Sefer ha-maʼamarim: maʼamre ḳodesh li-mevaḳshe ha-emet ba-ʻavodat H.BarukhShalomAshlag -1995 - B.B. [z.o. Bene Beraḳ]: Or Barukh Shalom. Edited by Yehudah Ashlag.detailskerekh 1. 744-745 -- kerekh 2. 746-747 -- kerekh 4. 750-751.
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Sefer Otiyot de-liba: siḥot u-maʼamarim be-ʻavodat H. ʻal derekh ha-emet.BarukhShalomAshlag -2011 - Bene Beraḳ: ʻAmutat "ha-Sulam". Edited by Yehudah Ashlag & Barukh Horovits.details[1] Seder ha-ʻavodah -- [2] Moʻadim. Amarot.
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Maimonides: A Radical Religious Philosopher.Shalom Sadik -2023 - Piscataway, NJ, UDA: Gorgias Press.detailsWas Maimonides a radical philosopher who subtly argued for a naturalist world and who saw the obligation to keep the Torah's commandments as a social and moral obligation - or was he a conservative Jewish believer who only tried to formulate philosophical arguments in favour of a revealed religion? This question has been central to the interpretation of Maimonides from the 12th century until modern times. In the four chapters of this book,Shalom Sadik argues for a radical philosophical (...) interpretation of Maimonides. (shrink)
Assessing the Strengths and Weaknesses of Large Language Models.Shalom Lappin -2023 -Journal of Logic, Language and Information 33 (1):9-20.detailsThe transformers that drive chatbots and other AI systems constitute large language models (LLMs). These are currently the focus of a lively discussion in both the scientific literature and the popular media. This discussion ranges from hyperbolic claims that attribute general intelligence and sentience to LLMs, to the skeptical view that these devices are no more than “stochastic parrots”. I present an overview of some of the weak arguments that have been presented against LLMs, and I consider several of the (...) more compelling criticisms of these devices. The former significantly underestimate the capacity of transformers to achieve subtle inductive inferences required for high levels of performance on complex, cognitively significant tasks. In some instances, these arguments misconstrue the nature of deep learning. The latter criticisms identify significant limitations in the way in which transformers learn and represent patterns in data. They also point out important differences between the procedures through which deep neural networks and humans acquire knowledge of natural language. It is necessary to look carefully at both sets of arguments in order to achieve a balanced assessment of the potential and the limitations of LLMs. (shrink)
Sefer Divreshalom ṿe-emet.Shalom ben Yehoshuʻa -2010 - Monsi: [Ḥ. Mo. L.].detailsToldot adam 3 -- Bet ha-midot -- Sheʼelot u-teshuvot.
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Giving: The Essential Teaching of the Kabbalah.Yehuda LevAshlag &Aryeh Siegel (eds.) -2020 - Urim Publications.detailsThe purpose of our lives is to grow step by step toward a fundamental transformation. Instead of always seeking some form of gratification, we can learn to give to others with no self-interest at all. The is the essential teaching of the Kabbalah portrayed in these essays by Baal Hasulam – the greatest modern explicator of Kabbalah. Rabbi Gottlieb provides an illuminating commentary as a living Chassidic rebbe devoted to the practice and teaching of Baal Hasulam’s spiritual path.
One Connection between Standard Invariance Conditions on Modal Formulas and Generalized Quantifiers.Dorit BenShalom -2003 -Journal of Logic, Language and Information 12 (1):47-52.detailsThe language of standard propositional modal logic has one operator (? or ?), that can be thought of as being determined by the quantifiers ? or ?, respectively: for example, a formula of the form ?F is true at a point s just in case all the immediate successors of s verify F.This paper uses a propositional modal language with one operator determined by a generalized quantifier to discuss a simple connection between standard invariance conditions on modal formulas and generalized (...) quantifiers: the combined generalized quantifier conditions of conservativity and extension correspond to the modal condition of invariance under generated submodels, and the modal condition of invariance under bisimulations corresponds to the generalized quantifier being a Boolean combination of ? and ? (shrink)
Lekh lekha: ʻiyunim be-yetsirato shel Avraham Yehoshuʻa Heshel.Binyamin IshShalom &Dror Bondi (eds.) -2018 - Tel Aviv: Hotsaʼat Idra.detailsStudies in Abraham Joshua Heschel's Oeuvre.
