and metatheory, syntax and semantics, as well as an introduction to the use of symbolic language. The author presents in detail a specimen theory in symbolic language in order to illustrate general principles of theory construction through axiomatization and formalization. An attentive study of the book should give scientists fundamental insight into the nature of scientific theory and provide ...

Theorists have speculated about the symbolic underpinnings of theory of mind (ToM), but no study has examined them across the main developmental span of ToM. Here, the onset of symbolic understandings in three domains (pretend play, language, and understanding representations) and ToM was examined. Fifty-eight children were tested on batteries of tasks four times from ages 2.5 to 5 years. Some ...

and metatheory, syntax and semantics, as well as an introduction to the use of symbolic language. The author presents in detail a specimen theory in symbolic language in order to illustrate general principles of theory construction through axiomatization and formalization. An attentive study of the book should give scientists fundamental insight into the nature of scientific theory and provide ...

We review our progress in high-performance model checking. Our multi-core model checker is based on a scalable hash-table design and parallel random-walk traversal. Our symbolic model checker is based on Multiway Decision Diagrams and the saturation strategy. The LTSmin tool is based on the PINS architecture, decoupling model checking algorithms from the input specification language. Consequent...

Symbolic methods have been used to provide a general user interface in optimization based animation systems. However, previous methods suuer from the exponential growth in the length of the symbolic expressions of the objectives, constraints and their derivatives. In this paper , we present a symbolic language which is general enough to represent common kinematic and dynamic quantities. The eva...

The emergence of language—a productive and combinatorial system of communication—has been hailed as one of the major transitions in evolution. By enabling symbolic culture, language allows humans to draw on and expand on the knowledge of their ancestors and peers. A common assumption among linguists and psychologists is that although language is critical to our ability to share our thoughts, it...

GiNaC is a free framework that embeds symbolic manipulation consistently into the C++ programming language. It deliberately neglects the split-up into a low level language and a high level language, traditional in the design of computer algebra systems. The user usually interacts with GiNaC directly in C++. GiNaC was designed to provide efficient handling of multivariate polynomials, algebras a...

When communicating with animated agents in a virtual space through natural language dialogue, it is necessary to deal with vagueness of language. To deal with vagueness, in particular vagueness of spatial relation, this paper proposes a new representation of locations. The representation is designed to have bilateral character, symbolic and numeric, in order to bridge the gap between the symbol...

Computational approaches to language processing arose during a time of bitter debate in the linguistics community that pitted the generative theory of grammar Cho57] versus more quantitative and empirically motivated approaches (e.g., Sha48]). An unfortunate side eeect of this feud was a schism between statistical and symbolic approaches to natural language processing that resulted in limited i...