... in the context of human language and cognition In that TheLogicofLanguage context, the serene purity created by the mathematics oflogic is drawn into the realm ofthe complexities ofthe ... 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 oflanguage 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...
... and the inherent logicof MAD becomes irrelevant The same is true ofthe absence of collective goals; if one or the other ofthe superpowers had been more enthusiastic about destroying the other ... comparative study ofthe role of ideology in leadership The second case, Great Britain from the middle ofthe nineteenth century to the eve of World War One, is often seen as the classic example of international ... and theLogicof Money The conclusion summarizes and aggregates the findings ofthe case studies, and puts these in the perspective ofthe framework presented in Chapter It also addresses the...
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... did the history which I focus on in chapter two, which treats the dream ofthe republic of letters as an expression ofthe aspirations ofthe professional classes But as debates arose about the ... the identity ofthe reader’) was played out in a volatile ideological terrain whose tensions were profoundly implicated in the more pressing conflicts ofthe 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...
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... and English at the expense ofthe 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 languageofthe 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 ofthe poor and rural people adult education programs should include as one of its components the observation and imitation ofthe artisans and other skilled persons in the...
... 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 ofthe firms producing them The increased profit...
... 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 oflanguage activities that they have ... views ofthe goal oflanguage teaching, the goal ofthe 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...
... feature is the log ofthe “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 ofthe 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 ofthe underlying fluent sentences under thelanguage models, as discussed in the previous...
... in the logical relationships between concepts rather than in the actual extensions ofthe 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 ofthe ... 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,...
... epistemological status, outside the context of an utterance The selection of closed-class items, therefore, comes as a result ofthe use ofthe various control heuristics that guide the process of ... other;, (I) the intended perspective ofthe 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 ofthe words from the list: desk, table, dining table, coffee table, utilitytable...
... theory, and theory ofthe firm and of organizations STÉPHANE SAUSSIER is Professor of Economics at the University of Nancy II He is also Deputy Director ofthe Center for Analytical Theory of Organizations ... uniquely from the content ofthe bilateral relationships linking each of their elements, but also from the communal articulation of these arrangements - in other words, the topology ofthe interaction ... we are freed from a conception of behavior exclusively dictated by the structure ofthe market or ofthe industry Conceptualizations ofthe nature ofthe limits ofthe firm have been overthrown,...
... “laws of nature,” the way formal mathematical logic does Only in the broadest terms can there be a single theory ofthe contingent, largely chance-driven process that is the evolution of life ... bloodrelationship ofthe 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 ofthe organization register themselves thereon Moreover, the same colourpatterns ofthe wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of bloodrelationship...
... 15 Compound Expressions Expressions are the building blocks of JavaScript Most ofthe 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 ofthe 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...
... 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 ofthe JavaScript in the head ( ) and goes down to the body ofthe 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...