Representing Reality: Erich Auerbach’s Concept of Memory

Boltzmann's Concept of Reality

In this article we describe and analyze the concept of reality developed by the Austrian theoretical physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. It is our thesis that Boltzmann was fully aware that reality could, and actually was, described by different points of view. In spite of this, Boltzmann did not renounce the idea that reality is real. We also discuss his main motivations to be strongly involved with p...

Linguistic Characteristics of Nouns Representing the Concept of “Power” in American Political Discourse

The article analyzes the linguistic nature of some nuclear lexemes (power, control, authority, influence) verbalizing the basic concept of the English-language political discourse – the concept of “Power”. The paper reveals the structure of the concept, its conceptual features, as well as the main characteristics of the concept representatives at the language and functional levels.

Representing Actions in Memory

Representing the Reality Underlying Demographic Data

Modeling from Reality: Representing and Integration

Traditional virtual reality systems rely on manual construction of the virtual environment, which is labor-intensive and usually not very realistic. This thesis describes a “modelingfrom-realiry” system which observes from multiple viewpoints, analyzes the geometrical shape of a scene or an object, and subsequently integrates the multiple views to build a complete scene or object model from the...