the mit press conceptual spaces the geometry of thought mar 2000

... the Legendre trans- formation. It defines a splitting of the tangent space of the cotangent bundle which is crucial for the description of the geometry of T*M. The case when H is the square of ... motivation of the Lagrange geometry for higher order Lagrangians to the bundle of acclerations of order k, (or the osculator bundle of order k) denoted by a...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 16:17

... 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 progress either in the philosophy of mind ... concep- tion of the whole of reality, we cannot hope to render compat- ible the theories and observations of the various different sciences: and providing tha...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

... Social phobia is marked off from other such anxious states by the insistent attempts of such individuals to hide the physical manifestations of fear from the critical gaze of others. Some adopt ... provocative. They keep out of power struggles, they are neither masterful nor eager to take charge. Rather, they readily fall in with the initiatives of others and tend to give in...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... that of the child. Such simple wonder at things being the way they are is captured in the Ancient Greek concept of thaumazein, for example in the dialogue of Socrates with the perceptive youth Theaetetus. 1 This ... writers about the idea of the West’ have sometimes propounded, as observes Gress in Plato to NATO. 32 Moses Receives the Tables of the Law; Moses Presen...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... were profoundly implicated in the more pressing conflicts of the age. The complex intersection of these two histories – the political turmoil of the 1790s and the broader hegemonic shift towards the ... statement of the editor’s commitment to the THE CRISIS OF LITERATURE IN THE 1790s This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... into the just-war doctrine of the Middle Ages. He then traces the decline of this conception of war in favour of a view of war as an instrument of statecraft, culmina- ting in the evolution of ... law, from the beginning of history to the present day. Its primary focus is on legal conceptions of war as such, rather than on the substantive or technical aspects...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:02

... cabling: Two nodes of a 100BaseT4 network can be no further apart than 205 meters—regardless of whether the nodes are next to each other. The following variants of 100BaseT Ethernet have been ... measures the range over which incoming light will be reflected and propagated through the fiber. The size of this angle depends on the relative refractive indexes of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2013, 15:15

... and let F n be the union of F n−1 with the loop-erasure of X n . Then F :=  ∞ n=1 F n has the distribution of the (wired) USF on G. The edges in F inherit the orientation from the loop-erased walks ... occurrence of S, then we should also contract the edges in K 1 and delete the edges in K 2 . Therefore, conditionally on Υ R and the occurrence of S, the path γ...

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