Introduction This paper is concerned with reconciling the views of two prominent schools of meaning ascription: Logical compositional semantics in the Montague tradition, characterized by a reduction to set-theoretic constructs, and the cognitive semantics tradition as embodied in Gärdenfors’ conceptual spaces. This is achieved by adapting model-theoretic, Fregean compositional semantics to an ...

Recognising that practical intelligence plays an important role in an individual’s job success, we explore whether differences in practical intelligence exist between male and female workers in the ICT industry. Taking an interpretive approach we found patterns and themes in the responses to workplace scenarios of ICT workers in three organizations from the viewpoint of gender: Assertiveness, E...

We address the puzzle about early belief ascription: young children fail elicited-response false-belief tasks, but they demonstrate spontaneous false-belief understanding. Based on recent converging evidence, we articulate a pragmatic framework to solve this puzzle. Young children do understand the contents of others' false belief, but they are overwhelmed when they must simultaneously make sen...

With 225 SNS network users as the subjects, the research focuses on the influence of SNS network users’ motivation on their behavior. Data are collected through questionnaires and the relationship between motivation and behavior is studied with relative analytical methods. As shown in the study, information and instrument motivation, entertainment and aesthetic motivation, social connection mot...

“Bag of words” model, acronym extraction, authorship ascription, coordinate matching, data mining, document clustering, document frequency, document retrieval, document similarity metrics, entity extraction, hidden Markov models, hubs and authorities, information extraction, information retrieval, key-phrase assignment, key-phrase extraction, knowledge engineering, language identification, link...

The notion of folk-psychology OS o primitive speculative theory of the mental is colled into question. There is cause to believe thot folk-psychology hos more in common with o nolve physics than with early speculative physical theorising. The distinction between these is elaborated. The conclusion drown is that commonsense ascription of psychological content, though not o suitable finlshlng poi...

Keeping order in the classroom, modifying students’ behavioral problems, and implementing regulations codified at schools are among the issues in education involving the minds of headmasters and teachers. Following adolescence appropriate behavioral patterns plays a key role in bringing about the adolescents’ positive social behavior. This study aimed to investigate the predictors o...

In order to develop the ontology of tendencies for use in the representation of medical knowledge, tendencies are compared with other kinds of entities possessing the realizable-realization-structure, specifically: dispositions, propensities, abilities and virtues. The peculiarities of tendencies are discussed and a standard schema of tendency ascription is developed in order to represent the r...

In order to develop the ontology of tendencies for use in the representation of medical knowledge, tendencies are compared with other kinds of entities possessing the realizable-realization-structure, specifically: dispositions, propensities, abilities and virtues. The peculiarities of tendencies are discussed and a standard schema of tendency ascription is developed in order to represent the r...

A subject who avows being tired, or scared of something, or thinking that p, is normally presumed to have the last word on the relevant matters; we would not presume to criticize her self-ascription or to reject it on the basis of our contrary judgement. Furthermore, unlike ordinary empirical reports, and somewhat like apriori statements, avowals are issued with a very high degree of confidence...