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Carl Sagan - Wikipedia
Atheism
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Judgement derives from Belief, Belief from Pleasure and Pain
The first step towards the logical is judgment, the essence of which, according to the best logicians, is belief. At the foundation of all beliefs lie sensations of pleasure or pain in relation to the apprehending subject. A third feeling, as the result of two prior, single…
Networks Of Scientific Papers
Science topography based on analysis of research fronts
The present research suggests that most papers, through citations, are knit together rather tightly. The total research front of science, however, has never been a single row of knitting. It is, instead, divided by dropped stiches into quite small segments and strips. From a…
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
Aristotle's hypokeimenon
We may use Nishida's own terms to explain his second concern, the way that objects ordinarily function in judgments. In what Nishida alternatively called the logic of objects or subjective logic, objects of consciousness are made the subject of propositions or judgments, and…
Rdf Primer
Blank node identifiers
Since a complex graph might contain more than one blank node, there also needs to be a way to differentiate between these different blank nodes in a triples representation of the graph. As a result, triples use blank node identifiers, having the form _:name, to indicate the…
URIrefs make shared vocabularies possible
Using URIrefs as subjects, predicates, and objects in RDF statements supports the development and use of shared vocabularies on the Web, since people can discover and begin using vocabularies already used by others to describe things, reflecting a shared understanding of those…
Writing an RDF graph in RDF/XML
Although additional abbreviated forms for writing RDF/XML are available, the facilities illustrated so far provide a simple but general way to express graphs in RDF/XML. Using these facilities, an RDF graph is written in RDF/XML as follows: - All blank nodes are assigned blank…
Sumi-e - Beppe Mokuza
Sumi-e: art forms in which subjects are painted with black ink
The Japanese term “sumi” means “black ink” and “e” means “painting”. It indicates one of the art forms in which subjects are painted with black ink in all possible gradations ranging pure black to the lightest shades achievable by dissolving ink in water. However, this does not…
Supporting Multiple Paths To Objects In Information Hierarchies: Faceted Classification, Faceted Search, And Symbolic Links
Faceted classification
We call sites like this, where the link labels residing at the same level of depth in the directed acyclic graph (DAG) correspond to a facet (Wynar, 2000) of information categorization, faceted. Facets are ‘clearly defined, mutually exclusive, and collectively exhaustive…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
A topic can be anything whatsoever
What then is a topic? A topic, in its most generic sense, can be any “thing” whatsoever — a person, an entity, a concept, really anything — regardless of whether it exists or has any other specific characteristics, about which anything whatsoever may be asserted by any means…