to complete “the use theory of meaning”, paul horwich put forward a new thesis upon which some usages of a word have explanatory role and justify the overall use-regularities of that word. these specific usages have a basic acceptance property which makes them believable in user’s belief system and, like a semantic axiom, make other usages justified. but, there are still some usages that cannot...

The purpose of this paper is to obtain the common fixed point results for two pair of weakly compatible mapping by using common (CLR) property in partial metric space. Also we extend the very recent results which are presented in [17,  Muhammad Sarwar, Mian Bahadur Zada and Inci M. Erhan, Common Fixed Point Theorems of Integral type on Metric Spaces and application to system of functional equat...

Combined with previous research on entity summarization, the concept of common property and special property are defined based on the statistical distributions of properties in our paper, and we use the two kinds of property to summarize entities. Common property is a property that the entities under the same type all have. It is the basic property of the entities, and it can help to recognize ...

— This paper uses data from the 2003/04 Cambodia Household Socioeconomic Survey to investigate the effects of property rights to land. Plots held with a paper documenting ownership in rural Cambodia are found to have higher productivity and land values than other plots, while property rights have weak effects on access to credit. The paper also investigates whether the introduction of private p...

Is mutually beneficial cooperation in trust games more prevalent with private property or common property? Does the strength of property right entitlement affect the answer? Cox, Ostrom, Walker, et al. [1] report little difference between cooperation in private and common property trust games. We assign stronger property right entitlements by requiring subjects to meet a performance quota in a ...

There is an enormous stress on livelihood analysis of rural communities and their economies. Village common property resources (CPRs) have played a substantial economic role for the sustenance in rural areas of the drylands. The CPRs of drylands of western Rajasthan shows a varied range of habitats due to strong functional disparities in topographic, geomorphological, climatic, edaphic and phys...

Public infrastructure and other publicly provided services that benefit industry fall into two board categories: pure and congestible. This paper explores the implications of both types of public inputs. The differences between the two have considerable implications for the design of tax and spending policy. In particular, this paper highlights the effects of a congestible public input as being...