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... in the context of human language and cognition In that The Logic of Language context, the serene purity created by the mathematics of logic is drawn into the realm of the complexities of the ... blank Logic and entailment 1.1 What is a logic and why we need one in the study of language? The paramount reason why we need logic in the study of language is that logic is the formal theory of ... together the logical, the psychological, and the pragmatic; the empirical and the theoretical; the formalist and the empiricist; and situating it all in the context of two and a half millennia of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 06:13

... and the inherent logic of MAD becomes irrelevant The same is true of the absence of collective goals; if one or the other of the superpowers had been more enthusiastic about destroying the other ... comparative study of the role of ideology in leadership The second case, Great Britain from the middle of the nineteenth century to the eve of World War One, is often seen as the classic example of international ... and the Logic of Money The conclusion summarizes and aggregates the findings of the case studies, and puts these in the perspective of the framework presented in Chapter It also addresses the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:51

... argument goes further: The body is just an extension of the mind The body is designed to express the mind the opposite of the common view that the body is real and the mind an illusion The mind as ... everything in the mind works My argument goes further: The body is just an extension of the mind The body is designed to express the mind the opposite of the common view that the body is real and the mind ... some pieces of evidence are much stronger than others, the evolving theory—whether of Roman history or of language acquisition—itself changes the strength of the data I downplay the strength...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:53

... did the history which I focus on in chapter two, which treats the dream of the republic of letters as an expression of the aspirations of the professional classes But as debates arose about the ... the identity of the reader’) was played out in a volatile ideological terrain whose tensions were profoundly implicated in the more pressing conflicts of the age The complex intersection of these ... 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 aesthetic expression...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... And for the most part, the initiators of totalitarian rule pursued their aims in the name of some grand moral imperative – the Aryan domination of the sub-human races of the world or the Wnal ... to political agents on the basis of the perceived merits of the values and ends they serve and of their practical Wdelity in pursuing them It is only thus that the breed of ‘‘scurvy politicians’’ ... themselves, at the very least in the eyes of their supporters, as legitimate interests, arguing not just the contingent existence of their desires but the rightness and justness of their claims...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... reference is The by the AB, B ” (the morphology of the word the determines, in the original Greek, the identity of the elided expressions, given of course the expectations ... captures the varia There are generally speaking two types of issues involved: the shape of the figure, and the assignment of the letters I try to discuss first the shape of the figure, starting from the ... results of the second part are mainly independent of each other Archimedes stresses then the nature of the discoveries, not their order The main theme for those discoveries is that of the “common...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... and English at the expense of the other languages that exist in the country, the adult language program in Botswana maintains the hegemony and the gap between the poor and the rich, the major and ... others (2000:334) is whereby the first language of the learner is removed from the educational environment This may accompany a language shift in a community from the primary language to another ... improve the quality of life of the poor and rural people adult education programs should include as one of its components the observation and imitation of the artisans and other skilled persons in the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2012, 16:27

... as the value of their degrees decreased While students may not like the discipline imposed on them by tough professors, they want tough professors to help them maintain the reputation of their ... however, the Chinamen told him to butt out, that they owned the barge, they earned more money the faster they got the cargo up the river, and they had hired the brute with the whip to eliminate the ... relative to the value they place on other products, the price of musical earrings will increase in response to increased demand, as will the profits of the firms producing them The increased profit...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 15:18

... given in the textbooks Also, they are not aware of whether these tasks are effective for them or not Nevertheless, they express their desire for some types of language activities that they have ... views of the goal of language teaching, the goal of the native speaker and the goal of a proficiency level "A second language learner may attain native 39 speaker levels of proficiency and therefore ... chose the research methods for the following reasons Firstly, the study employs the questionnaires to gather and describe the viewpoints of both the teachers and the students on the necessity of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:03

... feature is the log of the “figure of merit” used to guide search in the noisy channel model when it is producing the 25-best list for the reranker The log figure of merit is the sum of the log language ... we use the 19 other folds to construct a language model and then score the utterance in this fold with that language model The largest widely-available corpus for language modelling is the Web ... training data The noisy channel and language model features consist of: LMP: features indicating the probabilities of the underlying fluent sentences under the language models, as discussed in the previous...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... in the logical relationships between concepts rather than in the actual extensions of the concepts themselves This is in accord with standard linguistic practice, where the focus is on types of ... utterances rather than utterance tokens An example of an inheritance network is given in Figure We have followed the standard convention of placing the more specific elements toward the bottom of the ... both a d and an e On the other hand, if we assume that b is defined, then the presence of d and e in a conjunctive concept should ensure the presence of b, thus eliminating the sets {d,e,f}, {c,...

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Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... epistemological status, outside the context of an utterance The selection of closed-class items, therefore, comes as a result of the use of the various control heuristics that guide the process of ... other;, (I) the intended perspective of the situation, (2) the emphasis of one activity rather than another, (3) the focus being on a particular individual, and (4) previous lexicalizationsof the concept ... knowledge that bears upon the choice of an open-class lexicM item, let us trace the process of lexicai selection of one of the words from the list: desk, table, dining table, coffee table, utilitytable...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:20

... cost of all the alternatives are equal © 2003 McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited 8 - 35 Rational Choice and the Laws of Demand x The principle of rational choice leads to the law of demand q When the ... and the Law of Demand x The above shows the relationship between marginal utility and the price we are willing to pay © 2003 McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited 8 - 41 Rational Choice and the Law of ... is an expression of our willingness to pay for it, quantity demanded is related to marginal utility © 2003 McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited 8 - 42 Applying the Theory of Choice to the Real x There...

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Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 16:07

... theory, and theory of the firm and of organizations STÉPHANE SAUSSIER is Professor of Economics at the University of Nancy II He is also Deputy Director of the Center for Analytical Theory of Organizations ... uniquely from the content of the bilateral relationships linking each of their elements, but also from the communal articulation of these arrangements - in other words, the topology of the interaction ... we are freed from a conception of behavior exclusively dictated by the structure of the market or of the industry Conceptualizations of the nature of the limits of the firm have been overthrown,...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 17:30

... “laws of nature,” the way formal mathematical logic does Only in the broadest terms can there be a single theory of the contingent, largely chance-driven process that is the evolution of life ... bloodrelationship of the species As the laws of Nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole organic world; therefore, the study of ... modifications of species, so truly all changes of the organization register themselves thereon Moreover, the same colourpatterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of bloodrelationship...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 13:05

... 15 Compound Expressions Expressions are the building blocks of JavaScript Most of the time they’re very simple, but like anything else, if you put a whole bunch of them together, they can get ... alert("All of these expressions are true"); } Coding often requires balancing the number of lines and the readability of the code Chapter 1: JavaScript Basics 19 Ternary Expressions Ternary expressions ... and identical true The comparison operators check whether the values are actually the same object instead of checking to see whether it is composed of all the same values in the same order Truthiness...

Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2014, 16:53

... store or hold the place of numbers In JavaScript and other programming languages, variables also store other kinds of information Syntax of Variables The syntax of variables (the set of rules for ... represent the other major arithmetic functions When the browser finishes its calculations in our example, it reaches the end of the JavaScript in the head ( ) and goes down to the body of the HTML There ... Starch Press and the No Starch Press logo are registered trademarks of No Starch Press, Inc Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners Rather...

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