That great palace of truth

A Theory of Truth that Prefers Falsehood

We introduce a subclass of Kripke’s fixed points in which falsehood is the preferred truth value. In all of these the truthteller evaluates to false, while the liar evaluates to undefined (or overdefined). The mathematical structure of this family of fixed points is investigated and is shown to have many nice features. It is noted that a similar class of fixed points, preferring truth, can also...

Truth in Advertising and The Great Dollarization Scam

That great time in Basel

Bracket al.'s 1978 paper in Cell was sort of a culmination of our two years' work in my laboratory at the Basel Institute for Immunology on the somatic rearrangement of immunoglobulin genes that first appeared in Hozumi and Tonegawa's 1976 paper in PNAS. The experiments described in the PNAS paper were carried out in the pre-Southern blot era and depended on a cumbersome, large-scale agarose ge...

The Palace Project

This paper seeks definitions aiding design methodologies for evolving virtual morphologies, by the examination of one such morphology in analogue architecture: The Topkapı Palace. 1 Background The interest that instigated this study lies in a project developed earlier this year, entitled “The Bridge Project” [01], a virtual 3D structure of free associative content derived from the internet, one...

New Palace of Arts in Budapest

The Palace of Arts, the largest cultural facility of the country opened on 14 March 2005 by a large-scale opening ceremony and gala. By now it became evident that a world-class building has been added to the cityscape of the capital. Cleaning contractors are major employers across Europe and form a key industry sector. Business continuity has always been of vital importance to companies. It con...