EDITORIAL: STATEMENTS OF INTENT

Editorial Statements

The quantitative evaluation and intercompatisun of scientific activity, productivity and prognss seems to be sheer nonsense for many, perhaps for the majority of active scientists. This attitude is quite natural, but its source is mainly prejudice, ignorance and/or misunderstanding of the basic ideas of scientometrics. The skeptics are scornful of the hopeless aim of measuring the unmeasurable....

Editorial: Statements, declarations and the problems of ethical expertise

The Espoused Theories of IS: A Study of General Editorial Statements

In the IS field there has been the ongoing debate about a potential identity crisis, which has led researchers to study the output of the community in order to evaluate where IS research currently is and where it could potentially be. This has resulted in various proposals for IS research ‘in practice’. This research follows a different strategy and studies what IS research is claimed to be (th...

Quranic Statements

“The state of being plain” is one of the features of the Holy Quran, taken as indicative of Quran’s expressiveness and clearness regarding its intentions. However, one of the aspects of Quranic miracles is its expressive miracle based on which verses have been revealed according to suitability and appropriateness of situation in an explicit and succinct form. In order to have a desirable unders...

Reflections on the role of statements on statements in mathematics

Mathematicians reason about abstract objects, or at least they seem to do so. In the course of doing so, they routinely make statements on mathematical statements. In fact, every inference, such as “From equations (5.17) and (6.2) one obtains the following equation.”, is a statement on mathematical statements. Other examples of statements on mathematical statements are: “With the obvious modifi...