scholarly journals Response to Essays on Are We Bodies or Souls?

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-138
Author(s):  
Richard Swinburne
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
Material Thing ◽  
Privileged Access ◽  
Metaphysical Modality ◽  
Mental Properties ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

This paper consists of my responses to the comments by nine commentators on my book Are we Bodies or Souls? It makes twelve separate points, each one relevant to the comments of one or more of the commentators, as follows: (1) I defend my understanding of “knowing the essence” of an object as knowing a set of logically necessary and sufficient conditions for an object to be that object; (2) I claim that there cannot be thoughts without a thinker; (3) I argue that my distinction of “mental” from “physical” events in terms of whether anyone has privileged access to whether or not they occur, is a clear one; (4) and (5) I defend my account of metaphysical modality and its role in defending my account of personal identity; (6) I defend my view that Descartes’s argument in favor of the view that humans are essentially souls fails, but that my amended version of that argument succeeds; (7) I claim that my theory acknowledges the closeness of the connection in an earthly life between a human soul and its body; (8) I argue that my Cartesian theory of the soul-body relation is preferable to Aquinas’s theory of that; (9) I argue that a material thing cannot have mental properties; (10) I argue that any set of logically necessary conditions for an object to be the object it is, which together form a logically sufficient condition for this, mutually entails any other such set; (11) I deny that a dualist needs to provide an explanation of how the soul has the capacities that it has; and finally (12) I defend my view that souls have thisness, and claim that that is not a difficulty for the view that God determines which persons will exist.

scholarly journals Noetherian properties in composite generalized power series rings

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1540-1551
Author(s):  
Jung Wook Lim ◽  
Dong Yeol Oh
Keyword(s):  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Commutative Rings ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Condition ◽  
Generalized Power Series ◽  
Ordered Monoid ◽  
Power Series Rings ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Equivalent Conditions

Abstract Let ({\mathrm{\Gamma}},\le ) be a strictly ordered monoid, and let {{\mathrm{\Gamma}}}^{\ast }\left={\mathrm{\Gamma}}\backslash \{0\} . Let D\subseteq E be an extension of commutative rings with identity, and let I be a nonzero proper ideal of D. Set \begin{array}{l}D+[\kern-2pt[ {E}^{{{\mathrm{\Gamma}}}^{\ast },\le }]\kern-2pt] := \left\{f\in [\kern-2pt[ {E}^{{\mathrm{\Gamma}},\le }]\kern-2pt] \hspace{0.15em}|\hspace{0.2em}f(0)\in D\right\}\hspace{.5em}\text{and}\\ \hspace{0.2em}D+[\kern-2pt[ {I}^{{\Gamma }^{\ast },\le }]\kern-2pt] := \left\{f\in [\kern-2pt[ {D}^{{\mathrm{\Gamma}},\le }]\kern-2pt] \hspace{0.15em}|\hspace{0.2em}f(\alpha )\in I,\hspace{.5em}\text{for}\hspace{.25em}\text{all}\hspace{.5em}\alpha \in {{\mathrm{\Gamma}}}^{\ast }\right\}.\end{array} In this paper, we give necessary conditions for the rings D+[\kern-2pt[ {E}^{{{\mathrm{\Gamma}}}^{\ast },\le }]\kern-2pt] to be Noetherian when ({\mathrm{\Gamma}},\le ) is positively ordered, and sufficient conditions for the rings D+[\kern-2pt[ {E}^{{{\mathrm{\Gamma}}}^{\ast },\le }]\kern-2pt] to be Noetherian when ({\mathrm{\Gamma}},\le ) is positively totally ordered. Moreover, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the ring D+[\kern-2pt[ {I}^{{\Gamma }^{\ast },\le }]\kern-2pt] to be Noetherian when ({\mathrm{\Gamma}},\le ) is positively totally ordered. As corollaries, we give equivalent conditions for the rings D+({X}_{1},\ldots ,{X}_{n})E{[}{X}_{1},\ldots ,{X}_{n}] and D+({X}_{1},\ldots ,{X}_{n})I{[}{X}_{1},\ldots ,{X}_{n}] to be Noetherian.

scholarly journals The competition number of a generalized line graph is at most two

2012 ◽  
Vol Vol. 14 no. 2 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Boram Park ◽  
Yoshio Sano
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Line Graph ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Line Graphs ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Condition ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Competition Number

Graph Theory International audience In 1982, Opsut showed that the competition number of a line graph is at most two and gave a necessary and sufficient condition for the competition number of a line graph being one. In this paper, we generalize this result to the competition numbers of generalized line graphs, that is, we show that the competition number of a generalized line graph is at most two, and give necessary conditions and sufficient conditions for the competition number of a generalized line graph being one.

scholarly journals A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for the Equivalence of the Topologies of Uniform and Compact Convergence

1979 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. Clapp ◽  
Ray C. Shiflett
Keyword(s):  
Uniform Convergence ◽  
Metric Spaces ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Condition ◽  
Introductory Courses ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Compact Convergence

Let (X, p) and (Y, d) be metric spaces with at least two points. It is usual for introductory courses in topology to study the set Yx of all functions mapping X to Y with the pointwise, compact-open, uniform convergence, and uniform convergence on compacta topologies. Some care is taken to show sufficient conditions for these topologies to be equivalent [1, 2]. However, the question of necessary conditions are dismissed with examples showing that the topologies are not in general equivalent.

