Peter Simons has argued that the expression ‘the universe’ is not a genuine singular term: it can name neither a single, completely encompassing individual, nor a collection of individuals. (It is, rather, a semantically plural term standing equally for every existing object.) I offer reasons for resisting Simons’s arguments on both scores.

in this research we study the influencing factors that have direct effect on successful ais implementing. according to other researches, we specified some factors that are most efficacious ones, and categorized them through three main hypotheses of human recourses, technical characteristics of ais and management strategies. to study various dimensions of these groups we determined some other fa...

kurmanji is probably the most well known variety of kurdish language. apart from such countries as turkey, iraq, syria, and some areas in western iran, it is spoken in khorasan-e shomali and khorasan-e razavi provinces in north-east iran. the residents of biglar –a village near quchan in north-west khorasan-e razavi province- as well as many other people living in the neighboring villages speak...