The two questions remain open questions at the end of the paper, but in the course of the discussion they are related to each other in ways that are surprising. It is his discussion of the interconnection of these two issues that reveals a hidden depth to Ramsey’s view of truth. His claim is that the idea that “true” is an incomplete symbol and the idea that the world is simple are part of the ...

We offer a way to test to what extent double-entry book-keeping is the vector of rationalization of merchant activity that was described by Weber, and explore alternative possible motivations. We move the focus away from the structure and theory of accounts into the daily practice of the agents themselves. We use the new, unique database of eighteenth-century merchant accounts developed in Fran...

Disclaimer ©Institute for Retail Studies. All rights reserved. 1 The views and opinions expressed in this Working Paper are strictly the responsibility of the authors. 3 INTRODUCTION Charity retailing has grown over the last five years into a thriving and expanding sector and can no longer be ignored by academic researchers. Corporate Intelligence Group (1992) report that there are now over 5,0...

Uncertainty is one of the main problems that have to deal robot manipulation systems in service environments. In this paper we propose a theoretical framework to program manipulation actions, that makes use of a priori defined manipulation primitives and sensory feedback to face uncertainty in the execution. It also takes into account the limitation of the robot gripper and the reactive executi...

Ever-increasing numbers of human interactions with intelligent software agents, online and offline, their increasing ability to influence humans have prompted a surge in attention toward the concept (online) manipulation. Several scholars argued that manipulative is always hidden. But manipulation sometimes overt, when this acknowledged distinction between other forms social becomes problematic...

The aim of this essay is to investigate discursive, cognitive and social aspects of manipulation in regard to the dialogues of the literary fictional character of Gandalf in the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings. Accordingly, the researcher has taken a multidisciplinary approach to an account of discursive manipulation, and focuses on the cognitive dimensions of manipulation. As a result, the re...

In feature based systems support for direct manipulation is not commonly available. This is partly due to the strong reliance of feature modelling systems on constraints and on the lack of speed of current constraint solv­ ers. In this paper an approach to the optimization of the geometric constraint solving for the specific situation of direct manipulation is described. Also a solution for a d...

We show that every uniformly asymptotically affine circle endomorphism has a uniformly asymptotically conformal (UAC) extension to the complex plane. Then we use the UAC extension to construct the dual dynamical system, the dual annulus, and the dual circle expanding map.