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The title of this book, InternationalVarietiesof English, requires some
comment. It might be expected that this would refer tovarieties of
English which are used internationally, ... (each of which has the potential to develop into a different
language), held together by the common heritage of world English at the
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German Dutch Friesian English ... between the
varieties ofEnglish used in the British Isles and those varieties used in
former British colonies which now belong to Kachru’s inner circle. Some
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02...
... introductionto the philosophy of mind6
would be a complete abdication of philosophical responsibil-
ity for a philosopher to adopt the metaphysical outlook of
some group of scientists just out of deference ... The Possibility of Metaphysics (1998).
AN INTRODUCTION
TO THE PHILOSOPHY
OF MIND
E. J. LOWE
University of Durham
An introductionto the philosophy of mind4
ever. It is also inextricably involved ... that Wittgenstein himself has contributed much of value to our
understanding of ourselves as subjects of experience.
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that two assassins independently...
... An introductionto the philosophy of mind6
would be a complete abdication of philosophical responsibil-
ity for a philosopher to adopt the metaphysical outlook of
some group of scientists ... GUIDE TO THE REST OF THIS BOOK
I have organised the contents of this book so as to begin,
in chapter 2, with some fundamental metaphysical problems
concerning the ontological status of subjects of ... that Wittgenstein himself has contributed much of value to our
understanding of ourselves as subjects of experience.
An introductionto the philosophy of mind4
ever. It is also inextricably involved...
... by vervet monkeys to alert
other monkeys to the presence of various kinds of predator.
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One type of call appears to represent the presence of eagles,
another the presence of snakes, and yet ... eagle.
OBJECTIONS TO A TELEOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF
MENTAL CONTENT
These advantages of the teleological theory of representation
over the causal theory may encourage us to try to extend it
to the case of mental ... state-
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say this, however, because it is just as true to say that the
presence of that kind of silhouette normally causes a monkey
to make that type of call...
... account of our concepts of mental states than as a theory
of the nature of mental states themselves.
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a feeling of pain in his big toe is simply to ascribe to him a
disposition to ... to the computer’s ‘inputs’, other software states of the
computer, and the computer’s ‘outputs’. By a ‘software’ state
of a computer, I mean, for instance, its storing of a particular
piece of ... 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...
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ically involved in generating experiences of that type. Thus,
as well as enjoying visual experiences, we enjoy auditory,
gustatory, olfactory and ... three-dimensional shape of
an object from the way it is depicted in a series of photo-
graphs taken from different points of view. Various assump-
tions have to be made if this sort of solution is to be workable
in ... subject to cer-
tain objections which we shall have to look into carefully. In
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‘blindsight’, in which subjects suffering from certain kinds of
lesion...
... effort to come to terms
with the wider implications of the institutional history of English
literature. I want to outline my points of intersection with each of
these debates, but I also want to ... reactions to the question of who could lay claim to literary
authority.
Central to these revisions of Habermas’s account of eighteenth-
century print culture is the question of his sense of the ... evolution ofEnglish Studies – and the sorts of historical
refusals which help to explain their frequent isolation from each
other, will help us to facilitate a more truly historical analysis of
literature...
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user to see the access token of a user. Compare the two access tokens and
show ... task of managing these
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... Nature of difference Hypothesis of cause
Introduction
At the turn of the twentieth century, the best known of all
dream investigators would be Sigmund Freud, who set out to
base his theory of ... or historical events, e.g. I went to Boston
last weekend. This kind of memory is contrasted with 'semantic'
memory, which consists of general facts, e.g. Boston is the
capital of Massachusetts. ... Richard to bid his friend stop.
For some reason, he has to go upstairs to turn off the machine
(although it appears to be fully portable and self-contained) and this
takes an inordinate length of...
... number
of discrete mechanical rotor positions as the rotor position varies over a sector of the
machine consisting of one slot and one tooth. To this end, let θ
rms
denote of vector of
mechanical ... principles of biological evolution to evolve a population of designs.
The reader is referred to [4, 5] for introductions to genetic algorithms. The effectiveness
to this technique relative to other ... (15.8-3) and (15.8-4), it is possible to synthesize a vector of tooth flux values
for tooth 1 over a rotational cycle of rotor positions. In particular, this vector is denoted
Φ
t1c
and has elements...
... is to be found on the subject in either Emerton or Oman.
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INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPE
CHAPTER I
THE HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW
The scope of history.
1. History, ... 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, ... an outline of the history of the Roman Empire during the
centuries immediately preceding the barbarian invasions, see BOTSFORD, History of
Rome, WEST, Ancient History to the Death of Charlemagne,...
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employed businesses/sole
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Questions related to payment of...
... edition of our book An Introductionto the Analysis of Algorithms
was prepared with these thoughts in mind. It is dedicated to the memory of
Philippe Flajolet, and is intended to teach generations to ... indeed to within O N
−k
for
any constant k. Such approximations, called asymptotic expansions, are at the
heart of the analysis of algorithms, and are the subject of Chapter 4.
e use of asymptotic ... choose k out of n items
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Stirling number of the rst kind
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number of ways to partition...
... uptake of dis-
solved inorganic nitrogen, N, by phytoplankton, P. Cell metabolism and respiration
establish a direct path from phytoplankton to dissolved nitrogen. Mortality converts
phytoplankton ... phytoplankton. This
closes the cycling of material through the model food web.
One of the fundamental laws which the biogeochemical models have to obey is
the conservation of mass. The total ... qualitative picture
of the dynamical behavior of nutrients and plankton, it indicates also the general
problem of undersampling. The number of measurements is too small to provide
adequate...
... have included a discussion of the problem of
defining international law, of the concepts of general and regional
international law, of the special characteristics ofinternational law as a
decentralized ... Organi-
zation
ICC International Chamber of Commerce
ICJ International Court of Justice
ICJ Rep. International Court of Justice Reports
of Judgments, Advisory Opinions
and Orders
ICJYb Yearbook of the International ... achievement of peace and security by the acceptance on the part of the
parties, in principle, of ‘obligations not to resort to war’. The absolute right of
states to go to war was not intended to be...