Considered as a misfit in his own time, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) has an idiosyncratic perspective that defies the traditional regulations and social norms of Victorian era. Witnessing gradual disintegration moral values hypocritical practices late society, develops humorous attitude which enables reader/audience to question ambivalent gaps between ‘sharp’ distinctions – such good bad, honest cor...

A novel fast human vision adapted 3D visualization engine is described. In accordance with the human vision peculiarities (asymmetry between left-right and up-down oppositions, dependence of the spatial resolution on the velocity, etc.), we use the cylindrical coordinate system whose axis coincides with the symmetry axis of an observer, and implement the different rendering regimes for moving a...

Formal AI models of argumentation define arguments as reasons that support claims (which may be beliefs, decisions, actions, . . .). Such arguments may be attacked by other arguments. The main issue is then to identify the accepted ones. Several semantics were thus proposed for evaluating the arguments. Works in linguistics focus mainly on understanding the notion of argument, identifying its t...

Resumen: Este estudio ha comparado la teoría de oposición binaria Derrida en “Dia y Noche” Maurits Escher. Las oposiciones binarias son los principios dominantes del mundo material. Sin lugar a dudas, las no pueden dejar reflejarse el arte humano, especialmente ilustraciones visuales. Para comparativo con artes visuales, fue necesario elegir un indicador trabajo artístico. Así, pintura "Día noc...

The paper briefly reviews a theory of intonational prosody and its relation syntax, and to certain oppositions of discourse meaning that have variously been called "topic and comment", "theme and rheme", "given and new", or "presupposition and focus". The theory, which is based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar, is presented in full elsewhere. the present paper examines its consequences for the...