10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VACUOUSNESS»
Discover the use of
vacuousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
vacuousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Fifty Years of Quine's "Two Dogmas"
Kant held that logic, but not mathematics, is analytic in this sense. The positivists
attributed analyticity in this sense to both logic and mathematics. The
vacuousness concept was the centerpiece of their defense of empiricism and
their attack on ...
Hans-Johann Glock, Kathrin Glüer, Geert Keil, 2003
2
Causation and Laws of Nature
If this is right, then the maximal view of laws is still tenable. NON-
VACUOUSNESS So much for universality. I want to move on now to consider
another putative feature of laws which is not preserved under entailment, namely
non-vacuousness.
3
True to Form: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions ...
vacuousness. In this section I provide definitions that will be useful in
understanding and classifying the effects of various locutions in the contexts in
which they are uttered. A basic notion is that of entailment. Entailment is defined
as a relation ...
Christine Gunlogson, 2003
4
The Principles of Psychology
... hearitfamiliarly recognized in speech.10It is hardto focus ourattention on
thenameless, and so thereresults a certain vacuousness inthe descriptive partsof
most psychologies. But a worse defect than vacuousness comes from the
dependence.
In Let It Come Down, the narrative "is governed by the impossibility of the
realization of any meaningful project, and Dyar [the American adventurer]
discovers the vacuousness of the cosmopolitan life in the city, which rests
basically on money ...
Ralph M. Coury, Robert Kevin Lacey, 2009
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Tests and Proofs: 5th International Conference, TAP 2011, ...
2 Corollary 1 shows the relation between the strong state coverage and non-
vacuousness of a state in a GBA. It shall be noted that testing alone cannot prove
the non-vacuousness of a state of a GBA. This is because the non-vacuousness
of ...
Martin Gogolla, Burkhart Wolff, 2011
7
Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: ...
335) The non-vacuousness clause excludes assigning the information-carrying
relation to cases where y's being G is necessarily true. If y's being G is
necessarily true, then the counterfactual will prove to be true no matter what;
hence, the ...
8
Lacan and the Subject of Language (RLE: Lacan)
Is it enough to recognize the vacuousness of reference? Is it enough to say, in
some way, that reference is nothing more than this meaning, and that language
does not refer to anything, does not describe? This could give credence to a kind
of ...
Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Mark Bracher, 2014
9
Chomsky and His Critics
123 spin, 60–1 structure, 56–7, 59 and referential semantics, 144–5, 153 as
social construct, 248 unification problem Functionalism, 17–18 methodological
physicalism, 38, 39–42, 45, 263, 264–5 vacuousness of physicalism, 32–6
Hellman's ...
Louise M. Antony, Norbert Hornstein, 2008
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Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: ...
The first WCtechnique isbasedon Equation (10) and uses the standardized score
of the backgroundcriterion as a weight fortheuniformity and vacuousness scores
as follows ˆSk = ˆS1bk ( ́ΨuS1uk + ́ΨvS1vk ) (13) where ́Ψu ( ́Ψv )istheweight ...
Wray Buntine, Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenic, 2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VACUOUSNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
vacuousness is used in the context of the following news items.
Mark Dance: The state of Canadian oratory is grim
His speeches also give media little choice in what they will report; drowning readers in platitudes and vacuousness. Harper and his team determine which of his ... «National Post, Jul 15»
Dylan Moran's spectacular turn of phrase dazzles at the State Theatre
Simultaneously repelled and fascinated by the vacuousness of youth — his shows are often named after irritating teen turns of phrase; after 'Yeah Yeah' and ... «Herald Sun, Jul 15»
Tetris: The Kotaku Review
Alexey Pajitnov's falling-block puzzler captures the pleasure and the vacuousness of virtual labor. Each game of Tetris contains an interactive “Ozymandias,” a ... «Kotaku, Jul 15»
The vacuousness of 'standards'
Recent findings from a study conducted by the Analytical and Capacity Development Partnership (ACDP) have unsurprisingly revealed that teacher certification ... «Jakarta Post, Jul 15»
Makati government HR officer: Baloloy still receiving pay
In a statement, Binay spokesperson Rico Quicho said, "Vacuousness of the resident Senate but Senator Trillanes was again on full display." "He disgraces the ... «Sun.Star, Jul 15»
On Criminal Justice Reform, Ted Cruz Is Smarter Than Hillary Clinton
... highlights both the emerging bipartisan consensus in favor of criminal justice reform and the vacuousness of some politicians who claim to support that cause. «Reason, Apr 15»
Hillary Clinton's insultingly vapid video
Adding insult to vacuousness was the demographic box-checking nature of the video, however beautifully filmed. Working mom, check. Hispanic entrepreneur ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
Forum: Greed and vacuousness the undoing of America
I agree 100 percent that corporations and their greed are not only running the country but are ruining it. Communist China played capitalism and duped us into ... «Peoria Journal Star, Feb 15»
NYC Happenings: First Look 2015 Offers A Thrillingly Eclectic Lineup
One of the best alternatives to multiplex vacuousness and Oscar-buzz chatter is the Museum of the Moving Image's First Look festival (January 9-18), an annual ... «Twitch, Jan 15»
Has Mourning Gone Viral?
I marveled at the vacuousness of this milestone, and the compulsion to pile on factoids to an ever-growing, crowd-sourced obituary. Maybe (hopefully) I misread ... «Tablet Magazine, Aug 14»
