Concomitants, Categories, and Constraints

Semantic Constraints on Lexical Categories

Children a re prodigious word learners . able to gain substantial information abou t a word's meaning o n the basis of even a single encounter with the word in context . T w o experiments a r e reported which test the hypothesis that the notion "possible word meaning' ' plays a role in constraining the inferences that adult language users make abou t new words encountered in coniext. T h e resu...

Associativity Constraints in Monoidal Categories

In this note we explain a few ways of thinking about and working with the “associativity constraints” in monoidal categories. It is not uncommon to ignore these constraints, i.e., to pretend that all monoidal categories one is working with are strictly associative. Nevertheless, for some people (including myself) it might be psychologically comforting to know that associativity constraints are ...

Categories and Constraints in Causal Perception.

When object A moves adjacent to a stationary object, B, and in that instant A stops moving and B starts moving, people irresistibly see this as an event in which A causes B to move. Real-world causal collisions are subject to Newtonian constraints on the relative speed of B following the collision, but here we show that perceptual constraints on the relative speed of B (which align imprecisely ...

Neurological concomitants of uveitis.

AIM To describe the prevalence and types of neurological disease that occur in association with uveitis. METHODS Retrospective review of medical records of patients attending a tertiary referral uveitis service over a 15 year period. RESULTS Of 1450 patients with uveitis, 115 (7.9%) had neurological disease that was considered to be causally related to the eye inflammation. The most frequen...

Biologic concomitants of alcoholism.