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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Human Thought"”.
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Core Conceptual Scheme: A Search for the Common Aspects of Human Thought
… existence of core concepts as the ‘bedrock’ of human thought. It is argued that – though they emerge from different research methodologies and are expressed through different terminologies – a multi-disciplinary range of studies of concepts suggest the existence of a massive, central core of …
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The relationship between working memory and cognitive control : the role of task complexity, organisational strategies and task-switching on the task-span procedure
Humans are capable of remembering information in an active, easily accessible form. However, this is a limited capacity system, which temporarily maintains and stores information, and supports human thought processes by providing an interface between perception, long-term memory, and action. Using …
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Etiological teleosemantics and theories of nonconceptual content
… mind, discourse regarding the relation between human thought and its objects refers to ‘intentional content’, the information conveyed by mental states to a subject. A broad and intuitive distinction has standardly been made between two kinds of intentional content; ‘conceptual content’ is that …
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Religion Beyond Phenomenon: Dialogue in Pluralism as the Goal Directive Norm
… that we are able to recapture the inner drive of human thought in all its forms. It is on the basis of this recapitulation, that the intuitive human religious thought is brought to the surface of human values. The thesis employs the Aristotelian metaphysical distinction of matter and form to the …
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An investment analysis model using fuzzy set theory
… provides a means of closing the gap between the human thought process and the computer, by enabling the establishment of linguistic quantifiers to describe intangible attributes. Fuzzy set theory has been used successfully in other fields for aiding the decision-making process. The intention of …
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Out with the Anthropocene: Art for an Animate Earth
… that simultaneously critique the entanglement of human practices and loss of species and encourage their audiences (and the larger global public) to formulate new relationships with our fellow Earthly critters and our damaged ecosystems. This research takes a leaf from new materialist …
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The Colour concept generator: a computer tool to propose colour concepts for products.
… machine to inspire and stimulate creative human thought. The Al software mechanism of the Colour Concept Generator is presented as an application of Al to aesthetic design. 11
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The same cognitive mechanism underlies reasoning about the features of kinds and the traits of individuals
… have investigated these important aspects of human thought.
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A Study of Nones in Brazil and the USA in Light of Secularization Theory with Missiological Implications
… being a product of the process of changing human thought.</p> <p>This work studies the Nones, in both countries, based on selected elements that characterize the theories of secularization used within the sociology of religion. In the absence of a direct biblical text related to the Nones, …
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Respectability, morality and reputation: social representations of intimate partner violence against women in Cape Town
… The findings also shed light on the polarity of human thought, demonstrating how 'non-valid' victims of IPV are blamed and 'othered' for the violence perpetrated against them; yet in contrast, men who perpetrate violence are protected and defended. Understanding violence as an intersectional …
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The Consciousness of the Historical Jesus: A Thomistic Study in Historiography, Theology, and Metaphysics
… Jesus studies. Through close engagement with the thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1275), I develop a constructive proposal for how metaphysics informs the doctrine of Christ, and how this, in turn, impacts the task of thinking about Jesus as a historical figure. I outline the historiographical …
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Driving story generation with learnable character models
Stories are a ubiquitous part of the human experience and an essential component of human intelligence. Stories serve countless functions, working in tandem with our language facilities to enable communication, problem solving, imagination, and more. Stories are eminently cross disciplinary, …
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The role of language in broader human cognition: evidence from neuroscience
… language processing serves as a foundation for human cognition. However, evidence from neuroscience has shown that language might rely on specialized cognitive mechanisms that are distinct from many aspects of human thought. In this thesis, I use cognitive neuroscience to test the limits of the …
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From Words to Worlds: Bridging Language and Thought
… do we understand when we understand language? Human language offers a broad window into the landscape of our thoughts. We talk about what we see, believe, and imagine, posing questions and communicating our plans. Language, in turn, stocks our mental inventories with new concepts and theories, …
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Vietnamese Existential Philosophy: A Critical Appraisal
… ontology, a dialectical view of human thought, and a method of meditation that releases the mind to be able to understand both the nature of reality as it is and the means to live a moral, politically engaged life. This study incorporates Vietnamese existential philosophy from …
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Moral Reasons Arbitrariness
… it leaves moral reasons as expressions of a human activity of accepting a system of norms. Gibbard's appeals to a sophisticated evolutionary psychology fail to provide the needed constraint on moral reasons, with the result that his moral philosophy fails to provide a satisfactory account of …
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Re-Visioning the Semantic and Semiotic Registers in the Study of Culture and Religion
… for the complete epistemological condition of thought; language expresses this condition in statements of `meaning.' `Religion' expresses this desire in texts and ritual practice which may be examined by in academic study; however, because the `third term' of <em>religio</em> is understood as …
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The code is not coloured: blackboxing colour, light, graphic arts and modernity
… men, printers and clients. If your average human is to be a graphic artist, our accumulated colour cognisance requires sharing. Technological change indicates that colour reproduction had traditions, methodologies and expertise not widely known. It is the aim of this paper to lay bare this …
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