On the other Hand … Dialectics

The Workshop on Computational Dialectics

attend. Gilad Zlotkin (Hebrew University), Sandra Carberry (University of Delaware), Gerhard Brewka (University of Vienna, Austria), Jon Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Anne Gardner, L. Thorne McCarty (Rutgers University), and Kevin Ashley (Pitt) also contributed their intellectual weight to the proceedings. At issue were the following ideas: (1) dialectic has something to do wit...

On the Other Hand - Drawing the Line

conferences, as we all know, is the opportunity they afford to consolidate old friendships and make new contacts. Clusters of conversation provide a more valuable way to spend ones time than attending sessions. At the last national meeting we escaped from the celebrations of the recent victory of Deep Blue over the dreaded Kasparov, to find just such a group, already engaged in an animated disc...

On the other hand, while and whereas

Price Controls: On the One Hand… And on the Other

Controlling health care costs requires that limits be placed either on prices, quantities of services, or both. Prices are measurable and more easily controlled than is quantity and, consequently, health care cost containment has frequently focused on mechanisms for controlling prices. Regulatory approaches, however, may create market distortions and change access patterns. An alternative appro...

The boundaries between obstetrics and gynaecology on one hand and psychology on the other hand.