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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"symbolic systems"”.
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Rimarishpa Kausanchik: Dialogical Encounters. Festive Ritual Practices and the Making of the Otavalan Moral and Mythic Community
… enduring social institutions. As cultural and symbolic systems, Otavalan festival performances enable developing and continuing expression that challenges linear historical narratives of representation and the processes behind their production.
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'Gentille, curteyse, fulle delectabile': the courtly in Julian of Norwich's mystical practice and theology
… as a meeting with an Other who exceeds all human symbolic systems, an encounter that is like being hailed by an utterance beyond words. The mystical utterance cannot be captured or recreated; rather, the practices by means of which the mystic responds to it must be explored. Julian’s visions hail …
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Signifying Ruins: The Wreck and Rebirth of Modernity, Language, and Representation
… the arbitrariness—and, thus, the fragility—of symbolic systems of signification. Ruins, by virtue of their fragmentation, invite nostalgic projections of totality only to betray totality as an illusion. Thus, the imagination of wholeness that the ruin incites allows—only to disallow—meaning. …
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Reading Ideology in Discourse: A History, Theory, and Case Study
… an analytical substitute; e.g., values, ideas, symbolic systems, etc. However, such concepts do not carry the critical thrust of ideology. Lost in the translation of ideology into the philosophy of myth, fantasy themes, etc., is the critical perception of the forces of power and domination and …
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Scripting Anxiety/scripting Identity: Indian Mutiny, History, and the Colonial Imaginary, 1857--1911
… rebellion to political hegemony and established symbolic systems. And, second, as symptomatic of desires for reclaiming authority and re-constituting subjectivities. My task has been one of accentuating the tension between these two, suggesting their responsibility in the construction of the …
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Scripting anxiety/scripting identity: Indian mutiny, history, and the colonial imaginary, 1857-1911
… rebellion to political hegemony and established symbolic systems. And, second, as symptomatic of desires for reclaiming authority and re-constituting subjectivities. My task has been one of accentuating the tension between these two, suggesting their responsibility in the construction of the …
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Cyberspace as a memory container
… the real world to triggering experience symbolically. What should virtual space permit and deny in parallel to the real world? Symbolic systems can be capable of eliciting the rich virtual experience from the mind's myriad depths, with even more leverage compared to representing objects …
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Forgotten Sepulchers: The Uninscribed Tombs in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt
… examined in some detail. Using a cognitive and symbolic systems approach, the information about each uninscribed tomb will then be examined and interpreted to gain an understanding of each tomb’s possible ownership. Such an analysis of the uninscribed tombs in the Valley of the Kings will shed …
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Forgotten Sepulchers: The Uninscribed Tombs in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt
… examined in some detail. Using a cognitive and symbolic systems approach, the information about each uninscribed tomb will then be examined and interpreted to gain an understanding of each tomb’s possible ownership. Such an analysis of the uninscribed tombs in the Valley of the Kings will shed …
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Rule Extraction from Support Vector Machines: A Geometric Approach
Despite the success of connectionist systems in prediction and classi¯cation problems, critics argue that the lack of symbol processing and explanation capability makes them less competitive than symbolic systems. Rule extraction from neural networks makes the interpretation of the behaviour of …
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A neural-symbolic system for temporal reasoning with application to model verification and learning
… the behaviour of Computational and Neural-Symbolic Systems. Furthermore, knowledge acquisition of correct descriptions of the desired system’s behaviour is a complex task in several domains. Several efforts have been directed towards the development of tools that are capable of learning, …
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Religious and Ritualized Landscapes of Iron Age North Central Eurasia
… central Eurasia and is inferred as evidence for symbolic expression of religious belief. This claim is evaluated in a variety of ways focusing on three themes: mobility, political structure and social complexity, and religious belief. This first attempt at continental scale expression of symbolic …
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An experimental test of dual coding theory using various media and visual momentum in a multimedia environment
… represented in either the verbal or nonverbal symbolic systems. The verbal system is specialized to handle language or abstract information. The nonverbal system is specialized to handle more concrete information such as images, environmental sounds, and writing patterns. Visual momentum is a …
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Neuro-symbolic fact verification
… fact verification, and is typically modelled by systems which extract textual evidence from a knowledge source and reason about a claim’s veracity via neural entailment systems. However, the reasoning processes of these systems are inherently opaque, suffer from robustness issues, and fail at …
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Need Not Necessity: Purgatorial Torment and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
… during the Reformation, the kinetic energies and symbolic systems that tied together the community of believers does not so easily die away (Chapter 1). All through the Reformation, invective diatribes against Purgatory can be found on stage at the same time that contemporary playwrights are …
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Listening to Birth: Metallurgy, Maternity, and Vocality in the Reproduction of the Patriarchal State
… the thesis, I examine the development of symbolic systems and narrative tropes that linked mining and metallurgy with reproduction and vocality. My analysis emphasises how the invention of nature was accomplished, in part, through a metallurgical reclassification of the voices and …
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The necropolitical crisis of racial subjectivity in the South African postcolony: black consciousness as a technology of the self and the limits to transformation
… that have become points of identification in symbolic systems. However, I argue that despite being valuable for understanding contemporary Europe, Foucault's conception of biopolitics cannot account for the reciprocal constitution of modernity, colonialism, and capitalism in the rest of world. …
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Neurocomputational Methods for Autonomous Cognitive Control
Artificial Intelligence can be divided between symbolic and sub-symbolic methods, with neural networks making up a majority of the latter. Symbolic systems have the advantage when capabilities such as deduction and planning are required, while sub-symbolic ones are preferable for tasks requiring …
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Kentering wending knik. Dynamiek in modern dichterschap
… by negativity in that it refuted other socio-symbolic systems of rationality, religion and politics. In their most modern works, these poets detached themselves thoroughly from these paradigms in order to create poems that they saw as credible alternatives. The fact, however, that after these …