Many famous paintings illustrate variations in what we here dub "referential depth." For example, paintings often include not only portrayals of uniquely referenced items, but also reflections of those items in mirrors or other polished surfaces. If a painting includes both a dancer and that dancer's reflection in a mirror, are there one or two dancers in the painting? Although there are two im...

The world’s highest number of covid deaths, a broken healthcare system, and mess unhelpful regulations put in place by his predecessor—Joanne Silberner examines what the incoming US president has to contend with how he intends fix things

The frame problem, the problem of efficiently determining which things remain the same in a changing world, 1 has been with us for over a quarter of a century – ever since the publication of McCarthy and Hayes’s famous essay, “Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence,” in 1969. A quarter of a century is a very long time in the time frame of computer science, an...

Over the last couple of years Radio Frequency Identification or as often called RFIDs are used to identify unique items using radio waves. RFID is like barcode reader but the reading is done remotely in case of RFID . RFID does not require line of sight for identification. Now a days RFID has a wide application in different fields such as Internet of things(IOT), real-time systems, medical moni...

The Australian bioethicist Peter Singer has presented an intriguing argument for the opinion that it is quite proper (morally) to deem the lives of certain individuals not worth living and so to kill them. The argument is based on the alleged analogy between the ordinary clinical judgement that a life with a broken leg is worse than a life with an intact leg (other things being equal), and that...

When asked to 'find three forks', adult speakers of English use the noun 'fork' to identify units for counting. However, when number words (e.g. three) and quantifiers (e.g. more, every) are used with unfamiliar words ('Give me three blickets') noun-specific conceptual criteria are unavailable for picking out units. This poses a problem for young children learning language, who begin to use qua...