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... and online from: Publishing Online, Co. (Seattle, Washington State) at: http://PublishingOnline.com This book has been p... ...71-3 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 CONTENTS Preface Chapter One: INTRODUCTORY CO... ...r spaces can be had from [81 and 122]. The main property which we wish to state about semivector spaces is the concept of basis. DEFINITION 1.5.9... ...case of group near-rings and S-group near-rings remains at a very dormant state. Now the concept of Smarandache semigroup near-ring is defined in ... ...ry element is an idempotent cannot yield nontrivial subgroup in them; for us to define Smarandache analogue so we have left them without deeper disc... ...f L and L' respectively such that they are bigroups of L and L'. Thus for us we need not even have φ to be defined on the whole of L. It is sufficie... ... from K and K is strictly contained in s K . Thus S-automaton enables us to adjoin some more elements which is present in A and freely generated... ...l rings and the polynomial birings. 143 The following example gives us a polynomial which is reducible nor irreducible. Example 6.1.11: Con... ... H 1 but H 1 ∩ H 2 = {1, g 6 }. Thus the concept of bigroups enables us to recognize the structure of union of two subgroups as a bigroup. One ...

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...Introduction: The Euthydemus, though apt to be regarded by us only as an elaborate jest, has also a very serious purpose. It may fairly claim to be the oldest treatise on logic; for that science originates in the misunderstandings which necessarily accompany the first efforts of spec...

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...demus by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and wi... ...ose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated wit... ...y nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained wi... ..., in any way. Euthydemus by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series , Jim Manis, Faculty Editor... ...y Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION. THE EUTHYDEMUS, THOUGH APT to be regarded by us only as an elaborate jest, has also a very serious purpose. It may fai... ...with such passionate yearning was set in or- der and made ready for use. T o us the fallacies which arise in the pre-Socratic philosophy are trivial a... ...h are expressed by them. The intellectual world has become better assured to us, and we are less likely to be imposed upon by illusions of words. The ... ...occur in ordinary discourse. They are of little or no use or significance to us; but because we have grown out of the need of them we should not there... ...ry of the human mind. There are indeed many old fallacies which linger among us, and new ones are constantly springing up. But they are not of the kin...

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...m and love. Even the existence of such feelings is beyond our comprehension; we seem to require an incentive to perform any act that does not promise us some form of personal gain. That is why a quality such as altruism can only be imparted to us from Above, and only those of us who have experienced it can understand it. Rabbi Michael Laitman ......

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...understandwhat we read within the limits of our immediate grasp, since each of us is limited by the qualities of our individual souls. Therefore, in t... ...souls. Therefore, in the course of interacting with the Supreme Light, each of us will interpret these ideas as our souls perceive them. May the thoug... ...nd may appear unclear at a later date. Depending on our mood and our spiritual state, the text can appear as either full of deep meaning, or entirely ... ...ah is not studied for the sake of acquiring theoretical knowledge, but to help us see and perceive what is hidden from us. When, after we have contemp... ...hen our ability to attain the resulting spiritual lights and levels will bring us to true knowledge. -11- Until we can comprehend the Upper Light and... ... Until we can comprehend the Upper Light and can perceive what it presents to us, we will not understand how the universe is built and how it works, ... ...edifficultthandeathitself;therefore,itisno surprise that Ethics of the Fathers states, "Against your will do you live." Nature created us, and we are ... ...rder for them to experience the Ultimate Perfection. Once having achieved this state, every cell in their bodies convincedthemthatanyoneinourworldwoul... ...n for at least an instant, wewillseehowwonderfulthespiritualstatereallyis.This statecanbereachedonlywhenwehaveattainedthe eternal Truth. ThisTruthwill...

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...and enable him to feel more comfortable from the point of view of his physical state. This process teaches him to lower his expectations, yet leaves... ..., yet leaves him in conflict with his true desires. Our life experience teaches us that we have unlimited desires – and only limited resources to sa... ...e subject of Kabbalah. Kabbalah answers the basic questions of life and guides us toward achieving unlimited satisfaction on a daily basis. The esse... ...ions of man’s being add another dimension to human suffering. They do not allow us to feel satisfied even when this or that goal has been fulfilled.... ...er these questions from the sources of information at his disposal. Each one of us formulates our own perception of the world based on our experienc... ...e. Reality and everyday life constantly put this perception to the test, making us react, improve, or otherwise change it. With some of us, this pro... ...son 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Whenever Kabbalah is discussed, statements are tossed about such as: One can go mad studying Kabbala... ... the creation is to achieve communion with the Creator, because only in such a state can man achieve fulfillment, endless tranquility and happiness.... ...e him to have qualities similar to those of the Creator. The Kabbalistic method states that man must use everything he has in this world with the in...

