This paper fortifies and defends the so called Sufficiency Argument (SA) against Classical Invariantism. In Sect. 2, I explain the version of the SA formulated but then rejected by Brown (2008a). In Sect. 3, I show how cases described by Hawthorne (2004), Brown (2008b), and Lackey (forthcoming) threaten to undermine one or the other of the SA’s least secure premises. In Sect. 4, I buttress one ...

this paper offers an approach that could be useful for diverse types of layout problems or even area allocation problems. by this approach there is no need to large number of discrete variables and only by few continues variables large-scale layout problems could be solved in polynomial time. this is resulted from dividing area into discrete and continuous dimensions. also defining decision var...

Preservation of cultural heritage is a complex task regarded from legislative, professional and sociocultural aspects. It demands very delicate approach. At the same time, preservation system in Russian Federation has number problems related to imperfection institution historical expertise, which allows removing obvious resources field state protection. The civil society can resist such inciden...

“One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.”JuniusFrom time immemorial it has been observed that with the development of people, law evolved to maintain peace order in society. It where considered be superlative, anticipation debate about supremacy formulating body never ending. Thinkers scholars from have promoting diffe...

© t.m.c. asser press and the authors 2016 A. Duval and A. Rigozzi (eds.), Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration 2015, DOI 10.1007/978-94-6265-129-6_2 Abstract The importance of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the resolution of sporting disputes has become synonymous with the continuous development of sports law as a separate legal discipline. The unique structure of this supreme Co...

Two things are striking about this medieval definition. The first is that it is very close to the modern conception of formal consequence one finds in Bolzano and Tarski3. The second is that although Buridan and the other fourteenth-century logicians state these distinctions with a great deal of precision, they say almost nothing about the point of the distinctions. Why are these distinctions d...

Derived varieties were invented by P. Cohn in [4]. Derived varieties of a given type were invented by the authors in [10]. In the paper we deal with the derived variety Vσ of a given variety, by a fixed hypersubstitution σ. We introduce the notion of the dimension of a variety as the cardinality κ of the set of all proper derived varieties of V included in V. We examine dimensions of some varie...