This is a reply to Timothy Williamson’s paper ‘Tennant’s Troubles’. It defends against Williamson’s objections the anti-realist’s knowability principle based on the author’s ‘local’ restriction strategy involving Cartesian propositions, set out in The Taming of the True. Williamson’s purported Fitchian reductio, involving the unknown number of books on his table, is analyzed in detail and shown...

This paper focuses on three research questions which are connected with combinations of modal logics: (i) Under which conditions can (frame-)completeness (and related properties) be transferred from a propositional modal logic (PML) to its quantificational counterpart (QML)? (ii) Does (frame-) completeness generally transfer from monomodal QMLs to their multimodal combination? (iii) Can complet...

We introduce the notion of L2-rigidity for von Neumann algebras, a generalization of property (T) which can be viewed as an analogue for the vanishing of 1-cohomology into the left regular representation of a group. We show that L2rigidity passes to normalizers and is satisfied by nonamenable II1 factors which are non-prime, have property Γ, or are weakly rigid. As a consequence we obtain that ...

This is an attempt at reviving Kneale's version of the description theory of names, which says that a proper name is synonymous with a definite description of the form 'the individual named so-and-so'. To begin with, I adduce a wide range of observations to show that names and overt definites are alike in all relevant respects. I then turn to Kripke's main objection against Kneale's proposal, a...

In a damage avoidance design perspective, seismic rocking of rigid-like blocks, such as masonry walls, precast r.c./timber panels, art objects, etc., can be controlled through viscous elastic dampers. This paper discusses how to perform risk assessment walls undamped and damped by viscous-elastic dampers installed at the top them. Firstly, preliminary fragility analysis allows understanding rol...

o bjective: to describe the clinical characteristics, presentation and management of pardah pin inhalation in female teenagers of single center in northern india. m e thods: this was a prospective cross-sectional study being performed in department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery of sher-i-kashmir institute of medical sciences located in northern india from january 2009 to december 2012....

Evidence indicates that the dynamic behavior of Rigid Wall – Flexible Diaphragm (RWFD) structures is dominated by the diaphragm’s response instead of the walls’ response, and this is a significant departure from the underlying assumptions of the widely used equivalent lateral force method in current building codes. RWFD buildings are common in North America and other parts of the world, and inc...

Background and Purpose—Wall shear stress (WSS) and pressure are important factors in the development of cerebral aneurysms. We aimed to develop a computational fluid dynamics simulator for flow in the complete circle of Willis to study the impact of variations in vessel radii and bifurcation angles on WSS and pressure on vessel walls. Methods—Blood flow was modeled with Navier-Stokes equations ...

Abstract The out-of-plane collapse of the façade represents one major threats and most frequent cause damages churches due to strong earthquakes. Due slenderness lack adequate connections side walls wooden roof, seismic action can trigger overturning. A detailed assessment is therefore required judge whether or not intervene. This paper presents an approach for stability façade, through a discr...

We study the momentum distribution of strongly interacting one-dimensional mixtures particles at zero temperature in a box potential. find that magnitude $1/k^4$ tail is not only due to short-distance correlations, but also presence rigid walls, breaking Tan's relation relating this quantity adiabatic derivative energy with respect inverse interaction strength. The additional contribution finit...