Intension and Decision: A Philosophical Study.

Decision Theory: A Formal Philosophical Introduction

Decision theory is the study of how choices are and should be made.in a variety of di¤erent contexts. Here we look at the topic from a formalphilosophical point of view with a focus on normative and conceptual issues. After considering the question of how decision problems should be framed, we look at the both the standard theories of chance under conditions of certainty, risk and uncertainty a...

On Sense and Intension

construction and validation of a computerized adaptive translation test (a receptive based study)

آزمون انطباقی رایانه ای (cat) روشی نوین برای سنجش سطح علمی دانش آموزان می باشد. در حقیقت آزمون های رایانه ای با سرعت بالایی به سمت و سوی جایگزین عملی برای آزمون های کاغذی می روند (کینگزبری، هاوسر، 1993). مقاله حاضر به دنبال آزمون انطباقی رایانه ای برای ترجمه می باشد. بدین منظور دو پرسشنامه مشتمل بر 55 تست ترجمه میان 102 آزمودنی و 10 مدرس زبان انگلیسی پخش گردید. پرسشنامه اول میان 102 دانشجوی س...

Latitude, intension, and remission

Of things said without any combination, each signifies either substance or quantity or qualification or a relative or where or when or being-in-a-position or having or doing or being-affected. To give a rough idea, examples of substance are man, horse; of quantity: fourfoot, five-foot; of qualification: white, grammatical; of a relative: double, half, larger; of where: in the Lyceum, in the mar...

Intension Mining

Knowledge discovery is defined as “the non trivial extraction of implicit, unknown, and potentially useful knowledge of the data” (Fayyad, Piatetsky-Shiapiro, Smyth, & Uthurusamy, 1996, p. 6). According to these principles, the knowledge discovery process (KDP) takes the results just as they come from the data (i.e., the process of extracting tendencies or models of the data), and it carefully ...