Indicative or Imperative?

Michael Parsons Being Precedes Act : Indicative and Imperative in Paul ' s Writing

The relationship between the indicative and the imperative in Paul's writing is sometimes and understandably seen as the basic structure of his ethics.1 By 'indicative' we have in mind the fact that the new life in Christ is a work of God; it finds its origin in the death and resurrection of the Lord and comes into being through the work of the Holy Spirit. The believer is thus a new creation; ...

Culturally Safe Epidemiology: Oxymoron or Scientific Imperative.

Since the early 20th Century, epidemiological research has brought benefits and burdens to Aboriginal communities in Canada. Many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit continue to view Western research with distrust; quantitative methods are perceived as especially inconsistent with indigenous ways of knowing. There is increasing recognition, however, that rigorous epidemiological research can produc...

Indicative Scorekeeping

Folklore has it that counterfactual Sobel sequences favor a variably strict analysis of conditionals over its plainly strict alternative. Recent discussions of the lore have focussed on the question whether data about reverse counterfactual Sobel sequences actually speak in favor of a dynamic revival of the strict analysis. This paper takes the discussion into a new direction by looking at stra...

African Librarianship: A Relic, a Fallacy, or an Imperative?

Indicative Propositions

Two new problems of bivalent propositional logic are proposed here: firstly, to distinguish the sense of propositions, besides the logical value and secondly, to analyze the ”ponderal” difference between two parts of a proposition: subject-predicate. 1 Relational projections and extensions Let r = (A1, A2, A3, R) be a ternary relation (see [3]). Starting with this, we may define three binary re...