Outline of Relevance Theory

1 Outline of Polyneutron Theory

I suggest that neutron clusters of sufficient size are bound and stable against strong decay; and that they can react with ordinary nuclei by transferring neutrons to them, accepting neutrons from them, and binding with them to form composite nuclei. Implications of this enlarged scope of nuclear physics are explored, including a chain reaction with nuclear fuel H that produces energy, He, H, a...

Qualitative Outline Theory

A theory of shape is important for AI both for recognition and description of objects and for reasoning about the possible behaviours of objects. Theories of shape may be loosely classified as either volume-based or outline-based. We present a theory of the latter type, initially confined to two-dimensional outlines. We represent outlines by means of strings over an alphabet of seven qualitativ...

Outline of a theory of olfactory processing and its relevance to humans.

Two traditional beliefs about olfaction are that the system is poorly understood and that it functions poorly in humans. An outline of a theory of olfactory processing has in fact been emerging for many years (Rall and Shepherd, 1968; Stewart et al., 1979; Haberly, 1985; Lancet, 1986; Buck and Axel, 1991; Shepherd, 1991; Imamura et al., 1992; Mori and Shepherd, 1994; Mombaerts, 2004; Wilson, 20...

An Outline of a Theory of Affordances

A theory of affordances is outlined according to which affordances are relations between the abilities of animals and features of the environment. As relations, affordances are both real and perceivable but are not properties of either the environment or the animal. I argue that this theory has advantages over extant theories of affordances and briefly discuss the relations among affordances an...

Outline of a Darwinian theory of money