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... simulations such as that of Winograd (1972)), it may possible to see explicitly how processes for creating agents reflecting the paradigm would work. Real languages appear to be much more complex; instead of explicit rules that state definitely that a particular process is to apply we find fuzzy rul ...
... simulations such as that of Winograd (1972)), it may possible to see explicitly how processes for creating agents reflecting the paradigm would work. Real languages appear to be much more complex; instead of explicit rules that state definitely that a particular process is to apply we find fuzzy rul ...
The Ontological Meta-Argument
... shows that, even if the chances that you are actual are very small, you ought to believe yourself to be actual (and act that way too), then you ought to believe and act as though you are in God’s world.7 Now even if the argument were better than it is, I don’t think Nozick would have found it compel ...
... shows that, even if the chances that you are actual are very small, you ought to believe yourself to be actual (and act that way too), then you ought to believe and act as though you are in God’s world.7 Now even if the argument were better than it is, I don’t think Nozick would have found it compel ...
Lecture Introduction to John Locke
... It was actually a two-page layout, with these dozen or so images laid out on the left side of the display. Then on the right side of the display was a full page photo of the daisy as seen through the human visual apparatus. The implication of the layout seemed to be, since the photo of the daisy as ...
... It was actually a two-page layout, with these dozen or so images laid out on the left side of the display. Then on the right side of the display was a full page photo of the daisy as seen through the human visual apparatus. The implication of the layout seemed to be, since the photo of the daisy as ...
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind 1
... red sensation as the awareness of a red particular, rather than as the awareness of its being red. • Then the formation of ideas of repeatables would proceed by the association of words (‘red’) with a range of ‘resembling particulars’. • But the association needs to be handled carefully: If we think ...
... red sensation as the awareness of a red particular, rather than as the awareness of its being red. • Then the formation of ideas of repeatables would proceed by the association of words (‘red’) with a range of ‘resembling particulars’. • But the association needs to be handled carefully: If we think ...
Probably - Scholarship at UWindsor
... ABSTRACT: In two recent essays (Ennis, 2001, in press) I have offered and refined an approach to argument appraisal that, instead of classifying an argument before appraising it, bypasses classification (because that process has fatal flaws) and successively applies sets of argument standards. (An e ...
... ABSTRACT: In two recent essays (Ennis, 2001, in press) I have offered and refined an approach to argument appraisal that, instead of classifying an argument before appraising it, bypasses classification (because that process has fatal flaws) and successively applies sets of argument standards. (An e ...
PHLA10F
... By reducing the size of the droplets in clouds, thereby making them more reflective, the sulphate particles lowered the temperature of the sea’s surface in the northern hemisphere. The result was to shift the Intertropical Convergence Zone ...
... By reducing the size of the droplets in clouds, thereby making them more reflective, the sulphate particles lowered the temperature of the sea’s surface in the northern hemisphere. The result was to shift the Intertropical Convergence Zone ...
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... Shaftesbury’s argument is that humans, as individuals, are driven towards their own ‘self-good’, but that, since they are also social animals, conflict between ‘private interest’ and ‘public good’ leads to what he calls ‘vicious affection’. As a consequence ‘a creature cannot really be good and natu ...
... Shaftesbury’s argument is that humans, as individuals, are driven towards their own ‘self-good’, but that, since they are also social animals, conflict between ‘private interest’ and ‘public good’ leads to what he calls ‘vicious affection’. As a consequence ‘a creature cannot really be good and natu ...
Communication, Language and Autonomy
... description of the relationship between perception and indexicality. Clearly there are linguistic expressions that are indexicals namely indicate relations in which the objects stand to the very utterance of the expression itself. For instance, “yesterday” refers to the day before utterance or “I” r ...
... description of the relationship between perception and indexicality. Clearly there are linguistic expressions that are indexicals namely indicate relations in which the objects stand to the very utterance of the expression itself. For instance, “yesterday” refers to the day before utterance or “I” r ...
Beyond the axioms: The question of objectivity in mathematics
... Frege have been called Platonists on these grounds, dispite their explicit explanations of their positions. In at least one case, it has been argued that super-realism is a consequence of the use of non-constructive reasoning in mathematics, so that its only alternative is constructive mathematics. ...
