Search for dissertations about: "abstract particular"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 481 swedish dissertations containing the words abstract particular.

  2. 1. Moderate Nominalism and Moderate Realism

    Author : Christer Svennerlind; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; analytic ontology; moderate nominalism; moderate realism; particular; universal; abstract; concrete; abstract particular; abstract universal; concrete particular; concrete universal; trope; moment; complex unity; collection; instance; unit attribute; intensional aspect; predicational aspect; continuous composite; articulated composite;

    Abstract : The subject matter of this thesis is analytic ontology. Chapters II and III deal with two versions of trope theory, or moderate nominalism; these are defined as ontologies which recognise properties and relations but no (real) universals. The key notion of both theories, trope, is characterised as an abstract particular. READ MORE

  4. 2. Abstract interpretations and abstract machines : contributions to a methodology for the implementation of logic programs

    Author : Ulf Nilsson; Jan Maluszynski; Samya Debray; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer science; Datavetenskap;

    Abstract : Because of the conceptual gap between high-level logic programming languages and existing hardware, the problem of compilation is hard. This thesis addresses two ways of narrowing this gap – program analysis through abstract interpretation and the introduction of intermediate languages and abstract machines. READ MORE

  5. 3. Towards Plane Hurwitz Numbers

    Author : Jared Ongaro; Boris Shapiro; Roy Skjelnes; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Algebraic curves; Hurwitz spaces; Mathematics; matematik;

    Abstract : The main objects of this thesis are branched coverings obtained as projection from a point in P^2. Our general goal is to understand how a given meromorphic function f: X -> P^1 can be induced from a composition X --> C -> P^1, where C is a plane curve in  P^2 which is birationally equivalent to the smooth curve X. READ MORE

  6. 4. Out of Minimalism

    Author : Malin Hedlin Hayden; Peter Gillgren; Margareta Rossholm Lagerlöf; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; 1. Title. 2. Sculpture - twentieth century; notion of sculpture; aesthetics; figurative; abstract; applied minimalism. 3. Corporeal viewer. 4. Interpretation.; Konstvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap;

    Abstract : The dissertation involves a threefold investigation of sculpture. Firstly, the interpretations are focused on particular artworks by three British sculptors: Antony Gormley (b. 1950), Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), and Rachel Whiteread (b. READ MORE

  7. 5. Bad Guys, Good Life : An Ethnography of Morality and Change in Kisekka Market (Kampala, Uganda)

    Author : Anna Baral; Sverker Finnström; Filip De Boeck; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Morality; Ethics; Urban planning; Informality; Bayaaye; Everyday life; Agency; Masculinity; Uganda; Buganda; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : Based on ethnographic data gathered over a period of almost three years, this dissertation scrutinizes the everyday lives of informal workers selling auto parts in Kisekka Market, central Kampala. Its ambition is to understand how the workers navigated a highly moralized environment in today’s Uganda, where the supposed moral deterioration of society is passionately discussed in public and in private. READ MORE