Nonsensical suggestion

Kan Extensions and Nonsensical Generalizations

The categorical concept of Kan extensions form a more general notion of both limits and adjoints. The general definition of Kan extensions is given and motivated by several concrete examples. After providing the necessary background on some basic categorical objects and theorems, the relationship between Kan extensions, limits, and adjoints is expressed through two theorems from [3]. 1. Some Pr...

Kleptomania: making sense of the nonsensical.

OBJECTIVE Kleptomania, or the irresistible impulse to steal unneeded objects, is a poorly understood disorder. The objectives of this paper are to critically review and integrate existing data and to make suggestions for further research. DATA COLLECTION Information was gathered by reviewing the English-language literature on kleptomania. Cases were chosen for review that approximated the dia...

A Suggestion on Suggestion

Advanced Suggestion

an unthought-of pinnacle of success and his system beats all other methods of treatment by suggestion or indeed anything else clean out of the field. Nine-tenths of his book is taken up with illustrative cases of cures, and we read with wonder of chronic eczemas, diabetes, disorders of menstruation, and even new growths disappearing at the word of command. Nor is surgery forgotten, for haemorrh...

Jabberwocky: Using Context Clues to Find Meaning in ‘Nonsensical Speech’

No matter what your preferred method of counting is, the average adult knows a very large number of words. Moreover, most of these words were not—and could not have been—explicitly taught to the individual. Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition (CVA) is an explanation via computational model of how these underspecified terms slip into our daily vocabulary and how to help people actively acquire the...