Dualism of Approximation Principle in Linguadidactics

Complexity Approximation Principle

We propose a new inductive principle, which we call the complexity approximation principle (CAP). This principle is a natural generalization of Rissanen’s minimum description length (MDL) principle and Wallace’s minimum message length (MML) principle and is based on the notion of predictive complexity, a recent generalization of Kolmogorov complexity. Like the MDL principle, CAP can be regarded...

Dualism in Disguise

The vital principle of Paul Joseph Barthez: the clash between monism and dualism.

IN TE history of eighteenth-century medicine, the name of the Medical University of Montpellier is practically synonymous with the theory of vitalism. In its most general sense, vitalism assumes that the study of organic phenomena cannot be reduced to a branch of physics or chemistry. It affirms that the living body possesses some unique entity, a soul, force, faculty or principle which causes ...

of Self-World Dualism

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The Naturalness of Dualism

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley’s ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I shall never forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty f...