In typical models of classical diamagnetism (see, for example, sec. 34-4 of [1] or sec. 11.5 of [2]) the change of the magnetic moment of an “atom” is deduced when an external magnetic field increases “slowly” from 0 to B = B ẑ. The “atom” consists of an electron of charge −e and mass m that is in a circular orbit of radius r0 in the x-y plane about a “fixed nucleus” of charge e′ at the origin....

The idea that temporal propositions are vague predicates is examined with attention to the nature of the objects over which the predicates range. These objects should not, it is argued, be identified once and for all with points or intervals in the real line (or any fixed linear order). Context has an important role to play not only in sidestepping the Sorites paradox (Gaifman 2002) but also in...

Fitch’s paradox shows, from fairly innocent-looking assumptions, that if there are any unknown truths, then there are unknowable truths. This is generally thought to deliver a blow to antirealist positions that imply that all truths are knowable. The present paper argues that a probabilistic version of antirealism escapes Fitch’s result while still offering all that antirealists should care for...

List and Pettit have stated an impossibility theorem about the aggregation of individual opinion states. Building on recent work on the lottery paradox, this paper offers a variation on that result. The present result places different constraints on the voting agenda and the domain of profiles, but it covers a larger class of voting rules, which need not satisfy the proposition-wise independence

Leonardo Motta [email protected] Conselheiro Furtado, J 574/50 I Helem, PA 66040-100, Hra=il The Smarandache Paradox is a very interesting paradox of logic because it has a background common sense. However, at the same time, it gets in a contradiction with itself. Although it may appear well cohesive, a careful look on the science definition and some logic can break down this paradox showing...

The aim of this paper is to provide a deeper understanding of the complexities of IT implementation processes in health care by studying the introduction of an electronic patient record (EPR) system at three oncology clinics belonging to an association of hospitals in Austria. It examines the larger political and organizational context, the role of different stakeholders, the impact of arenas o...

Inflectional affixes are sensitive to morphological properties of the elements they attach to. Therefore Bierwisch (1987) suggested that the inflectional material is combined with both the verbal stem of simplex verbs and the verbal stem of particle verbs. He argued that this leads to the bracketing paradox in the case of particle verbs since the semantic contribution of the inflectional inform...

This paper is a contribution to the reconstruction of Tarski’s semantic background and to the history of metalanguage and truth. Although in his 1933 monograph Tarski credits his master, Stanisław Leśniewski, with crucial negative results on the semantics of natural language, the conceptual relationship between the two logicians has never been investigated in a thorough manner. This paper shows...