You Can Say That Again (Or Can You?)

You Can Say That Again

t has been two decades since the publication of Davidson’s twin papers, I “Truth and Meaning” (1967) and “On Saying That” (1968). The first proposed that a Tarskian truth theory for a language L can be (the heart of) a theory of meaning for L. The second proposed a radically novel approach, the paratactic account, to the logical form of indirect discourse. The two proposals are related in a num...

You can come home again.

There and back again: Can you compile that snapshot?

A broken snapshot represents a snapshot from a project’s change history that cannot be compiled. Broken snapshots can have significant implications for researchers, as they could hinder any analysis of the past project history that requires code to be compiled. Noticeably, while some broken snapshots may be observable in change history repositories (e.g., no longer available dependencies), some...

‘ You Can Always Look It up ’ . . . or Can You ?

Auntie Mame with its Park Avenue version of my progressive experience, you will know that progressive theories in the 1940s were mainly confined to private schools; they hadn't seeped very far into the public school domain. At Metairie Park, my entire ninth-grade curriculum consisted of two " integrated, " " multidisciplinary " projects, as they would now be called. They were: participating in ...

Can you follow that guy?

The problem of tracking moving objects or human beings is a challenging problem in mobile robotics. Knowledge about the position of moving subjects can be used both to improve the behavior of the robotic system, and to perform tasks of monitoring or following. Different methodologies have been applied in literature, using different sensors and techniques for addressing this problem. In this pap...