Davidson’s philosophy can, in an important sense, be characterised as a form of normativism, the view that the mind has essential normative properties. But what is exactly the form of normativism that Davidson defends? In the first place, the norms of the mental, which are the norms of rationality in interpretation, do not have any normative force: they do not have any power of prescribing us h...

Norms have been proposed as a way to regulate multi-agent systems. In order to operationalize norms, several computational frameworks have been proposed for programming norm-governed agent organizations. It has been argued that in such systems it is essential that norms, in particular those giving rise to achievement obligations, have deadlines. In this paper we propose a novel semantic framewo...

We study the boundedness and compactness of the differences of two weighted composition operators acting from the Bloch space B to the space H∞ of bounded analytic functions on the open unit disk. Such a study has a relationship to the topological structure problem of composition operators on H∞. Using this relation, we will estimate the operator norms and the essential norms of the differences...

We consider the problem of choice of norms in discrete approximation. First, we describe properties of the standard l1, l2 and l∞ norms, and their essential characteristics for using as error criteria in discrete approximation. After that, we mention the possibility of applications of the so-called total least squares and total least lp norm, for finding the best approximation. Finally, we take...

Social norms are communally agreed upon, morally significant behavioral standards that are, at least in part, responsible for uniquely human forms of cooperation and social organization. This article summarizes evidence demonstrating that ritual and ritualized behaviors are essential to the transmission and reinforcement of social norms. Ritualized behaviors reliably signal an intentional menta...