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Philosophy of meaning and conceptualization
Voprosy kul'turologii (Issues of Cultural Studies), 2023Philosophy reveals the foundations of conceptualization as a generic form of spirituality, and philosophy itself is semantic. As an active state of the human spirit, conceptualization leads to development of semiotically shaped meanings, that is, the reduction of information to human and value dimensions, which is often expressed figuratively.
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Conceptual engineering: conceptual change or change in meaning?
Inquiry (United Kingdom)Mathieu Le Corre +2 more
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The conceptualization of meaning in illness
Social Science & Medicine, 1994The focus of this paper is the development of a conceptualization of meaning within the context of serious illness. It is based on a symbolic interactionist perspective, with the significance of the concept of meaning for the process of adaptation being a primary point of discussion. Meaning, as it is defined here, refers to the perceived nature of the
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Conceptual Meaning of Clusters
1999The interpretation of cluster analysis solutions in the case of objectattribute data can be supported by methods of Formal Concept Analysis leading to a conceptual understanding of the “meaning” of clusters, partitions and dendrograms. The central idea is the embedding of a given cluster in a conceptual scale which represents the user’s granularity ...
P. Bittner, C. Eckes, K. E. Wolff
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Why Meaning (Probably) Isn't Conceptual Role
Philosophical Issues, 1991Abstract IT ‘s an achievement of the last couple of decades that people who work in linguistic semantics and people who work in the philosophy of language have arrived at a friendly, de facto agreement as to their respective job descriptions. The terms of this agreement are that the semanticists do the work and the philosophers do the
JERRY FODOR, ERNEST LEPORE
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Language and the Conceptualization of Meaning
Sociology, 1973This paper attempts to examine what is involved when language is treated as a phenomenon of theoretic concern for the sociologist. The approach to `meaning' suggested by Wittgenstein is outlined and counterposed to formalized representations of the `semantics' of natural languages.
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2011
Descriptions have been the object of attention of many philosophers. The goal of this article is to inquire into the meaning of those descriptions which, due to the peculiar character of the objects of description, have been interpreted in different ways, and to investigate in which sense one is able to speak of the existence (or non-existence) of an ...
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Descriptions have been the object of attention of many philosophers. The goal of this article is to inquire into the meaning of those descriptions which, due to the peculiar character of the objects of description, have been interpreted in different ways, and to investigate in which sense one is able to speak of the existence (or non-existence) of an ...
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Conceptual Clustering of Mean-Ends Plans
1989ABSTRACT Planning benefits from efficient and accurate recall of relevant past experience. We describe the application of conceptual clustering to the task of organizing operators and plans for efficient reuse. In particular, STRIPS-style operators and plans may be grouped, characterized and reused based on similar applicability (ADD, DELETE, and PRE)
Hua Yang, Douglas H. Fisher
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The Meaning of Quality in Health Care: A Conceptual Analysis
Health Care Analysis, 2003During the past three decades, there has been an ongoing debate on the quality of health care. Defining quality is an important part of it. This paper offers a review of definitions and a conceptual analysis in order to understand and explain the differences between them.
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