Semiosis at a Fundamental Level: Wisdom and Innovation

Biosemiotics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongbing Yu
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Level

Was für eine Europäische Verfassung?

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (139) ◽  
pp. 287-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Étienne Balibar
Keyword(s):  
Central Bank ◽  
European Central Bank ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
European Constitution ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
European Central

The problem of a European Constitution is discussed at a fundamental level. In which way, can we speak about such a Constitution? Thearticle argues against the “postnational souveranism”, legitimating state against citizens. A new kind of citizenship is favoured based on extended social rights. The constitution now proposed contrarily makes the European Central Bank and its neoliberal policy to central and nearly unchangeable institution.

Extracontractual Liability Law as a Policy Instrument: Public Law in Disguise or in Chains?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-36
Author(s):  
Pieter Gillaerts
Keyword(s):  
General Trend ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
Liability Law ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
Common Limit

AbstractExtracontractual liability law is no exception to the general trend of instrumentalisation of private law. It is increasingly being used to pursue goals other than its primary aim of compensation. This instrumentalisation is a dual phenomenon that has developed both out of top-down and bottom-up impulses. Although specific questions may arise for each of these two movements, they encounter a common limit. On a fundamental level, the instrumentalisation is restricted by extracontractual liability law’s primary compensatory function. Other functions, such as enforcement (of rights) or prevention, are grafted onto this primary function and can only be pursued to the extent that they are compatible with it. It relates to the tension created by pursuing public goals through extracontractual liability law as an essentially private law instrument. Attention is needed not to overstretch extracontractual liability law’s prerequisites, which are coherent with its private law embedding. It would turn extracontractual liability law into a dangerous passe-partout. Besides stretching the existing prerequisites, one may also consider alternative instruments for pursuing non-compensatory goals, such as preventive actions. Given the ubiquitous occurrence of the phenomenon, the present contribution will start from Belgian and Dutch law, although the conclusions may reach beyond these legal systems.

scholarly journals Legal Concepts as Mental Representations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Jakubiec
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Legal Philosophy ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Cognitive Tools ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Cognitive Aspect ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
Legal Concepts ◽  
Mental Constructs

AbstractAlthough much ink has been spilled on different aspects of legal concepts, the approach based on the developments of cognitive science is a still neglected area of study. The “mental” and cognitive aspect of these concepts, i.e., their features as mental constructs and cognitive tools, especially in the light of the developments of the cognitive sciences, is discussed quite rarely. The argument made by this paper is that legal concepts are best understood as mental representations. The piece explains what mental representations are and why this view matters. The explanation of legal concepts, understood as mental representations is one of (at least) three levels of explanation within legal philosophy, but—as will be argued—it is the most fundamental level. This paper analyzes the consequences of such understanding of concepts used in the field of legal philosophy. Special emphasis is put on the current debate on the analogical or amodal nature of concepts.

Is There a Fundamental Level?

Noûs ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 498-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Schaffer
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Level

scholarly journals Hvordan lese islamske Ornamenter i skolen?

Prismet ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Geir Winje
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Minority Religions ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
Geometric Figures ◽  
Norwegian School ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ornamental Art

This article presents various ways of symbolic reading of Islamic ornaments, derived from academic writings on the subject. They may be categorized as more or less minimalist or maximalist, depending on the degree of explicit meaning ascribed to geometric figures and stylized flowers. The different interpretations of ornamental art is then seen in connection with Religious Education in Norwegian school, and the article proposes among other things a reading in accordance with contemporary views on multimodality and composition. On a more fundamental level, the article discusses the use of religious primary sources in school, especially those representing minority religions. It argues in favour of a didactic model that differentiates between several dimensions in religious texts, spanning from concepts and values that are common to all mankind, to what is specific for the actual religion. 

scholarly journals Same but Different: Chaos and TV Drama Narratives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alison McLachlan
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
Mathematics And Science ◽  
The Way

<p>Complexity is a term that is now commonly used when discussing TV serial dramas and the way that, in recent years, creators and producers of this narrative form have embraced innovative and challenging strategies to tell their stories. As a result, it is also often argued that all TV serial dramas are strikingly different from one another; one of the few things that contemporary TV serial dramas have in common is their employment of complex narrative strategies. However, in this thesis, I argue that—while serial dramas are different from one another in many ways—they are also all the same at a fundamental level.  In order to examine the fundamental narrative components that all serial dramas employ, I use chaos as a framework. Chaos is a branch of mathematics and science which examines systems that display unpredictable behaviour that is actually determined by deep structures of order and stability. At its most basic level, chaos corresponds with the way in which serial dramas are both complex and simple at the same time; beneath the complexity of serial dramas are fundamental building blocks that are used to generate innovative, challenging and unpredictable narratives.  I apply the findings from my critical examination of chaos and TV drama narratives to the creation of my own TV projects, which employ the inherent structures and patterns of TV drama narratives in a way that produces innovative and complex stories. In doing so, I intend to highlight the potential of serial dramas to be endlessly creative yet consistently the same.</p>

[C G A T] Epita Matrix Genetics: Toward a Visualization of Genetic Codes via “Genetic Music”

Leonardo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-89
Author(s):  
Renate C.-Z. Quehenberger ◽  
Ivan Stepanyan ◽  
Benjamin Skepper
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Genetic Information ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
Genetic Codes ◽  
Scientific Background ◽  
Visual Access ◽  
Technical Details ◽  
3D Representation ◽  
Genetic Structures

The authors describe the scientific background and technical details of the visualization of the mathematics underlying genetic codes applied to musical scales. “Genetic Music” provides audible access to genetic structures that become visible based on the fundamental level of nature as permutations of space itself. The carriers of genetic information characteristically possess hydrogen bonds in quantities 2 and 3 in complementary pairs of nitrogenous bases [GACT] in DNA and [GACU] in RNA. Since hydrogen is observed to expose the symmetries of the Penrose Patterns, visual access is achieved by means of a 3D representation of Penrose kites and darts named “epitahedron.” Those pyramid-shaped polyhedra represent the numbers of hydrogen bonds (C=G=3, A=T=2) that generate musical equivalence between the genetic alphabet and the 7 notes of the Pythagorean scale, as well as further and distinct correlations with “Fibonacci stage” “Genetic Music” scales. The visualization must be played synchronously with the musical performance.

The Issue of Trust and Information Sharing and the Question of Public Private Partnerships

2013 ◽  
pp. 258-276
Author(s):  
David Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
Share Information

Whatever their focus, Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) require that a fundamental level of trust be established between the partners in order to have any chance of success. In parallel with trust, there is also a need to share information between partners, which must be carried out in a controlled and secure manner. This chapter examines the need for and the effectiveness of PPPs, the likely participants in them, and how incentives might be used to encourage their participation. The chapter also discusses the nature both of trust and information sharing, and how they are can be an enabler in both setting up and running PPPs.

Epistemetrics

2011 ◽  
pp. 205-215
Author(s):  
Eliezer Geisler
Keyword(s):  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
Organizational Levels ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Brain

This chapter is focused on the ways and processes by which we measure human knowledge at both the individual and organizational levels. “How” we measure knowledge is strongly related to the notion of “what” we measure, described in the previous chapter. The nature of knowledge that can be measured is the externalized or explicit knowledge shared and diffused among individuals and their organizations. We recognize the existence of KANEs as the clustering of sensorial input, but we are unable at this point to adequately measure them. We have the capability to measure sensorial activities and the locations in the brain of excitations and activities that signify cognition and emotions, but we are still unable to measure knowledge at the fundamental level of clustering of sensorial inputs.1

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