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#interpretation
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Ones and zeros mean nothing to the computer
From an electrical engineering perspective, the messy stuff in between one and zero does travel down wires, through chips, and in packets. Computer switches are actually not either on or off. Both physically and electrically, computer switches, transistors, or logic circuits…
The objective as a degree of the subjective
quite apart from interpretation and subjectivity is a quite idle hypothesis: it presupposes that interpretation and subjectivity are not essential, that a thing freed from all relationships would still be a thing. Conversely, the apparent objective character of things: could it…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
Our interpretation of the world can't be made explicit
This alternative philosophical standpoint suggests that our interpretation of the world cannot be made explicit, and any attempt to do so will render our insights grossly inaccurate.
Micropublications: A Semantic Model For Claims, Evidence, Arguments And Annotations In Biomedical Communications
Science vs humanities
Empirical evidence is required in scientific publications so that the scientific community may make and debate judgments based on the “interpretation of nature” ra- ther than interpretation of texts [28]. The process of establishing new “facts” and either supplementing or…
Prism | About Prism
Prism: crowdsourcing interpretation
Prism is a tool for "crowdsourcing interpretation." The concept emerged from a decade-long conversation on categories of textual interpretation which took place at the University of Virginia, and specifically from transparency mark-up games designed by Bethany Nowviskie for her…
Taking Philosophical Dialogue Online
Interpretation (philosophy)
Here we expect students to grasp the meaning of philosophical concepts, propositions and texts. What constitutes successful interpretation is a contentious issue, but for the purposes of this study, I shall assume that there is agreement as to what would constitute an inept…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Every recollection reconstructs the memory
‘Every time we recall an event, we must reconstruct the memory, and with every recollection the memory may be changed … Truth and reality, when seen through the filter of our memories, are not objective facts but subjective, interpretive realities.’
The feeling is right, the interpretation wrong
The feeling (resistance to compression) is entirely veridical: only the interpretation of the feeling (there is a marble there) is mistaken. He only goes wrong when he misinterprets what it is
The Will To Power: An Attempt At The Revaluation Of All Values.
Nihilism stands at the door
Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests? Point of departure: it is an error to consider "social distress" or "physiological degeneration" or, worse, corruption, as the cause of nihilism. Ours is the most decent and compassionate age. Distress…
Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web?
Axiomatic semantics
The axiomatic semantics for a language helps to ascribe a real world semantics to expressions in that language, in that it limits the possible models or interpretations that the set of axioms may have.