In order to build virtual humans with pleasing interactions in virtual scenarios, a consistent representation of all relevant relations and information is required. For virtual scenarios, this equates to having a meaningful (semantic) understanding of the objects and virtual agent performable actions in the scenario. The process of creating semantics for rich virtual environments is a tedious a...

I argue that if we distinguish between ontological realism and semantic realism, then we no longer have to choose between platonism and formalism. If we take category theory as the language of mathematics, then a linguistic analysis of the content and structure of what we say in and about mathematical theories allows us to justify the inclusion of mathematical concepts and theories as legitimat...

The central concern of this paper is whether the Semantic Approach has the resources to appropriately capture the core tenets of structural realism. Chakravartty has argued that a realist notion of correspondence cannot be accommodated without introducing a linguistic component which undermines the Approach itself. We suggest that this worry can be addressed by an appropriate understanding of t...

ing away from its implications for knowledge and knowability, at least to begin with. He thinks that once this is done, Fitch’s result is only initially surprising; for it is clear that the result is derived simply because truth-entailing operators can be used to construct self-refuting expressions. Mackie gives the following example to illustrate this: Let J be an operator variable that has an...

Foto Realizm ya da Gerçekçilik, 1960’lardan itibaren Amerika’da Pop-Art Sanat Akımı içerisinde gelişerek, zamanla başlı başına bir sanat anlayışı olarak ortaya çıkmıştır. Zaman popülaritesi artan Realizm, bugün için evrensel boyutta etkisini sürdüren akımı varlığını devam ettirmektedir. Bununla birlikte var olan gerçekliğin yani fotoğrafın, yeniden üretilerek resme yansıtılmasının, yaratıcılık ...

Abstract First, I show that the semantic thesis of scientific realism may be relaxed significantly—to allow some discourse is not truth-valued—without making any concessions concerning epistemic or methodological theses lie at realism’s core. Second, illustrate how relaxing allows realists to avoid positing abstract entities and fend off objections “no miracles” argument from positions such as ...

Against the windmills of semantic holism and neo-empiricism, Quixote Fodor brandishes his metaphysical lance scientific realism. The result is a Pyrrhic victory, since, while he manages to provide plausible explanation for mental mechanisms belief fixation, claim common sense psychology must resort circular argument that properties are part order world. His merit, however, indisputable: truth n...

In his article, "Analyzing East/West Power Politics in Comparative Cultural Studies," William H. Thornton acknowledges culture as a central force on the geopolitical map and undertakes at once to preserve the strategic potency of political realism and to move beyond the "billiard ball" externality of both neoand traditional realisms. Although Huntington and Fukuyama are taken seriously on the q...

and Applied Analysis 3 Table 1: Dynamic behaviors of historical Lorentz system for different signs of parameters.