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Why and How Did Narrative Fictions Evolve? Fictions as Entertainment Technologies [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Narrative fictions have surely become the single most widespread source of entertainment in the world. In their free time, humans read novels and comics, watch movies and TV series, and play video games: they consume stories that they know to be false ...
Edgar Dubourg, Nicolas Baumard
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International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2021 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics are likely to have a significant long-term impact on higher education (HE). The scope of this impact is hard to grasp partly because the literature is siloed, as well as the changing meaning of the concepts ...
Andrew M Cox
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Impossible fictions part I: Lessons for fiction
Philosophy Compass, 2021 Impossible fictions are valuable evidence both for a theory of fiction and for theories of meaning, mind and epistemology. This article focuses on what we can learn about fiction from reflecting on impossible fictions.
Daniel Patrick Nolan
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African fictions to boost the scientific culture in Africa [PDF]
Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 Kenmoe S.
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THE PROBLEM OF EXISTENCE OF VIRTUAL OBJECTS FROM THE PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE [PDF]
Filozofia i Nauka, 2022 I consider the problem of existence of virtual objects, mainly their mode of existence, while omitting the issue of the criteria of their existence. I present and analyze the concepts of modes (forms, kinds) of existence of virtual objects proposed in ...
Mariusz Mazurek
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The B side of imagination: Hume on imperfect ideas [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2021 My aim is to look into the representational aspect of ideas, exploring not only to what Hume refers as adequate ideas, but also these cases where for a number of reasons an idea does not reach that standard.
Calvente Sofía
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Nature Fictions: Designing for a Sustainable Future through Nature Relations
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2023 This paper presents nature fictions, a co-design approach that seeks to highlight relations between people and nonhuman stakeholders in the process of imagining sustainable futures.
Shannon Rodgers +3 more
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The Problem of Existence of Virtual Objects
Proceedings, 2022 I considered the problem of existence of virtual objects, mainly the mode of existence of these objects, while I omitted the issue of the criteria of their existence.
Mariusz Mazurek
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Representation of reading related elements in compiled and translated adult fictions from 2011 to 2016 [PDF]
کتابداری و اطلاعرسانی, 2022 Objective: The purpose of this paper is to determine the quality of the reading related elements' representation in fictions published in Iran between 2011 and 2016.Methods: Descriptive content analysis carried out for thirty-four of the highest print ...
Maryam Sadat Parastezad +2 more
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