Are relational processes teleological or self-referential? What relational sociology can learn from systems theory

Teleological Reasoning about Nature: Intentional or Relational

According to the theory of ‘promiscuous teleology’, we are naturally biased to (mistakenly) construe natural kinds as if they (like artifacts) were intentionally designed ‘for a purpose’. However, this theory introduces two paradoxes. First, if infants readily distinguish natural kinds from artifacts, as evidence suggests, why do school-aged children erroneously conflate this distinction? Secon...

Acquiring relational meaning from the situational context . What linguists can learn from analyzing videotaped interaction

Teleological reasoning about nature: intentional design or relational perspectives?

According to the theory of 'promiscuous teleology', humans are naturally biased to (mistakenly) construe natural kinds as if they (like artifacts) were intentionally designed 'for a purpose'. However, this theory introduces two paradoxes. First, if infants readily distinguish natural kinds from artifacts, as evidence suggests, why do school-aged children erroneously conflate this distinction? S...

Fuzzy Relational Matrix-Based Stability Analysis for First-Order Fuzzy Relational Dynamic Systems

In this paper, two sets of sufficient conditions are obtained to ensure the existence and stability of a unique equilibrium point of unforced first-order fuzzy relational dynamical systems by using two different approaches which are both based on the fuzzy relational matrix of the model.In the first approach, the equilibrium point of the system is one of the centers of the related membership fu...

Self-enforcing or self-executing? What Computational Copyright can learn from LKIF Transaction Configurations for Eurobonds

Uptake of Artificial Intelligence approaches in commercial practice has been low. By contrast, “Copyright by design” (DRM) and “Privacy by Design” have emerged as (commercially) successful applications of computer technology to legal issues, and are now closer to realizing the formalist ideal of a self-enforcing law than traditional approaches to legal AI and their attempt to model legal reason...