Multiple words, multiple meanings, in theHypnerotomachia

Landauer Multiple meanings in LSA 1 Single representations of multiple meanings in Latent Semantic Analysis

WW XX YY ZZ YY is kleeper than WW. YY is kleeper than ZZ. Is YY kleeper than XX? Is "kleeper" ambiguous? Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a psychological model and computational simulation intended to mimic and help explain the way that humans learn and represent the meaning of words, text, and other knowledge. In this chapter I briefly describe the underlying theoretical and computational mac...

The Multiple Meanings of Teleological

Denotation, Paradox and Multiple Meanings∗

In line with the Principle of Uniform Solution, Graham Priest has challenged advocates like myself of the “multiple-meanings” solution to the paradoxes of truth and knowledge, due to the medieval logician Thomas Bradwardine, to extend this account to a similar solution to the paradoxes of denotation, such as Berry’s, König’s and Richard’s. I here rise to this challenge by showing how to adapt B...

The multiple meanings of "neuro" in neuropsychology.

Cortex was founded in 1964 by Ennio De Renzi. As such it is one of the oldest journals of Neuropsychology, launched at the turning point in the history of the field (see De Renzi, 2001; Cubelli, 2005). According to the blurb presenting it, ‘‘Cortex is an international journal devoted to thestudy of cognition and of the relationship between the nervous system and mental processes, particularly a...

The Dependence of Frequency Distributions on Multiple Meanings of Words, Codes and Signs

The dependence of the frequency distributions due to multiple meanings of words in a text is investigated by deleting letters. By coding the words with fewer letters the number of meanings per coded word increases. This increase is measured and used as an input in a predictive theory. For a text written in English, the word-frequency distribution is broad and fat-tailed, whereas if the words ar...