances are undecidable
Temporal logic based on the two modalities “Since” and “Until” (TL) is the most popular logic for the specification of reactive systems. It is often called the linear time temporal logic. However, metric properties of real time cannot be expressed in this logic. The simplest modalities with metric properties are “X will happen within units of time”. The extension of TL by all these modalities w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0957-8765,1573-7888
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-016-9688-1