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The Necessary Maximality Principle for c.c.c. forcing with real parameters is equiconsistent with the existence of a weakly compact cardinal. The Necessary Maximality Principle for c.c.c. forcing, denoted 2mpccc(R), asserts that any statement about a real in a c.c.c. extension that could become true in a further c.c.c. extension and remain true in all subsequent c.c.c. extensions, is already tr...

Various cases of backward and forward anaphora are studied in a number of seemingly unrelated constructions and argued to be a manifestation of a unitary principle, namely Principle C of the Binding Theory (Chomsky, 1981; 1986). We point out an unexpected restriction on (forward) anaphora that is argued to be a case in which Principle C operates at the “reconstructed” level. Italian-speaking ch...

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It is well known that the speed cu = 1/√ 0μ0 is obtained in the process of defining SI units via action-at-a-distance forces, like the force between two static charges and the force between two long and parallel currents. The speed cu is then physically different from the observed speed of propagation c associated with electromagnetic waves in vacuum. However, repeated experiments have led to t...

While database reverse engineering is getting mature, trying to recover the semantics of recent OO applications seems to trigger little interest. The reason is that the problem is underlooked because OO programs should be written in a clean and disciplined way, and based on state-of-the-art technologies which allow programmers to write auto-documented code. The paper is an attempt to explain wh...