Cognitive Dynamics, Belief Retention, and Cognitive Significance

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
Vojislav Bozickovic
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Significance ◽  
Cognitive Dynamics

Cognitive dynamics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Recanati
Keyword(s):  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Singular Thought ◽  
Cognitive Significance ◽  
Mental File ◽  
Mental Files ◽  
Cognitive Dynamics ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Dynamic Files

This chapter offers an elaboration and defense of the mental-file approach to singular thought. Mental files are supposed to account for both cognitive significance and coreference de jure. But these two roles generate conflicting constraints: files must be fine-grained to play the first role and coarse-grained to play the second role. To reconcile the constraints, we need to distinguish two sorts of file (static files and dynamic files), and two forms of coreference de jure (strong and weak). Dynamic files are sequences of file-stages united by the weak coreference de jure relation. It is at the synchronic level, that of file-stages, that the stronger coreference de jure is to be found. The resulting view is compared to that of Papineau, according to whom only dynamic files are needed, and to that of Ninan, according to whom there are proper dynamic files that exhibit strong coreference de jure.

THE ROLE OF METAPHOR IN HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE

Cultural code ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 30-37
Author(s):  
MARIYA PETROVNA LAPTEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Content ◽  
Cognitive Significance ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Positive Sense

The article continues the author's series of publications on the terminological apparatus of the historian. The problems of humanitarian science cannot have "final solutions". F.R.Ankersmith paid attention to the fact that the attitude to the role of metaphors knows not onli "ups" but also "downs". Exploring aspects of the conceptual arsenal associated with the explicit use of the metaphor. "Implicit use" refers to those semantic situations when a historian or another humanist enters into a kind of dialogue with other sciences, carrying out terminological borrowing. Since the semantic content of the term changes in this case, then, in essence, a metaphorical action takes place that does not require a special name. The article contains, the author's reflection on the circumstances and features of the use of metaphors. The author finds out how and why historiography becomes metaphorical. Referring to specialists who developed the cognitive basis of the theory of metaphor, the author analyzes different traditions of understanding what metaphor is. There is a search for a positive sense of metaphor usage with some ambiguity. Since the metaphor creates a new meaning of the word, its cognitive significance becomes unquestionable. By citing examples of various uses of metaphors in the texts of historians, the author shows how a metaphor helps clarify the uniqueness of historical situations.

Representation of Solutions of Some Boundary Value Problems of Elasticity by a Sum of the Solutions of Other Boundary Value Problems

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-270
Author(s):  
N. Khomasuridze
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Value Problems ◽  
Boundary Value ◽  
Cognitive Significance ◽  
Cylindrical Coordinates ◽  
Classical Elasticity ◽  
Representation Of Solutions ◽  
Elasticity Problems ◽  
Lamé Coefficients

Abstract Basic static boundary value problems of elasticity are considered for a semi-infinite curvilinear prism Ω = {ρ 0 < ρ < ρ 1, α 0 < α < α 1, 0 < 𝑧 < ∞} in generalized cylindrical coordinates ρ, α, 𝑧 with Lamé coefficients ℎ ρ = ℎ α = ℎ(ρ, α), ℎ𝑧 = 1. It is proved that the solution of some boundary value problems of elasticity can be reduced to the sum of solutions of other boundary value problems of elasticity. Besides its cognitive significance, this fact also enables one to solve some non-classical elasticity problems.

Why Rip Matters?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-173
Author(s):  
Filip Čukljević ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Dynamics ◽  
Short Presentation

The aim of this paper is to reexamine the importance of Rip van Winkle’s case for the problem of cognitive dynamics. First I shall present the main problem of cognitive dynamics. Then I shall explain the relevance of Rip’s case to this problem. After that I shall provide a short presentation of the main solutions to this problem. I shall explicate the problem concerning the manner in which philosophers who propose those solutions defend their response to the question of Rip’s case. My argument shall be that they defend their response either in overly dogmatic or in circular way. Finally, I shall suggest a way out of that problem.

Simulated visual hallucinations in virtual reality enhance cognitive flexibility

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Rastelli ◽  
Antonino Greco ◽  
Yoed N. Kenett ◽  
Chiara Finocchiaro ◽  
Nicola De Pisapia
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cognitive Flexibility ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Chaotic Dynamics ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Automatic Process ◽  
Visual Hallucinations ◽  
Decision Strategies ◽  
Cognitive Dynamics ◽  
Psychedelic Drugs

Historically, psychedelic drugs are known to modulate cognitive flexibility, a central aspect of cognition permitting adaptation to changing environmental demands. Despite proof suggesting phenomenological similarities between artificially-induced and actual psychedelic altered perception, experimental evidence is still lacking about whether the former is also able to modulate cognitive flexibility. To address this, we measure participants' cognitive flexibility through behavioral tasks after the exposure to virtual reality panoramic videos and their hallucinatory-like counterparts generated by the DeepDream algorithm. Results show that the estimated semantic network has a flexible structure when preceded by altered videos. Crucially, following the simulated psychedelic exposure, individuals also show an attenuated contribution of the automatic process and chaotic dynamics underlying the decision process. This suggests that simulated altered perceptual phenomenology enhances cognitive flexibility, presumably due to a reorganization in the cognitive dynamics that facilitates the exploration of uncommon decision strategies and inhibits automated choices.

