Before Maqāṣid

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Before Inflation

Observations of the cosmic microwave sky are revealing the primordial nonuniformities from which all structure in the Universe grew. The only known physical mechanism for generating the inhomogeneities we see involves the amplification of quantum fluctuations during a period of inflation. Developing the theory further will require progress in quantum cosmology, connecting inflation to a theory ...

Before Clarity

I f you're at all like me, you've spent a lot of time thinking about what makes " good design " good. Most software developers become preoccupied with this question at some point in their careers, usually after witnessing the effects of bad design first hand. At that point, we start to reflect. We go through a stage where we feel we know what good design is but can't really define it. Then we l...

Before announcement

We axiomatize the mono-agent logic of knowledge with public announcements and converse public announcements. A special variant of our logic is determined by the model of maximal ignorance wherein the agent considers all valuations of atomic