... colour and shape of the tree and of the house, the intervening ground between them, the sky behind them, and other objects in their vicinity (together with their colours and shapes). And these other ... to a philosophical analysis of the concept of perception and what properly belongs to an empir- ical theory of perception of the sort that is more appropri- a...
... 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 ... philosophical analysis of the concept of seeing: but each will have more credibility to the extent that it is consistent with the other. METAPHYSICS AND...
... propositions appear to be abstract entities, more akin to the objects of mathemat- ics than to anything found in the concrete realm of psycho- logy, it seems altogether mysterious that states of mind should ... propositional attitude An introduction to the philosophy of mind7 4 states. And let us then see whether this hypothesis gives rise to any insuperable d...
... some of its proponents regarding it more as an account of our concepts of mental states than as a theory of the nature of mental states themselves. An introduction to the philosophy of mind5 2 ... 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...
... 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 ... release
and/or heightened effectiveness of dopamine), we can hypothe-
size an indirect but positive interaction with the other modula-
tors of the awake state, noradre...
... "man" of the Archbishop of Rheims. He was also the vassal of
the Archbishop of Sens, of four other neighboring bishops, and of the abbot of the
great monastery of St. Denis. To all of these ... combine the idea of the comitatus with the idea of the beneficium, and
to grant the usufruct of parcels of their land on condition that the...
... α −β and β/ α −β .
Figure 2.6 illustrates how the relative values of α and β affect the asymp-
totic growth of the function. Boxes in the gures correspond to problem sizes
for a divide-and-conquer ... dened only on the integers. Putting
these together, we get a result that is useful for the analysis of a variety of
algorithms.
eorem 2.6 (Divide-and-conquer sequences)....
... III
THE GERMAN INVASIONS AND THE BREAK-UP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
[Sidenote: The Huns force the Goths into the Empire. Battle of Adrianople, 378.]
9. Previous to the year 375 the attempts of the ... Germans to penetrate into the Empire appear to have been due
to their love of adventure, their hope of enjoying some of the advantages of their civilized ne...
... measurements of the ratio of the wavelength of a line of Mg
+
to that
of a line of H can be used to determine whether the ratio of electron to proton
mass is changing in time. With what accuracies do the ... relative to the Earth.
The overall relative velocity is the sum of the rotational velocity of the Earth,
the velocity of the Earth round...