This paper investigated children's ability to use syntactic structures to infer semantic information. The particular syntax-semantics link examined was the one between transitivity (transitive/intransitive structures) and telicity (telic/atelic perspectives; that is, boundedness). Although transitivity is an important syntactic reflex of telicity, it is neither necessary nor sufficient for pred...

The goal of any cryptographic system is the exchange of information among the intended users without any leakage of information to others who may have unauthorized access to it. In 1976, Diffie and Hellmann found that a common secret key could be created over public channel accessible to any opponent. Since then many public key cryptography have been presented which are based on number theory a...

Abstract As is well known, implication transitive but probabilistic support not. Eells and Sober, followed by Shogenji, showed that screening off a sufficient constraint for the transitivity of support. Moreover, this condition can be weakened without sacrificing transitivity, as was demonstrated Suppes later Roche. In paper we introduce an even weaker support, in fact one made weak wishes. We ...

When is a cause of a cause of an effect also a cause of that effect? The right answer is either “Sometimes” or “Always”. In favour of “Always”, transitivity is considered by some to be necessary for distinguishing causes from redundant noncausal events. Moreover transitivity may be motivated by an interest in an unselective notion of causation, untroubled by principles of invidious discriminati...

The paper investigates the application of Halliday’s theory of transitivity in the construction of personality. The essay aims to identify and explain how the main character’s personality is portrayed and represented through language used in Hoa Pham’s “Heroic Mother”. The findings hope to prove that linguistic choices in transitivity play an important role in building up the main character of ...

In Online Social Networks (OSNs), participants can conduct rich activities, where trust is one of the most important factors for their decision making. This necessitates the evaluation of the trustworthiness between two unknown participants along the social trust paths between them based on the trust transitivity properties (i.e., if A trustsB andB trusts C, then A can trust C to some extent). ...

We present a sound and complete graphical criterion for reading dependencies from the minimal undirected independence map of a graphoid that satisfies weak transitivity. We argue that assuming weak transitivity is not too restrictive.

Ethicists and economists commonly assume that if A is all things considered better than B, and B is all things considered better than C, then A is all things considered better than C. Call this principle Transitivity. Although it has great conceptual, intuitive, and empirical appeal, I will argue against it. Some philosophers believe that the concept of better than implies Transitivity, so Tran...