Notes On “Natural Interpretation”

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Notes on natural inflation

In the so-called natural inflation, an axion-like inflaton is assumed to have a cosine-type periodic potential. This is not the case in a very simple model in which the axion-like inflaton is coupled to an SU(N) (or other) pure Yang-Mills, at least in the large N limit as pointed out by Witten. It has a multi-valued potential, which is effectively quadratic, i.e., there is only a mass term in t...

Notes on Natural Logic Notes for PHIL370

A tree is a structure T = (T,E), where T is a nonempty set whose elements are called nodes and E is a relation on T , E ⊆ T × T , called the immediate edge relation, satisfying the following conditions: for all nodes, n, n′,m ∈ T , • Every node has a unique predecessor: If nEm and n′Em, then n = n′, • There are no cycles: If (n1, . . . , nk) is a sequence of nodes where for each i = 1, . . . , ...

Notes on Schopenhauer and the Natural Sciences

The following notes were prepared in response to criticism of Schopenhauer’s philosophy in a mailing list. The impression given was that the advances of the natural sciences since his death make his work irrelevant to modern science. I for one do not think that this is true. In these notes I do not try to convince the reader otherwise but select few examples of important scientists that were in...

On The Interpretation Of Natural Language Instructions

In this paper, we dLscuss the approach we take to the interpretation of instructions. Instructions describe actions related to each other and to other goals the agent may have; our claim is that the agent must actively compute the actions that s/he has to perfomt, not simply "extract" their descriptions from the input. We will start by discussing some inferences that are necessary m understand ...