Synodality, Discernment, Catholic Movements

Viewpoint-Based Similarity Discernment on SNAP

This paper presents an algorithm for viewpointbased similarity discernment of linguistic concepts on Semantic Network Array Processor (SNAP). The viewpoint-based similarity discernment plays a key role in retrieving similar propositions. This is useful for advanced knowledge processing areas such as analogical reasoning and case-based reasoning. The algorithm assumes that a knowledge base is co...

Critical discernment in collaboration with private partners.

Enacting these suggestions may require public health associations to change their mode of operation. Some activities, particularly in the context of conferences, may have to be discontinued due to a lack of financial resources. If public health associations decide not to reject sponsoring, they should at least be completely frank and honest—merely declaring a potential conflict of interest will...

Constructing and evaluating alternative frames of discernment

Article history: Available online 25 October 2011

Catholic Hospital Ethics

Basic statistical recipes for the emergence of biochemical discernment.

An essential step towards understanding life would be to identify the very basic mechanisms responsible for the discerning behaviour of living biochemical systems, absent from randomly reacting chemical soups. One intuitively feels that this question goes beyond the particular nature of the biological molecules and should relate to general physical principles. The pre-eminent physicist Ludwig B...