Is Semantic Physical?!

2013 ◽  
pp. 187-210
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Common Property ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
The Other ◽  
False Statement ◽  
Algorithmic Approach ◽  
Halting Problem ◽  
Critical Comparison ◽  
Maxwell Demon ◽  
Absolute Knowledge

A critical comparison between the traditional algorithmic approach and the semantic-like one is made. The comparison include topics such as causality, correlations, halting problem, shortest algorithm, intuition, Zipf`s law, and absolute information. The purpose of making this comparison is to delineate neatly the fundamental difference between both approaches and to make clear that, although they are different, they still are counterparts which coexist peacefully. One of the major differences between them turns out to be that whilst the semantic-like approach permits autonomous discrimination between “true” and “false” statement by an intelligent complex system, the traditional algorithmic theory does not allow any autonomous discrimination between a “true” and a “false” statement. On the other hand, their common property turns out to be that it is impossible to acquire absolute knowledge: for example, even the famous “super-minded” Maxwell demon can be deceived.

‘Synergy’, ‘energy’ and ‘symbol’ in Pavel Florensky and Palamism

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-157
Author(s):  
Dmitry Biryukov
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pavel Florensky

AbstractThis article is a study of Pavel Florensky's philosophy of symbol in the context of his discovery of Palamism in the 1910s, when Florensky started to speak of symbol using Palamite language. It proposes a fundamental difference between Florensky's and Palamas’ teachings on symbol: Palamas views a natural symbol as the energy of an essence, while for Florensky symbol is the essence itself, the energy of which synergises with the energies of other essence. In this context the prehistory of the concept of synergy in Florensky is studied, leading to the identification of a further difference in the ontologies of Florensky and Palamas: while Florensky's ‘essence-energy’ has the property of necessary correlation with the ‘other’, following the tendencies of the philosophy of that epoch, in Palamas ‘energy’ does not presuppose any necessary correlation with the ‘other’. The author connects this difference in ontologies between the two thinkers with their respective teachings on symbol.

Husserl and Levinas

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (51) ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
João Carvalho ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Transcendental Phenomenology ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Alter Ego

This paper presents two different, although related, approaches to the problem of the experience of the other person: E. Husserl’s phenomenology of intersubjectivity and E. Levinas’ ethics. I begin by (1) addressing the transcendental significance of the experience of intersubjectivity in the broader context of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology. I then turn to (2) Husserl’s solution to the paradox of constituting the alter ego, identifying and elucidating the key‑concepts of his inquiry. I hold that throughout his analysis there is a dominant underlying meaning in which the alterity of the other person is progressively suppressed and, ultimately, elided. Finally, I discuss (3) the consequences of Husserl’s analysis of the other in light of Levinas’ ethics. I hold that Husserl’s claim that there is a fundamental difference between the experience of myself and my analogical experience of the other is the basis upon which Levinas’ develops a new concept of experience, not as perception but as encounter. Upon close reading, I claim that Levinas’ revision of the topic of alterity is, ultimately, a consequence of Husserl’s transcendental analysis of intersubjectivity.

scholarly journals The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? The Dynamic Interplay Between Educational Practice, Policy and Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Van Geert ◽  
Henderien Steenbeek
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The One ◽  
Dynamic Interplay ◽  
Interacting Components

The notion of complexity — as in “education is a complex system” — has two different meanings. On the one hand, there is the epistemic connotation, with “Complex” meaning “difficult to understand, hard to control”. On the other hand, complex has a technical meaning, referring to systems composed of many interacting components, the interactions of which lead to self organization and emergence. For agents, participating in a complex system such as education, it is important that they can reduce the epistemic complexity of the system, in order to allow them to understand the system, to accomplish their goals and to evaluate the results of their activities. We argue that understanding, accomplishing and evaluation requires the creation of simplex systems, which are praxis-based forms of representing complexity. Agents participating in the complex system may have different kinds of simplex systems governing their understanding and praxis. In this article, we focus on three communities of agents in education — educators, researchers and policymakers — and discuss characteristic features of their simplex systems. In particular, we focus on the simplex system of educational researchers, and we discuss interactions — including conflicts or incompatibilities — between their simplex systems and those of educators and policymakers. By making some of the underlying features of the educational researchers’ simplex systems more explicit – including the underlying notion of causality and the use of variability as a source of knowledge — we hope to contribute to clarifying some of the hidden conflicts between simplex systems of the communities participating in the complex system of education.

