I many circumstances, evaluations are based on empirical data. However, some observations may be imprecise, meaning that it is not entirely clear what occurred in them. We address the question of how beliefs are formed in these situations. The individual in our model is essentially a “frequentist.” He first makes a subjective judgment about the occurrence of the event for each imprecise observa...

Systems that extract biological regulatory pathway relations from free-text sources are intended to help researchers leverage vast and growing collections of research literature. Several systems to extract such relations have been developed but little work has focused on how those relations can be usefully organized (aggregated) to support visualization systems or analysis algorithms. Ontologic...

In Parts of Classes David Lewis attempts to draw a sharp contrast between mereology and set theory and he tries to assimilate mereology to logic. For him, like logic but unlike set theory, mereology is “ontologically innocent”. In mereology, given certain objects, no further ontological commitment is required for the existence of their sum. On the contrary, by accepting set theory, given certai...

the purpose of this research is to examine the effect of the islamic awakening in the arabic countries of the middle east and north africa on israeli ontological security and, it's strategy ofclosure and deviationin the regional level. in other words, after occurrence of the developments, the ontological security and identity of israel faced with what challenges? this research argues that ...

Within the knowledge organization systems (KOS) set, term “ontology” is paradigmatic of terminological ambiguity in different typologies. Contributing to this situation indiscriminate association “ontology”, both as a specific type KOS and process categorization, due interdisciplinary use with meanings. We present systematization perspectives authors ontologies, representational artifacts, seek...

Most insurance companies publish few data on the occurrence and detection of insurance fraud. This stands in contrast to the previous literature on costly state verification, which has shown that it is optimal to commit to an auditing strategy, as the credible announcement of thoroughly auditing claim reports might act as a powerful deterrent. We show that uncertainty about fraud detection can ...

This article points out some methodological difficulties in Time and Narrative. On the one hand, imbalance re-elaboration of mimetic model: extensive treatment configurative refigurative components contrasts with indeterminacy which remains prefigurative component. other there is a discontinuity between narrative refiguration hermeneutics historical consciousness. A certain ambiguity “ontologic...