Belgium: Language and class oppositions

Patent Oppositions

In recent years, patent protection has extended into new areas, giving rise to serious concern about the lack of clear guidelines for patentability. We analyze the effect of introducing a patent opposition process that would allow patent validity to be challenged directly after a patent is granted. In many cases, such a system would avoid costly litigation at a later date. In other cases, the o...

Oppositions and quantum mechanics

In this paper we deal with two applications of the square of opposition to controversial issues in the philosophy of quantum mechanics. The first one concerns the kind of opposition represented by states in superposition. A superposition of “spin up” and “spin down” for a given spatial direction, for instance, is sometimes said to originate particular kinds of opposition such as contradictorine...

Nested Oppositions

Class, Language and Learning

ideas Of course, middle-class people also make use of language in this kind of way, but as well as using this 'restricted code' Bernstein has shown that middleclass speakers have a greater control over what he terms the 'elaborated code'?the kind of speech used for communication with strangers, for the communition of complicated information, for expressing abstract ideas, rather than just descr...

Oppositions and Paradoxes in Mathematics and Philosophy