Symbols in sand

Symbols in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

This paper is concerned with the status of a symbol in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. It is claimed in the first section that a Tractarian symbol, whilst essentially a syntactic entity to be distinguished from the mark or sound that is its sign, bears its semantic significance only inessentially. In the second and third sections I pursue this point of exegesis through the Tractarian discussions of n...

SymbolS in mimicry

Modular Symbols

Expanded notes from lectures given by Paul E. Gunnells at the 2014/2017 UNCG Summer Schools in Computational Number Theory. http://www.uncg.edu/mat/numbertheory/summerschool/2014.html http://www.uncg.edu/mat/numbertheory/summerschool/2017.html Lecture

Emerging Symbols

......................................................................................5 Introduction..................................................................................7 1 The Symbol Grounding Problem......................................................10 The Chinese Room Argument.....................................................10 The Symbolic Merry-go-round.....................

Emerging Symbols

......................................................................................5 Introduction..................................................................................7 1 The Symbol Grounding Problem......................................................10 The Chinese Room Argument.....................................................10 The Symbolic Merry-go-round.....................