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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Wholes"”.
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Cortical Processing of Visual Parts and Wholes
Visual perception theory distinguishes between two distinct levels of object processing: holistic, based on global shape, and configural, based on local features and/or component parts. Empirical evidence suggests that different cortical regions may support these levels; holistic processing …
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From Conflict to Unity: Plato on Well-Ordered Wholes
… in issues pertaining to the theme of ‘parts and wholes’ in Plato. One classic example is Verity Harte’s 2002 monograph Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure (OUP), which revisits the mereological question of what constitutes a ‘whole’ in the philosophy of Plato. The main …
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Parts and Wholes in Long Non-narrative Poems of the Eighteenth Century
This dissertation examines early-eighteenth-century understandings of literary length in order to shed new light on the structures of three long non-narrative poems of the period, James Thomson’s *The Seasons*, Mark Akenside’s *The Pleasures of Imagination* and Edward Young’s *Night Thoughts*. …
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Distinctive Complications in the Articles of Paul De Man
… about what we consider to be part of which wholes and what rhetorical tropes we use to move from parts to wholes and vice versa. Then, in a second moment, I analyze how on implicating ourselves in the process of relating parts to wholes we invariably enter the revolving door process (the …
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Deleuze and mereology: multiplicity, structure and composition
… the relations that pertain between parts and the wholes that they compose.
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Scripture and Self in Origen of Alexandria's Exegetical Practice
… that are paired together into meaningful wholes. That whole is a structure, which in turn structures other aspects of culture. However, resources and schemas are not automatically paired together. Rather, they are paired together by practices of historical agents who both shape structures …
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Gradability in Count Nouns: Categorizing and Counting Part and Whole Objects in Children and Adults
… the individual partial objects as if they were wholes. Prior accounts attribute this difference to either a child's nascent numerical and quantificational abilities or to their semantic and pragmatic understanding of nominal label usage. These accounts are informed by experiments which varyingly …
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Destabilizing Machismo: Masculine and Feminine Constructions in the Theater of Susana Torres Molina
… system, with masculine and female as distinct wholes, fundamentally different. The self-referentiality of machismo rejects the participation of women, subordinating and reducing them to the level of the object of conversation, characterized by biological essentialisms, instead of a constructed, …
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Formulaic language in speech fluency development in English as a second language
… are automatized or stored and retrieved as wholes from long term memory so as to allow longer lexical units to be produced within the limits of controlled processing (McLaughlin, Rossman, and McLeod, 1983; Kahnemann and Treismann, 1984; DeKeyser, 2001) and short term memory (Anderson, 1983; …
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The incomplete
… / complete entities, that they are coherent wholes standing on their own. Often, the design of . such buildings pays little or no attention to their relation to the surrounding. As a result, these buildings excludes reciprocity, and hence continuity, in the built environment. This …
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C.W.N.S.P.O.S.
… the logic of aggregation in order to produce wholes that subdivide into parts, it poses the experiment of producing a Closed Whole with Non-Standard Parts produced as an Object Set. It takes as a platform the issue of a housing model in the city of Houston. The work begins as a formal …
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Determinants of goal commitment in an incentive-paid workforce
… presented here. When the teams are considered as wholes, all but one of the research hypotheses are supported, although no determinations of causality can be made. The results are discussed, as are the limitations of the study and directions for future research.
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Introducing a Kantian interpretation of quantum physics : in accordance with Kant's philosophy of science in the Critique of the power of judgment, reinterpreted and reworked with special attention to the supersensible realm
… it as a capacity that non-extended wholes and parts have to be realized as parts forming an aggregated whole in nature. An important feature of my approach is that I develop a new interpretation of Kant's philosophy as presented in his well-known Critique of Pure Reason. In contrast …
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Rivers, ecological health, and justice: international watercourses and long-term legal reform
… and protect rivers as complex ecological wholes while promoting social justice among all people dependent on such rivers. In doing so, it puts forth an ambitious vision for long-term cultural as well as legal reform. The vision is offered less as a proposal for current consideration than …
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The beginning
… together disparate elements into comprehensible wholes, intensifying the experience and ultimately infusing the whole with a spirit, architecture.
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The unity of action: reviving a neo-Aristotelian case for hylomorphism
… of constitutive unity: they are “hylomorphic wholes”. The same kind of unity purportedly exists with regard to actions, which are constituted likewise. My task in this paper will be to give a precise articulation of this thesis and what it entails. If the neo-Aristotelian claim is right, then …
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Generating Relation Algebras for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
… and topological concepts, of the relations among wholes, parts, parts of parts, and the boundaries between parts. We shall introduce abstract relation algebras and present their structural properties as well as their connection to algebras of binary relations. This will be followed by details of …
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Towards a general conceptual model for bibliographic aggregates: Four case studies from our bibliographic standards
… that is based on concepts of parts and wholes. The more recent LRM standard takes a different approach by closely linking its bibliographic aggregate model to its central model for bibliographic entities in general—Work-Expression-Manifestation-Item (WEMI). This dissertation makes a …
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Washateriacafeteria laundromatautomat
… Technology (a whole which contains multiple wholes)--or as three fields, two of which are interiors.
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Lightweight concrete : investigations into the production of variable density cellular materials
… elements but as monolithic yet malleable wholes.
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