We are skilled at reading other’s intentions – until they try to hide them. We are biased towards taking at face value what others say, but it is not clear why. One possibility is that we are uncertain, and make the decision by relying on heuristics. Some participants (n=39) judged whether speakers were lying or telling the truth. Others (n=40) did not have to commit to a judgment: they were al...

Employees’ representatives at workplace (i.e. Works Councils) are an important component of industrial relations, in particular, in Europe. This institution has been considered as efficient mechanism to avoid the lack of communication between manager and employees [Freeman and Lazear (1995)]. However, we investigate the agency problems between workers and their representatives that are supposed...

Background. Countering stigma is a fundamental facet of suicide prevention efforts.  Integral to this is the promotion of accurate and sensitive language.  The phrase 'commit* suicide' has prompted marked opposition primarily due to the connotations of immorality and illegality.  Methods. The study investigated the frequency of the use of the wordstem 'commit', in relation to self-harm and suic...

gadamer’s critique of methodologism is one of the fundamental teachings of his philosophical hermeneutics. gadamer sees truth much beyond the ability of method to grasp it completely. he criticizes the exclusive restriction of truth in methodical processes but does not reject the need for methodical work.the present article explores the origins of methodologism in ancient greece and modern time...

Horwich (Mind 123(491), 2014) has argued that only someone with inflationary tendencies could feel inclined to endorse truth relativism. In doing so, he argues deflationism about entails the denial of If sound, Horwich’s argument entail relativism is incompatible any conception our ordinary predicate according which there some sort equivalence between a ground-language claim p and corresponding...

We introduce Info-Commit , an information-theoretic protocol for polynomial commitment and verification. With the help of a trusted initializer, succinct to private $f$ is provide...