This chapter proposes a conception of lexical meaning as use-potential, in contrast to prevailing atomistic and reificational views. The issues are illustrated on the example of spatial expressions, pre-eminently prepositions. It is argued that the dichotomy between polysemy and semantic generality is a false one, with expressions occupying points on a continuum from full homonymy to full monos...

Figure 1. Samples of some of the datasets that we used in this analysis. From top to bottom: MNIST [1], MNIST-rotated [2], MNIST-random-background [2], MNIST-rotated-background [2], Google street view house numbers [3], Char 74k English [4], Char 74k Kannada [4]. Last two rows, first five from left are CIFAR 10 and the rest are Caltech101 [5, 6]. The bottom row is the colonoscopy dataset. We us...

One hypothesis is more general than another one if it covers all instances that are also covered by the later one. The former hypothesis is called a generalization of the later, and the later a specialization of the former. When using logical formulae as hypotheses, the generality relation coincides with the notion of logical entailment, which implies that the generality relation can be analyze...

The General Problem Solver (GPS) is a computer program which has been used for explorations into both general mechanisms involved in problem solving and the way that humans solve problems. The program has existed in several versions since its conception in 1957. This report describes attempts to generalize one version, GPS-2-5; i.e., to have it solve many different kinds of problems. GPS's perf...

abstract We study a generality of an inflationary scenario by integrating the Einstein equations numerically in a plane-symmetric spacetime. We consider the inhomogeneous spacetimes due to (i) localized gravitational waves with a positive cosmological constant Λ, and (ii) an inhomogeneous inflaton field Φ with a potential 1 2 m 2 Φ 2. For the case (i), we find that any initial inhomogeneities a...