Modernity reconsidered

Multicollinearity Reconsidered

In this paper we intend to improve the explanatory power of regressions when the deletion method is used for the remedy of Multicolinearity. If one deletes the variable (s) that is (are) responsible for Multicolinearity, he loses some information that is not common between the deleted variable (s) and the other remaining variables in the regression. To improve this method, we run the deleted va...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Reportrapport Declarative Interpretations Reconsidered Declarative Interpretations Reconsidered

Three semantics have been proposed as the most promising candidates for a declarative interpretation for logic programs and pure Prolog programs: the least Herbrand model, the least term model, i.e. the C-semantics, and the S-semantics. Previous results show that a strictly increasing information ordering between these semantics exists for the class of all programs. In particular, the S-semanti...

Interpreted Modernity Weber and Taylor on Values and Modernity

The writings of Weber and Taylor have some strong affinities. Both start from the anthropological idea that man evaluates his position in the world and constitutes the social world by values. Their analyses of values aim at an understanding of those intersubjective meanings that have constituted western modernity. But, at the same time, their anthropological starting point leads to different in...