Political theory often relies on a definite vision of the lack of consensus, which does not necessarily exclude the possibility of some modus vivendi. It turns out however that a mere modus vivendi is widely felt to be insufficient to warrant political stability and a well-ordered society. Starting from distributive-justice issues and problems of ethical conflict in democratic society, it is ar...

Most information discovery processes need to understand the reasons of the success of the inference methods or the usability of the new information, which can sometimes be somehow explained with a few useful measures on the premises or on the chosen relations, logics and implications. This chapter presents a state of art on the latest concepts of measure, from the additive measures, to monotone...

In 1999 a great multi-site clinical trial known as the randomised Aldactone evaluation study (RALES) showed that the use of spironolactone importantly reduced complications attributable to chronic heart failure without major negative side effects. Recently, RALES has been questioned by a large scale observational study in the Ontario population. In contrast with predictions, the complications a...

In 1999 a great multi-site clinical trial known as the randomised Aldactone evaluation study (RALES) showed that the use of spironolactone importantly reduced complications attributable to chronic heart failure without major negative side effects. Recently, RALES has been questioned by a large scale observational study in the Ontario population. In contrast with predictions, the complications a...

Our principal hypothesis is that reasoning and decision making are alike in that they both depend on the construction of mental models, and so they should both give rise to similar phenomena. In this paper, we consider one such phenomenon, which we refer to as "focussing": individuals are likely to restrict their thoughts to what is explicitly represented in their models. We show that focussing...

Nodus Tollens’ is the title of a dance art work that uses psychological approach Bipolar Disorder. The choreography composed to express idea affects one's mindset and emotions. Tollens' picture behavior, habits, character humans with bipolar who are transferred into gestures using contemporary techniques. This study describes process choreographing creation exploration body three episodes depre...

It is well known that a fuzzy rule base is a characterization of a partially given mapping (fuzzy function) between fuzzy universes. For practical applications, it is desirable to interpolate that function in order to compute its values at points (fuzzy or crisp) other than fuzzy sets (nodes) in antecedents of the rule base. Moreover, interpolation requires that in the case of coincidence betwe...

This paper challenges the widely accepted claim that "classical" cognitive architectures can explain the systematicity of cognition (Fodor & Pylyshyn, 1988). There are plausible ways of rendering more precise the systematicity hypothesis (as standardly formulated) in which it is entailed by classical architectures, and other plausible ways in which it is not. Therefore, it is not a determinate ...

The Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus (APS) still dominates a substantial part of the research in theoretical linguistics. While in generative approaches, the APS provides the foundation of the innateness hypothesis; in other paradigms (usage-based, interactionist, cognitivist) the argument is central because it is argued against it. Poverty of the stimulus arguments are indeed theoreti...