Dis-positioning Euthyphro

Euthyphro Dilemma

The Euthyphro Dilemma

Socrates asks Euthyphro whether the gods value piety because it is good, or if piety is good because the gods value it. If we generalize Socrates’s question, we come to a choice that has exercised tremendous influence in the history of metaphysics. Instead of asking about value, we can talk about any property. Instead of asking about valuing, we can ask about any attitude or activity. Instead o...

Unified Picture of Dis and Diffractive Dis

The QCD dipole picture allows to build an unified theoretical description -based on BFKL dynamicsof the total and diffractive nucleon structure functions. We use a four parameter fit to describe the 1994 H1 proton structure function F2 data in the low x, moderate Q2 range. Without any additional parameter, the gluon density and the longitudinal structure functions are predicted. The diffractive...

Experimenting Data Integration with DIS@DIS

Data integration consists in providing a uniform access to a set of heterogeneous sources through a common representation called global schema. In this paper we present DIS@DIS, a data integration system that adopts innovative techniques for query answering in a complex integration environment. In particular, DIS@DIS is able to deal with integrity constraints, which are used to enhance the expr...

(Dis)agreements in Iranians’ Internet Relay Chats

The present study on politeness is an attempt to examine (dis)agreeing strategies utilized by EFL learners while chatting on the internet. Subjects of the study were forty male and thirty-three female Iranian natives whose internet relay chat (IRC) interactions, composed of 400 excerpts, were collected between December 2007 and September 2008. Data analysis was based on the general taxonomy of ...