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A Philosophical History of the Concept (Cambridge University Press), 2025

Several prominent Anglo-American philosophers—the concept theorists, as I shall call them—argue that to engage rationally in inquiry, one must grasp and apply non-linguistic entities called concepts which, when properly combined, yield non-linguistic entities called propositions or thoughts that are true or false. Arguments of this sort have a long history that extends at least as far back as Plato. What is distinctive of theorizing about concepts since the late 1930s, however, is its reliance on methods of metalinguistic semantic analysis first devised by Alfred Tarski. My goals in this paper are to explain this reliance and reconstruct and evaluate a small but representative selection of the most influential philosophical views on concepts since 1945. In the first two sections I describe how our use of metalinguistic semantic analysis to clarify and facilitate our inquiries presupposes our practical ability to use our words. In the third section I reconstruct the concept theorists’ argument that our practical ability to use our words requires an explanation and that only a theory of concepts can explain it. In the fourth through the seventh sections I examine, respectively, Rudolf Carnap’s, W.V. Quine’s, Hilary Putnam’s, and Tyler Burge’s influential views on whether, and if so, how, a theory of concepts can explain our practical ability to use our words. My examination of these views leads me to conclude that our practical ability to use our words in inquiry is more fundamental than any explanation of it that the concept theorists hope to provide. I therefore propose that we take this practical ability as fundamental and focus not on explaining it, but on clarifying it, refining it, and investigating its consequences.

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American Journal of Biomedical Sciences, 2018

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On 2010 year, Indonesia will held 246 local election for chief and vice chief of provence, district and city. 192 of 246 local election still probleming in local election supervisor committee (Panitia Pengawas Pemilihan Umum/Panwaslu) process making. This article want to explore the basic problem of this, the impact of this problem to local election and also “the judicial road” to serve this problem. One solution that give of this article is Precident of Indonesia Republic should be making a Peraturan Pemerintah Pengganti Undang-Undang (Perppu) to operate the opinion of Constitutional Court (Mahkamah Konstitusi) Number 11/PUU-VIII/2010.

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This document could be used by a Pharmaeutical College Student

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Schriften aus der Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften der Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, 2023

This research was conducted as part of a three-years-doctoral fellowship funded by the German Maritime Museum (DSM), Leibniz Institute for Maritime History, in Bremerhaven (Germany). The goal set up by the institution was “to investigate the possibilities and limits of non-invasive documentation technologies to study long-term behaviours of large-scale museum objects; in cooperation with the engineering research field and the industry, in order to answer conservation-restauration issues.” Using 3D technologies to look at the deformation(s) on the Bremen Cog, 14th century-wooden vessel on display at the DSM, is an original idea from the author alone. After several years of ‘standstill’, the question of building an adequate support for the ship came back into the foreground and was discussed during a workshop organised by the museum in November 2013. All experts present agreed that nothing could be proposed without knowing more about the object’s current conservation state. The structural weaknesses had to first be identified and understood in order to design the new support. Since wood can be considered as a ‘living’ entity, the question of deformation was essential, to slow down crack formation and anticipate breakage. Monitoring the geometry would help to understand all types of deformations involved in the process, for example seasonal changes as well as more linear and continuous deformation jeopardizing the structure over the long-term. This is how the journey began. But it took several months for the idea to take root and become reality. Thanks to the participation of Dr. Ursula Warnke, former DSM director, the author was invited in early 2014 to the COST-Action “Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage” COSCH. This platform became an extraordinary opportunity to gain access to specialists and knowledge in the field of 3D technologies, and to be exposed to new ideas. The role of the COSCH in this project is significant and provided the impulse for the doctoral research. In September 2014, the Bremen Cog became a case study to test on three methodologies for acquiring the ship’s deformation(s). Based on the feedbacks from several specialists attesting the scientific relevance of deformation monitoring on an archaeological ship, a doctoral fellowship was funded by the DSM between March 2016 and June 2019. The very close collaboration with the Institute of Applied Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics (IAPG) from the Jade University of Applied Sciences, in the person of Professor Thomas Luhmann, head of the institute, and scientific staff member Heidi Hastedt, has impacted considerably this work.

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Ovaj udžbenik je nastao u svrhu omogućavanja lakšeg učenja gradiva studentima, a na temelju sadržaja (tematskih cjelina) propisanih syllabusom kolegija Komuniciranje u zdravstvu, u sklopu diplomskog specijalističkog studija Kliničko sestrinstvo na Sveučilištu u Dubrovniku. Početno polazište za koncipiranje udžbenika bile su od strane studenata elaborirane teme seminarskih radova, koji su međutim u većoj ili manjoj mjeri prerađeni i dopunjeni relevantnim referencama, kao i dodatnim suvremenim znanstvenim spoznajama. Stoga zahvaljujemo svim studentima na korisnom doprinosu u koncipiranju ovog udžbenika, kao i vrijednim recenzentima doc. dr. sc. Jošku Vukosavu, doc. dr. sc. Klari Šiljeg te doc. dr. sc. Draženu Kovačeviću, kao i lektorici dr. sc. Sanji Brbori, koji su bitno doprinijeli poboljšanju kvalitete ovog nastavnom materijala.

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British Journal of Arts and Humanities

Since the rediscovery of Kautilya’s Arthasastra, it is considered as one of the oldest books on statecrafts and political realism in the world. In the book Arthasastra, Kautilya has described many ideas of statecraft, and they are still in the use of state polity. Until now some of his ideas remained unextractable. Many scholars in South Asia and the West are practicing the ideas formulated by Kautilya. Yet, as a native South Asian political fractional and international relations theorist, Kautilya remained under-exposed. Nevertheless, this current study is an attempt to find the dependency among the three significant concepts by Kautilya from his Arthasastra. In the study, the researcher has attempted to show how shifts in one of the three major concepts can change the other two. They are entirely dependent on each other. The researcher has made an effort to create a ‘measurement scale’ to measure the dependence among the ‘Upaya, Sadgunya, and Prakrti.’ On the other hand, since the...

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From the data collected the study revealed that there are few banks officers who deal directly with AML such as Money Laundering Control Officer (MLCO) in Tanzania. Inefficient employment and placement schemes in banking institutions can be the reason behind few number of MLCO officers. Data also revealed that lack of proper trainings on AML, commitment by banks and inadequacy implementation mechanism of AML Laws and regulations are among the reasons for this discrepancy; also the presence of inexperienced staffs to deal with AML defeats the efforts to combat ML. Although data suggests that money laundering activities in banking institutions are sinking, the problem is still tenacious and therefore compulsory efforts to control it is required. Data also revealed that most of the bank officials have less experience in matters related to money laundering and international financial crimes in which lack of proper trainings on AML, commitment by banks and inadequacy implementation mechanism of AML Laws and regulations are among the reasons for this discrepancy. Although the monetary authorities have succeeded in enacting the new Banking and Financial Institution Act in 2006, the responses from the general public has been that, the new Act does not sufficiently present well the issue/problem of money laundering. The act itself has been concentrating on issues such as licensing, ownership and structure of banks and financial institutions, capital reserves and accounts, activities and investments, supervision, coordination and control with very little attention to Anti Money Laundering

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