Representationalism and the Transparency of Experience

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Gert
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Verbal Description ◽  
Phenomenal Content ◽  
Public Language ◽  
Inverted Spectrum ◽  
Transparency Of Experience ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses the twin theses of representationalism and the transparency of experience. In place of standard representationalism, the chapter argues for “modest representationalism”: the thesis that two people who are visually representing the same scene will have experiences that are, phenomenally, pretty similar. While this might sound like an untenable compromise position, neo-pragmatism provides it with a solid theoretical foundation. This chapter also criticizes an argument of Ned Block’s, which attempts to move from the relatively uncontroversial claim that we can imagine someone with an inverted spectrum, to the much more controversial claim that we must acknowledge that there could be a significant phenomenal difference between the way something looks to two different normal people. The chapter also argues that phenomenal content is in principle amenable to verbal description in a sufficiently rich public language.

Belief

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Internal State ◽  
Propositional Attitude ◽  
Special Theory ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Intentional State ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
Public Language ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

We believe that there is coffee over there; we believe the special theory of relativity; we believe the Vice-Chancellor; and some of us believe in God. But plausibly what is fundamental is believing that something is the case – believing a proposition, as it is usually put. To believe a theory is to believe the propositions that make up the theory, to believe a person is to believe some proposition advanced by them; and to believe in God is to believe the proposition that God exists. Thus belief is said to be a propositional attitude or intentional state: to believe is to take the attitude of belief to some proposition. It is about what its propositional object is about (God, coffee, or whatever). We can think of the propositional object of a belief as the way the belief represents things as being – its content, as it is often called. We state what we believe with indicative sentences in ‘that’-clauses, as in ‘Mary believes that the Democrats will win the next election’. But belief in the absence of language is possible. A dog may believe that there is food in the bowl in front of it. Accordingly philosophers have sought accounts of belief that allow a central role to sentences – it cannot be an accident that finding the right sentence is the way to capture what someone believes – while allowing that creatures without a language can have beliefs. One way of doing this is to construe beliefs as relations to inner sentences somehow inscribed in the brain. On this view although dogs do not have a public language, to the extent that they have beliefs they have something sentence-like in their heads. An alternative tradition focuses on the way belief when combined with desire leads to behaviour, and analyses belief in terms of behavioural dispositions or more recently as the internal state that is, in combination with other mental states, responsible for the appropriate behavioural dispositions. An earlier tradition associated with the British Empiricists views belief as a kind of pale imitation of perceptual experience. But recent work on belief largely takes for granted a sharp distinction between belief and the various mental images that may or may not accompany it.

scholarly journals KEBIJAKAN REHABILITASI TERHADAP PENYALAH GUNA NARKOTIKA PADA UNDANG – UNDANG NOMOR 35 TAHUN 2009 TENTANG NARKOTIKA

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
IDA BAGUS PUTU SWADHARMA DIPUTRA
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Journal Writing ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Drug Addicts ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Way

Positive law states, drug users are criminals because it has met the qualifications in the law of narcotics, narcotic offenses such as drug abuse in the study of criminology can be classified as a crime without a victim or a victimless crime. This is because they will become dependent on illicit goods (narcotics), the way it deems appropriate to cure the addiction is to rehabilitate the victims of drug abuse For law journal writing, the writer uses normative legal research with one character is using secondary data, where the data consists of primary legal materials, legal materials and secondary legal materials tertiary. And the theoretical foundation that is used is the law, norms and theories appropriate to the problem The results reveal the writing on the rehabilitation policy on Narcotics has been strictly regulated in Chapter IX legislation, policies were aimed at drug addicts and victims of drug abuse, arguing that victims of drug abuse is a victim of crime narcotics and therefore the appropriate sanctions to be meted out to him is the rehabilitation of the victims will be able to return to society and become useful

scholarly journals The phylogenetic nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaurs

PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e12362
Author(s):  
Daniel Madzia ◽  
Victoria M. Arbour ◽  
Clint A. Boyd ◽  
Andrew A. Farke ◽  
Penélope Cruzado-Caballero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
International Code ◽  
Morphological Disparity ◽  
Research History ◽  
Globally Distributed ◽  
Phylogenetic Nomenclature ◽  
The Way

Ornithischians form a large clade of globally distributed Mesozoic dinosaurs, and represent one of their three major radiations. Throughout their evolutionary history, exceeding 134 million years, ornithischians evolved considerable morphological disparity, expressed especially through the cranial and osteodermal features of their most distinguishable representatives. The nearly two-century-long research history on ornithischians has resulted in the recognition of numerous diverse lineages, many of which have been named. Following the formative publications establishing the theoretical foundation of phylogenetic nomenclature throughout the 1980s and 1990s, many of the proposed names of ornithischian clades were provided with phylogenetic definitions. Some of these definitions have proven useful and have not been changed, beyond the way they were formulated, since their introduction. Some names, however, have multiple definitions, making their application ambiguous. Recent implementation of the International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature (ICPN, or PhyloCode) offers the opportunity to explore the utility of previously proposed definitions of established taxon names. Since the Articles of the ICPN are not to be applied retroactively, all phylogenetic definitions published prior to its implementation remain informal (and ineffective) in the light of the Code. Here, we revise the nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaur clades; we revisit 76 preexisting ornithischian clade names, review their recent and historical use, and formally establish their phylogenetic definitions. Additionally, we introduce five new clade names: two for robustly supported clades of later-diverging hadrosaurids and ceratopsians, one uniting heterodontosaurids and genasaurs, and two for clades of nodosaurids. Our study marks a key step towards a formal phylogenetic nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaurs.

Belief

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Braddon-Mitchell ◽  
Frank Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Internal State ◽  
Propositional Attitude ◽  
Special Theory ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Intentional State ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
Public Language ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

We believe that there is coffee over there; we believe the special theory of relativity; we believe the surgeon; some of us believe in God. But plausibly what is fundamental is believing that something is the case – believing a proposition, as it is usually put. To believe a theory is to believe the propositions that make up the theory, to believe a person is to believe some proposition advanced by them; and to believe in God is to believe the proposition that God exists. Thus belief is said to be a propositional attitude or intentional state: to believe is to take the attitude of belief to some proposition. It is about what its propositional object is about (God, the operation, or whatever). We can think of the propositional object of a belief as the way the belief represents things as being – its content, as it is often called. We state what we believe with indicative sentences in ‘that’-clauses, as in ‘Mary believes that the Democrats will win the next election ’. But belief in the absence of language is possible. A dog may believe that there is food in the bowl in front of it. Accordingly philosophers have sought accounts of belief that allow a central role to sentences – it cannot be an accident that finding the right sentence is the way to capture what some person believes – while allowing that creatures without a language can have beliefs. One way of doing this is to construe beliefs as relations to inner sentences somehow inscribed in the brain. On this view, although dogs do not have a public language, to the extent that they have beliefs they have something sentence-like in their heads. An alternative tradition focuses on the way belief when combined with desire leads to behaviour, and analyses belief in terms of behavioural dispositions or more recently as the internal state that is, in combination with other mental states, responsible for the appropriate behavioural dispositions. An earlier tradition associated with the British empiricists views belief as a kind of pale imitation of perceptual experience. But recent work on belief largely takes for granted a sharp distinction between belief and the various mental images that may or may not accompany it. A focus of recent discussions of belief has been the extent to which what a subject believes is a function of their surroundings. Everyone agrees that what subjects believe is causally influenced by their surroundings. The sun’s impact on my sense organs causes me to believe that it is sunny. But many argue that the role of subjects’ surroundings in determining what is believed outruns their causal effects.

