Lyudmyla Kompaniyets, PhD; Nickolas T. Agathis, MD; Jennifer M. Nelson, Leigh Ellyn Preston, DrPH; Jean Y. Ko, Brook Belay, Audrey F. Pennington, Melissa L. Danielson, MSPH; Carla DeSisto, R. Chevinsky, Lyna Z. Schieber, DPhil, Hussain Yusuf, James Baggs, William Mac Kenzie, Karen K. Wong, Tegan Boehmer, Adi V. Gundlapalli, MD, Alyson B. Goodman, MD

This paper investigates the relation of the Calculus of Individuals presented by Henry S. Leonard and Nelson Goodman in their joint paper, and an earlier version of it, the so-called Calculus of Singular Terms, introduced by Leonard in his Ph.D. dissertation thesis Singular Terms. The latter calculus is shown to be a proper subsystem of the former. Further, Leonard’s projected extension of his ...

Speaking of a multitude of irreducible “worlds”, Nelson Goodman draws our attention to the idea that there is no one unique way of describing, depicting, representing or otherwise capturing in thought the shared space we inhabit. Made worlds – versions, views, renderings – differ from one another as a novel might differ from a painting, or a poem from a news report. If that is right, and if we ...

This paper assesses the impact of the Choreographic Language Agent and the Digital Dance Archives on dance ontology. Enhanced visualisation afforded by digital technology – impacts on the essential ontological features of dance, such as ephememerality and the human body. Referring to the work of Nelson Goodman (1968) and Martin Heidegger (1977), I discuss the significance of creative programmin...

the purpose of this article is to present a comparative study of the views of islamic logicians on ‘verity-propositions’ and nelson goodman’s ideas on law-like statements. in order to achieve this, first we describe the analyses of islamic logician of the meaning of factual proposition and goodman`s presentation of law-like statements. then, using a comparative approach, we explain the points o...