Observations on the Biting-habits of African Mosquitos in the Genus Eretmapodites Theobald

1956 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Haddow
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Influence ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Activity Curve ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One

The biting-habits of mosquitos in the genus Eretmapodites Theobald, as shown by 24-hour catches, display a certain uniformity in that all the species studied are essentially diurnal and bite very close to the ground, in shade. They do not enter dwellings.When, however, two localities are compared (the Entebbe area and Bwamba County) it is found that there is a fundamental difference in behaviour. At Entebbe there is an exceedingly well-marked wave of activity before sunset. This does not occur in Bwamba, where the cycle shows no pronounced characteristics apart from its generally diurnal nature. It is shown that this difference arises from the fact that in Bwamba the first hour of biting-activity tends to be the most intense (no matter when it occurs) whereas in Entebbe the hour before sunset is almost always preferred.One group (the E. chrysogaster group) is present in both localities. In Entebbe it shows an activity curve of the one type, and in Bwamba a curve of the other type.It is concluded that some environmental influence must be involved. At the moment, however, no suggestion can be made concerning the nature of this influence, beyond the fact that the activity-patterns concerned are not easily explained in terms of microclimate.

scholarly journals When regularization gets it wrong: children over-simplify language input only in production

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 1054-1072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica F. SCHWAB ◽  
Casey LEW-WILLIAMS ◽  
Adele E. GOLDBERG
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Forced Choice ◽  
Choice Task ◽  
The Other ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Artificial Languages ◽  
Forced Choice Task ◽  
Unpredictable Variation

AbstractChildren tend to regularize their productions when exposed to artificial languages, an advantageous response to unpredictable variation. But generalizations in natural languages are typically conditioned by factors that children ultimately learn. In two experiments, adult and six-year-old learners witnessed two novel classifiers, probabilistically conditioned by semantics. Whereas adults displayed high accuracy in their productions – applying the semantic criteria to familiar and novel items – children were oblivious to the semantic conditioning. Instead, children regularized their productions, over-relying on only one classifier. However, in a two-alternative forced-choice task, children's performance revealed greater respect for the system's complexity: they selected both classifiers equally, without bias toward one or the other, and displayed better accuracy on familiar items. Given that natural languages are conditioned by multiple factors that children successfully learn, we suggest that their tendency to simplify in production stems from retrieval difficulty when a complex system has not yet been fully learned.

Stretta vs Canon

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-62
Author(s):  
А.П. Милка ◽  
К.И. Южак
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
General Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
The Difference

Оба термина широко представлены в современных словарях и руководствах, а их трактовка близка к синонимической. Вероятно, по этой причине определения данных терминов практически всегда рассматриваются порознь и не сопоставляются. Следствием такого положения оказывается не вполне адекватное их понимание и теоретическое обоснование. Статья посвящена сравнению стретты и канона — как близких, но разных явлений и как отражающих их терминов. Общая для обоих явлений каноническая природа проявляется в них существенно по-разному. Показать, в чем суть их родства и расхождений между ними и как это должно отражаться в комплексе дефиниций, — задача, поставленная в статье. В основе рассуждений лежат два тезиса, касающиеся принципиального различия между соответствующими каноническими построениями. Один тезис касается природы пропост в стретте и в каноне — функциональных и композиционно-синтаксических различий между темой фуги в стретте и одноголосным началом (вступительным отделом) пропосты в каноне. Другой тезис касается интонационно-содержательных различий между завершениями собственно канонического развертывания стретты и строгой (регламентированной) части канона. Общий анализ всех показанных различий позволяет внести уточнения в соответствующие определения. Both terms are widely represented in modern dictionaries and manuals, and their interpretation is close to synonymous. This feature is probably the reason that the definitions of these terms are almost always considered separately and not compared, which results in not quite adequate understanding and theoretical explanation. As the title suggests, the article is devoted to comparing stretta and canon — as close though different phenomena (as well as the terms reflecting them). The authors seek to show, what is the essence of their relatedness and differences and how this should be reflected in the complex of definitions. The canonical nature, which is common to both phenomena, demonstrates itself in stretta and in canon in a different way. The reasoning is based on two theses concerning the fundamental difference between the corresponding canonical constructions. One of them refers to the different nature of the propostas in stretta and canon (we are talking about the difference between the theme in the fugue and the monophonic part of proposta in a canon). The other thesis is connected with the differences in the completion of the canonical section of the stretta and the strict part of the canon. A general analysis of the differences allows us to refine the respective definitions.

The Algorithmic Aspects of Creating and Using Wireless Sensor Network Key Spaces Based on Combinatorial Block Diagrams

Vestnik MEI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-118
Author(s):  
Aleksandr B. Frolov ◽  
◽  
Natalya P. Kochetova ◽  
Anton O. Klyagin ◽  
Dmitriy Yu. Temnikov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Block Diagram ◽  
The Other ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Algorithmic Approach ◽  
Network Nodes ◽  
Rule Sets ◽  
Independent Calculation ◽  
Do So