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...BN: 1-931233-46-2 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 G-DIMENSIONAL THEORY & THE SMARANDACHE ... ...nd Smarandache Hypothesis (FTL) are defined as a formal set of (anti-logic) statements inclusive in modern quantum theory. To determine whether they... ...n Heritage Dictionary defines the paradox as: "1. A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true, 2. A statement exhibiting inexpli... ...tradictory though based on a valid deduction from acceptable premises. 4. A statement contrary to received opinion." [1] We see that none of these ... ...inion." [1] We see that none of these definitions indicate that labeling a statement as paradoxical, or containing a paradox, specifically defines ... ...n nuclear energy and stability. Roger C. Jones in Physics for the Rest of Us. non-formally describes the nucleus as a, "bunch of nucleons in a bal... ... majority of physicists … The theory is complete: anything it does not tell us may be interesting conjecture or metaphysics, but it is neither observ... ...chives/970594003.Ph.r.html. [21] Jones, Roger S., "Physics for the Rest of Us: Ten Basic Ideas of Twentieth-Century Physics That Everyone Should Kn...

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...y discover becomes obscure and difficult to grasp. Contemporary science books look more and more like science fiction, but still they fail to provide us with a clear answer as to the essence of the meaning of life. The wisdom of Kabbalah, offers a clear and proven method to understand the meaning of our lives and our objective in the universe. That method focuses on the de...

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...ng here? Why was the world created and is there life after death. Each of us tries our best to find the answers in our own unique way and through th... ...nique way and through the sources of information at our disposal. Each of us creates his or her own unique perspective on life, depending on what we... ...d, why are we destined to suffer so? That question relentlessly irritates us, denying us of satisfaction even when we do succeed in satisfying one ... .... Meditations and exercises of physical and intellectual development give us some transitory relief, but do not allow us to find the answer to the ... ...suffering, and what our purpose is in this world. All those methods calm us down, at the expense of the nullification of our needs and desires. Bu... ...rayer book, written by the RASHASH (Rabbi Shalom Shabazi). It very simply states: take light from one spiritual degree and extend it to another. Ris... ... on purpose, so that out of that opposite attribute, it would realize the state of spiritual perfection, then the pieces would fall together. In ord... ... as a result of the Creator’s desire to give. Now he has returned to that state – namely he receives everything that the Creator wants to give. That ... ...s, from the beginning of creation to its end, from a completely imperfect state to complete perfection, so that when we come to the degree of perfec...

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...estionable memory. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home centre... ...tion like our ‘Co.’ ‘P,’ of course, stands for ‘Papier.’ Now for the ‘Eg.’ Let us glance at our Continental Gazetteer.” He took down a heavy brown vol... ...elp, and so may he. Here he comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best attention.” A slow and heavy step, which had been heard up... ...man accent. “I told you that I would call.” He looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to address. “Pray take a seat,” said Holmes. ... ...ooked impatiently at his gigantic client. “If your Majesty would condescend to state your case,” he remarked, “I should be better able to advise you.”... ...rove fast. I don’t think I ever drove faster, but the others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their steaming horses were in front of ... ...ed his memory with a huge pinch of snuff. “Pray continue your very interesting statement.” “There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chai... ...estrians. It was difficult to realize as we looked at the line of fine shops and stately business premises that they really abutted on the other side up... ...he great claret importers of Fenchurch Street.” “Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will leave the papers here, and remember th...

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...we mention a creation - in the largest sense of the term - with the name of the personality who illustrates it most extensively at a given time, we state precisely the specific importance of it; we give it, with other words, the identity to which we can refer continuously with full knowledge and without causing any confusion among the receivers. The facts are called wi...