... Frege have been called Platonists on these grounds, dispite their explicit explanations of their positions. In at least one case, it has been argued that super-realism is a consequence of the use of non-constructive reasoning in mathematics, so that its only alternative is constructive mathematics. ...
MODULE: Argument Analysis
... In this tutorial we shall discuss what a good argument is. The concept of a good argument is of course quite vague. So what we are trying to do here is to give it a somewhat more precise definition. To begin with, make sure that you know what a sound argument is. Criterion #1 : A good argument must ...
... In this tutorial we shall discuss what a good argument is. The concept of a good argument is of course quite vague. So what we are trying to do here is to give it a somewhat more precise definition. To begin with, make sure that you know what a sound argument is. Criterion #1 : A good argument must ...
Perception of tone contrasts in Cantonese as a heritage
... comprehensible even when some of the tone information is lost à there is no ‘need’ to fully acquire it ...
... comprehensible even when some of the tone information is lost à there is no ‘need’ to fully acquire it ...
- ANU Repository
... I.3.3). However, holistic theories are exempted from the anti-realist argument. Alternative characterisations of realism are also mentioned ...
... I.3.3). However, holistic theories are exempted from the anti-realist argument. Alternative characterisations of realism are also mentioned ...
The “Idyllic Sublime”: Point/Counterpoint A Dialog between Michael
... Log of a Cowboy (1903), who had participated in cattle drives as a youth: “There is such a thing as cowboy music. It is a hybrid between the weirdness of an Indian cry and the croon of a darky mammy. It expresses the open, the prairie, the immutable desert.” 1 Adams said this in 1907 just a few yea ...
... Log of a Cowboy (1903), who had participated in cattle drives as a youth: “There is such a thing as cowboy music. It is a hybrid between the weirdness of an Indian cry and the croon of a darky mammy. It expresses the open, the prairie, the immutable desert.” 1 Adams said this in 1907 just a few yea ...
OBJECTIONS TO REALISM Introduction: There are a bewildering
... I’m a realist about truth, I have no qualms about admitting even that there is a sense in which the world might contain truths today that it didn't contain yesterday. We might as realists take thoughts to be the primary bearers of truth value. If we take thoughts to be properties (rather than consci ...
... I’m a realist about truth, I have no qualms about admitting even that there is a sense in which the world might contain truths today that it didn't contain yesterday. We might as realists take thoughts to be the primary bearers of truth value. If we take thoughts to be properties (rather than consci ...
TALK OF SAYING, SHOWING, GESTURING, AND FEELING IN
... words of an indicative and instructive kind, words that can influence their behavior. It is this indicative and instructive use of words in practical contexts that seems crucial. Words like ‘Look’, ‘Look here’, ‘See, here’s the catch’, ‘Listen’, ‘Listen for the stroke of twelve’, ‘Hark, the lark’, ...
... words of an indicative and instructive kind, words that can influence their behavior. It is this indicative and instructive use of words in practical contexts that seems crucial. Words like ‘Look’, ‘Look here’, ‘See, here’s the catch’, ‘Listen’, ‘Listen for the stroke of twelve’, ‘Hark, the lark’, ...
4. Third scenario: Sexual selection and a run
... construct visual object concepts. Only the most intelligent primates, however, (cebus monkeys, some baboons and macaques, and all great apes) construct and manipulate relationships between two or more objects. (...) Only humans, for instance, use tools to make tools or construct tools from multiple ...
... construct visual object concepts. Only the most intelligent primates, however, (cebus monkeys, some baboons and macaques, and all great apes) construct and manipulate relationships between two or more objects. (...) Only humans, for instance, use tools to make tools or construct tools from multiple ...
cognitive artefact
... Language is a biocultural niche and social institution to which we have adapted in evolution, and which symbolically grounds cognitive artefacts that are also transformative of the biocultural niche ...
... Language is a biocultural niche and social institution to which we have adapted in evolution, and which symbolically grounds cognitive artefacts that are also transformative of the biocultural niche ...
Abduction or inertia handout
... same grammar. But if learning takes place by abduction or inference to the best explanation, how explanation are forms of ampliative inference, and as such are, definitionally, not deductively valid (cf. e.g. Craig 1998). So if learning takes place by abduction or inference to the best ...
