E-Word? McLuhan, Baudrillard, and Verisimilitude in Preaching

Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulations

ion today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory—precession of simulacra—it is the map that ...

Korzybski, Luhmann, and McLuhan

This paper revisits an earlier study of the common ground shared by Alfred Korzybski, founder of general semantics, and Marshall McLuhan, the central figure in media ecology, and makes explicit the use of systems theory to bridge the gap between the two. Following a brief summary of the systems approach and its relationship to the media ecology intellectual tradition, sociologist Niklas Luhmann...

Verisimilitude and Likelihood

Belief Revision and Verisimilitude

Belief Revision and Verisimilitude Mark Ryan Department of Mathematics Instituto Superior T ecnico Av. Rovisco Pais 1096 Lisbon Codex Portugal [email protected] Pierre-Yves Schobbens Institut d'Informatique Fac. Univ. Notre-Dame de la Paix Rue Grandgagnage 21 5000 Namur Belgium [email protected] Abstract. The Egli-Milner power-ordering is used to de ne verisimilitude orderings on theories from pr...

assessment of deep word knowledge in elementary and advanced iranian efl learners: a comparison of selective and productive wat tasks

testing plays a vital role in any language teaching program. it allows teachers and stakeholders, including program administrators, parents, admissions officers and prospective employers to be assured that the learners are progressing according to an accepted standard (douglas, 2010). the problems currently facing language testers have both practical and theoretical implications but the first i...