The paper is based on a long-lasting research carried out among the members of Serbian ethnic/national minority in Hungary. The research focused on the topic of ethnic identity. This paper is an attempt to derive the actual concept of ethnic identity out of its results, together with the manner in which it is symbolized in the case of the observed group. The approach assumes that (eth-nic) identity is a socio-cultural construction, whereas the results are based on statements and behavior of the group members themselves - those who declare themselves as Serbs.
Conclusions of theoretical reasoning are assertions—or at least speech acts belonging to the class of assertives, such as hypotheses, predictions or estimates. What, however, are the conclusions of practical reasoning? Employing the concepts of speech act theory, in this paper I investigate which speech acts we perform when we’re done with an instance of a practical argument and present its result in a linguistic form. To this end, I first offer a detailed scheme of practical argument suitable for an external pragmatic account (rather than an internal cognitive account). Resorting to actual examples, I then identify a class of action-inducing speech acts as characteristic conclusions of practical argument. I argue that these speech acts—promises, orders, pieces of advice, proposals, and others—differ chiefly depending on the agent of the action induced (me, us, you, them) and their illocutionary strength.
This paper introduces a new variant of Petri net controlled grammars, namely a \textit{concurrently controlled grammar}, where the control over the application of the productions of a grammar is realized by a Petri net with different parallel firing strategies. The generative capacity of these grammars is investigated with respect to transition labeling strategies, definitions of final marking sets and parallel transition firing modes. It is shown that the labeling strategies do not effect the computational power whereas the maximal firing modes increase the power of concurrently controlled grammars with erasing rules up to Turing machines.
The paper presents a new method of conditional combination of quantum systems that takes into account the external environmental conditions. As a practical example of the method presented here, the well-known Bell states are modeled as conditional combination of two q-bits. Analogous approach can be applied in modeling conditional combinations of two and more quantum system sequences.
In this paper we construct conditional states on semi-simple MV-algebras. We show that these conditional states are not given uniquely. By using them we construct the joint probability distributions and discuss the properties of these distributions. We show that the independence is not symmetric.
In this paper, I aim to do three things. First, I introduce the distinction between the Uniqueness Thesis (U) and what I call the Conditional Uniqueness Thesis (U*). Second, I argue that despite their official advertisements, some prominent uniquers effectively defend U* rather than U. Third, some influential considerations that have been raised by the opponents of U misfire if they are interpreted as against U*. The moral is that an appreciation of the distinction between U and U* helps to clarify the contours of the uniqueness debate and to avoid a good deal of talking past each other.
Copulas stable under univariate conditioning are studied. Limit approach to construction of conditioning stable copulas is introduced and illustrated. In the class of Archimedean copulas, Clayton copulas are shown to be the only conditioning stable copulas. Conditioning stable singular copulas are also discussed and examples of non-Archimedean absolutely continuous copulas which are conditioning stable are given.