Property is defined as that which is owned, including both tangible things and the right to engage in certain actions. In the physical and social sciences one can speak of a property of a thing or an object in describing a characteristic of that thing....

In modern philosophy, mathematics, and logic, a property is an attribute of an object; thus a red object is said to have the property of redness. The property may be considered a form of object in its own right, able to possess other properties....

The Possibility of Many Valued Logic. Michelle M. Monagin, Oakland University, Department of Philosophy, Rochester, MI 48309 I investigate the possibility of modeling ethical intuitions using many valued logic. In standard deontic logic, there is no resource for showing that one obligation...

I RECENTLY SPOKE AT AN EVENT about a program that has been one of NFPA's great successes of the last few years. The Firewise® Communities/USA Recognition Program coordinated by NFPA and funded by the USDA Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior has...

The Jewish Claims Conference joined with Polish restitution organizations Wednesday to appeal for the return of private property seized in the country during World War II and under Communist rule.Representatives of the Jewish conference, who met with Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, hope for legislation similar...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has revised downward the value of a 160-acre property he owns in Arizona in the wake of negative news reports, his 2006 financial disclosure form shows.The annual form, released by his office Wednesday, assigns a value of $250,001-$500,000 to...