scholarly journals Intelligent Design of Product Forms Based on Design Cognitive Dynamics and a Cobweb Structure

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Wenjin Yang ◽  
Jian-Ning Su ◽  
Shutao Zhang ◽  
Kai Qiu ◽  
Xinxin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Dynamic Mechanism ◽  
Cognitive Dynamics ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Product Image ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Product Forms

Design is a complex, iterative, and innovative process. By traditional methods, it is difficult for designers to have an integral priori design experience to fully explore a wide range of design solutions. Therefore, refined intelligent design has become an important trend in design research. More powerful design thinking is needed in intelligent design process. Combining cognitive dynamics and a cobweb structure, an intelligent design method is proposed to formalize the innovative design process. The excavation of the dynamic mechanism of the product evolution process during product development is necessary to predict next-generation multi-image product forms from a larger design space. First, different design thinking stimulates the information source and is obtained by analyzing the designers’ thinking process when designing and mining the dynamic mechanism behind it. Based on the nonlinear cognitive cobweb process proposed by Francisco and a natural cobweb structure, the product image cognitive cobweb model (PICCM) is constructed. Then, natural cobweb predation behavior is simulated using a stimulus information source to impact the PICCM. This process uses genetic algorithms to obtain numerous offspring forms, and the PICCM’s mechanical properties are the energy loss parameters in the impact information. Furthermore, feasible solutions are selected from intelligent design sketches by the product artificial form evaluation system based on designers’ cognition, and a new product image cognitive cobweb system is reconstructed. Finally, a case study demonstrates the efficiency and feasibility of the proposed approach.

scholarly journals Indexical Sinn: Fregeanism versus Millianism

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (39) ◽  
pp. 465
Author(s):  
João Branquinho
Keyword(s):  
Propositional Attitude ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Direct Reference ◽  
Cognitive Significance ◽  
De Re ◽  
General Conception ◽  
Attitude Reports ◽  
Singular Reference ◽  
Reference Theory ◽  
Careful Assessment

This paper discusses two notational variance views with respect to indexical singular reference and content: the view that certain forms of Millianism are at bottom notational variants of a Fregean theory of reference, the Fregean Notational Variance Claim; and the view that certain forms of Fregeanism are at bottom notational variants of a direct reference theory, the Millian Notational Variance Claim. While the former claim rests on the supposition that a direct reference theory could be easily turned into a particular version of a neo-Fregean one by showing that it is bound to acknowledge certain senselike entities, the latter claim is based upon the supposition that a neo-Fregean theory could be easily turned into a particular version of a Millian one by showing that De Re senses are theoretically superfluous and hence eliminable. The question how many accounts of singular reference and content are we confronted with here — Two different (and mutually antagonistic) theories? Or just two versions of what is in essence the same theory? — is surely of importance to anyone interested in the topic. And this question should be answered by means of a careful assessment of the soundness of each of the above claims. Before trying to adjudicate between the two accounts, one would naturally want to know whether or not there are indeed two substantially disparate accounts. Grosso modo, if the Fregean Claim were sound then we would have a single general conception of singular reference to deal with, viz. Fregeanism; likewise, if the Millian Claim were sound we would be facing a single general conception of singular reference, viz. Millianism. My view is that both the Fregean Notational Variance Claim and its Millian counterpart are wrong, though naturally on different grounds. I have argued elsewhere that the Fregean Notational Variance Claim - considered in its application to the semantics of propositional-attitude reports involving proper names — is unsound. I intend tosupplement in this paper such a result by trying to show that the Millian Claim - taken in its application to the semantics of indexical expressions — should also be rated as incorrect. I focus on a certain set of arguments for the Millian Claim, arguments which I take as adequately representing the general outlook of the Millian theorist with respect to neo-Fregeanism about indexicals and which involve issues about the cognitive significance of sentences containing indexical terms.

Two‐Dimensional Semantics

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Chalmers
Keyword(s):  
External World ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Cognitive Significance ◽  
Dimensional Approach ◽  
Truth Conditions ◽  
Semantic Value ◽  
Sense And Reference ◽  
Semantic Values ◽  
Distinctive Role

Two-dimensional approaches to semantics, broadly understood, recognize two ‘dimensions’ of the meaning or content of linguistic items. On these approaches, expressions and their utterances are associated with two different sorts of semantic values, which play different explanatory roles. Typically, one semantic value is associated with reference and ordinary truth-conditions, while the other is associated with the way that reference and truth-conditions depend on the external world. The second sort of semantic value is often held to play a distinctive role in analyzing matters of cognitive significance and/or context-dependence. In this broad sense, even Frege's theory of sense and reference might qualify as a sort of two-dimensional approach.

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