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...BN: 1-931233-53-5 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Foreword In the history of thought and creation, ... ...f the personality who illustrates it most extensively at a given time, we state precisely the specific importance of it; we give it, with other words... ...y movement of Paradoxism, conceived in Romania and affirmed in the United States, which is closely bound to the temperament, inclination, taste and ... ...rust. A mathematician in literature is a rare thing, because it sounds in us like the highest pretensions to amateurism. Ion Barbu, isn’t it?, comes ... ...ste well developed or, at least, having entered into the right way, and a state of spiritual alert desirous of being aware of the events. The signs ... ...word “that has been made of something else”. But, as Solomon Marcus warns us - “the literature that manipulates exaggeratedly those processes runs t... ...he spirit of paradoxism? 12 But the evidence of paradoxism imposes on us a more useful return to the father of the universe of despair. He, Emil... ...nd is horrified by “the stink of the words” in a time when he proclaims to us the absolute of the availability (“that should be more unusable than a ... ...by the reality of an essential aggression: “the thoughts always persecute us”. Don’t the exercises of paradoxist decomposition build a concrete ad...

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...As one of the oldest of mathematical disciplines, the roots of number theory extend back into antiquity. Problems are often easy to state, but extremely difficult to solve. Which is the origin of much of their charm. All mathematicians, amateurs and professionals alike, have a soft spot in their hearts for the "purity" of the integers. When "Fermat's L...

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... and online from: Publishing Online, Co. (Seattle, Washington State) at: http://PublishingOnline.com Peer reviewers: ... ... 1-931233-76-4 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 CONTENTS Dedication 4 Preface 5 Chapter On... ... a y l i v e s , t h e indeterminacy and unpredictability of life, affect us almost as much as the determined factors. It is a major handicap in mat... ...elational Maps (FRMs) [a particularization of the FCMs] are introduced by us — the FRMs are applicable when the nodes of the FCMs can be divided int... ...FCMs and NCMs (and alternately FRMs and NRMs) which has been explained by us, in this book, include: modeling of supervisory systems; design of hybr... ...relationship between concepts. Example 1.1.1: In Tamil Nadu (a southern state in India) in the last decade several new engineering colleges have b... ...(a 1 , a 2 , … , a n ) where a i ∈ {0, 1}. A is called the instantaneous state vector and it denotes the on-off position of the node at an instant.... ...e 1.1.2: Consider a FCM with C 1 , C 2 , …, C n as nodes. For example let us start the dynamical system by switching on C 1 . Let us assume that the... ...adaptation laws, infer causal links from simple data. FCM feedback forces us to abandon graph search, forward and especially backward chaining. Inste...

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...niversity of Craiova, Romania; C. Corduneanu, Department of Mathematics, Texas State University at Arlington, Arlington, USA; Charles T. Le, Church... ...University at Arlington, Arlington, USA; Charles T. Le, Church Rock, Red Rock State Park, Box 1228, NM 87311, USA. ISBN: ... ...ISBN: 1-931233-67-5 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America First International Conference on Neutr... ...ca/cgi-bin/amca/cagu-01. Invited Speakers: J. Dezert (France), Charles Le (US), I. Stojmenovic (Canada). For more information on neutrosoph... ...eisstein, 1998, the fuzzy logic is "an extension of two-valued logic such that statements need not to be True or False, but may have a degree of tru... ...usion of several bodies of evidence is very informative and can be used to help us to take legitimous final decision. In other words, this new theory c... ...he constraint on the maximization of the generalized entropy . This will allow us to obtain from the unique bpa having the minimum of specificity and ... ...be able to evaluate the degree of belief of each proposition of which will help us to take the most pertinent decision for the problem under considera... ...erence tended to a 2- state limit cycle attractor. Neurotrophic dynamics Let us consider a situation wherein somebody becomes a victim of a sexual ...

