Are salmon's 'guises' disguised fregean senses?

Fregean Senses , Modes of Presentation , and Concepts ∗

Ever since Frege postulated senses in [1892] and conceived of them as (containing) modes of presentation, serious studies in the philosophy of language have often appealed to these entities. In the recent philosophy of language and mind, however, the notions of ‘mode of presentation’ and ‘concept’ have become more important. It seems fair to say that much of the theorizing involving senses, mod...

Fregean logics

According to Frege’s principle the denotation of a sentence coincides with its truthvalue. The principle is investigated within the context of abstract algebraic logic, and it is shown that taken together with the deduction theorem it characterizes intuitionistic logic in a certain strong sense. A 2nd-order matrix is an algebra together with an algebraic closed set system on its universe. A ded...

Synaesthesia in its protean guises.

Synaesthesia is a condition characterized by unusual perceptual or cognitive pairings – for example, words might trigger tastes (Ward & Simner, 2003), letters may trigger the sensation of texture (Eagleman & Goodale, 2009), or music may induce the sensation of shapes and colour (Ward, Huckstep, & Tsakanikos, 2006). To date, there are estimated to be up to 150 reported forms of synaesthesia (Cyt...

Pattern Inference under many Guises

Evaluation Comes in Many Guises

As the information visualisation (infovis) community matures, the evaluation of information visualisation techniques is becoming more of a requirement and less of an optional extra. Unfortunately, the term evaluation means different things to different people. Simply encouraging “evaluation” is too general and imprecise. There is a need for clarification as to what kind of evaluation is expecte...