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Frbr: Object-oriented Definition And Mapping To Frbr-er (version 1.0.1)
Expressions (frbr)
This class comprises the immaterial realisations of individual works at a particular time that are regarded as a complete whole. The quality of wholeness reflects the intention of its creator that this expression should convey the concept of the work. Such a whole can in turn…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Schrödinger: you are all in all
Then there is the other, complementary, side of the picture as presented by the eminent biophysicist Erwin Schrödinger: It is not possible that this unity of knowledge, feeling and choice which you call your own should have sprung into being from nothingness at a given moment…
The Digital Humanities Situation | The Transducer
Digital humanities as a curriculum
So, if the digital humanities is, neither in fact nor in principle, a discipline, then what is it? Surely, with its growing army of followers and plethora of concrete institutional manifestations, it must have some basis in a reality other than its own…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
No further facts about persons
in the split-brain case, there is a truth about what has happened to the person which we cannot know on the basis of the physical facts, namely, which of them is me. This is an example of what Derek Parfit calls a ‘further fact’ view of the self.8 According to such theories…
The chariot exists but not apart from its parts
This is sometimes taken to mean that chariots do not exist, only their parts. But this is clearly nonsense. A cart is not an illusion just because it has no existence other than by the correct arrangement of its parts. The only thing that doesn’t exist is an object which is…
Much of reality is bundle-like
it’s worth remembering just how much of reality is bundle-like. Atoms are not solid objects but bundles of electrons, neutrons and protons. A plant is a complicated system, not a simple thing. Cars only exist as an assemblage of parts. The internet is a network, not an object…