In this paper we answer some open questions concerning totally degenerate systems of conservation laws. We study the augmented Born-Infeld system, which is the Born-Infeld model augmented by two additional conservations laws. This system is a nice example of totally degenerate system of conservation laws and, global smooth solutions are conjectured to exist when the initial-data is smooth. We s...

This chapter studies the nature of the typology of phonological markedness constraints and the nature of the typology of the transformation from underlying to surface forms from a computational perspective. It argues that there are strong computational laws that constrain the form of these constraints and transformations. These laws are currently stated most clearly in terms of the so-called su...

Ceteris Paribus (cp-)laws may be said to hold only “other things equal,” signaling that their truth is compatible with a range of exceptions. Several theorists have taken this feature to introduce the presumption that cp-laws are trivial, one that needs to be countered if we are to appeal to cp-laws in the course of scientific investigation or our philosophical theorizing about it. I argue that...

In order to make the growing amount of conceptual knowledge available through ontologies and datasets accessible to humans, NLP applications need access to information on how this knowledge can be verbalized in natural language. One way to provide this kind of information are ontology lexicons, which apart from the actual verbalizations in a given target language can provide further, rich lingu...

Some people with disabilities find it difficult to access some forms of language. Assistive Technology is a term used to describe a class of technologies/interventions designed to enable people with disabilities to do things that their disabilitie currently make difficult. A large amount of work on Assistive Technology has focused on enabling access to language and communication; this class of ...

Introduction This essay will explore the space between mathematical realism and anti-realism, while also providing a possible answer to the "mindlessness" of natural (not necessarily mathematical) laws (Field, 1982). We will also consider biologically-inspired models of physical systems, as well as consider intentionlike goal-oriented behavior in the context of combinatorial representations. To...

This paper investigates the relationship between Kant's analytics of biology, and the metaphysical conceptions of contingency and necessity in §§76–7 of the CPJ. In general, the connection between purposiveness and contingency is attested within the very project of a critique of a power of judgment. Indeed, the many particular, empirical laws of nature seem contingent regarding the universal la...

Smolin (1992) proposed that the fine-tuning problem for parameters of the Standard Model might be accounted for by a Darwinian process of universe reproduction — Cosmological Natural Selection (CNS) — in which black holes give rise to offspring universes with slightly altered parameters. The laws for variation and inheritance of the parameters are also subject to CNS if variation in transmissio...

Is it possible to build a science of natural scenes? A science that would make it possible to analyze scenes in a systematic manner, enabling us to classify,understand and predict their behavior. What we have in mind are methods that are sufficiently precise so that they can be implemented successfully by computer code. At first glance it appears unlikely that this would be possible; the variat...

s from these specific historic laws of the movement of population, which are indeed the history of the nature of humanity, the natural laws, but natural laws of humanity only at a specific historic development.. . . Malthusian man, abstracted from historically determined man, exists only in his brain: hence also the geometric method of reproduction corresponding to this natural Malthusian man.~...