In this position paper we briefly review the development history of automated inductive theorem proving and computer-assisted mathematical induction. We think that the current low expectations on progress in this field result from a faulty narrow-scope historical projection. Our main motivation is to explain—on an abstract but hopefully sufficiently descriptive level—why we believe that future ...

This study was undertaken to assess the critical thinking dispositions of undergraduate college students in a comprehensive university mainland China and examine roles gender major subjects’ dispositions. An adapted Chinese version California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTDI) used survey 534 students. Statistics revealed that over 3/4 subjects were negative their think critically...

What does it mean for a system to be goal oriented? In this paper we investigate how goals are represented and how they activate actions. We review the main philosophical and psychological assumptions about the ideomotor principle and we compare it with the TOTE model in cybernetics. We also present three computational architectures that implement goal orientedness, discussing their main peculi...

In this position paper we briefly review the development history of automated inductive theorem proving and computer-assisted mathematical induction. We think that the current low expectations on progress in this field result from a faulty narrow-scope historical projection. Our main motivation is to explain — on an abstract but hopefully sufficiently descriptive level — why we believe that fut...

1.1 Output-Orientedness: Maps and Generalizations A long-standing issue of interest in phonology is the extent to which phonological maps from underlying forms to phonetic forms (in the terms of generative phonology) can be characterized in terms of conditions on the output forms (Chomsky 1964, Kiparsky 1971, Kiparsky 1973, Kisseberth 1970, for a broader overview of the issue see McCarthy 2007a...

Suzuki et al. showed that properly oriented, right-stable, orthogonal, and oriented conditional term rewrite systems with extra variables in right-hand sides are confluent. We present our Isabelle/HOL formalization of this result, including two generalizations. On the one hand, we relax proper orientedness and orthogonality to extended proper orientedness and almost orthogonality modulo infeasi...

Thus the object *en coupled with a transitive verb can be viewed as if they were a single intransitive verb. This offers an abstracted way of handling linguistic objects. The effect can be seen by tracing how a PAL expression: ( *subject(this(sentence))) ((by(a~computer))) [*en{understand))) "This sentence is understood by a computer."

In the paper a graph-based speciication language for semantic modeling is proposed. It is as handy as conventional graphical languages but, in contrast to them, possesses a precisely formalized semantics based on certain ideas of the mathematical category theory. In particular, it provides mathematically correct semantics for formerly somewhat mythical notions of object identity and weak entity...