Analysis of the Sports Biomechanics about Difficulty Elements of Group C in Competitive Aerobics

2013 ◽  
Vol 718-720 ◽  
pp. 1848-1851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei Hong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Movement Time ◽  
Sports Biomechanics ◽  
Sport Biomechanics ◽  
The Way

The difficulty elements of group C has become an important part of the competitive aerobics with its development. The author is trying to propose a scientific method as a theoretical foundation for coaches to train. The way is to analyze both the movement time-phase about difficulty elements of the group C, and its sport biomechanics in 3 stages, which are take off, flight and landing.

Privilege, Decentring and the Challenge of Being (Non-) Indigenous in the Study of Indigenous Issues

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torjer A. Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Binary Relations ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Indigenous Methodologies ◽  
Kaupapa Māori ◽  
The Way

There are acceptable ways of studying Indigenous issues as a non-Indigenous scholar. Still, the role and identity of the scholar is important and debated within the study of Indigenous issues. The purpose of this article is to accept, but explore the premise of a distinction between Indigenous and non-Indigenous. I claim the possibility of taking adecentredspace within Indigenous studies and move towards a methodological and theoretical foundation that is informed by scholars with different stances and backgrounds. A key approach is the intersectional approach to privilege. Neither privilege/oppression, Indigenous/non-Indigenous, nor insider/outsider are binary relations. From Indigenous methodologies such as kaupapa Māori, I emphasise, in particular, the local starting point, arguing that this is the way to transfer relevant issues to a bigger context.

scholarly journals Shifting the system of Indonesian word formation: the study of morphology and sociolinguistics of acronyms, blending, and clipping

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Zaim
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reference Standard ◽  
New Words ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
Formation System ◽  
New System ◽  
The Way

The general guidelines of Indonesian word formation as annexed in appendix II of thereference standard of the Indonesian Grammar has not yet accommodated theIndonesian word formation system used by the Indonesian speakers today.Meanwhile, a new system of word formation began to emerge and the old paradigmshift in conjunction with the development of science and technology, and the changeof social, cultural, and political paradigm. As a result, the reference standard ofIndonesian grammar is no longer adequate to understand the system of the formationof the new words. Morphological studies, which analyze the internal structure of thewords can be used as a theoretical foundation to address the issues of the Indonesianword formation. From the other side, sociolinguistic studies, which analyze the link oflanguage with the language speakers in the community, can give meaning to the wordformation shift. This article discusses (1) the morphological shift of the Indonesianword formation system of acronyms, blending, and clipping, (2) the sociolinguisticfunctions of the word formation, and (3) the productivity of the word formationsystem. The study of the shift of word formation system revealed a shift in the way ofthinking and the way of looking at social, cultural, and political problems of theIndonesian speakers nowadays.

Study on the Assessment of the Serving State of the Critical Equipment of Urban Transit Station

2013 ◽  
Vol 869-870 ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Ting Ting Yin ◽  
Wei Guan
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Index System ◽  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Urban Transit ◽  
Reliability Control ◽  
Transit Station ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

This article discusses the purpose and importance of the assessment on the serving state of the critical equipment of Urban Transit Station primarily. According to the complexity, reliability, control system, working mode and the way passengers effect on of different equipment, this article chooses escalator, shielded gate and AFC by the importance to analyze comprehensively the factors that effect on the critical equipment of urban transit station to come up with the assessing index that can be measured, statistically analyzed, calculated to establish relevant index system of the safety assessment on the critical equipment of urban transit station. This article also introduces the theoretical foundation and assessment procedure of DHGF method, and gives a case to conduct example verification.

scholarly journals SHIFTING THE SYSTEM OF INDONESIAN WORD FORMATION; THE STUDY ON MORPHOLOGY AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF ACRONYMS, BLENDING, AND CLIPPING

Humanus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
M Zaim
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Reference Standard ◽  
New Words ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
Formation System ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia ◽  
The Way

