Two kinds of individuals are distinguished: abstract and concrete. Whereas abstract individuals belong to our conceptual sphere, concrete individuals (i.e. particulars) individuate the world of matter. A subject investigating the external world projects abstract individuals onto concrete ones. The proposal offers a solution to various metaphysical and epistemological puzzles concerning individuals, e.g., the Ship of Theseus, the Polish Logician, problems with reidentification, or proper names. and Jiří Raclavský
We prove that the spectral sets of any positive abstract Riemann integrable function are measurable but (at most) a countable amount of them. In addition, the integral of such a function can be computed as an improper classical Riemann integral of the measures of its spectral sets under some weak continuity conditions which in fact characterize the integral representation.
Recently, we established some generalizations of the theory of Lagrange multipliers arising from nonlinear programming in Banach spaces, which enable us to treat not only elliptic problems but also parabolic problems in the same generalized framework. The main objective of the present paper is to discuss a typical time-dependent double obstacle problem as a new application of the above mentioned generalization. Actually, we describe it as a usual parabolic variational inequality and then characterize it as a parabolic inclusion by using the Lagrange multiplier and the nonlinear maximal monotone operator associated with the time differential under time-dependent double obstacles.
In this paper, we give a new approach to the study of Weyl-type theorems. Precisely, we introduce the concepts of spectral valued and spectral partitioning functions. Using two natural order relations on the set of spectral valued functions, we reduce the question of relationship between Weyl-type theorems to the study of the set difference between the parts of the spectrum that are involved. This study solves completely the question of relationship between two spectral valued functions, comparable for one or the other order relation. Then several known results about Weyl-type theorems become corollaries of the results obtained.