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... 1. Contentsviii 4Mentalcontent69 Propositions70 Thecausalrelevanceofcontent74 Theindividuationofcontent79 Externalisminthephilosophyofmind82 Broadversusnarrowcontent84 Content,representationandcausality89 Misrepresentationandnormality92 Theteleologicalapproachtorepresentation95 Objectionstoateleologicalaccountofmentalcontent99 Conclusions100 5Sensationandappearance102 Appearanceandreality103 Sense-datumtheoriesandtheargumentfromillusion107 Otherargumentsforsense-data110 Objectionstosense-datumtheories112 Theadverbialtheoryofsensation114 Theadverbialtheoryandsense-data116 Primaryandsecondaryqualities119 Sense-datumtheoriesandtheprimary/secondarydistinction121 Anadverbialversionoftheprimary/secondarydistinction125 Docolour-propertiesreallyexist?126 Conclusions128 6Perception130 Perceptualexperienceandperceptualcontent131 Perceptualcontent,appearanceandqualia135 Perceptionandcausation137 Objectionstocausaltheoriesofperception143 Thedisjunctive theoryofperception 145 Thecomputationalandecologicalapproachestoperception149 Consciousness,experienceand‘blindsight’155 Conclusions158 7Thoughtandlanguage160 Modesofmentalrepresentation162 The languageofthought’hypothesis164 Analogueversusdigitalrepresentation167 Imaginationandmentalimagery169 Thoughtandcommunication175 Doanimalsthink?178 Naturallanguageandconceptualschemes183 In ... experiences, in which they seem to float away from their bodies and hover above them, seeing them from an external point view in the way in which another person might do so. These experiences may ... P, there is another physical state Q such that (a) Q is a cause of P and yet (b) even if one of the two states M and Q had not existed, the other would still have sufficed, in the circum- stances,...

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... up widely by the community at large, it is vital that developers design their software to conform to the relevant standards. For the Grid community, the most important standards organizations are the ... messaging (WS-ReliableMessaging); 6 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GRID • Managing workload (WS-Management); • Transaction-handling (WS-Coordination and WS-AtomicTrans- action); • Managing resources (WS-RF or ... which is the primary stan- dards setting organization for the Grid, and OASIS [11], a not- for-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards,...

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... 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 that conception is not the task of any one of ... embrace any kind of sensation, perception or thought. This agreed, we can say that the philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of subjects of experience – what they are, how they can exist, and ... concerned with the analysis of such concepts as the concepts of percep- tion, thought and intentional agency. The philosophical ana- lysis of a concept is not to be confused with a mere account of the meaning...

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... some strange coincidence, the inhabitants of this planet speak a language which sounds just like English and that they use the word ‘snow’ for the stuff descending from their skies. An inhabitant ... relationship to the kind of stuff in ques- tion. Although John and one of the inhabitants of the distant planet would both be prepared to assert the sentence ‘Snow is white’, they would thereby be ... normal circumstances, the presence of an eagle causes the presence of the characteristic silhouette, which in turn causes the monkey to make the call: and yet we want to say that what the call represents...

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... strings of meaningless marks or sounds. If that is so, then to abandon the category of belief is implicitly to abandon also the very notions of truth and falsehood and therewith, it seems, the very ... mind66 chapter 9. But there is, in any case, another reason for con- tending that ‘folk psychology’ is not any sort of theory of human behaviour. This is that – or so many philosophers and psychologists ... in the way that the laws of mechanics govern the behaviour of mas- sive bodies. Rather, what we may do is to engage in an empathetic ‘simulation’ of what we take to be their outlook upon the...

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... of many things other than just a tree and a house and their position relative to one another – things such as the colour and shape of the tree and of the house, the intervening ground between them, ... between them, the sky behind them, and other objects in their vicinity (together with their colours and shapes). And these other ingredients of the perceived scene – or many of them, at any rate – ... in the ‘blind’ regions of their visual fields? After all, they them- selves strongly deny that they can see anything there. If the answer is given that they must be seeing something since they...

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... notation and semantics. The three topics covered are sequence diagrams, activity diagrams and state charts. An explanation is given of each and how they fit into the overall model structure. Introduction ... Cases, the Activity describes the process that is undertaken and the Use Case how an Actor will use the system to realise all or part of an Activity. Notation Activity Diagram Notation Standard ... as a whole and further refine the design and implementation details necessary to complete the software system. Enterprise Architect An introduction to modelling software systems using the Unified...

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... single else and an endif, e.g.: if (expression ) then commands else if (expression ) then commands else commands endif Another important mechanism used in shell scripts is the ‘:’ modifier.Wecan use the ... in (changed to) by pushd command. There are other options to pushd and popd to manipulate the contents of the directory stack and to change to directories not at the top of the stack; see the csh ... shell and the standard output of each is run into the standard input of the next. The leftmost command in a pipeline will normally takeits standard input from the terminal and the An Introduction...

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... all of the knowledge in any given area. On the other hand, Over specialization means narrow focii in which people can lose the larger picture.No one can hope to understand the human body ... An Introduction to the Analytical Writing Section of the GRE General Test 15 Analyze an Argument Task Understanding the Argument Task The "Analyze an Argument" ... writing, and arithematic. But as children get older and progress in school, they gain a better understanding of the language and mathematical processes. As the years in school increase, they need...

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... digest and assimilate all of the knowledge in any given area. On the other hand, Over specialization means narrow focii in which people can lose the larger picture. No one can hope to understand the ... all the basic principles of reading, writing, and arithematic. But as children get older and progress in school, they gain a better understanding of the language and mathematical processes. As the ... essays at the 6 score level that begin by briefly summarizing the writer’s position on the issue and then explicitly announcing the main points to be argued. They will see others that lead the reader...

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... Information, a nd the String Theory Revolution The evolution from one surface of constant ω to another is governed by the Rindler Hamiltonian. Using conventional methods the generator of ω-translations ... would record the dimensionless hyperbolic angle ω defined by equation 1.3.17. The spatial location of the Fidos can be labeled by the angular coordi- nates (θ, φ) and any one of the radial variables ... nd the String Theory Revolution spatial distance from the origin, but is defined so that the area of the 2- sphere at r is 4πr 2 . The angles θ, φ are the usual polar and azimuthal angles. In equation...

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... brevity and its narrow scope, its lack of characters other than the dreamer, and its emotional flatness. Many sleep-onset dream reports are richer and more variegated than this one, although they ... they have meaningful connections. The meaning of their connection is determined as much by the context in which they are evoked as by their historical source. So, just as Freud, the atheist, was ... perceptually vivid and emotionally salient, it is also cognitively bizarre, by which I mean that, despite the persistence of the main themes, there is a flagrant disregard for the constancies of time,...

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... toxicity of a substance depends on three factors: its chemical structure, the extent to which the substance is absorbed by the body, and the body’s ability to detoxify the substance (change it into ... substances) and eliminate it from the body. The toxicity of a substance is the potential of that substance to cause harm, and is only one factor in determining whether a hazard exists. The ... mixed into the surrounding air. The rate at which a liquid is changed to a vapor; usually compared to the rate of another substance that evaporates very quickly, such as ether. The range of...

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... between them, most of the emperors of the West had proved weak and indolent rulers. The barbarians wandered hither and thither[Pg 28]pretty much at their pleasure, and the German troops in the ... Besides the kingdoms of the East Goths and the Franks, the West Goths had their kingdom in Spain, the Burgundians had established themselves on the Rhone, and the Vandals in Africa. Royal alliances ... Germany and becoming an island in the sea of the Empire, they conquered by degrees the territory about them. However far they might extend their control, they remained in constant touch with the...

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