For some thousands of years “logic” was viewed as the “theory of inquiry” – “inquiry into inquiry” if you will. This was almost certainly the case with Plato, definitely the case with Aristotle, and by and large true throughout the history of Western thought right up to the revolution in symbolic logic that occurred with Frege, Dedekind and Peano in the late 19th Century. However, with these changes the notion of logic came to be swallowed up by formal and symbolic concerns.

Logic as the theory of inquiry was lost sight of leaving mathematical logic as the sole claimant to the title of “Logic.”

Ecological Niche Modeling is a great tool for conservation biology, phylogeography and evolutionary biology. However, as Jeff Lozier and colleagues point out in a paper in the Journal of Biogeography that the models are only as good as the data they are based on.

The basic premise of the ENM approach is to predict the occurrence of species on a landscape from georeferenced site locality data and sets of spatially explicit environmental  data layers that are assumed to correlate with the species’ range.

NEW YORK, July 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Members Given Access to Live Web Stream of TEDGlobal 2009 Conference

The TED Conference is again making available its popular Associate Memberships, which will provide a virtual front-row seat at the upcoming TEDGlobal 2009 conference via a private, live web stream of all its main stage events.

The TEDGlobal 2009 conference will explore The Substance of Things Not Seen. Speakers this year include world-renowned philosophers, scientists, religious leaders, entertainers, artists, musicians and technologists. The event will take place July 21-24 in Oxford, U.K.

NEW YORK, July 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Destination For Beauty Business Innovation

HEEMSTEDE and SCHIPHOL, The Netherlands, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthcare & Science division of Thomson Reuters has released a new version of the program EndNote(R) for Windows, the bibliographic software, used by millions of researchers, librarians and students all over the world. EndNote X3, including EndNote Web, is a software program that helps to make research easier and more efficient. EndNote X3 offers new possibilities to create, import, manage and group references. It also includes an improved full text locator for online databases. The unique Cite While You Write(TM) technology is now integrated with Microsoft Word 2003/2007, Apple Pages'09 and OpenOffice.org Writer 3. The new version also supports chemistry styles.

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MERIGNAC, France, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Cortix, the market leader for Internet site creation in France and Europe, is expanding its product range in June 2009 with 50 new site models specially designed for microbusinesses and SMEs. The objective: to meet the needs of the customer group, made up of small businesses, artisans and independent professionals, who continue to invest in the development of their website despite the difficult business environment. Currently, Cortix has a catalogue of over 200 available products.

TORONTO, July 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Redknee's Next Generation Rating Charging Solution Enables Aggressive Data Growth at a Leading Tier-1 Operator

LONDON, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Inmarsat plc (LSE: ISAT), the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, has completed its previously announced strategic investment, long term global distribution agreement and new product development agreement with SkyWave Mobile Communications Inc. of Ottawa, Canada.

Concurrent with this investment, SkyWave has acquired assets relating to the GlobalWave satellite low data rate (SLDR) products and services business from TransCore and entered into a sales distribution relationship with TransCore focusing on the North American trucking and rail segments of the SLDR market, designed to leverage TransCore's substantial presence in those segments.

NEWBURY, England, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- From this month, new and existing Vodafone customers will have an even wider choice of where they can purchase the best handsets and range of competitive tariffs in the UK.

Vodafone UK will team up with Carphone Warehouse from 7 July so customers can not only buy pay as you go mobiles and receive upgrades as they do currently but also get new pay monthly contracts and mobile broadband connections.