Good and evil in Jewish thought.Shalom Rosenberg -1989 - Tel Aviv: MOD Books.detailsThis discussion of Jewish philosophy, covers the complex issue of good and evil in the context of classical Jewish thought.
The handbook of contemporary semantic theory.Shalom Lappin (ed.) -1996 - Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell Reference.details1. Formal semantics in linguistics -- 2. Generalized quantifier theory -- 3. The interface between syntax and semantics -- 4. Anaphora, discourse, and modality -- 5. Focus, presupposition, and negation -- 6. Tense -- 7. Questions -- 8. Plurals -- 9. Computational semantics -- 10. Lexical semantics -- 11. Semantics and related domains.
Net-Generation Student Motivation to Attend Community College.Shalom Michael Akili -2014 - Upa.detailsThis book explores what motivates net-generation community college students to complete their degrees. By emphasizing relationships, personal growth, and support systems, the author’s research will empower educational institutions to increase retention and foster success.
Automatic bare sluice disambiguation in dialogue.Shalom Lappin -unknowndetailsThe capacity to recognise and interpret sluices—bare wh-phrases that exhibit a sentential meaning—is essential to maintaining cohesive interaction between human users and a machine interlocutor in a dialogue system. In this paper we present a machine learning approach to sluice disambiguation in dialogue. Our experiments, based on solid theoretical considerations, show that applying machine learning techniques using a compact set of features that can be automatically identified from PoS markings in a corpus can be an efficient tool to disambiguate between (...) sluice interpretations. (shrink)
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Eckhart, Lost in Translation: La traduction de Sh-h-r par Yehuda Alharizi et ses implications philosophiques.Shalom Sadik -2016 -Vivarium 54 (2-3):125-145.details_ Source: _Volume 54, Issue 2-3, pp 125 - 145 Maimonides’s _Guide for the Perplexed_ had a significant influence on both Jewish and Christian philosophy, although the vast majority of Jewish and Christian readers in the Middle Ages could not read the original Judeo-Arabic text. Instead, they had access to the text through Hebrew and Latin translations. The article focuses on words derived from the root _sh-h-r_ in the original text of Maimonides, first on the understanding of Maimonides himself, where (...) they take on two meanings; the first sense of these words is an adjective that refers to things well-known to the larger public; the second sense is that in which the opinions held by the public are opposed to the intelligibles. Second, while one of Maimonides’ Hebrew translators, Ibn Tibbon, did understand the original meaning of the words in the _Guide_, the other, Alharizi did not; he missed the distinction between rational understanding and generally admitted opinions. This misunderstanding changed the meaning of three important passages of the _Guide_. Finally the mistranslation of Alharizi influenced the medieval philosophers that either read his translation, such as Rabbi Aaron ben Elijah of Nicomedia, or a Latin translation based upon it, such as Meister Eckhart. (shrink)
A Prolegomenon to What Is Called the "Soul".AlbertShalom -1983 -Review of Metaphysics 36 (3):569 - 590.detailsTo single out "time" or "temporality" as the most important concept within a philosophical framework attempting to delineate "reality" immediately raises the question of how to situate temporality itself. I will distinguish only two ways of situating time, because they both appear to be simple and straightforward, and because they establish a sufficient framework for the incipient theory I propose briefly elaborating. On the one hand, temporality can certainly be situated in terms of cosmological and biological evolution. And on the (...) other hand, it is certainly the case that temporality has been situated in terms of the evolution of mind or of the development of consciousness. It is of interest to note that these two ways of situating time are analogous to the two sides of what is frequently called "the body/mind problem," and they seem to carry analogous implications. (shrink)