This paper puts forward a new formulation of the experimentalist challenge to the method of cases. Unlike previous attempts to articulate the challenge, the one proposed is based on a clear characterization of the targeted philosophical methodology. The method of cases is explicated as a form of ...
What is Meaning—Why do we respond to words and symbols in the waves we do?The end, product of education, yours and mine and everybody’s, is the total pattern of reactions and possible reactions we have inside ourselves. If you did not have within you at this moment the pattern of ...
If I seem to be taking a long time to explain what semantics is about, it is because I am trying, in the course of explanation, to introduce the reader to a certain way of looking at human behavior. I say human responses because, so far as we know, human beings are the only creatu...
the Nobel Prize winner and physicist, once wrote, “The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.” He made an enormous contribution to science by showing that the meaning of a scientific...
Making sense of what it means to teach: Artful representations as meaning-making toolsMaking sense of what it means to teach is an increasingly challenging task as teachers' work becomes progressively more ambiguous and demanding. This is a problem for both the person who teaches and the people...
opportunity for non-disruptive free speech. Others insist that such acts are the equivalent of peaceful protest and, therefore, are protected as a form of free speech. Hacktivists often consider their activities a form of civil disobedience, meaning they willfully break a law to further their ...
adj. 1.Eliciting or deserving hatred. What is the true meaning of kindness? Kindness is defined asthe quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. ... Whereas, being kind is doing intentional, voluntary acts of kindness. Not only when it's easy to be kind, but when it's hard...
As artificial intelligence systems, particularly large language models (LLMs), become increasingly integrated into decision-making processes, the ability to trust their outputs is crucial. To earn human trust, LLMs must be well calibrated such that they
Therefore, targeting and blocking nociceptors and/or the transmission process is a cunning way to block pain. Indeed, that’s what many pharmaceutical companies are currently trying to do. Interestingly, many nociceptors are ‘polymodal’ – a fancy word meaning that different things can activate th...
What is the meaning of precipitately? to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis. ... to cast, plunge, or send, especially violently or abruptly: He precipitated himself into the struggle. Chemistry. to separate (a substanc...