show that if Quine is right about the consequences of his thesis, then the systems of classical logic can only be rejected as unscientific or meaningless, and not refined as inadequate. We show that there are good reasons both for and against his thesis. We argue against Local Pluralism, on the basis

ment ’ (CSM) the courses ‘Governance of crime and social disorder’, ‘Evidence-based policing’ and ‘Research Design’. She conducts research on plural policing and governance of local security problems in particular on incivilities (corresp.:

Consider Fritz, who is nowadays a happy resident of Saarbrücken. On sunny Saturdays, Fritz has the habit of barbecuing Bratwurst with his friends in his yard and going thereafter to his local, the Nächstestrasse Biergarten, ‘NB ’ for short. Fritz may have a couple of beers while eating his

We study Plurality Consensus in the GOSSIP Model over a network of n anonymous agents. Each agent supports an initial opinion or color. We assume that at the onset, the number of agents supporting the plurality color exceeds that of the agents supporting any other color by a sufficiently-large bias

Abstract Russia is a country that has witnessed increasingly authoritarian governance over the last decade. Civil liberties have been curtailed; local and regional political power has been usurped by the Kremlin. Russia remains a democracy insomuch as elections are conducted, but increasingly

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principle which emerges as a result of the encounters between religion and local wisdom. The reception of Ketanggi people towards religious and cultural pluralism is expressed through the concept of lilo legowo (voluntary reception towards the other) which in turn becomes founda-tion of religious tolerance

In this paper I discuss the interpretation of dependent plural pronouns (pronouns bound by a distributing definite antecedent) , and argue that they should be treated as "donkey " pronouns involving restricted functions. Such pronouns have been central to the study of reciprocals, and I

In this study, we proposes a modified particle swarm opti-mization (PSO) called plural PSO (PPSO) for bust-out the lo-cal optimum solution. The feature of PPSO is that the swarm of PPSO is not one but plural. The plural swarms share an information of the best position in each swarm. Except

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