in this research, the viewpoint of mīzā mahdī iṣfahānī, as the founder of tafkīk school (separatism), concerning the most important epistemological issues like the quiddity of cognition (or episteme), types of cognition, truth, and justification of knowledge (ma‘rifa) are studied. given the fact that epistemology has not been regarded as an independent science in the muslim world, but the musli...

The first step towards automating the measurement of deliberative communication is to analyze the content of a debate. In this paper we develop a novel visual method that allows to determine content-based episodes within discourses. Our framework reveals interesting subsequences of discourses that help to automate the measurement of deliberative communication.

Against a backdrop of a ‘pornographication’ of mainstream media and the emergence of a more heavily sexualized culture, women are increasingly targeted as sexual consumers. In the UK, the success of TV shows like Sex and the City and the ‘fashion ‘n’ passion’ of sex emporia like Ann Summers suggests that late twentieth century discourses which foregrounded female pleasure have crystallised in a...

AbstractThe purpose of this article is to examine one the traditions in Seko and be juxtaposed with victims wrongdoing Imamat. Traditions or customs within a certain community group that have characteristic entity their application. This discusses tradition quite unique, namely Mupupantunu part Seko, Kalamio. giving sanctions members society who violate wrong norms mistakes. involves slaughteri...

shiite murji’ah is a movement in the second century of kufah. having distinguished themselves from official shiites after the rise of some political-social events in kufah and basically as a way of solving the troubles before shiite community, they adopted an idea concerning imamat –which is the most central foundation of shiite thought- which was a kind of retreatment from this foundation. tho...

Around the globe, governments are pursuing policies that depend on information technology (IT). The United Kingdom’s National Identity Scheme was a government proposal for a national identity system, based on biometrics. These proposals for biometrics provide us with an opportunity to explore the diverse and shifting discourses that accompany the attempted diffusion of a controversial IT innova...

Based on the investigation of medical discourses referring to school sanitation, this study addresses the spread of the Hygiene science in the State of Paraná, southern Brazil, between 1920 and 1937. Discourses to schools present in many sources, mainly periodicals, Archivos Paranaenses de Medicina and Revista Medica do Parana, pointed out the perception of medicine underpinned by Hygiene, in w...

These years increasing interest is put on IT project portfolio management (IT PPM). Considering IT PPM an interdisciplinary practice, this paper conducts a concept-based literature review of relevant articles across various research disciplines. It finds and classifies a stock of 107 relevant articles into four scientific discourses: the normative, the interpretive, the critical, and the dialog...

The production and use of energy is an important factor in European politics and science. However, we know little about the discussions that influence how scarce financial resources of governments and organizations are directed to different projects and action related to energy strategy of EU. Therefore, this paper studies the discourses that underlie the ‘energy talk’ of EU decision makers. Th...