The Form of the Phi Kernel

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Harbour
Keyword(s):  
Language Of Thought ◽  
First Order ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Evolution Of Mind ◽  
First Order Predicates

This chapter considers the broader lessons that might be drawn from the current study of person. It draws out the core commonalities between the person and number features that have been proposed: that features are “operations” richer than first-order predicates held together by conjunction; that they are not subject to extrinsic constraints on order of composition or co-occurrence; and that there are semantic and morphological grounds for representing features of both kinds bivalently. The consequences of this study might ramify beyond linguistics by altering our understanding of and means of investigating the language of thought and the nature and evolution of mind. The author asserts, contrary to widespread opinion, minds do leave fossils, but these are to be sought, not by paleoanthropologists sifting through the archeological record, but by cognitive scientists, including linguists, via our theories of the structure of the mind itself.

Big Heads title page

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
vernon thornton
Keyword(s):  
Title Page ◽  
Language Of Thought ◽  
Correct Version ◽  
Evolutionary Context ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain

A description of of the mind and its relationship to the brain, set in an evolutionary context. Introduction of a correct version of 'language-of-thought' called 'thinkish'.

scholarly journals The Transformation of Ice-Candy-Man: Account of Partition Trauma in Cracking India

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Archana Katariya ◽  
Priyanka Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Events ◽  
The Core ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Partition Of India ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Transition Stages ◽  
Traumatic Impact ◽  
Changing Society

This article aims to unveil the capricious transformation of the key figure, Ice-Candy-Man (named Dilnawaz) and the riotous traumatic impact of the Partition of India on his personality in Cracking India. The most arousing, poignant, efficacious figure Ice-Candy-Man of Bapsi Sidhwa’s magnum opus Cracking India traps the mind of the readers. Sidhwa, the original mark and a victim of the Partition in 1947, had sensed the brutal incidents which impaled her heart with pathos and enforced her to pen it down by presenting vivacious, colorful characters with autobiographical touches. The Ice-Candy-Man appears with a different disguise each time. Why did Sidhwa characterize him in such a specific and dynamic manner? His gestures, speech and even his transition stages and his every next footstep are the symbols and metaphors of the changing society during the traumatic events of Partition—they denote how an individual turns his course of life. His act of transformation is the core to unlocking Sidhwa’s magical world. Without analyzing the Ice-Candy-Man, all endeavors to interpret Sidhwa’s messages are futile.

Oldfangled and

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Harbour
Keyword(s):  
Current Theory ◽  
First Order ◽  
Person Features ◽  
First Order Predicates

Traditional accounts of person assume that features denote first order predicates, that their values denote one-place truth functors, and that feature bundles are held together semantically by conjunction. Crucially, conjunction is a commutative operation, unlike those belonging to the current theory. The current chapter explores the consequences of semantics commutativity for theories of person features. Reviewing a range of influential accounts, it shows that these are accounts undergenerate if given only two features, but overgenerate if given more, and that means of trimming the generative excess are unsatisfactory. The chapter also compares three analyses of Bininj-Gunwok, which has a tripartite person for objects but quadripartite for person, arguing that the smallest feature inventory yields the most compact account.

Introduction and Synopsis

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Georges Rey
Keyword(s):  
Body Problem ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Theory ◽  
Mind Body Problem ◽  
The Mind

The book is divided into three parts1. Part I provides a somewhat novel exposition and defense of what I regard as the core ideas of a Chomskyan linguistic theory; Part II, a discussion of some of the core philosophical claims that surround it; and Part III, a more contentious discussion of the ultimate problem that concerns me: whether and how the core theory is committed to a philosophically troublesome notion of intentionality that is associated with the near ubiquitous term “representation.” The last chapter will conclude with a brief critical discussion of a few further philosophical views that Chomsky has expressed regarding the mind–body problem, which many might—mistakenly—take to be essential to his theory....

Epilogue

2016 ◽  
pp. 113-116
Author(s):  
Maria Rosa Antognazza
Keyword(s):  
Actual World ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
The Core ◽  
Practical Project ◽  
Scientific Advancement ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Good And Evil

The ‘Epilogue’ concludes that it is possible to trace important elements of Leibniz’s way of thinking back to many different traditions, all of them reshaped and remodelled with the help of conversations with many hundreds of individuals, into a strikingly original outlook. It was in order to explain the actual world as we experience it, and what good and evil we find in it, that Leibniz took us on a journey through possible worlds and the mind of God. This theoretical understanding was for him at the core of an ultimately practical project of scientific advancement for the benefit of humankind.

scholarly journals Mathematical Modelling of Some Nutrient Losses during Heat Treatment of Stewed Apples

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (Special Issue 1) ◽  
pp. S23-S26
Author(s):  
F. Courtois ◽  
L. Vedrenne ◽  
S. Georgé
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Heat Treatment ◽  
Vitamin C ◽  
Mathematical Modelling ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Nutrient Losses ◽  
Single Model ◽  
First Order ◽  
The Core

Vitamin C (later noted VITC) and polyphenols (later noted PP) were regarded as main nutritional markers in the transformation process of stewed apples after an <I>in situ</I> measurement campaign at two leading French industrials on that matter. Experiments on pilots with the CTCPA of Avignon made it possible to create a small experimental data base whose treatment is the core of this article. The objective of this work is to check if the experimental data collected at the CTCPA facility can be represented by a single model of 2 separate first order reactions, with or without Arrhenius, under varying processing temperatures.

scholarly journals Theatre of the Mind: A Project to Animate the Language of Thought and Communication

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-273
Author(s):  
Eric S. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Of Thought ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Second Language Teaching ◽  
Complex Part ◽  
Integrated Theory ◽  
Constructive Dialogue ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
The Mind

Human language is a rich and complex part of human behaviour that can be studied in many ways. The author and his colleagues are developing an application that accepts simple texts as input and presents an animated display of characters acting out the text. It mimics the human visualization of texts, the so-called Theatre of the Mind. In so doing, they need an integrated theory of language; they can test such a theory for consistency and completeness because it is implemented in computable form. In practice, they may have the basis for a useful tool for developing literacy or second-language teaching. By entering expressions, learners can see what the expressions mean and so learn, in a constructive dialogue, some of the language-specific features that they need to master.

Analysis of three-layer composite plates with a new higher-order layerwise formulation

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-404
Author(s):  
Dalal A. Maturi ◽  
Antonio J.M. Ferreira ◽  
Ashraf M. Zenkour ◽  
Daoud S. Mashat
Keyword(s):  
Composite Plates ◽  
Order Theory ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Basis Functions ◽  
Numerical Accuracy ◽  
First Order ◽  
The Core ◽  
First Order Theory ◽  
Layer Composite ◽  
Vibration Problems

AbstractIn this paper, we combine a new higher-order layerwise formulation and collocation with radial basis functions for predicting the static deformations and free vibration behavior of three-layer composite plates. The skins are modeled via a first-order theory, while the core is modeled by a cubic expansion with the thickness coordinate. Through numerical experiments, the numerical accuracy of this strong-form technique for static and vibration problems is discussed.

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