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The Construction of Reality

1986
In this book, Michael Arbib, a researcher in artificial intelligence and brain theory, joins forces with Mary Hesse, a philosopher of science, to present an integrated account of how humans 'construct' reality through interaction with the social and physical world around them.
Michael A. Arbib, Mary B. Hesse
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Constructing Reality

2020
Strictly following the direction outlined by Bateson, this study (which expands and completes some ideas presented, although in another context, in Mella 2014) seeks to operationalize Bateson’s Conjecture on Cognition, proposing three objectives: (1) above all, to make Bateson’s definition of “mind” operative; by introducing simple symbols, I show how ...
Michael Rabiger, Courtney Hermann
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Constructing reality with models

Synthese, 2018
Scientific models are used to predict and understand the target phenomena in the reality. The kind of epistemic relationship between the model and the reality is always regarded by most of the philosophers as a representational one. I argue that, complementary to this representational role, some of the scientific models have a constructive role to play
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Constructing Realities

2023
Considering recent developments and ongoing processes such as globalisation, immigration and multiculturalism, this book critically examines contemporary theoretical narratives around English national identity as mediated by place and experience.
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On Constructing a Reality

2003
Draw a distinction!" 2 The Postulate: I am sure you remember the plain citizen Jourdain in Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme who, nouveau riche, travels in the sophisticated circles of the French aristocracy, and who is eager to learn. On one occasion with his new friends they speak about poetry and prose, and Jourdain discovers to his amazement and ...
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On the reality of constructions

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2005
In the present paper, we adduce further evidence for the reality of grammatical constructions by focusing on a highly idiosyncratic configuration from Spanish, which we call the reduplicative-topic construction. This construction is a productive syntactic pattern that functions as a “constructional hedge”. The grammatical behaviors of this construction
Javier Valenzuela   +2 more
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Determination by Reality or Construction of Reality?

1989
The topic of this paper arises in research into developmental psychology in the form of the problem of the relative importance of external conditions and the subjective orientation attainments of individuals. However, it also represents a general philosophical problem, transcending not only questions of the philosophy of science but even problems of ...
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