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#context
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Watson versus Robin Williams
The massive amount of cultural or semantic information stored in a human brain is readily and appropriately accessible in the right contexts. What are these contexts, and how does the brain identify them? The key to this mechanism is likely the vague and fuzzy logic our brains…
From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
Criticism: weakness of isa relation on the idea category; isa is not used in a context-independent manner
The most serious form of this last worry centers on the semantics of the isa relation. The isa class subsumption relation is often presumed to hold in a context-general way and capture “purely ontological” relations; if it is true that “A isa B”, then any A in any context…
Frontiers | A Map For Big Data Research In Digital Humanities | Frontiers In Digital Humanities
Digital culture as part of the digital humanities
....data processing and interpretation happen in a larger context, which we may call Digital Culture. The study of this large context can be considered to be the second object of study for digital humanities research. One way to structure this domain is to replace the relation…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
The network and the background
Intentional states do not in general come in isolated units. If I believe, for example, that it is raining, I cannot just have that belief in isolation. I must believe, for example, that rain consists of drops of water, that these fall out of the sky, that they generally go…
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
Absolute nothingness
A model of interpretation is relevant: every text has its context, which in turn may be made a text or thematized by appealing to a further context. There is no final context that can be specified without referring to yet another context. For Nishida this relation would not be…
Resource Description Framework - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Reification, contexts and named graphs
The body of knowledge modeled by a collection of statements may be subjected to reification, in which each statement (that is each triple subject-predicate-object altogether) is assigned a URI and treated as a resource about which additional statements can be made, as in "Jane…
Semantic Web For The Humanities
Contextual knowledge in the humanities
Humanities ontologies require dynamic concept formalizations instead of static ones, especially for contested, open-textured or ambiguous concepts. The definition of such concepts needs to be dynamically built depending on their contexts. Examples of contextual knowledge are…
Systems Of Measurement - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Where metrication is still incomplete
Metrication is complete or nearly complete in almost all countries of the world. US customary units are heavily used in the United States and to some degree Liberia. Traditional Burmese units of measurement are used in Burma. U.S. units are used in limited contexts in Canada…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
The nature of anything is its potential
‘The point is,’ she writes, ‘that no single environment can show the nature of anything, because to know the nature of anything (a woman, a lump of iron, x-rays, mosquitos or black holes) is to know its potential; that if it is in one environment it will appear or behave in one…
An empty question about sameness
As long as you know what aspect of sameness matters to the questioner, you can provide an answer. If you’re a forensic investigator searching for traces of DNA left before the ship went into dock, the boat you want is the one rebuilt from original parts. If you’re Theseus, your…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Context of a topic
Assignments of topic characteristics are always made within a specific context, which may or may not be explicit. For example, if I (yet again) mention “tosca”, I should expect my readers to think of the opera by Puccini (or its principle character), because of the context that…
Two Decades Of The Language-action Perspective
Expert behaviour and machines
The conclusion that software is unlikely to ever exhibit intelligent behavior was reached by a powerful new interpretation of skillful action based in the work of modern philosophers. The essence of their interpretation is that skillful action always occurs in a context set by…