The general guidelines of Indonesian word formation as annexed in appendix II of the reference standard of the Indonesian Grammar has not yet accommodated the Indonesian word formation system used by the Indonesian speakers today. Meanwhile, a new system of word formation began to emerge and the old paradigm shift in conjunction with the development of science and technology, and the change of social, cultural, and political paradigm. As a result, the reference standard of Indonesian grammar is no longer adequate to understand the system of the formation of the new words. Morphological studies, which analyze the internal structure of the words can be used as a theoretical foundation to address the issues of the Indonesian word formation. From the other side, sociolinguistic studies, which analyze the link of language with the language speakers in the community, can give meaning to the word formation shift. This article discusses (1) the morphological shift of the Indonesian word formation system of acronyms, blending, and clipping, (2) the sociolinguistic functions of the word formation, and (3) the productivity of the word formation system. The study of the shift of word formation system revealed a shift in the way of thinking and the way of looking at social, cultural, and political problems of the Indonesian speakers nowadays. Keywords: word formation, language shift, morphology, sociolinguistics, blending, clipping, acronymPERGESERAN SISTIM PEMBENTUKAN KATA BAHASA INDONESIA:KAJIAN MORFOLOGIS DAN SOSIOLINGUISTIK AKRONIM, BLENDING, DAN KLIPING AbstrakPedoman umum pembentukan kata Bahasa Indonesia pada Lampiran II Tata Bahasa Baku Bahasa Indonesia belum mengakomodasi sistem pembentukan kata Bahasa Indonesia yang digunakan oleh penutur Indonesia saat ini. Sementara itu, sistem pembentukan kata baru mulai bermunculan menggeser paradigma lama bersamaan dengan perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi, serta perubahan paradigma sosial, budaya, dan politik. Akibatnya, standar acuan tata bahasa Indonesia sudah tidak memadai lagi untuk memahami sistem pembentukan kata baru. Kajian morfologi, yang menganalisa struktur internal kata dapat dijadikan landasan teoritis untuk mengatasi permasalahan pembentukan kata bahasa Indonesia. Dari sisi lain, kajian sosiolinguistik, yang menganalisa hubungan bahasa dengan penutur bahasa di masyarakat, bisa memberi makna pada pergeseran pembentukan kata ini. Artikel ini membahas (1) pergeseran morfologis sistem pembentukan kata dalam bahasa Indonesia pada bentuk akronim, blending, dan kliping, (2) fungsi sosiolinguistik dari pembentukan kata, dan (3) produktivitas sistem pembentukan kata. Kajian tentang pergeseran sistem pembentukan kata mengungkapkan adanya pergeseran cara berpikir dan cara melihat masalah sosial, budaya, dan politik para penutur Bahasa Indonesia saat ini.Kata kunci: pembentukan kata, pergeseran bahasa, morfologi, sosiolinguistik, blending, kliping, akronim

scholarly journals Chapter 3. Where do we look, what do we see, what do we talk about

2018 ◽  
pp. 129-173
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Verbal Description ◽  
Oculomotor Behavior ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
Text Figure ◽  
The Way

In Сhapter 3 we compare how verbal and non-verbal visual information is processed. The questions we addresses are: How do the readers integrate text-figure information when reading and understanding verbal and non-verbal patterns, namely one and the same text in verbal for- mat and infographics? How the way humans perceive visual information determines the way they express it in natural language? How the verbalization affects the oculomotor behavior in visual processing? Our results support the assumption of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning that integration of verbal and pictural information with each other (a polycode text) helps the learners to understand and memorize the text and makes the comprehension easier. We demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of the infographics (graphical visual repre- sentations of complex information) and verbal text. Also we discuss the relationship between visual processing of images and their verbalization. On one hand, the characteristics of eye movements when looking at the image determine its subsequent verbal description: the more fixations are made and the longer the gaze is directed to the certain area of the image, the more words are dedicated to this area in the following description. On the other hand, verbalization of the previously seen image affects the parameters of eye movements when re-viewing the same image, resulting with the appearance of the ambient processing pattern (short fixations and long saccades), while the re-viewing without verbalization results with the focal processing pattern (longer fixations and shorter saccades). The results obtained open up prospects for fur- ther research on visual perception and can also be used for computer vision models.

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