In this essay I respond to Quentin Smith’s charge that ‘the date-analysis version of the tenseless theory of time cannot give adequate accounts of the truth conditions of the statements made by tensed sentence-tokens’ (Smith 1999, 236). His argument is based on an analysis of certain counterfactual situations that is at odds with the date-analysis account of language and hence succeeds only in ...

Let M denote the Laplacian matrix of a graph G. Associated with G is a finite group Φ(G), obtained from the Smith normal form of M , and whose order is the number of spanning trees of G. We provide some general results on the relationship between the eigenvalues of M and the structure of Φ(G), and address the question of how often the group Φ(G) is cyclic.

We prove a version of the Doob Meyer decomposition for supermartingales with a linearly ordered index set. Key words Doob Meyer decomposition, natural increasing processes, potentials, supermartingales. Mathematics Subject Classi…cation (2000): : 28A12, 60G07, 60G20.

A view has emerged which sees Adam Smith’s main contribution to economics in terms of his equilibrium theory. This paper argues that equilibrium economics was neither Smith’s main contribution nor his chief concern. It is true that Smith made a few observations which may be construed as equilibrium economics in some loose sense. For example, his observation that the market price of a commodity ...