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Review of periodical literature for 2024: 400–1100
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
James Chetwood
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Abstract The household book is a particular feature of the landscape of manuscript production post‐1475, and is particularly associated with women. Compiling manuscript household books in a post‐print landscape involved a specific kind of dialogue between the two material forms.
Carrie Griffin
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The Eye and Refractive Geography in Pericles
The paper highlights the cultural constructedness of vision in the early modern period by drawing on heteroglossic representations of the eye in early English texts, ranging from anatomy and physiology treatises to philosophy, poetry, emblems, and ...
Matei-Chesnoiu Monica
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Knowing the Universe: Teaching the History and Philosophy of Astronomy
Chris Impey
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(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English
ABSTRACT This essay joins two themes, both arising from Kripke's inspiring ideas in the theory of reference. The first theme concerns reference in general. The second examines the notion of co‐reference and the role it plays in a unified theory of pronouns for natural language.
Jessica Pepp, Joseph Almog
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Perfect‐Recall and Bootstrapping Reasoning
ABSTRACT Bootstrapping is a suspicious form of reasoning that seems to allow agents to gain knowledge about the reliability of their sources of information ‘from thin air’, without gathering independent evidence about those sources. The bootstrapping problem is the problem of explaining what is wrong with bootstrapping reasoning.
Michael Cohen
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Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. On Arithmetic and geometry
The significance of the epistles on a range of intellectual disciplines by the group of scholars known as the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa’) has been known for some time, although one might argue that their significance for a proper assessment of ...
Sajjad H. Rizvi
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Cosmovision as Cognitive Technology: The Case of Mesoamerican Medicinal Knowledge
Abstract We examine the use of cognitive technologies in the acquisition and retention of botanical and medicinal knowledge. We focus on the Cruz‐Badianus codex, a 16th‐century Nahua (Aztec) herbarium which discusses the use of plants for a range of illnesses.
Johan De Smedt, Helen De Cruz
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A community‐driven vision for a new knowledge resource for AI
Abstract The long‐standing goal of creating a comprehensive, multi‐purpose knowledge resource, reminiscent of the 1984 Cyc project, still persists in AI. Despite the success of knowledge resources like WordNet, ConceptNet, Wolfram|Alpha and other commercial knowledge graphs, verifiable, general‐purpose, widely available sources of knowledge remain a ...
Vinay K Chaudhri +31 more
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A systematic review of paper‐based and digital board games for collaborative science learning
Abstract This study reviews the literature on board games for collaborative learning in science education, analysing 76 articles from 2000 to 2024. It examines research methodologies, data collection tools, sample sizes, and data analysis methods, focusing on subject areas and types of board games used.
Mohd Kamal Othman +2 more
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