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Coping with informational atomism - one of Jerry Fodor's legacy
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2020 Fodor was passionately unwilling to compromise. Of his several commitments, I focus here on informational atomism. Fodor staunchly rejected semantic holism for two conspiring reasons.
Pierre Jacob
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Quantum Uncertainties and Holism Seem to Render Irrelevant Qudit-Semantics
Entropy, 2021 We consider a semantics based on the peculiar holistic features of the quantum formalism. Any formula of the language gives rise to a quantum circuit that transforms the density operator associated to the formula into the density operator associated to ...
Roberto Leporini
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Movement timing and invariance arise from several geometries. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2009 Human movements show several prominent features; movement duration is nearly independent of movement size (the isochrony principle), instantaneous speed depends on movement curvature (captured by the 2/3 power law), and complex movements are composed of ...
Daniel Bennequin +3 more
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Meaningful syntactic structure in songbird vocalizations? [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2018 The faculty of language is thought to be uniquely human. Recently, it has been claimed that songbirds are able to associate meaning with sound, comparable to the way that humans do.
Johan J Bolhuis +4 more
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Faster linearizability checking via $P$-compositionality [PDF]
, 2015 Linearizability is a well-established consistency and correctness criterion for concurrent data types. An important feature of linearizability is Herlihy and Wing's locality principle, which says that a concurrent system is linearizable if and only if ...
A. Aiyer +19 more
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The Principle of Semantic Compositionality [PDF]
Topoi, 1994 Abstract The Principle of Semantic Compositionality is the principle that the meaning of an expression is a function of, and only of, the meanings of its parts together with the method by which those parts are combined. As stated, the Principle is vague or underspecified at a number of points such as “what counts as a part,” “what is a ...
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From holism to compositionality: memes and the evolution of segmentation, syntax, and signification in music and language [PDF]
, 2015 Steven Mithen argues that language evolved from an antecedent he terms “Hmmmmm, [meaning it was] Holistic, manipulative, multi-modal, musical and mimetic”.
Adkins +56 more
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Compositionnalité gestaltiste et construction du sens par instructions dynamiques
CogniTextes, 2010 The pervasiveness of polysemy in languages compels us to consider the interpretation of utterances as a dynamic process in which the meaning of each linguistic unit is determined as the overall meaning of the utterance is constructed.
Gilles Col +3 more
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On the Meaning of Transition System Specifications [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2019 Transition System Specifications provide programming and specification languages with a semantics. They provide the meaning of a closed term as a process graph: a state in a labelled transition system.
Rob van Glabbeek
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Non-Compositional Term Dependence for Information Retrieval [PDF]
, 2015 Modelling term dependence in IR aims to identify co-occurring terms that are too heavily dependent on each other to be treated as a bag of words, and to adapt the indexing and ranking accordingly.
Fujita S. +20 more
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