It is argued that set theory provides a powerful addition to commonsense reasoning, facilitating expression of meta-knowledge, names, and self-reference. Difficulties in establishing a suitable language to include sets for such purposes are discussed, as well as what appear to be promising solutions. Ackermann’s set theory as well as a more recent theory involving universal sets are discussed i...

........................................................................................iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.......................................................................iv CHAPTER ONE Introduction................................................................1 CHAPTER TWO Uncommon Convergences: Reification in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo..........

Recent attention to Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) raises concerns about conceptualization and etiology of such a syndrome. An alternative syndrome, Communication Addiction Disorder, is proposed. Research describing symptomatology and deleterious effects of too much talking are reviewed which parallel IAD characteristics in several respects. These disorders are then critiqued, as a means to ...

In this paper, we propose a new Korean Open Information Extraction system so-called SRDF. The SRDF system has been designed to effectively extract reified triples from Korean natural language texts based on the use of singleton property and other natural language processing techniques such as part-ofspeech tagging and chunking. The SRDF system is the Open Information Extraction system that enab...

The claim that there is “no alternative”, to contemporary neoliberal capitalism widespread today. This paper proposes a reinterpretation of the notion reification scrutinize alleged necessity capitalist social order. Developed by Georg Lukács, problem refers experience arrangements as thinglike entities rather than products construction. By addressing within ontology forms life, occurrence unde...

To respond to continuing hardware advances and changing application demands, operating systems must be flexible. Recently developed metacomputation techniques can provide the desired flexibility. The π architecture investigates the use of metaobject protocols to tailor subsystems of operating systems. It allows effective utilization of events and resources through interfaces for tailorable obje...

We study formal aspects of querying databases containing RDF data. We present a formal definition of a query language for RDF and compare it with other proposals. Our language is intended to make it easy to formalize and prove results about its properties. We study novel features of query languages derived from the presence of blank nodes and reification. Finally we provide complexity results f...

I argue that there are no physical singularities in space-time. Singular space-time models do not belong to the ontology of the world, because of a simple reason: they are concepts, defective solutions of Einstein’s field equations. I discuss the actual implication of the so-called singularity theorems. In remarking the confusion and fog that emerge from the reification of singularities I hope ...