In this article, after reviewing the difference between fundamentalist and anti-fundamentalist philosophy, the features of the rationality will be explained from the perspective of five anti-fundamentalist philosophers (Habermas, Richard Rorty, MacIntyre, Michel Foucault and Hayek). The common point stated by all these philosophers is that they all criticize metaphysics and doubt about the basi...

The purpose of the present paper is to investigate to what extent norm predicates (expressed with words such as "ought", "permitted' and "wrong") can be defined in terms of value predicates (expressed with words such as "good", "bad", and "better"). Not even those words of naturallanguage that are paradigmatically logical (such as "not", "or", and "all") correspond exactly to symbols or express...

It has been shown that global predicate detection in a distributed computation is an NP-complete problem in general. However, polynomial-time predicate detection algorithms exist for some classes of predicates, such as stable predicates, observer-independent predicates, conjunctions of local predicates etc. We show here that, given a class of predicates for which polynomial-time detection algor...

Global predicates in parallel programs are predicates considering the state of more than one process. They are a useful concept for debugging parallel programs, e.g., for specifying assertions or breakpoints. In this paper 9-predicates are defined and examined, a restricted class of global predicates. 9-predicates are defined by two local predicates which have to be simultaneously satisfied by ...