There Can Be No Compromise: Institutional Inclusiveness, Fractionalization and Domestic Terrorism – CORRIGENDUM

Knowing Afghanistan: Can there be an end to the saga?

War on terrorism, as the motto which formed the cornerstone of global policies of former     neo-conservative administration of the United States, is increasingly becoming ineffective in Afghanistan with the dreaded consequence of spilling over into Pakistan. This inevitable consequence of War on    Terrorism in Afghanistan has brought the West face to face with the ‘nest of terrorism’ that CIA...

There can be no moral obligation to eradicate all disability.

John Harris argues that “it may be morally wrong to ‘choose’ to bring to birth an individual with any impairment, however slight, if a healthy individual could be brought to birth instead. ” 1 This is a strong and controversial statement but one that, at least initially, seems to fi t with many people’s intuitions about what sort of children to have, given the choice. It taps into our shared de...

Institutional Bottlenecks: What Can be Done?*

There may be no nowhere dense ultrafilter

We show the consistency of ZFC + ”there is no NWD-ultrafilter on ω”, which means: for every non-principal ultrafilter D on the set of natural numbers, there is a function f from the set of natural numbers to the reals, such that for every nowhere dense set A of reals, {n : f(n) ∈ A} / ∈ D. This answers a question of van Douwen, which was put in more general context by Baumgartner. ∗ The researc...

There May Be No Hausdorff Ultrafilters

An ultrafilter U is Hausdorff if for any two functions f, g ∈ ω ω , f (U) = g(U) iff f ↾X = g↾X for some X ∈ U. We will show that it is consistent that there are no Hausdorff ultrafilters.