Travis on Frege, Kant, and the Given

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McDowell
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Outer World ◽  
Myth Of The Given ◽  
Sensory Consciousness ◽  
The Given

Travis thinks my view that there is a myth, the Myth of the Given, to be avoided is based on a conception that would entail that our conceptual capacities cannot make contact with the non-conceptual. I explain why he is mistaken. I explain why he is wrong to connect the supposed Myth with an idea he finds in Kant, the idea that there must be a match in form between our thoughts and what we think about. I take issue with his suggestion that something fundamental to Kant is contradicted by Frege’s insistence that thoughts are not put together out of self-standing building-blocks. And I argue that he misreads Frege about how something non-sensible ‘unlocks the outer world’ for us, about the relation between the conceptual and the non-conceptual, and about the possibility of conceiving thoughts as, not objects, but contents of sensory consciousness.

An Algorithm for the Enumeration of Serial and/or Parallel Combinations of Kinematic Building Blocks

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Sen Yan ◽  
Feng-Ming Ou ◽  
Ming-Feng Tang
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Power Source ◽  
Cam Follower ◽  
Tree Representations ◽  
The Given

An algorithm is presented, based on graph theory, for enumerating all feasible serial and/or parallel combined mechanisms from the given rotary or translational power source and specific kinematic building blocks. Through the labeled out-tree representations for the configurations of combined mechanisms, the enumeration procedure is developed by adapting the algorithm for the enumeration of trees. A rotary power source and four kinematic building blocks: a crank-rocker linkage, a rack-pinion, a double-slider mechanism, and a cam-follower mechanism, are chosen as the combination to illustrate the algorithm. And, two examples are provided to validate the algorithm.

scholarly journals A weapon in the battle of definitions: a special rhetorical strategy in Hánfēizǐ

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 969-999
Author(s):  
Lukáš Zádrapa
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Warring States Period ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
Semantic Relationships ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
Warring States ◽  
Structural Relationships ◽  
Textual Strategies ◽  
The Given

Abstract Regardless of the actual views on the art of embellished speech of the author(s) presented by the collection of essays known as Hánfēizǐ, the work is well known for its formal intricacy and refinement. The composition of several chapters appears unique against the background of other transmitted texts of the Warring States period, and the same is true of some textual strategies serving to convey the presented ideas with intensified rhetorical appeal. In this study, I aim to identify one of these strategies, showing, on the basis of thorough textual analysis, how the sections in which it is employed are structured and how the given devices contribute to the construction of meaning. Relevant parts of the chapters 45 (“Guǐshǐ” 詭使), 46 (“Liùfǎn” 六反) and 47 (“Bāshuō” 八說) are analyzed here both with regard to their formal features, such as various arrangements of basic building blocks or transformations of metalinguistic formulae, and to their semantics, including the systematic lexical-semantic relationships of synonymy and antonymy. It is argued that not only overt interventions by the author in favour of “correct” definitions of selected terms, but also the very inventory of the terms itself and their deeper structural relationships and tensions reveal much about the author's intentions and opinions.

New Developments in Quasigroup-Based Cryptography

2014 ◽  
pp. 286-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Mileva
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Block Ciphers ◽  
Public Key ◽  
Message Authentication ◽  
Authentication Codes ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Identification Schemes ◽  
Public Key Cryptosystems ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Given

This chapter offers an overview of new developments in quasigroup-based cryptography, especially of new defined quasigroup-based block ciphers and stream ciphers, hash functions and message authentication codes, PRNGs, public key cryptosystems, etc. Special attention is given to Multivariate Quadratic Quasigroups (MQQs) and MQQ public key schemes, because of their potential to become one of the most efficient pubic key algorithms today. There are also directions of using MQQs for building Zero knowledge ID-based identification schemes. Recent research activities show that some existing non-quasigroup block ciphers or their building blocks can be represented by quasigroup string transformations. There is a method for generating optimal 4x4 S-boxes by quasigroups of order 4, by which a more optimized hardware implementation of the given S-box can be obtained. Even some block ciphers' modes of operations can be represented by quasigroup string transformations, which leads to finding weaknesses in the interchanged use of these modes.

Which Elasticity Tensors are Realizable?

1995 ◽  
Vol 117 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme W. Milton ◽  
Andrej V. Cherkaev
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Elasticity Tensor ◽  
Isotropic Phase ◽  
Order Tensor ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Effective Elasticity ◽  
Elasticity Tensors ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
The Given ◽  
Fourth Order Tensor

It is shown that any given positive definite fourth order tensor satisfying the usual symmetries of elasticity tensors can be realized as the effective elasticity tensor of a two-phase composite comprised of a sufficiently compliant isotropic phase and a sufficiently rigid isotropic phase configured in an suitable microstructure. The building blocks for constructing this composite are what we call extremal materials. These are composites of the two phases which are extremely stiff to a set of arbitrary given stresses and, at the same time, are extremely compliant to any orthogonal stress. An appropriately chosen subset of the extremal materials are layered together to form the composite with elasticity tensor matching the given tensor.

Licht und Schatten der Begriffe

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Bonnemann
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Current Controversy ◽  
Myth Of The Given ◽  
The Given

AbstractWhen we regard Adorno’s philosophy against the background of the current controversy between constructivism and realism, his philosophy cannot be attributed to either side. In contrast to realism, an object is constituted by a concept; on the other hand, in contrast to constructivism, Adorno also considers a concept, in turn, to be constituted by the object. Comparing Adorno to Merleau-Ponty reveals that neither philosopher considers that the knowledge of an object can be gleaned from the subject’s unilateral constitution, but is based rather on reciprocity which becomes possible through the subject’s corporeality. Thus Adorno’s epistemology hints towards a way out of the inferentialistic immanence correlation of concepts, which avoids the myth of the given.

The myth of the given and realism

Erkenntnis ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raimo Tuomela
Keyword(s):  
Myth Of The Given ◽  
The Given

scholarly journals Of empty thoughts and blind intuitions Kant's answer to McDowell

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günter Zöller
Keyword(s):  
Pure Reason ◽  
Critique Of Pure Reason ◽  
The Real ◽  
Myth Of The Given ◽  
Passive Data ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The Given ◽  
Theoretical Philosophy

This paper examines the relation between intuition and concept in Kant in light of John McDowell's neo-Kantian position that intuitions are concept-laden.2 The focus is on Kant's twofold pronouncement that thoughts without content are empty and that intuitions without concepts are blind. I show that intuitions as singular representations are not instances of passive data intake but the result of synthetic unification of the given manifold of the senses by the power of the imagination under the guidance of the understanding. Against McDowell I argue that the amenability of intuitions to conceptual determination is not due some pre-existing, absolute conceptuality of the real but to the "work of the subject."3 On a more programmatic level, this paper seeks to demonstrate the limitations of a selective appropriation of Kant and the philosophical potential of a more comprehensive and thorough consideration of his work. Section 1 addresses the unique balance in Kant's philosophy between the work on particular problems and the orientation toward a systematic whole. Section 2 outlines McDowell's take on the Kantian distinction between intuition and concept in the context of the Kant readings by Sellars and Strawson. Section 3 exposes McDowell's relapse into the Myth of the Given. Section 4 proposes a reading of Kant's theoretical philosophy as an epistemology of metaphysical cognition. Section 5 details Kant's original account of sensible intuition in the Inaugural-Dissertation of 1770. Section 6 presents the transition from the manifold of the senses to the synthesis in the imagination and the unification through the categories in the Critique of pure reason (1781 and 1787). Section 7 addresses Kant's formalism in epistemology and metaphysics.

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