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...to of the PARADOXISM is especially a revolt of the emigrant to the United States who doesn't speak English, against the language - an anti- language ... ...- poems in Pirissanorench (language spoken in the South-West of the United States by a single person!); - super-poems; 6 - graphic poems; - upse... ... <logic> An extended form of probability based on Neutrosophy, in which a statement is held to be t true, i indeterminate, and f false, where t, i, ... ..., balanced by <Non-A> ideas (not only <Anti-A>, as Hegel asserted) - as a state of equilibrium. Neutrosophy is the base of neutrosophic logic, a mu... ...thority at all, for I'm not a dictator. Nothing from what belongs to us does really belong to us. We know that we don't know all. Et... ...undalini Energy (of divine nature) is the universal energy's projection in us. Athman (individual inward) blends with Brahman (collective inward... ...er the set of isolated points is of null measure. Nothing belongs to us in this world. Only our original ideas (if any!), transmitted to poste... ... architectures, machines, tools). Creativity and inventiveness belong to us. Philosophy will be neutrosophic, or will not be at all! Sine d... ...ow infinity would look like in the daily life! Question which fascinated us... To go, to go, and never to get to an end? Or, if you ever find an en...

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...31233-84-5 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 BEGIN THE ADVENTURE How to Break the... ...igh-energy electrons then one can begin to see what is involved. To help us do that, an appendix to chapter 4 explores an analogy wherein a case is ... ...n, and that "reality" is whatever one chooses to accept. Hence, I cannot state that STR is "reality"; but then I cannot also state what exactly is ... ...nics Distinguished Professor, Graduate Program in Materials Pennsylvania State University March 2004 10 Acknowledgements The fol... ...ower there seems to be a too-sweeping generalization. Physics books tell us that time has physical meaning only in its measurement in the form of u... ...eans any more?) is that no energy from a light signal would be returned to us from a body receding faster than that. But in the end, it all comes do... ...ier. It is a buffer that refuses to let rational Human beings question a statement by authority. Once a barrier is erected, it is difficult to ... ...cult to go to the stars. They are far away, and the speed of light limits us to a slow crawl along the starlanes. Decades and centuries will pass b... ...s & beliefs, which often masquerade as superior knowledge, and which hold us back even while our dreams and instincts work to carry us onward and ou...

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...ast Queensland, Australia. 3) Professor Emeritus C. Corduneanu Texas State University Department of Mathematics Arlington, Texas 76019, USA. ... ... 1-931233-60-8 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 Foreword As someone who works heavily in ... ... “something else” it is then possible to avoid the restrictions forced on us by the law of the excluded middle. Chapter three describes the rules of... ...s in the assignment of values to the → connective. It is interpreted as a statement that if the antecedent is true, then the consequence is also true... ...nt that if the antecedent is true, then the consequence is also true. The statement is then false if the antecedent is true, but the consequence is f... ...erive p. Section 8 QUANTIFICATION THEORY While propositions allow us to do a great deal of work, they are limited in their general use becau... ...P can be interpreted as meaning that both p and p → q being true restricts us to the first line of the table, where q is also true. MP can be mod... ... } else { value=invalue; } } // This function allows us to modify the value of the fuzzy object. public void setvalue(float in... ...range"); return; } value=invalue; } // This function allows us to obtain the value of the fuzzy object. public float getvalue() { ...

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...eley. Nowadays we are often put on the same podium to debate our beliefs, my realistic belief in the basic psychological drives that motivate us and... ...ter handle on what makes people tick. ―Having now looked at my own country, along with Kino and Singaling I wonder what it is that motivates us to ... ...e psychological theories that may explain why we behave as we do. My reading and thinking do not give me such certainty that I can put all of us hum... ...uch certainty that I can put all of us humans into one mold. Indeed, it appears that there are quite different drives and needs that motivate us. My... ...you. I‘ll have to warn you that I try to go back to the basics as much as I can. There are so many theories in psychology about what motivates us, ho... ...that anti-social mental and physical violence is only a part of the power package.‖ --―Chuck, do you remember when our Secretary of State,... ...problems. The vitamin A in butter was not present in the margarine. So they began to add the vitamin to margarine. In the mid-1940s the United States... ...r own diapers, we can't even talk. So what's to brag about? ―But we see power illustrated constantly. It may be in the cruelty of state ... ...cious drives against the casino owners‘ cold calculating intellectual decisions? ―It makes me wonder why the government backs casinos, state ...

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...ment about the origin of the human mind lies the question of human uniqueness. Most scientists agree that humans possess a unique intellect that sets us apart from other animals (for ex. see Gazzaniga MS, 2008). However when any individual skill is considered, researchers invariably point to a comparable skill among non-human primates. Scientists used to think that only hu...