scholarly journals Feature Centrality and Conceptual Coherence

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven A. Sloman ◽  
Bradley C. Love ◽  
Woo-Kyoung Ahn
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Coherence ◽  
Feature Centrality

The Sovereign’s Beatitude

2021 ◽  
pp. 009059172110420
Author(s):  
Zoltan Balazs
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
The Political ◽  
Short Treatment ◽  
Divine Sovereignty ◽  
Conceptual Coherence ◽  
Political Sovereignty ◽  
Human Happiness ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Image Of God

Though it may sound awkward to ask whether the political sovereign is happy or unhappy, the question is relevant to political theory, especially within a political theological perspective. Because man was created in the image of God, human happiness needs to be a reflection of divine beatitude, and as divine sovereignty is, at least analogically, related to political sovereignty, the conceptual coherence is secured. The main argument is, however, that the analogy does not hold. I shall show how St Thomas Aquinas’s short treatment of God’s beatitude may mislead us about power, fame, riches, and dignity being essential to happiness, based on an analysis of Franz Kafka’s major novel, The Castle, and a few other writings by him. I shall argue that our tradition of political thinking and behavior remains ambivalent on this issue. The political sovereign is born out of our unhappy condition, yet its power, fame, riches, and glory suggests to us that it has appropriated our happiness. But for this very reason it cannot be happy, and it therefore suggests a false analogy between the divine and the political sovereign. It is fundamentally at variance with our happiness, which incites us to abandon, reject, and eventually, kill it.

Causal Status as a Determinant of Feature Centrality

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woo-kyoung Ahn ◽  
Nancy S. Kim ◽  
Mary E. Lassaline ◽  
Martin J. Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Causal Status ◽  
Feature Centrality

Evaluating Conceptual Coherence in Multi-Modeling Techniques

2011 ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Bart-Jan Hommes
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Evaluation ◽  
Modeling Language ◽  
Modeling Languages ◽  
Conceptual Coherence ◽  
Meta Model ◽  
Modeling Methods ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Modeling Techniques ◽  
Meta Modeling ◽  
Evaluation Of Methods

Meta-modeling is a well-known approach for capturing modeling methods and techniques. A meta-model can serve as a basis for quantitative evaluation of methods and techniques. By means of a number of formal metrics based on the meta-model, a quantitative evaluation of methods and techniques becomes possible. Existing meta-modeling languages and measurement schemes do not allow the explicit modeling of so-called multi-modeling techniques. Multi-modeling techniques are techniques that offer a coherent set of aspect modeling techniques to model different aspects of a certain phenomenon. As a consequence, existing approaches lack metrics to quantitatively assess aspects that are particular to multi-modeling techniques. In this chapter, a modeling language for modeling multi-modeling techniques is proposed as well as metrics for evaluating the coherent set of aspect modeling techniques that constitute the multi-modeling technique.

scholarly journals Textbooks as source for conceptional confusion in teaching and learning ‘acids and bases’ in lower secondary school

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Lembens ◽  
Susanne Hammerschmid ◽  
Susanne Jaklin-Farcher ◽  
Christian Nosko ◽  
Katrin Reiter
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Chemistry Teaching ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Conceptual Coherence ◽  
Chemistry Textbooks ◽  
Coding Manual ◽  
Acids And Bases ◽  
Secondary Classes ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractChemistry teaching and learning bears some subject-specific challenges. For example, explanations and considerations of chemical phenomena drawing on the macroscopic, the sub-microscopic and the representational level. In this paper, we focus on the topic ‘acids and bases’ where the confusion of these levels leads to numerous misconceptions among learners. One possible source of these problems are textbooks, which can have an important impact on the quality of teaching and learning. To identify scientific and didactical appropriate textbooks for lower secondary classes, we draw on the work of Roseman, J. E., Stern, L. & Koppal, M. (2010), who developed an instrument to analyse textbooks using a conceptual coherence map. To develop our topic-specific instrument, big ideas of the topic were formulated, arranged in a conceptual coherence map, and set in relation with each other. Then we development a coding manual that describes precisely how to apply the different categories while analysing textbooks. The process described is part of a design-based research project with the aim to contribute to better chemistry teaching and learning. We give insight into the process of developing this instrument for analysing chemistry textbooks. Furthermore, it presents some examples for problematic representations from textbooks in the field of ‘acids and bases’.

scholarly journals Migrants, Assigned Expatriates (AE) and Self-initiated Expatriates (SIE) - Dfferentiation of Terms and Literature-Based Research Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylwia Przytuła
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Research Review ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
International Context ◽  
Conceptual Coherence ◽  
Global Mobility ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Globalized World

Abstract The globalized world economy demand increasing global mobility and flexibility in the workplace and workforce. More and more skilled individuals seek international career opportunities. Thera are various mobile employees in the international context [OECD] among which are migrants, assigned expatriates (AE) and self-initiated expatriates (SIE). Many people experience international mobility through migration or as part of an expatriate assignment [Banai, Harry 2004; Capellen, Jansenss 2010; Dickman, Doherty 2010; Zikic et all 2010]. Yet an increasing number are choosing self-initiation expatriation [Bozionelos 2009; Selmer, Lauring 2010; Tharenou 2010; Doherty et all, 2013]. The purpose of this article is to enhance the conceptual coherence of the notion of migrant and assigned expatriate (AE) and self-initiated expatriate (SIE). Proposed definitions are based on a set of conceptual criteria which differentiates these three types of international movers.

the emergence of modern ‘sikh theology’: reassessing the passage of ideas from trumpp to bha¯i¯ vi¯r singh

2005 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
arvind-pal s. mandair
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Conceptual Coherence

steering between opposing explanations of religion as either sui generis or sociological construction, this paper argues for an alternative way of conceptualizing the phenomenon called ‘sikh theology’. normally attributed to the interior religious experience of the founder of sikhism, ‘sikh theology’, it will be argued, can more usefully be envisaged as the product of a discursive regime, a regime of colonial translation, which effectively demarcated the conceptual framework of modern sikhism. this regime of translation contains an ideology about religion that made translators such as ernest trumpp imagine the work of translation as providing a remedy for a scripture perceived as lacking conceptual coherence, or in the case of trumpp's non-sikh protagonist m.a. macauliffe, as based on a ‘dialogical interaction’ with sikh native informants. the paper's main focus is to show how key theological concepts passed from trumpp to macauliffe, and were inadvertently imbibed by writers of the exegetical commentaries on scripture such as bha¯i¯ vi¯r singh, even as they were contesting trumpp's odium theologicum.

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