Search results for "indeterminacy"
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Workplace democracy and republican freedom
2021
In this chapter, Keith Breen and Onni Hirvonen examine the case for democratic worker voice based on the republican ideal of freedom as non-domination. While not unconvincing, this case is primarily consequentialist in character and therefore open to significant empirical disagreement. Indeed, together with republican arguments for democratic worker voice, there are republican arguments for worker voice that reject workplace democracy, republican arguments that see state regulation plus a universal basic income (UBI) as sufficient for minimizing workplace domination, and republican arguments that focus exclusively on exit rights and are hostile to augmenting workers’ voice. Breen and Hirvon…
La natura delle cose
2022
The reference to the nature of things is still working today in legislation and jurisprudence. In this article the reasons for the persistence of this line of reasoning in law and in the legal science are examined. These reasons generally depend on the close connection between law and some fundamental social relations. But also the essential need to assure its effectiveness, without which law would be useless. In turn, the contemporary evolution of the legal culture requires a change in the way of understanding the nature of things. Nowadays, the nature of things distances itself from mere objectivism to get close to the deliberative character of the determination of the law
Estimation of Uncertain Relations between Indeterminate Temporal Points
2000
Many database applications need to manage temporal information and sometimes to estimate relations between indeterminate temporal points. Indeterminacy means that we do not know exactly when a particular event happened. In this case, temporal points can be defined within some temporal intervals. Measurements of these intervals are not necessarily based on exactly synchronized clocks, and, therefore, possible measurement errors need to be taken into account when estimating the temporal relation between two indeterminate points. This paper presents an approach to calculate the probabilities of the basic relations (before, at the same time, and after) between any two indeterminate temporal poi…
Interpretación e indeterminación de la regla jurídica
2005
Si difende la tesi della necessaria indeterminatezza delle regole giuridiche e si osservano i suoi effetti sulla teoria dell'interpretazione giuridica.
Lo stato costituzionale di fronte all’emergenza pandemica
2022
La costituzionalizzazione degli ordinamenti giuridici accresce la flessibilità del diritto a detrimento della certezza e impone a tutti – legislatori, giudici e individui soggetti al diritto – di assumersi le proprie responsabilità e i rischi che ne conseguono. Il modo in cui il legislatore, a diversi livelli, fronteggia l’attuale pandemia da Covid-19 costituisce un interessante angolo visuale per riflettere sugli effetti – alcuni positivi, altri negativi – prodotti dall’indeterminatezza del diritto contemporaneo. Legal systems’ constitutionalization increases legal flexibility at the expense of legal certainty; it imposes to legislators, judges and individuals the responsibility and the as…
‘Disorderly conduct’: on the unruly rules of public communication in social network sites
2013
In this article, we examine typical styles and practices of public communication on social network sites (SNSs) in order to confront the traditional concept of publics as machines for creating order. Through an ethnographic case study of the SNS Facebook, we show how indeterminacy, ambiguity and constant irritation, rather than arguments or reason, produce the communicative order. A decidedly disorderly style of communication and connectivity emerges. Indeterminacy, from our point of view, is a solution to the problem of speaking privately in public and to an indefinite audience. We use these findings to problematize the insights of network theory and Niklas Luhmann's systems theory that on…
Beyond black dots and nutritious things: A solution to the indeterminacy problem
2020
Construction of Whiteness and Blackness in Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno
2020
Rather than resist slavery directly, the narrative world of Benito Cereno disperses the rejection of tyranny through the intricate construction of subject-object relations, the situational context, Benito Cereno’s stifled, semi-articulated statements, the imagery of the narrative and its complex narrative structure. Through silences, multiple viewpoints, innuendos, refusal to solve certain issues definitely while being explicit about this indeterminacy, Melville’s narrative not only inscribes itself in the Romantic questioning of historiography, but also gestures towards postmodernist inconclusiveness and the writerly text in which the reader is invited to be its co-author who fills out the…
Un lugar que no existe: la poesía de Antonio Méndez Rubio (1995-2005)
2014
En el presente trabajo se realiza un análisis de la poética de Antonio Méndez Rubio focalizado en cuatro de sus obras: El fin del mundo (1995), Un lugar que no existe (1998), Trasluz (2002) y Por más señas (2005). Tras un estudio del marco literario y socio-político en el que se ubican, planteamos: primero, una descripción del lenguaje poético que proviene de la aplicación de una metodología, de carácter pragmático, que nos permite analizar la modalización lírica y, con ello, los espacios de indeterminación que presenta; posteriormente, caracterizamos al sujeto lírico marcado por la falta partiendo de la vinculación que se da entre este y el mundo, y finalizando con la aplicación de las teo…
Thermodynamics-based gradient plasticity theories with an application to interface models
2008
AbstractIn the framework of small deformations, the so-called residual-based gradient plasticity theory is reconsidered and improved. Using the notion of moving geometrically necessary dislocations (GNDs), suitable micromechanics interpretations are heuristically given for the higher order boundary conditions and the long distance particle interactions. Also, a comparison is made between this theory and the analogous virtual work principle (VWP)-based one, whereby their respective conceptual and methodological features are pointed out. The conditions under which the two theories lead to a same constitutive model are investigated, showing that, correspondingly, a certain indeterminacy exhibi…