Shinran's View of Worldly Deities (4)

Worldly Indeterminacy: a Rough Guide

There is a widespread suspicion that indeterminacy and vagueness can only be features of claims or representations, and hence that it makes no more sense to ask whether the world is indeterminate than it does to ask whether the world rhymes or whether it’s written in English. On this view, it is not a genuine possibility that the world itself — as opposed to our representations of it — may be u...

The worldly constituents of perceptual presence

In a thought-provoking article, Seth (2014) has elaborated a combined sensorimotor and predictive coding approach to perception. His proposal links perceptual presence with the counterfactual richness of predictive models in the brain, an appealing move, which is not without problems. Here I briefly state my main conceptual concern with the idea. I believe Seth can take this worry into account ...

A Worldly Look at Language Acquisition Dan

The 4-valve view.

4 Points of View of a POINT

Introduction The beginning chapter in the UCSMP Geometry book introduces students to four definitions of a point dot as a point, location as a point, ordered pair as a point, and a network node as a point. A lot of information is presented to students but not necessarily a lot of physical experience with each idea. The Artistic Expression Institute in the Educator's Science and Mathematics Inst...