Solidarity and the incarnation

knoWitiary: A Machine Readable Incarnation of Wiktionary

knoWitiary is a resource that presents a reorganized version of Wiktionary’s information in machine readable format. Wiktionary contains a plethora of information about words, including sense definitions, etymology, translations, derived terms and anagrams. Similar work to the one reported here goes one step further than extracting information from Wiktionary: mapping it onto WordNet – NLP comm...

[Tuberculosis and solidarity].

Tuberculosis is very probably the oldest human epidemic and the one that has inflicted the most harm in the history of the species. Recent studies have estimated tuberculosis to be about 3 million years old,1 and during much of that time this disease has been our greatest scourge. It is difficult to accept that tuberculosis has been causing harm for so many millions of years and that even today...

The Concept of Solidarity:

Incarnation in Ludics and maximal cliques of paths

Ludics is a reconstruction of logic with interaction as a primitive notion, in the sense that the primary logical concepts are no more formulas and proofs but cut-elimination interpreted as an interaction between objects called designs. When the interaction between two designs goes well, such two designs are said to be orthogonal. A behaviour is a set of designs closed under bi-orthogonality. L...

Priority, solidarity and egalitarianism

Using the axioms of “priority” and “solidarity” (solidarity in the influences of the changes in population or resources on the original members) in a variable and potentially infinite population model, Moreno-Ternero and Roemer (2006) establish an axiomatic characterization of index-egalitarian rules. We show that similar characterization results can be established in a fixed and finite populat...