SOME SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS OF LEARNABILITY IN THE LIMIT FROM POSITIVE DATA

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 515-524
Author(s):  
TAKESI OKADOME
Keyword(s):  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Condition ◽  
Conditions For Learning ◽  
Positive Data ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Learning In The Limit

The paper deals with learning in the limit from positive data. After an introduction and overview of earlier results, we strengthen a result of Sato and Umayahara (1991) by establishing a necessary and sufficient condition for the satisfaction of Angluin's (1980) finite tell-tale condition. Our other two results show that two notions introduced here, the finite net property and the weak finite net property, lead to sufficient conditions for learning in the limit from positive data. Examples not solvable by earlier methods are also given.

Separability criteria based on the Bloch representation of density matrices

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 624-638
Author(s):  
J. de Vicente
Keyword(s):  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Pure Product ◽  
Separability Problem ◽  
Arbitrary Dimensions ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Bloch Representation

We study the separability of bipartite quantum systems in arbitrary dimensions using the Bloch representation of their density matrix. This approach enables us to find an alternative characterization of the separability problem, from which we derive a necessary condition and sufficient conditions for separability. For a certain class of states the necessary condition and a sufficient condition turn out to be equivalent, therefore yielding a necessary and sufficient condition. The proofs of the sufficient conditions are constructive, thus providing decompositions in pure product states for the states that satisfy them. We provide examples that show the ability of these conditions to detect entanglement. In particular, the necessary condition is proved to be strong enough to detect bound entangled states.

scholarly journals Equipartitioning and balancing points of polygons

Pythagoras ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 0 (71) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shunmugam Pillay ◽  
Poobhalan Pillay
Keyword(s):  
General Theorem ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Centre Of Mass ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Condition ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

The centre of mass G of a triangle has the property that the rays to the vertices from G sweep out triangles having equal areas. We show that such points, termed equipartitioning points in this paper, need not exist in other polygons. A necessary and sufficient condition for a quadrilateral to have an equipartitioning point is that one of its diagonals bisects the other. The general theorem, namely, necessary and sufficient conditions for equipartitioning points for arbitrary polygons to exist, is also stated and proved. When this happens, they are in general, distinct from the centre of mass. In parallelograms, and only in them, do the two points coincide.

Asymptotic stability of heteroclinic cycles in systems with symmetry. II

2004 ◽  
Vol 134 (6) ◽  
pp. 1177-1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Krupa ◽  
Ian Melbourne
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Stability ◽  
Transition Matrix ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Heteroclinic Cycles ◽  
Higher Dimensional ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

Systems possessing symmetries often admit robust heteroclinic cycles that persist under perturbations that respect the symmetry. In previous work, we began a systematic investigation into the asymptotic stability of such cycles. In particular, we found a sufficient condition for asymptotic stability, and we gave algebraic criteria for deciding when this condition is also necessary. These criteria are satisfied for cycles in R3.Field and Swift, and Hofbauer, considered examples in R4 for which our sufficient condition for stability is not optimal. They obtained necessary and sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability using a transition-matrix technique.In this paper, we combine our previous methods with the transition-matrix technique and obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability for a larger class of heteroclinic cycles. In particular, we obtain a complete theory for ‘simple’ heteroclinic cycles in R4 (thereby proving and extending results for homoclinic cycles that were stated without proof by Chossat, Krupa, Melbourne and Scheel). A partial classification of simple heteroclinic cycles in R4 is also given. Finally, our stability results generalize naturally to higher dimensions and many of the higher-dimensional examples in the literature are covered by this theory.

scholarly journals Syarat Perlu dan Cukup untuk Keterbatasan Potensial Riesz di Ruang Morrey Klasik

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Mohammad Imam Utoyo ◽  
Basuki Widodo ◽  
Toto Nusantara ◽  
Suhariningsih Suhariningsih
Keyword(s):  
Characteristic Function ◽  
Morrey Space ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Riesz Potential ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Condition ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

This script was aimed to determine the necessary conditions for boundedness of Riesz potential in the classical Morrey space. If these results are combined with previous research results will be obtained the necessary and sufficient condition for boundedness of Riesz potential. This necessary condition is obtained through the use of characteristic function as one member of the classical Morrey space.

scholarly journals Sufficient conditions for matchings

1972 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Simple Proof ◽  
Perfect Matching ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Condition ◽  
Number Of Components ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

A graph G is said to possess a perfect matching if there is a subgraph of G consisting of disjoint edges which together cover all the vertices of G. Clearly G must then have an even number of vertices. A necessary and sufficient condition for G to possess a perfect matching was obtained by Tutte (3). If S is any set of vertices of G, let p(S) denote the number of components of the graph G – S with an odd number of vertices. Then the conditionis both necessary and sufficient for the existence of a perfect matching. A simple proof of this result is given in (1).

Normal and osculating maps for submanifolds of RN

1990 ◽  
Vol 114 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 39-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Cattaneo Gasparini ◽  
G. Romani
Keyword(s):  
Isometric Immersion ◽  
Normal Bundle ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Gauss Map ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Totally Geodesic ◽  
Precise Formulation ◽  
Parallel Case ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

SynopsisLet Mn be a manifold supposed “nicely curved” isometrically immersed in ℝn+p. Starting from a generalised Gauss map associated to the splitting of the normal bundle defined from the values of the fundamental forms of M of order k (k ≧ 0), we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the map to be totally geodesic and harmonic . For k = 0 is the classical Gauss map and our formula reduces to Ruh–Vilm's formula with a more precise formulation due to the consideration of the splitting of the normal bundle.We also give necessary conditions for M, supposed complete, to admit an isometric immersion with . This theorem generalises a theorem of Vilms on the manifolds with second fundamental forms parallel (case k = 0). The result is interesting as the class of manifolds satisfying the condition is larger than the class of manifolds satisfying .

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