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Semantic Externalism and Presentism
International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2008Abstract In this paper I discuss an unconventional form of presentism which, I claim, captures better than all other versions of the doctrine the fundamental notion underpinning it, namely, the notion that ‘only what is present is real’. My proposal is to take this maxim as stating, not the rather uncontroversial view that past things are not real now,
Yuval Dolev
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Externalism and a posteriori semantics
Erkenntnis, 2007It is widely held that the meaning of certain types of terms, such as natural kind terms, is individuated externalistically, in terms of the individual’s external environment. Recently a more radical thesis has emerged, a thesis we dub ‘a posteriori semantics.’ The suggestion is that not only does a term’s meaning depend on the external environment ...
Sören Häggqvist, Åsa Wikforss
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Semantic Externalism and Psychological Externalism
Philosophy Compass, 2007Abstract Externalism is widely endorsed within contemporary philosophy of mind and language. Despite this, it is far from clear how the externalist thesis should be construed and, indeed, why we should accept it. In this entry I distinguish and examine three central types of externalism: what I call
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Semantic Externalism and the Mechanics of Thought
Minds and Machines, 2008I review a widely accepted argument to the conclusion that the contents of our beliefs, desires and other mental states cannot be causally efficacious in a classical computational model of the mind. I reply that this argument rests essentially on an assumption about the nature of neural structure that we have no good scientific reason to accept.
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Semantic Externalism and Self‐Knowledge
2009Abstract The distinctive claim made by semantic externalism is that a subject's thought contents are partly individuated by her environment, and do not supervene on her ‘inner states’, such as her brain states. One of the main objections to this position is the claim that it is incompatible with self-knowledge.
Jessica Brown
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1992
Abstract We have interpreted formulas in a topos E by assigning each an extension. This is called the internal semantics. The external semantics, also called Kripke-Joyal semantics, describes which generalized elements satisfy each formula.
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Abstract We have interpreted formulas in a topos E by assigning each an extension. This is called the internal semantics. The external semantics, also called Kripke-Joyal semantics, describes which generalized elements satisfy each formula.
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External Ontologies in the Semantic Web
2003The Semantic Web aims at easy integration and usage of content by building on a semi-structured data model where data semantics are explicitly specified through ontologies. The use of ontologies in real-world applications such as community portals has shown that a new level of data independence is required for ontology-based applications for example to
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Click2Annotate: Automated Insight Externalization with rich semantics
2010 IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2010Insight Externalization (IE) refers to the process of capturing and recording the semantics of insights in decision making and problem solving. To reduce human effort, Automated Insight Externalization (AIE) is desired. Most existing IE approaches achieve automation by capturing events (e.g., clicks and key presses) or actions (e.g., panning and ...
Yang Chen 0048 +2 more
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Semantic Internalism and Externalism
2009AbstractThe function of certain expressions in the language is to refer to things, and expressions refer to things in virtue of their meaning. This is so obvious that it almost defies explanation or supporting argument. What we learn when we learn the meaning of the expression is precisely that it is used to talk about a certain thing.
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Phenomenological immanence, normativity, and semantic externalism
Synthese, 2006This paper argues that transcendental phenomenology (here represented by Edmund Husserl) can accommodate the main thesis of semantic externalism, namely, that intentional content is not simply a matter of what is ‘in the head,’ but depends on how the world is.
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