Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. Knowledge is relative to time and place, never absolute across time and space (Patton, 2002) Contents CONTENTS CONTENTS ABSTRACT LIST OF PAPERS

1. Introduction When I talk about the objects of belief I do not mean, e.g., the sun to which my thought that the sun will rise tomorrow refers; I do not mean the objects we think about. I take objects rather in a general philosophical sense; they simply are the bearers of properties and the relata of relations. I am thus concerned with the objects that are related by the belief relation " a be...

Contents 1 An introduction to inquisitive semantics 1 1.1 Information states and the classical update perspective .

The traditional consideration of architectural history as a linear process, where one style successively replaces another, still dominates, but does not explain many phenomena. V.S. Goryunov substantiated fundamentally different, non-linear model the historical process in architecture on basis 19th – early 20th centuries. V. S. and M. P. Tubli proposed stylistic polyphony with introduction conc...

2. September 15, 2015 5 2.1. Regular curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2. Arc Length Parametrization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3. Change of Orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.4. Vector Product in R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.5. OH GOD NO . . . . ....

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Contents List of figures and tables , ix About the authors xi Acknowledgements xiii List of acronyms , xv Introduction xvii

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