the misconception (shubha) of absolute nonexistent – which we have named as paradox – is not an amusing brainteaser; rather, it is one the significant epistemological issues. its importance can be looked upon from two different viewpoints: research and educational. it is significant from the research viewpoint because it challenges propositions which constitute the foundation of our thinking an...

the distinction between primitive predication and common predication is applied to solve some problems in islamic philosophy, some of which are incorrect in our point of view. some of the problems contain paradoxes and some others include independent philosophical discussions: 1. stating about absolute non-existents, 2. problems of subjective existence, 3. liar paradox and russell’s paradox, 4....

although aristotle has considered the “universal substance” as a substance, he introduced knowledge as an accident. the question then arises as to whether a “universal substance”, whereas it is a substance, can be an accident. answering the question, ibn sina has changed the subject of the dispute from “mental substance” to “quiddity of substance”, so that he could guarantee its truth in the fo...

Current predication models fail to consider the time utility of the web services evaluation predication and treat the different historical ratings in the same way. To solve this problem, we put forward web service evaluation predication model based on time utility. In the model, naïve quantification method and complex quantification method are proposed to achieve the distinct and proper time ut...

This paper outlines a formal description of grammatical relations between definitions and verbal predications found in Definitional Contexts in Spanish. It can be situated within the framework of Predication Theory, a model derived from Government & Binding Grammar. We use this model to describe: (i) the syntactic patterns that establish the relationship between definitions and predications; (i...

The expression “reversed predication” is not common. It is used in the field of symbolic logic to define complex conditions of negation. There are two key places where reversed predication, under a different, more general application, plays a key role: (1) George Spencer-Brown’s non-numerical calculus (Laws of Form, 1969), as applied to the “sorites” of Lewis Carroll, and (2) Slavoj Žižek’s ide...