Traditionalism and Innovation in Afsharid Coins engravings

Due process traditionalism.

In important cases, the Supreme Court has limited the scope of "substantive due process" by reference to tradition, but it has yet to explain why it has done so. Due process traditionalism might be defended in several distinctive ways. The most ambitious defense draws on a set of ideas associated with Edmund Burke and Friedrich Hayek, who suggested that traditions have special credentials by vi...

Traditionalism, Pluralism, and Same-Sex Marriage

Analyzing critical traditionalism in Shariati's thinking

Shariati's intellectual flow is accepted by various readings such as traditionalism, postmodern readings, modernism and radical approach because his thought has the capacity to accept all these readings. He was a critique of tradition and at the same time criticized modernity, and therefore he may have considered as a traditionalist or a supporter of modernity. But deeper study of Shariati's wo...

Coins and Logic

We establish fun parallels between coin-weighing puzzles and knights-

Coins and Cones

We discuss the problem of maximizing the number of coins, for which, using just n weighings, one can tell whether all of them are of the same weight or not, under condition that the weights of the coins are generic. The first purpose of the paper is to show the connection between this problem and a problem in lattice geometry. Using this approach, we are able to establish an upper bound on the ...

Private Coins versus Public Coins in Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems

Goldreich-Krawczyk (Siam J of Comp’96) showed that only languages in BPP have constant-round public-coin black-box zero-knowledge protocols. We extend their lower bound to “fully black-box” privatecoin protocols based on one-way functions. More precisely, we show that only languages in BPP—where Sam is a “collision-finding” oracle in analogy with Simon (Eurocrypt’98) and Haitner et. al (FOCS’07...