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Some Common Sense For The Common Core
<p>The arrival of the Common Core Curriculum has brought many changes into the educational world. These changes have been subtle in some cases and controversial in others. Much of the controversy lies in the testing policies put forward by the proponents of this new era in educational policy. In …
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A common-sense reasoning system for mechanical engineering
… that would be found in a shop. Mechnet uses common-sense data about how these things are used and what they are made of, and attempts to judge which objects are similar to each other. The goal was to make "sensible" analogies about things, in that they make sense to a human who has experience …
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Seeing things as people: anthropomorphism and common-sense psychology
This thesis is about common-sense psychology and its role in cognitive science. Put simply, the argument is that common-sense psychology is important because it offers clues to some complex problems in cognitive science, and because common-sense psychology has significant effects on our intuitions, …
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New Egypt High School's single lunch: "It's common sense"
<p>This study was conducted to determine if hosting an open campus single lunch at New Egypt High School would positively affect the cultural climate of the entire school. The single lunch project involved the entire school community. As the administrative intern I served as the project …
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Common sense epistemology : a defense of seemings as evidence.
… this dissertation constitutes a defense of common sense epistemology. Common sense epistemology is a theory of ultimate evidence. At its center is a type of mental state called "seemings"—the kind we possess when something seems true or false. Common sense epistemology maintains, first, that …
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Sidgwick, Common Sense, and the Dualism of Practical Reason
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T14:28:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709224.pdf: 6069238 bytes, checksum: 597ae301cad696168d5dcc345aff1de3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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The virtual hippocampus : spatial common sense for synthetic creatures
Thesis (M.Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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Visualization and Behavioral Testing Of Common Sense Generative Programs
Probabilistic generative programs are powerful tools that allow for modeling complex 3D worlds containing objects and agents. Recent advances in these programs have resulted in creation of rich models whose traces represent 3D scenes, but there exist challenges in using visualizations and …
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The rhetoric of the patent wars: how technology becomes "Common Sense"
… classical and modern rhetorical notions of common sense and community with perspectives on society and technology offered by philosophers Charles Taylor and Andrew Feenberg. I apply this theoretical lens to three sets of texts: 1) public rhetoric surrounding Google's purchase of Motorola …
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Beyond common sense : negotiating constructions of sexuality and gender in Japan
… in which everyone is expected to marry. In this sense the research goes a step beyond what much of anthropology does: establishing what are more or less standard lifestyles in a particular culture. After discussing the position of marriage in Japanese society in chapter three, including political …
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The Sound and the Fury: Common Sense About the Exxon Valdez
"Using articulation theory, it moves beyond the quagmire of the great wilderness debate, and charts a middle ground between, on the one hand, the overly optimistic and non-deterministic celebration of ""wild nature"" as an unproblematic solution to complex social and ecological problems, and, on …
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Multi task learning and incorporating common sense knowledge for question answering
… task is to develop novel ways of incorporating common sense knowledge from external knowledge bases for automated question answering. The models developed for these tasks help to advance research in the area of question answering and highlights some of the shortcomings of the methods proposed in …
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Learning common sense knowledge from user interaction and principal component analysis
… thesis, I present a system for reasoning with common sense knowledge in multiple natural languages, as part of the Open Mind Common Sense project. The knowledge that Open Mind collects from volunteer contributors is represented as a semantic network called ConceptNet. Using principal component …
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Challenging common sense about nonsense : an integrational approach to schizophrenic language behaviour
… by schizophrenics in their attempts to make sense, even if these attempts fail. The alternative argued for here is to apply the tenets of integrationist linguistics to schizophrenic language behaviour, to give a fuller account of communication situations involving schizophrenics and normal …
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Leveraging Multimodal Perspectives to Learn Common Sense for Vision and Language Tasks
Learning and reasoning with common sense is a challenging problem in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Humans have the remarkable ability to interpret images and text from different perspectives in multiple modalities, and to use large amounts of commonsense knowledge while performing visual or textual …
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Putting the Ghost Back in the Machine: A Defense of Common Sense Dualism
… shift in method away from naturalism and toward common sense philosophy. I then show how, from within that approach, substance dualism is far better supported than its competitors. My defense of the common sense method rests heavily on an account of justification and of evidence defended by …
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'Cohesion' in the context of welfare and citizenship: discourse, policy and common sense
… framework, adopting Gramscian concepts of ‘common sense’ and hegemony, within which the methods of Critical Discourse Analysis and focus groups are used. Critical Discourse Analysis is used to analyse cohesion and welfare documents from between 2001 and 2010, whilst focus group research …
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GlobalMind : bridging the gap between different cultures and languages with common-sense computing
… similarities. This thesis, GlobalMind, provides common-sense databases of various countries and languages and two inference modules to analyze and compute the cultural differences and similarities from the databases. I describe the design of GlobalMind databases, the implementation of its …
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Traduction d’un extrait du manuel "Common Sense Dressage. An Illustrated Guide" par Sally O’Connor
Traduction de plusieurs chapitres du livre "Common Sense Dressage. An Illustrated Guide" par Sally O’Connor dans le cadre de mon travail de fin d’études. Il s’agit d’un livre traitant de l’équitation et plus spécifiquement de la discipline équestre du dressage. J’ai obtenu l’accord de la maison …
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