Common Grounds for Family Maladies

Common Grounds, Questions and Relevance

Common Grounds as Multiple Information States

The main goal of this paper is to show how to derive a common ground In order to do this, first we need to know what a common ground should be like. In traditional dynamic semantics, a common ground is given as a single information state which is shared by the people in the context. In this paper I am going to show that a common ground must include more than one information state, and that this...

eGov and SDI: the common grounds and missing links

The scientific and professional community researching spatial data infrastructures (SDI) has largely developed outside of the electronic government (eGov) discussion podia, yet increasingly refers to basic concepts of eGov. I question however to which extent the axiologies and epistemologies of SDI and eGov are related, and whether there are common grounds and possible missing links between the...

Making it Public: Testimony and Socially Sanctioned Common Grounds

Contrary to current individualistic epistemology, classical rhetoric provides us with a pragmatical conception of ‘testimony’ as a source provided to the orator by the particular community in which he acts. In order to count as usable ‘testimony’, any linguistic instance must comply with specific rules of social sanction. A deliberate attention to the social practices in which ‘testimony’ is gi...

Monsoon maladies.

The advent of monsoon in India provides a welcome relief from the dry hot summer and brings waves of life to parched landscapes across the country, but the cooling showers also bring along a lot of diseases. Infectious diseases like Dengue fever, Chikungunya, Hantaviruses, Nipah virus, Chandipura virus, Malaria and the novel H1N1 influenza virus had emerged or re-emerged as major public health ...