When Thilo Sarrazin, a former Berlin finance minister, last year put forward the claim, which many saw as bordering on racist, that most of the city's Turks and Arabs were "neither willing to integrate nor capable of it", polls found that a majority of Germans agreed with him.If integration means a willingness to embrace German identity, he is right.
In his seminal work The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond put forward the claim that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".
For example, we might observe a blue table in front of us and put forward the claim that it is possible that the table not be blue and that it could have been black.
If a positive relationship of the above could be established, we could confidently put forward the claim that the type and numbers of question types posed by the most successful group did indeed facilitated the group to generate quality arguments (since there was a positive relationship between total number of questions, types of questions to that of soundness and strengths).
In addition to the classic Linus' Law ("given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"), Randal put forward the claim that human beings long to be part of something greater than themselves, and free software development satisfies that in spades.
This was particularly true after 1980 when Luis and Walter Alvarez put forward the Alvarez hypothesis claiming that an impact event caused the Cretaceous Paleogene extinction event, which killed off the non-avian dinosaurs along with many other living things.
And what seems sure to unfold is a loud chest-thumping contest as the rivals put forward competing claims about the relative benefits of the three drugs.
Even though as many as fourteen claimants put forward their claims to the title, the real contest was between John Balliol and Robert de Brus.
While these issues remain unresolved, it may be premature to put forward strong claims about the relation of the assertoric and semantic contents.
But a similar project, initiated nearly a decade ago by the Design Trust for Public Space, put forward similar claims.
