Abstract Entities in a Presentist World

Abstract Entities

Entities Chris Swoyer Penultimate draft of a paper for Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, eds., Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, and Dean W. Zimmerman, Blackwell, 2008; pp 1-31. One of the most puzzling topics for newcomers to metaphysics is the debate over the existence and nature of abstract entities, things like numbers (seven), sets (the set of even numbers), properties (triangularity), an...

Rapture in the Cartesian Wall between Real World Entities and their Abstract Models

This short paper envisages that the advancements made with respect to Big Data (BD), High Performance Computing, etc. would give rise to a new paradigm of concrete information models, which would closely replicate the real world and the consequences such as self-verifying information models, BD warehouses as intermediaries between data sources and information

Document Filtering for Long-tail Entities (abstract)

A knowledge base contains information about entities, their attributes, and their relationships. Modern search engines rely on knowledge bases for query understanding, question answering, and document enrichment [1, 6]. Knowledge-base construction, either based on web data or on a domain-specific collection of documents, is the cornerstone that supports a large number of downstream tasks. In th...

Resolving Pronominal Reference to Abstract Entities

third world intellectuals in v. s. naipaul’s fiction: the mimic men, a bend in the river, magic seeds

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...