Abstract War metaphors permeate the world we live in. From wildlife documentaries (natural war) to curbing of academic freedom (war on woke), it seems that anything can be described in an essential likeness warfare. Drawing Lacanian psychoanalysis, this paper investigates ubiquity war critiques violence within Critical Security Studies and International Political Sociology. The analysis focuses...

First-order modal logic, in the usual formulations, is not sufficiently expressive, and as a consequence problems like Frege’s morning star/evening star puzzle arise. The introduction of predicate abstraction machinery provides a natural extension in which such difficulties can be addressed. But this machinery can also be thought of as part of a move to a full higher-order modal logic. In this ...

Constantly growing number of new system architectures and meta-data standards increases the difficulty of interoperability problems. Fortunately, the fundamental principles that are used by different system modeling frameworks are not so numerous. Understanding of ontological foundations for existing system modeling standards allows for the classification of the standards, and thus, provides sy...

Introduction: Globalization and the advances in modern information and communication technologies (ICT) are changing the practice of health care and policy making. In the globalized economies of the 21 century, health systems will have to respond to the need of increasingly mobile citizens, patients and providers. At the same time the increased use of ICT is enabling health systems to systemati...

The basic question of ontology is “What exists?”. The basic question of metaontology is: are there objective answers to the basic question of ontology? Here ontological realists say yes, and ontological anti-realists say no. (Compare: The basic question of ethics is “What is right?”. The basic question of metaethics is: are there objective answers to the basic question of ethics? Here moral rea...

Word based searches for relevant information from texts retrieve a huge collection and burden the user with information overload. Ontology based text information retrieval can perform concept-based search and extract only relevant portions of text containing concepts that are present in the query or those that are semantically linked to query concepts. While these systems have better precision ...

The transformation of society towards digitalization and automatization cannot be ignored by the higher education system. While this has been naturally reflected system regarding technical sciences, humanities are still struggling to catch up with latest trends in society. field Digital Humanities (DH) is very young lacks a solid methodological basis or ontological principles. This paper aims a...