Two Theories

Two Welfare State Theories

This chapter looks at the range of theories which have been advanced to explain the development of the welfare state. In the first part of this chapter we look back over the development of welfare state theories and outline a number of theses which are representative of some of the main themes in welfare state theorising. In the second part we look at a range of theoretical approaches which are...

Two-level Default Theories

Default Logic employs assumption-based default rules to draw plausible consequences in face of incomplete information. In ontology representation, there are two kinds of relations between concepts: subsumption relation and default subsumption relation. Subsumption relation is transitive, whereas default subsumption relation is transitive by default. Both default transitivity of default subsumpt...

Two theories of modernity.

Two-Dilaton Theories in Two Dimensions

Dimensional reduction of generalized gravity theories or string theories generically yields dilaton fields in the lower dimensional effective theory. Thus at the level of D=4 theories and cosmology many models contain more than just one scalar field (e.g. inflaton, Higgs, quintessence). Our present work is restricted to two-dimensional gravity theories with only two dilatons which nevertheless ...

Two Theories of Analogical Predication∗

How can we, poor, finite beings that we are, speak of an infinite God? Thomas Aquinas formulates a well-known answer: we predicate things of God analogically. But the doctrine of analogical predication, long influential in both Catholic and Protestant thought, has fallen on hard times. Its advocates have been accused of circularity, begging the question, and simply being uninformative. (“God’s ...