introduction to the calculus of variations - byerly 1917

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... important for the development of mathematics in the twentieth century. Three of them (the 19th, 20th and 23rd) were devoted to the calcu lus of variations. These “predictions” of Hilbert turn of the twenty ... of the content of the mono- graph To deal with problems of the type considered in the previous section, there are, roughly speaking, two ways of...

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... circularity, as the basis of a natur- alistic account of the origin of mental content. 16 The key idea here is to appeal to the biological theory of evolution by nat- ural selection – the underlying ... that the problem of mis- representation can be overcome by referring to the normal causes of a given type of belief rather than simply to the actual 15 Fo...

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... this. Secondly, if they mean to abandon reasoned argument alto- gether, even in defence of their own position, then I have Introduction 5 nothing more to say to them because they have excluded themselves ... possible. And the provision of just such a conception is one of the principal tasks of metaphysics. 3 The point of these remarks is to emphasise there cannot be...

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... circularity, as the basis of a natur- alistic account of the origin of mental content. 16 The key idea here is to appeal to the biological theory of evolution by nat- ural selection – the underlying ... that the problem of mis- representation can be overcome by referring to the normal causes of a given type of belief rather than simply to the actual 15 Fo...

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... states of consciousness to other human beings, so that to deny consciousness to the hypothetical pile of pebbles in the circumstances envisaged would be to succumb to narrow-minded prejudice, of the ... involved in the case of a single person in the intrapersonal case. Another possible response for the functionalist is to argue that, when we look into the det...

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... causal theories of per- ception with sense-datum theories, when in fact they are quite independent of each other. The criticism, then, is that causal theories of perception promote a form of scepticism which ... one to divide one’s attention in a way which seems to be psychologically impossible. From the point of view of the causal theory, then, it is easy enough to An...

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... sphere altogether in favour of an equation of literature with poetry. But these Romantics, as we now refer to them, none the less sought to establish the importance of their vision of aes- thetic ... these apparently dis- tinct histories became part of the same story of the fragmentation of the ideal of literature as a public sphere. The excesses gener- ated by...

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... because it allows the animal to restore the effectiveness of its core regula- tory systems. At the same time, the brain—mind is off-line and free to reorganize its cognitive repertoire as well as ... three of these motor behaviours are a function of the activation of the move- ment systems in subcortical brain tissue the motor pattern generators (or MPGs) that are...

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