This paper will focus on the readiness, willingness or subjective potential of a society and its members to accept ideas and actions that promote and lead towards reconciliation, and to refuse opposite information and actions that fuel a confl ictive world view. This subjective potential is an important factor that can inspire authors to pay attention to the more psychological or subjective asp...

A popular African proverb comes to mind here to express the African sense of community. It says: "Go the way that many people go; if you go alone, you will have reason to lament". The African idea of security and its value depends on personal identification with and within the community. Communalism in Africa is a system that is both suprasensible and material in its terms of reference. Both ar...

According to Jon Elster, mechanisms are frequently occurring and easily recognizable causal patterns that are triggered under generally unknown conditions or with indeterminate consequences. In the absence of laws, moreover, mechanisms provide explanations. In this paper I argue that Elster’s view has difficulties with progressing knowledge. Normally, filling in the causal picture without revis...

Never touch a running system! This proverb is essentially true when dealing with complex mature software systems that have been run for years. When it comes to modifying certain aspects due to performance enhancements or to customer needs, maintainers spend quite significant time to understand the behavior of thewhole system. As is practice today, only static documentation is available for such...

There is a class of joke which consists of an anecdote, which is sometimes quite long and often has no inherently humorous content, followed by a ®nal line which is a distorted form of some well-known phrase, proverb or quotation. Usually this ®nal line purports to summarize or draw a moral from the preceding story. This genre has some unusual aspects, from the viewpoint of conventional claims ...

Almost half a century ago, Roberts & SuttonSmith (1962) started their influential paper “Child Training and Game Involvement” with: “Games are systemic culture patterns which are distinctive, ancient, and widespread...” (Roberts & Sutton-Smith, 1962). In their paper, they explain that games are of all times and places. Moreover, they illustrate the importance of games for our development both a...

In the volume entitled Las cartas en refranes España el siglo XVI: Blasco de Garay (Sardelli, in press) we approach study of letters sayings Spanish literary tradition 16th century, with special attention to work Garay, maximum representative this genre that combines epistolary model and use-abuse sayings. same tradition, some Italian works century seem have been conceived intention playing pro...

A woman is the companion of man gifted with equal mental capacities. She has right to participate in minutest details activities man, and she same freedom liberty as he. By sheer force a vicious custom, even most ignorant worthless men have been enjoying superiority over women which they do not deserve ought have, “Women hold up half sky – Chinese proverb long more aspiration than fact. In deve...