Thin entities

Spatial Entities

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...

C# Entities Quality Analysis

In this paper we will present the requirements for C# batch program development. Also there is constituted a quality analysis system of indicators for C# programs. The software structure used to analyze the C# program batch and computation of regarded indicators is presented. C# program classes are constructed and the belonginess criterion of a C# program to a particular class is established th...

Economically Autonomous Robotic Entities

We propose economically autonomous behavior as a novel goal for robotic systems. Currently examples of robotic autonomy are often limited to restricted physical environments such as a factory or road. In this paper we instead restrict the notion of autonomy to a social environment: the economy. We define economically autonomous behavior and describe different levels of independence culminating ...

Moving hands, moving entities.

In this study we investigated with a priming paradigm whether uni and bimanual actions presented as primes differently affected language processing. Animals' (self-moving entities) and plants' (not self-moving entities) names were used as targets. As prime we used grasping hands, presented both as static images and videos. The results showed an interference effect with unimanual action primes (...