Discerning divine direction

Divine Eros and Divine Providence in Proclus’ Educational System

Discerning Fermions

We demonstrate that the quantum-mechanical description of composite physical systems of an arbitrary number of similar fermions in all their admissible states, mixed or pure, for all finite-dimensional Hilbert-spaces, is not in conflict with Leibniz’s Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles (PII). We discern the fermions by means of physically meaningful, permutation-invariant categorical r...

Creating discerning users

As technology progresses, we are still surrounded by complex and difficult-to-use systems. Usability engineering appears to have had little impact on practice. Why is this, and what can be done to contribute to improving system design? This paper surveys the pervasive culture of unusability, and proposes that HCI should promote public understanding of science. A particular proposal is also put ...

Discerning Emotions in Texts

We present an empirically verified model of discernable emotions, Watson and Tellegen’s Circumplex Theory of Affect from social and personality psychology, and suggest its usefulness in NLP as a potential model for an automation of an eight-fold categorization of emotions in written English texts. We developed a data collection tool based on the model, collected 287 responses from 110 non-exper...

Divine Cognitive Power

Standard analyses of omniscience are advanced in terms of a being's knowing the truth value of propositions. For example, Kenny writes that 'The doctrine of omni-science is easy to formulate precisely: it is the doctrine that for all p, then God knows that p.1 Richard Swinburne proposes that 'To say of a person P that he is omniscient at time t is to say that at t P knows of every true proposit...