Completing Rawls's arguments for equal political liberty and its fair value: the argument from self-respect

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

Fair Value Accounting for Liabilities and Own Credit Risk

Changes in credit risk may arise when either the value or the risk of corporate assets changes. Changes in the equity value associated with the changes in the asset value and changes in asset risk can be characterized into potentially countervailing direct and indirect effects. The indirect effect of risk on equity value is a function of factors that affect the debt value of including leverage,...

Argument Mining: Extracting Arguments from Online Dialogue

Online forums are now one of the primary venues for public dialogue on current social and political issues. The related corpora are often huge, covering any topic imaginable. Our aim is to use these dialogue corpora to automatically discover the semantic aspects of arguments that conversants are making across multiple dialogues on a topic. We frame this goal as consisting of two tasks: argument...

Splitting PP arguments from NPs An argument raising approach and its interaction with lexical semantics

Constructions in which PP arguments occur separate from their nominal heads have been argued to involve extraction from noun phrases. In this paper we provide evidence against the assumption that these PPs have been extracted. Instead, we argue that an analysis allowing argument raising of PP complements from nominal heads is more appropriate and that it makes additional correct predictions reg...

The Argument of “National Security” and its Implications for the Israeli Political and Legal Systems