Algorithmic approach principles relating to development and use of wireless sensor network (WSS) key spaces are formulated based on an analysis of the keys management peculiarities. The formulated principles, which meet certain requirements for the WSS key spaces, have been elaborated proceeding from the assumption that their structure corresponds to one of the varieties of combinatorial block diagrams: cyclic or acyclic projective plane, linear or quadratic transversal block diagrams. Owing to the WSS having a distributed configuration, it becomes possible to avoid the need to construct a combinatorial block diagram in full scope, and the required blocks are computed, whenever necessary, in scaling the network (in adding new nodes) or when determining, in a decentralized manner, the switching parameters of specific nodes. To do so, it is necessary to have algorithms for computing the blocks of the combinatorial block diagram (as the sets of key numbers allocated to a given node) and dual blocks (as the sets of the numbers of nodes to which keys are assigned with the numbers coinciding with the numbers of dual blocks), as well as algorithms for solving derived problems: computing of the key numbers common to two nodes and the number of the node that has a common key with one of two nodes and, possibly, another key with the other one. These problems are solved by using the numbering of elements, blocks and dual blocks in accordance with the proposed duality rule: sets of elements and dual blocks are in one-to-one correspondence by numbering; the dual block with a specified number contains the numbers of blocks containing elements with this number. Distributed (independent) calculation of blocks is carried out on the basis of algebraic identifiers computed by block numbers. In addition to the possible absence of a physical connection between the nodes, the inadmissibility of using separate (compromised) keys is taken into account, and the incomplete furnishing of the network nodes with keys, as well as the incompleteness of the system implementation as a whole. Algorithms for computing the switching parameters of two nodes in designing the WSS and an algorithm for computer modeling of the calculation of such parameters during the WSS operation subject to the specified constraints and in using any of the above types of combinatorial block diagrams are presented.

14. Misrepresentation

2019 ◽  
pp. 634-701
Author(s):  
Robert Merkin ◽  
Séverine Saintier
Keyword(s):  
Case Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Original Position ◽  
False Statement ◽  
Contributory Negligence ◽  
Civil Remedies ◽  
Contractual Term ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Injured Party ◽  
Selection Of

The Casebook series provides a comprehensive selection of case law that addresses all aspects of the subject encountered on undergraduate courses. A contract may include a statement that is a mere puff, a representation, or a contractual term. In the case of a representation, the maker asserts the truth of certain facts and thus induces the contract. In case of an actionable misrepresentation (an unambiguous false statement of fact which induces the other party to enter into the contract), the contract may be rendered voidable, that is, liable to be set aside or rescinded. In some instances, the injured party may claim for damages designed to restore him to his original position. This chapter examines the identification of actionable misrepresentation, duties of disclosure, types of misrepresentations, rescission as a remedy, damages for misrepresentation, including the damages available in section 2 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967, and the effect of contributory negligence in any damages award. Finally, the chapter examines exclusion of liability for non-fraudulent misrepresentation and the effect of ‘non-reliance’ clauses in contracts. In the consumer context, it also notes the criminal offences in certain instances of misrepresentation under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (CPRs) and the extension to include civil remedies for misleading actions.

scholarly journals Pro-sociality without empathy

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 910-912 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Vasconcelos ◽  
Karen Hollis ◽  
Elise Nowbahari ◽  
Alex Kacelnik
Keyword(s):  
Emotional State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Comparison ◽  
Rescue Behaviour ◽  
Important Trait ◽  
Goal Directedness ◽  
Evolutionary Emergence ◽  
Behavioural Sciences ◽  
Current Standards

Empathy, the capacity to recognize and share feelings experienced by another individual, is an important trait in humans, but is not the same as pro-sociality, the tendency to behave so as to benefit another individual. Given the importance of understanding empathy's evolutionary emergence, it is unsurprising that many studies attempt to find evidence for it in other species. To address the question of what should constitute evidence for empathy, we offer a critical comparison of two recent studies of rescuing behaviour that report similar phenomena but are interpreted very differently by their authors. In one of the studies, rescue behaviour in rats was interpreted as providing evidence for empathy, whereas in the other, rescue behaviour in ants was interpreted without reference to sharing of emotions. Evidence for empathy requires showing that actor individuals possess a representation of the receiver's emotional state and are driven by the psychological goal of improving its wellbeing. Proving psychological goal-directedness by current standards involves goal-devaluation and causal sensitivity protocols, which, in our view, have not been implemented in available publications. Empathy has profound significance not only for cognitive and behavioural sciences but also for philosophy and ethics and, in our view, remains unproven outside humans.

Second Thoughts About Bluffing

1993 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Carson
Keyword(s):  
Good Reason ◽  
The Other ◽  
Alternative Definition ◽  
False Statement ◽  
Prospective Buyer ◽  
Bargaining Position ◽  
Business Negotiations ◽  
Bargaining Positions ◽  
Dictionary Definitions

It is common for people to misstate their bargaining positions during business negotiations. This paper will focus on cases of the following sort: I am selling a house and tell a prospective buyer that $90,000 is absolutely the lowest price that I will accept, when I know that I would be willing to accept as little as $80, 000 for the house. This is a lie according to standard definitions of lying—it is a deliberate false statement which is intended to deceive others. I will defend the following two theses:a. Appearances to the contrary, this kind of bluffing typically does not constitute lying. (I will argue that standard dictionary definitions of lying are untenable and defend an alternative definition hinted at, but never clearly formulated by, W. D. Ross. On my definition, deliberate false statements about one’s negotiating position would rarely constitute lies in this society.)b. It is usually permissible to misstate one’s bargaining position when one has good reason to think that one’s negotiating partner is doing the same and it is usually impermissible to misstate one’s negotiating bargaining if one does not have good reason to think that the other party is misstating her position.

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