A previously unnoticed metalogical paradox about contraposition is formulated in the informal metalanguage of propositional logic, where it exploits a reflexive self-non-application of the truth table definition of the material conditional to achieve semantic diagonalization. Three versions of the paradox are considered. The main modal formulation takes as its assumption a conditional that arti...

We describe a vision-based algorithm that enables a robot to “reacquire” objects previously indicated by a human user through simple image-based stylus gestures. By automatically generating a multiple-view appearance model for each object, the method can reacquire the object and reconstitute the user’s segmentation hints even after the robot has moved long distances or significant time has elap...

The Federal Trade Commission provided new guidance on its standards for “clinical integration” in its 2006 Advisory Opinion to Suburban Health Organization, Inc., stating that, if a network of competing physicians meets the FTC’s clinical integration standards, it may negotiate with a managed care organization (MCO) on behalf of its physician members without fear of a federal Antitrust prosecut...

A way to make people save energy is by informing them that "comparable others" save more. We investigated whether, one can further improve this nudge by manipulating Who the "comparable others" are. We asked participants to imagine receiving feedback stating that their energy consumption exceeded that of "comparable others" by 10%. We varied Who the "comparable others" were in a 2 × 2 design: t...

islam is regarded to pay attention to the characteristics of urban life which can be practiced on the urban settings. not surprisingly, islam has made a great focus on the form and design of cities and prescribed detailed and elaborate regulations for individual and communal life. seen from other way round, the penetration of islam into various regions such as iran, europe, and africa had an un...

Here I challenge the philosophical consensus that we use folk psychology for the purposes of metarepresentation. The paper intends to show that folk psychology should not be conceived on par with fact-stating discourses in spite of what its surface semantics may suggest. I argue that folk-psychological discourse is organised in a way and has conceptual characteristics such that it cannot fulfil...