... texts), one is already engaged in the business of taking up a stance toward
the future in the light of the past. Reading, then, is a matter of anticipating meaning and of correcting
one's anticipations, ... knowledge in terms of affinity and sympathy,
of interest for the entire nature of human being. In spite of the fact that it is not systematic in...
... Coherence in Philosophy and Psychology
At the start of the twentieth century, the disciplines of psy-
chology and philosophy were beginning to separate from
each other. Originating in the laboratories ... philosophical understanding and the development of
machine intelligence, but also for developing a cognitive
theory of the role of coherence in human thinking.
Se...
... representing the meanings of
different kinds of linguistic expressions in a computational approach to semantics. The confidence in the
aptness of the theory of conceptual spaces should increase, ... Unless
further assumptions are made, however, concerning the structure of the set S of points, the lines defined in
this way may not look like the lines we know f...
... result
in stock increases irrespective of changes in fishing pressure. These pos-
sibilities confound our ability to determine the causal role of ICCAT
management in the observed changes in the size ... using this method. One is the level of fish-
ing effort (F
MSY
), which is associated with overfishing, or the process of
taking out more than the MSY level of harve...
... race to
build the largest customer base in the shortest time frame—and then put
all rivals out of business by pointing out the dwindling value of their
shrinking networks. Economies of scale—a carrier’s ... for
sleep. A number of research assistants played important roles in cite check-
ing, proofreading, creating the appendices (including the index), and devel-
oping t...
... 5401
Securing Britain in an Age of Uncertainty :The Strategic Defence and Security Review
Securing Britain in an
Age of Uncertainty:
The Strategic Defence
and Security Review
48 The Strategic ... retained. But to retain their eectiveness, they must adapt to face the realities and uncertainties of the
21st Century.
We remain fully committed to succeeding in the...
... is the increase in the
volume and speed of information flows on the Internet. By 2001 one
Internet cable carried more information in a second than was sent over
the whole Internet in a month in ... demand-
ing a portion of the earth’s resources. One noteworthy indicator of rising
consumption in an age of globalization is the steady increase in the
number of...
... versed
in the theory in question the intuitions of biologists and well-informed
philosophers of biology—could be essential to recovering the role of the
term in the theory, and hence its meaning in ... go into Kauffman’s work in any detail. The one point
that is worth making is to remind the reader that Kauffman’s preferred
mode of explaining the conditions fo...
... touch—without
reducing the difference(s) of the other to the standards of the selfsame.
1
For Irigaray, the threshold of ethics lies in the materiality and tangibility
of the self–other relation: ... superiority of one
system over another, and indeed the contributors have no unified ap-
proach, but to take the risk of thinking otherwise. In place of certaint...