Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov as Writer and Ethnologist

Nurse as writer, writer as nurse.

Pavel Materna CONCEPTS AS HYPERINTENSIONAL OBJECTS

The author defends the view that the notion of concept, if used in the logical (not cognitivist) tradition, should be explicated procedurally (i.e., not set-theoretically). He argues that Tichý’s Transparent Intensional Logic is an apt tool for such an explication and derives the respective definition. Some consequences of this definition concern the notions of emptiness, simple concepts, empir...

Wallace as writer

But despite their differences each man deeply valued the other. Darwin persuaded the British government to award Wallace a pension for services to science. Wallace dedicated his book The Malay Archipelago to Darwin, “as a token of personal esteem and friendship but also to express my deep admiration for his genius and his works.” Wallace also called his 1889 collection of evolutionary essays Da...

TypeCraft from Pavel Mihaylov and Dorothee Beermann

1. OVERVIEW. The following review of TypeCraft is based on experience with the tool as of August, 2009. TypeCraft is an on-line database used to create, share, search, and present linguistically annotated texts (i.e., interlinear glossed texts). Users are able to create their own texts either by uploading files or by typing in texts by hand. TypeCraft aids the user in annotation by providing a ...

Splitting and Melnikov Potentials in Hamiltonian Systems

We consider a perturbation of an integrable Hamiltonian system possessing hyper bolic invariant tori with coincident whiskers Following an idea due to Eliasson we introduce a splitting potential whose gradient gives the splitting distance between the perturbed stable and unstable whiskers The homoclinic orbits to the perturbed whiskered tori are the critical points of the splitting potential an...