The project of giving an account of meaning in natural languages goes largely by assigning truth-conditional content to sentences. I will call the view that sentences have truth-conditional content propositionalism as it is common to identify the truth-conditional content of a sentence with the proposition it expresses. This content plays an important role in our explanations of the speech-acts...

This paper deals with the problem of fault detection and isolation. Existence conditions of a solution to this problem are recalled before the proposal of another solution. The proof carrying out the effectiveness of the proposed solution and illustrative examples are the main results.Copyright c © 2005 IFAC

According to the standard lore on propositions, there are many propositional attitudes, including belief, fear, and desire. The standard lore is partly correct: belief is a propositional attitude. But, so this paper argues, fear and desire are never propositional attitudes, not even when the content of the relevant fear or desire can be fully expressed by using a that-clause. 1. What I Mean by ...

On Propositions and Fineness of Grain (Again!) Jeffrey C. King Rutgers University What I plan to do in the present paper is, first, sketch the theory of propositions I defended in a recent book I coauthored with Scott Soames and Jeff Speaks. Second, I want to respond to a criticism of that view raised by Peter Hanks [2015]. Finally, I want to discuss some changes in my view since the publicatio...

The value and impact of business-to-business e-commerce are not as easy to measure as business-to-consumer e-commerce. As Subramaniam and Shaw pointed out in their article, eight factors affected the value of a Web-based B2B procurement system. These eight factors are type of process, complexity of process, size of the business unit, dominant type of B2B process, degree of centralization, integ...