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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"Meaningless"”.
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The indulgence and exhaustion of the meaningless voice
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Kurt Vonnegut's Early Novels: Searching for Meaning in a Meaningless World
<p>This thesis investigates three novels by Kurt Vonnegut: <em>The Sirens of Titan, Cat’s Cradle</em>, and <em>God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater</em>, and the philosophical stance which informs these works.<em> The Sirens of Titan</em> represents Vonnegut’s cosmology as well as his first attempts to …
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On Distinguishing the Meaningless from the Meaningful: An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach to Ruth Millikan\'s Teleosemantics
What distinguishes a meaningless utterance from a meaningful term? While one might say that, within the context of Ruth Millikan\'s teleosemantics, it is a term\'s having a proper function that distinguishes it from a meaningless utterance, I propose that the distinction can be made with reference …
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The reasonableness approach of the South African Constitutional Court - making the constitutional right of access to housing "real" or effectively meaningless?
… right of access to housing effectively meaningless. However, in this dissertation it is argued that it is not the reasonableness approach per se which hinders the implementation of the right of access to housing but rather the choice of remedy and the lack of (individual) access to the …
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Cardiac slowing as a function of biofeedback and sensory deprivation or biofeedback alone
… loss of money used the strategy of attending to meaningless stimulation twice as often as subjects required to lower heart rates to obtain money, and that subjects decreasing heart rate to avoid the loss of money performed significantly better than subjects required to lower heart rate to obtain …
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Where symbols meet meanings: The organization of gestures and words in the middle temporal gyrus
… of meaningful (pantomimes and emblems) and meaningless gestures together with norms, with the aim of promoting replicability between studies. One hundred and thirty raters (Italian and non-Italian speakers) rated the meaningfulness of the gestures, and provided a name and a description for …
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Spared syntax and impaired spell-out: the case of prepositions in Broca's and anomic aphasia
… Three of the main findings are: first, meaningless prepositions were not the most vulnerable subcategory of prepositions in the patients. In fact, four of the five aphasic patients performed best on (meaningless) syntactic prepositions. Second, patients made few omissions and many …
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Nietzsche, Sin and Redemption
… answer to the ontological problem of meaningless suffering. Existential sin responds to a fundamental experience of the human condition. With this in mind, in the final chapter of the thesis I examine possible avenues of redemption from post-Christian sin. What options are open to the …
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Effects of episodic familiarity and statistical regularity On intentional forgetting
… Experiment 3 included both meaningful and meaningless object images, and Experiment 4 compared words and nonwords. Previewed items showed reduced DF compared to non-previewed items, regardless of the nature of the information, and meaningless stimuli are challenging to intentionally forget …
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Beyond Binary Digital Embodiment
… and virtual, real and unreal, and meaningful and meaningless. These dualistic constructions render experiences of bodies within virtual settings meaningless. In order to examine how this power differential between physical and virtual came to be, I engage with Katherine Hayles' evaluation of …
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Particulate : an education and research workshop for off-site manufacturing
… and shipped all across the world, is inherently meaningless, because the sense of effort exerted on its creation is lost. The trend of moving back towards craft “everything” at the onset of the 21st century is directly linked to this meaningless feeling created by mass production. In a …
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Newer Versions of the Same Thing
… to take the specific moments caught in seemingly meaningless photographs and elevate their importance through painting and animation. I want to linger on the idea of experience and the closing gap between real-life experience and the experience gained through viewing man-made images.
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Observation inflation and self-action inflation. Investigation of source memory errors as a result of action observation and action performance
… for different types of actions (meaningful, meaningless and communicative) known to evoke different mirror neurone activity. Different age groups (young adult, and elderly) were studied as were the effects of relative ethnicity between observer and performer. The Remember-Know-Guess paradigm …
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Developmental limb apraxia in deaf children : an objective assessment
… of complexity across signs, gestures and meaningless movement sequence. Qualitative measures of kinematic abnormalities, spatial parapraxias, temporal qualities, quantitative elbow joint angles, resultant tractories of elbow position and wrist joint centre were obtained.
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Special Education Teachers' Experiences and Perceptions of the Georgia Alternate Assessment
… these participants perceived the GAA to be a meaningless tool for teaching and a meaningless measure of assessment for elementary students with significant cognitive disabilities. Finally, continued grounded theory analysis resulted in the emergence of a theory. The participants of this study …
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Three Essays of Consumer Inference Making and Metacognitive Experience in Perceived Information Security
… complexity, even if that increased complexity is meaningless. It is because consumers have a belief that security is achieved by sacrificing convenience or increasing complexity. We demonstrated that consumers evaluated a website more secure when asked to enter redundant information in Chapter 1. …
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Racism Recognized and the Reformation of the South in Ernest Gaines‘
… of slavery, the quest for human dignity becomes meaningless. The discourses and the ideologies of the characters in <em> AGathering of Old Men </em>represent a call for social change. <em>A Gathering of Old Men </em>is however, more than just a novel about whites dominating blacks; it is a novel …
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Roosting Time A Collection of Short Stories.
… ticks and stimuli which fall jumbled, chaotic, meaningless upon the five human sensory organs? Fiction attempts to encapsulate certain moments, and although occasionally the moments recorded may appear to approximate reality, reality is elusive and chaotic. A writer attempts to weave from chaos …
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