Looking beyond analytical philosophy which underlies most pedagogical thinking, this study presents a novel idea of fluid education. Fluid dialectic is not only theory but method study, draws on the Hegelian dialectics supplemented by Taoism. It recognises messiness educational reality exploring how pedagogic antinomies can help transpose, de-fix or reposition traditional roles in classroom, an...

Structural analysis and design optimization have recently been extended to the stochastic approach to consider various uncertainties. However, in areas where it is not possible to produce accurate statistical information for input data, the probabilistic method is not appropriate for stochastic structural analysis and design optimization, because improper modeling of uncertainty could cause a g...

This paper contrasts two metaphysical accounts of modality and properties: Modal Realism which treats possible entities as primitive; and Strong Dispositionalism in which metaphysical possibility and necessity are determined by actually existing dispositions or powers. I argue that Strong Dispositionalism loses its initial advantages of simplicity and parsimony over Modal Realism as it is exten...