Phrasestructure grammars as indicative of uniquely human thoughts.Eran Asoulin -2019 -Language Sciences 74:98-109.detailsI argue that the ability to compute phrasestructure grammars is indicative of a particular kind of thought. This type of thought that is only available to cognitive systems that have access to the computations that allow the generation and interpretation of the structural descriptions of phrasestructure grammars. The study of phrasestructure grammars, and formal language theory in general, is thus indispensable to studies of human cognition, for it makes explicit both the unique type of (...) human thought and the underlying mechanisms in virtue of which this thought is made possible. (shrink)
Structure.Tuomas Tahko -2020 - In Michael J. Raven,The Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding. New York: Routledge. pp. 387-395.detailsAn exploration of ground’s connections tostructure (joint-carving, naturalness). The notion ofstructure is often invoked in connection to ground, because grounding is understood to impose constraints on the ‘structure of reality’. There is another, technical sense ofstructure, sometimes captured with reference to the notion of ‘joint-carving’. Both of these senses ofstructure as well as their potential connections are discussed.
Structure theorems for o-minimal expansions of groups.Mario J. Edmundo -2000 -Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 102 (1-2):159-181.detailsLet R be an o-minimal expansion of an ordered group R has no poles, R cannot define a real closed field with domain R and order R is eventually linear and every R -definable set is a finite union of cones. As a corollary we get that Th has quantifier elimination and universal axiomatization in the language with symbols for the ordered group operations, bounded R -definable sets and a symbol for each definable endomorphism of the group.
Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University.Joyce E. Canaan &Wesley Shumar (eds.) -2011 - Routledge.detailsThis volume considers how current transitions in postsecondary education are impacting Higher Education institutions and subjects in a number of Northern nations, as well as how these transitions are indicative of the wider shift from the welfare to the market state. The university is now considered a key site for training and wealth generation in the so-called 'knowledge economy' that operates in a globalising, high tech world. Further, these transitions are underpinned by neo-liberal economic ideas that assume that the public (...) sector is a drag on the economy unless it is subject to the rules, regulations and assumptions that govern the private sector. This excellent volume - an important contribution to Education as well as Economics and Politics - furthers our understandings of universities as marketable entities as part of the globalized economy. (shrink)
The FineStructure of the Focus of Appreciation.David Davies -2003 - InArt as Performance. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 50–79.detailsThis chapter contains section titled: TheStructure of the Focus of Appreciation Performance and Appreciation Ontology After Empiricism.
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PropositionalStructure and B. Russell's Theory of Denoting in The Principles of Mathematics.Antonio Rauti -2004 -History and Philosophy of Logic 25 (4):281-304.detailsIn every introductory course on logic, students learn that expressions like ‘somebody’, ‘nothing’ or ‘every woman’ are not names or referring expressions, but quantifiers, and that, owing to this,...
Theorystructure, reduction, and disciplinary integration in biology.Kenneth F. Schaffner -1993 -Biology and Philosophy 8 (3):319-347.detailsThis paper examines the nature of theorystructure in biology and considers the implications of those theoretical structures for theory reduction. An account of biological theories as interlevel prototypes embodying causal sequences, and related to each other by strong analogies, is presented, and examples from the neurosciences are provided to illustrate these middle-range theories. I then go on to discuss several modifications of Nagel''s classical model of theory reduction, and indicate at what stages in the development of reductions these (...) models might best apply. Finally I consider several implications of these analyses of theorystructure and reduction for disciplinary integration in biology. (shrink)
TheStructure, Basic Contents and Dynamics of the Unconscious in Analytical Psychology and Husserlian Phenomenology: Part 1.Burt C. Hopkins -1997 -Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 28 (2):133-170.detailsThis paper offers both a phenomenologically psychological and phenomenologically transcendental account of the constitution of the unconscious. Its phenomenologically psychological portion is published here as Part I, while its phenomenologically transcendental portion will be published in the next volume of this journal as Part II. Part I first clarifies the issues involved in Husserl's differentiation of the respective contents and methodologies of psychological and transcendental phenomenology. On the basis of this clarification I show that, in marked contrast to the prevailing (...) approach to the unconscious in the phenomenological literature, an approach that focuses on the emotive and aesthetic factors in the descriptive account of the constitution of an unconscious, there are cognitive factors that have yet to be descriptively accounted for by phenomenological psychology. Part I concludes with a phenomenologically psychological account of the role these cognitive factors play in the constitution of an unconscious. Part II will show how Jung's claims regarding a dimension of unconscious contents that lacks genealogical links to consciousness proper, that is, the "collective unconscious, " can be phenomenologically accounted for if Jung's methodological differentiation of empirical and interpretative approaches to the unconscious is attended to and such attention is guided by the phenomenologically transcendental critique of the emotive and aesthetic limitations of both the Freudian and heretofore Husserlian accounts of the descriptive genesis of something like an unconscious. (shrink)
TheStructure of an SL2-module of finite Morley rank.Jules Tindzogho Ntsiri -2017 -Mathematical Logic Quarterly 63 (5):364-375.detailsWe consider a universe of finite Morley rank and the following definable objects: a field math formula, a non-trivial action of a group math formula on a connected abelian group V, and a torus T of G such that math formula. We prove that every T-minimal subgroup of V has Morley rank math formula. Moreover V is a direct sum of math formula-minimal subgroups of the form math formula, where W is T-minimal and ζ is an element of G of (...) order 4 inverting T. (shrink)
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Categorystructure affects the developmental trajectory of children's inductive inferences for both natural kinds and artefacts.Julia R. Badger &Laura R. Shapiro -2015 -Thinking and Reasoning 21 (2):206-229.detailsInductive reasoning is fundamental to human cognition, yet it remains unclear how we develop this ability and what might influence our inductive choices. We created novel categories in which crucial factors such as domain and categorystructure were manipulated orthogonally. We trained 403 4–9-year-old children to categorise well-matched natural kind and artefact stimuli with either featural or relational categorystructure, followed by induction tasks. This wide age range allowed for the first full exploration of the developmental trajectory of (...) inductive reasoning in both domains. We found a gradual transition from perceptual to categorical induction with age. This pattern was stable across domains, but interestingly, children showed a category bias one year later for relational categories. We hypothesise that the ability to use category information in inductive reasoning develops gradually, but is delayed when children need to process and apply more complex category structures. (shrink)
Structure versus substance. Théories physiques et réalisme structural selon Russell.Ivahn Smadja -2008 -Cahiers de Philosophie de L’Université de Caen 45:121-159.detailsUne fois achevée la rédaction des Principia Mathematica, Russell se tourne vers la théorie physique et s’attaque au problème philosophique que pose notre connaissance du monde extérieur. Pendant plus d’une décennie, il élabore une « philosophie de la physique » à partir de l’analyse des avancées décisives de cette période marquée tant par l’avènement du « règne de la relativité » que par la transformation profonde des cadres conceptuels...
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