We introduce the Illinois Intentional Tort Qualitative Dataset, a set of Common Law cases in Assault, Battery, Trespass, and Self-Defense, machine-translated into qualitative predicate representations. discuss involved, natural language understanding system used to translate logic, validation measures that serve as performance baselines for future AI research using dataset.

Sartre maintains that “all consciousness is of something.” Idiosyncratically, he also understands this “intentionality principle” to entail what “of” necessarily distinct from it (or “outside of” it, or “transcendent to” it). Nonetheless, all conscious of—or rather, “(of)”—itself in a non-intentional (in his terms: “non-positional/non-thetic”) manner. Given non-positional/thetic self-consciousn...

Reading Mother Nature's Mind I wonder how Dennett and I, both firm naturalists and believers in the relevance and importance of natural selection for understanding the human mind, should have come to such different conclusions about holism in the theory of meaning. I try to focus our differences by examining the relation between what Dennett has termed "the intentional stance" and "the design s...