Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore and Symbols

Mythology and Folklore of Network Protocols

It's natural to assume that network protocol design is by now a well-known science, where the designers of today's standards take care to understand the tricks and pitfalls learned from previous protocols. This talk dispells this and other myths. It is intended to be provocative, making people question the things people assume are true; instructive, giving hints as to how to avoid some of the p...

Construct Connotation Dictionary of Visual Symbols

We present the first version of an electronic dictionary (http://vis.upf.edu/CDVS/test.aspx) where designers can find pictures to represent abstract concepts. It aims at the variety of visual expressions for an arbitrary abstract concept and the efficiency of browsing. This dictionary is driven by an automatic knowledge extraction method, which allows the dictionary entries to be dynamic, corre...

Context and Mythology

In this thesis, I will survey some philosophically representative approaches to the problem of the relationship between context and meaning. Starting from G.W.F. Hegel’s discussion of the meaninglessness of indexical terms in the Phenomenology of Spirit, I will investigate Gottlob Frege’s notion of context and the legacy of this notion in the formal sciences of language, showing that this appro...

The Philosophy of Mythology

Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization: Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel