This paper presents a justification for Christian theodicy. It starts by critiquing William H. Gass’s depiction of Christianity as superstitious, ignorant, and evil. shows that his view is based on caricature (that is, God quasi-gnostic Demiurge) the understanding evil totally ignores misses contributions (what I call) Classical View theodicy within intellectual tradition from Origen to Karl Ba...

Abstract London experienced repeated outbreaks of popular xenophobia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with worst coming Evil May Day riot 1517. This article illuminates hydra-like nature stereotype immigrant at this time, which rhetorically combined diverse population aliens into a single material political threat. It begins close analysis itself, before examining continuing relevanc...

Using scientific works in the field of creolized text theory, an attempt was made to analyze specific features political caricature Greek mass media discourse, as well identify role verbal and nonverbal components texts conditions hybrid warfare. The research department 162 caricatures national world leaders international events context crisis Ukrainian-Russian relations served material present...

Essentially Cartographic generalization is a visualization problem : the scale reduction implies that a narrower space is available to represent the initial information content. Owing to the fact that it is impossible to represent the same amount of information while preserving map legibility, one must apply changes which aim at transmitting the most relevant part of the message. Generalization...

We study a singular parabolic equation of the total variation type in one dimension. The problem is a simplification of the singular curvature flow. We show existence and uniqueness of weak solutions. We also prove existence of weak solutions to the semi-discretization of the problem as well as convergence of the approximating sequences. The semi-discretization shows that facets must form. For ...

A continuum between purely isolated and purely interrelated concepts is described. Along this continuum, a concept is interrelated to the extent that it is influenced by other concepts. Methods for manipulating and identifying a concept's degree of interrelatedness are introduced. Relatively isolated concepts can be empirically identified by a relatively large use of nondiagnostic features, and...