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Six Years with Adult Human Brown Adipose Tissue and Many More to Come

Remarkably, it is still only 6 years ago that the existence of active brown adipose tissue in adult humans was first presented to the metabolic scientific community, based on data circulating quietly in the realms of radiology; and it is still only 4 years ago that a series of dedicated experimental studies convinced a broad scientific world that adult humans really possessed a “new” organ: bro...

Constructing Meanings

Chalmers’s philosophical work exploits a distinctive version of two-dimensionalism, a formal modal framework from the 1960s and 1970s that one can use to define two kinds of possible worlds semantic values. Chalmers presents this as the best form of a Fregean account of content. One of the principal aims of Constructing the World is to provide its metaphysical foundations. Chalmers presents him...

Kacelnik: Meanings of Rationality (preprint) Meanings of Rationality

The concept of rationality differs between psychology, philosophy, economics and biology. For psychologists and philosophers, the emphasis is on the process by which decisions are made: rational beliefs are arrived at by reasoning and contrasted with beliefs arrived at by emotion, faith, authority or arbitrary choice. Economists emphasise consistency of choice, regardless of the process and the...

Structured Meanings in Computational Linguistics

Many natural language processing systems employ t ruth conditional knowledge representations (%ret)resentations' , etc.) to represent meanings of nata rm language expressions. T-representations have their strong and their weak sides. A strong side is logic: a relation of logical consequence can be de-. fined between such representations. A weak side is e x p r e s s i v e p o w e r : the capaci...

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