In Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation, William Abraham offers a rich, subtle defense of an epistemology of divine revelation. In this paper, I focus on a cluster of metaepistemological claims made by Abraham. Specifically, I argue that Abraham’s remarks about epistemic fit and the epistemic standards we bring to bear in making evaluations of divine revelation claims commit him to a spe...

Spence, QJE 1973 “Job Market Signaling” The big point: If there is a heterogeneity of types and there exists a signal which has a cost that is negatively correlated with productivity then there exist an infinite number of equlibirium which produce perfect information. Spence hopes to generate a model that “a considerable variety of market and quasimarket phenomena like admissions procedures, pr...

We present an interpretation of protocol narrations by means of translation into the spi-calculus. Our translation allows participants to play multiple roles in parallel, leading to a more general interpretation that considers a wider range of attacks than previous work. We test the validity of our translation by introducing correspondence assertions [Woo and Lam, S&P 1993] to both the protocol...

narrative interpretations are composed of both authentic traditions and fictitious ones. so, first of all we should separate faked narrations from authentic ones.in addition, not all the authentic hadith are considered as exegesis of qur'an. it is necessary to categorize them. so, every narration has to be in a special category and is harmonized with other narrations in the same category a...

This paper considers prior-independent mechanism design, namely identifying a single mechanism that has near optimal performance on every prior distribution. We show that mechanisms with truthtelling equilibria, a.k.a., revelation mechanisms, do not always give optimal priorindependent mechanisms and we define the revelation gap to quantify the non-optimality of revelation mechanisms. This stud...