Mathematical, Philosophical and Semantic Considerations on Infinity (I): General Concepts

I. General Considerations

1. There is little need to emphasize the importance of future population estimates for countries attempting to plan their economic and social development. The primary needs of the people, which the development programmes aim to satisfy, cannot be gauged rationally without regard to the expected size and composition of the population, nor can the national resources be appraised adequately withou...

Philosophical Method and Galileo’s Paradox of Infinity

Linguistic and philosophical considerations on Bayesian semantics

Recently many theories of the semantics and pragmatics of deontic modals have relied on analogies with decision theory. One particularly straightforward way to make this connection is to build the semantics around degree scales, where the degrees in question involve expected (moral, personal, etc.) value. This “Bayesian” semantics has a number of attractive features involving information-sensit...

Competitive Advantage: Logical and Philosophical Considerations

Strategic management theories invoke the concept of competitive advantage to explain firm performance, and empirical research investigates competitive advantage and describes how it operates. But as a performance hypothesis, competitive advantage has received surprisingly little formal justification, particularly in light of its centrality in strategy research and practice. As it happens, the c...

I. General Considerations of Thyroid Hormone Synthesis

Application of molecular techniques has greatly contributed to functional morphology in the field of thyroid pathology. These techniques can demonstrate expressions of the specific genes or proteins for thyroid cells including follicular cells and C cells. Therefore, they facilitate defining the spectrum of thyroid tumors. Recent studies showed that thyroid transcription factor-1 (TTF-1) is ide...