REFERRING TO NOTHING

Referring to Nothing

Typical accounts of reference demand that referring terms denote existent objects.This assumption is shared by theories across a variety of areas of philosophy, in particular, direct reference views in philosophy of language; neo-Fregean conceptions in the philosophy of mathematics, and easy-ontology approaches in metaphysics.In this paper, this as

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Use of an automatic device for the determination of mechanical properties on photoelastic samples of small dimensions

Abstract Photoelastic materials and Photoelasticity have been very effective in the study of the effects of stress and strain in materials such as iron, steel, concrete, etc.However, mainly because of human interaction, systematic errors are introduced during the measurement process, which directly affects the final result.When using small photoela

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