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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"symbolic form"”.
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Panofsky, Cassirer, and perspective as symbolic form
… in 1924, Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form has been at the centre of debates in art history about the nature of pictorial space and its relation to lived experience. It is interesting though that despite the central role that this work has been given, no one has been able to …
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Law as Symbolic Form: Ernst Cassirer and the Anthropocentric View of Law
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The Role of Symbolic Form in the Bedtime Nature Stories of Thornton W. Burgess
… as defined by Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms. Its purpose is to identify these premises, examine them in light of Cassirer's philosophy, and explore their relevance to education theory.</p><p>Burgess holds that children are characterized by their potentiality, that their …
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The Symbolic Form of Architecture: An investigation into its philosophical foundations and a discussion on the development of the perception of architectural form by modern heoreticians and symbolist architects
This thesis investigates the concept of the symbolic form of architecture. It first focuses on the philosophical foundations for this concept in the works of Ernst Cassirer, Immanuel Kant, Conrad Fiedler, and Theodor Adorno. Then, the development of the modern perception of form in architectural …
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Le Langage en tant que forme symbolique chez Ernst Cassirer
The view of language as a Symbolic Form is a very particular one. We explore Ernst Cassirer's work on this point.
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Architectural Project Design of "The Seat of the African Criminal Court": In French, Projet D'Etudes Architectural Du "Siege De La Cour Penal Interafricaine"
This thesis explores the symbolic form of a significant public building through the architectural design of an international African Criminal Court in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
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Attitudes toward interpersonal silence within dyadic relationships.
Silence as a dynamic and symbolic form of human communication is not without implications for dyadic relationships. Attitudes toward silence, when occurring within interpersonal interactions, may provide insights into relational quality and satisfaction. This study seeks to understand how various …
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The Live Action Role-Playing Game the Masquerade as an Organizational Culture: an Ethnographic Study of the Game's Organizational Symbolism
… Masquerade utilized the device of metonymy as a symbolic form indicating ways in which they communicate their characters' experiences in the game. Additional inquiry into the nature of metaphor and metonymy, and their functions within the game's culture, demonstrated the multiple functioning of …
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Europe's liquid commons : towards a public territorial infrastructure
… Infrastructure Network, as a means to create a symbolic and operative commons between the East and West of Europe. A historical perspective on the physical transformations of Rhine is used to illustrate the seminal role they played in the formation of transnational diplomacy and economic …
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The jungle in the clearing : space, form and democracy in America, 1940-1949
… Cassirer and Susanne Langer's philosophies of symbolic form as unconsummated symbol, I argue that the modernism of this period did not define the public but rather expressed architecture's publicness through the recasting of form, programming, and modernism's public mandate. The chapters of …
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The Remains of a Place
… the individual. An existing condition is transformed and renovated. What entities are removed and what entities will remain? This art museum is permanent and changing over time, architecture that transforms. A strong symbolic form, the cube, establishes an entity within the urban fabric. A …
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Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and the Dialectical Problem of Knowledge
… same functions. Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms seeks to extend the critical philosophy of Kant beyond the limits of theoretical thinking, and thereby broadens the functional foundations of cognition to include all symbolic modes of thinking in a unified system of human cognition. …
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Uncertainty-aware Joint Physical Tracking and Prediction
… predict the motion of objects even when visual information is temporarily absent. This thesis investigates how missing sensory evidence—such as during occlusion—alters current and future beliefs about object motion, and introduces an uncertainty-aware framework to model this process. A behavioral …
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On development and perception of theomorphic robots: the uncanny valley effect to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
… Intelligence (AI) to create a robot capable of symbolic movement and interaction. While initially conceived as a platform for Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) studies, this research adopts a novel methodological shift: rather than directly testing with human participants, the evaluation uses …
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An Inductive Engine for the Acquisition of Temporal Knowledge
… types of knowledge are better expressed in symbolic form, making qualitative predictions based on symbolic representations requires a different approach. This thesis describes a domain-independent method, called TIM (Time-based Inductive Machine), for discovering symbolic temporal patterns …
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Tectonic sites: structuring the landscape with textile-derived construction techniques
… as one concerned with the creation of space, not symbolic form. Despite its influence in our allied profession, a tectonic theory of landscape architecture remains undeveloped. This thesis explores the role of such a theory in landscape architecture, guided by the development of tectonic theory in …
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The difficulty in forging a bond: the inner workings of postmemory within family relationships in Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe and Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel Meines Bruders
… using Sigrid Weigel’s concept of generation as “symbolic form” in conjunction with Marianne Hirsch’s postmemory framework, I argue that the extent to which the historical positioning and the interaction with photographs and diary entries is similar in these post-1989 texts provides insight into …
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Representation decomposition for knowledge extraction and sharing using restricted Boltzmann machines
… this problem by translating network models into symbolic knowledge. Knowledge extraction has been normally applied to feed-forward neural networks trained in supervised fashion using the back-propagation learning algorithm. More recently, research has shown that the use of unsupervised models may …