The plethora of information available to today’s users due to the Internet phenomenon has brought forth an associated concern, namely, determination of the trustworthiness of information. Provenance information, such as who is responsible for the data or how the data came to be, plays a pivotal role in addressing this concern by providing additional facts that could serve as a basis for establi...

Burkart et al. contend that general intelligence poses a major evolutionary puzzle. This assertion presupposes a reification of general intelligence - that is, assuming that it is one "thing" that must have been selected as such. However, viewing general intelligence as an emerging property of multiple cognitive abilities (each with their own selective advantage) requires no additional evolutio...

Some aspects of W3C's RDF Model and Syntax Specification require careful reading and interpretation to produce a conformant implementation. Issues have arisen around anonymous resources, reification and RDF Graphs. These and other issues are identified, discussed and an interpretation of each is proposed. Jena, an RDF API in Java based on this interpretation, is described.

This paper discusses the problem of alienation from nature, considered through phenomena reification and de-objectification. I propose understanding as result a distorted relation between subjective objective suggest tentative solution via combination two ethico-political practices: releasement reappropriation. In doing so, put forward structural-ethical critique response to our current ecologi...

The discourse on design science in information systems purports to offer an alternative to the currently dominant discourse on behavioural science. It suggests that information systems are concerned with the social and organisational use of technological artefacts. While research on the social side of these is well established, the understanding of their technical development is less advanced. ...

The concept of function permeates most branches of modern mathematics: from analysis, algebra and logic to probability and mathematical physics. However, the set-theoretic conception of function as a particular mathematical object (specifically, as a set of ordered pairs satisfying conditions of totality and single valuedness) was a long time in development. Indeed, historians generally cite th...

Free collaboration does not systematically produce learning. One way to enhance the effectiveness of collaborative learning is to structure interactions by engaging students in well-defined scripts. A collaboration script is a set of instructions prescribing how students should form groups, how they should interact and collaborate and how they should solve the problem. In computer-supported col...

In several papers Budzynska and Reed have argued that inferences should be ‘anchored’ to relations between utterances rather than to utterances themselves; then, by appeal to what they call ‘dialogue glue’, these relations are somehow reified as ‘implicit’ speech-acts. In this paper I will argue that this is a mistake caused by confusion over different ways an illocution can be relational and t...

The present paper is a critique of quantitative studies of literature. It is argued that such studies are involved in an act of reification, in which, moreover, fundamental ingredients of the texts, e.g. their (highly important) range of figurative meanings, are eliminated from the analysis. Instead a concentration on lower levels of linguistic organization, such as grammar and lexis, may be ob...

The basic result presented is the following: with two assumptions about the intentions behind the RDF model, it can be shown that the RDF model and a model allowing for nested triples and lists of resources and triples, can be mapped to one another (in both directions). This allows to establish a close link between the RDF model and extended models previously suggested (SlimRDF [3], XRDF [4]). ...