... same grammar. But if learning takes place by abduction or inference to the best explanation, how explanation are forms of ampliative inference, and as such are, definitionally, not deductively valid (cf. e.g. Craig 1998). So if learning takes place by abduction or inference to the best ...
The Inner Life of a Rational Agent
... It is often supposed that behaviourism is committed to a denial of consciousness, free will, individuality, and so on. But in defending the claim that what it is to be in a certain state of mind is to be disposed to behave in a certain way I do not want to belittle the mind, let alone eliminate it. ...
... It is often supposed that behaviourism is committed to a denial of consciousness, free will, individuality, and so on. But in defending the claim that what it is to be in a certain state of mind is to be disposed to behave in a certain way I do not want to belittle the mind, let alone eliminate it. ...
power, authority and pointless activity
... are commodities fetishized—turned into god-like authorities, a la Marx—but everything is commodified. Hence knowledge, scientific and otherwise, is God-like here in latemodernism/early postmodernism. The fetishization of knowledge has led some philosophers (for example, Rorty, 1982, 2000; Newman, 19 ...
... are commodities fetishized—turned into god-like authorities, a la Marx—but everything is commodified. Hence knowledge, scientific and otherwise, is God-like here in latemodernism/early postmodernism. The fetishization of knowledge has led some philosophers (for example, Rorty, 1982, 2000; Newman, 19 ...
Rereading Romanticism, Rereading Expressivism: Revising "Voice
... Rohman and Wlecke “instigators of a ‘neo-Romantic’ view of process;” Peter Elbow is described as subscribing to the romantic theory “that ‘good’ writing does not follow the rules but reflects the processes of creative imagination” (1986, p. 530). And paradigmatic romantic figures make arguments abou ...
... Rohman and Wlecke “instigators of a ‘neo-Romantic’ view of process;” Peter Elbow is described as subscribing to the romantic theory “that ‘good’ writing does not follow the rules but reflects the processes of creative imagination” (1986, p. 530). And paradigmatic romantic figures make arguments abou ...
Semantics in Philosophy and Computer Science
... meaning investigations are published. Many of them discuss the meaning of complex terms that are deviated from simple terms in consideration of syntax, and try to answer the question whether a phrase is true or not, which is known as semantic theory of truth. To investigate a natural language, philo ...
... meaning investigations are published. Many of them discuss the meaning of complex terms that are deviated from simple terms in consideration of syntax, and try to answer the question whether a phrase is true or not, which is known as semantic theory of truth. To investigate a natural language, philo ...
Semantic Ambiguity and Underspecification
... Another concern about the apostate view is more philosophical. While we routinely say things that are ambiguous, it is always open to someone to come back and say "what did you intend by that: A or A~?" Perhaps this is the Fregean in me, but I can't imagine saying that I was intending to express an ...
... Another concern about the apostate view is more philosophical. While we routinely say things that are ambiguous, it is always open to someone to come back and say "what did you intend by that: A or A~?" Perhaps this is the Fregean in me, but I can't imagine saying that I was intending to express an ...
How do logic and argument play a role in developing humour
... it was the second characters opinion on what was the good news and what was the bad news. In his opinion the fact that the fish tasted nice was good news even thought to the other character there would have been no good news because his fish had been killed. This argument presented in the comic is n ...
... it was the second characters opinion on what was the good news and what was the bad news. In his opinion the fact that the fish tasted nice was good news even thought to the other character there would have been no good news because his fish had been killed. This argument presented in the comic is n ...
REREADING ROMANTICISM, REREADING EXPRESSIVISM: REVISING “VOICE” THROUGH WORDSWORTH’S PREFACES
... Rohman and Wlecke “instigators of a ‘neo-Romantic’ view of process;” Peter Elbow is described as subscribing to the romantic theory “that ‘good’ writing does not follow the rules but reflects the processes of creative imagination” (1986, p. 530). And paradigmatic romantic figures make arguments abou ...
... Rohman and Wlecke “instigators of a ‘neo-Romantic’ view of process;” Peter Elbow is described as subscribing to the romantic theory “that ‘good’ writing does not follow the rules but reflects the processes of creative imagination” (1986, p. 530). And paradigmatic romantic figures make arguments abou ...