The lexicon has long been assumed to be the source of all conceptual content expressed by sentences. Syntactic structures have correspondingly been seen only as providing instructions for the assembly of the concepts expressed by words. Under this view, sentences have meaning, but the syntactic structures which sentences instantiate do not. This paper challenges this view: it uses the phenomeno...

This essay considers the healing potential of Architecture through the gentle but persistent power of Systems Intelligence. The premises for this deliberation come from the mundane life of a dweller and her encounters in space. Home is seen as the interpreter of a person’s inner world and as a potential catalyst for a change into a more humane and dignified life. Furthermore the process of buil...

The relationship between the “knowledge base” and the “globalization” of communication systems is discussed from the perspective of communication theory. I argue that inter-human communication takes place at two levels. At the first level information is exchanged and provided with meaning and at the second level meaning can reflexively be communicated. Human language can be considered as the ev...

For more than a century scholars have proposed laws of semantic change that characterize how words change in meaning over time. Two such laws are the law of differentiation, which proposes that near-synonyms tend to differentiate in meaning over time, and the law of parallel change, which proposes that related words tend to undergo parallel changes in meaning. Researchers have identified a hand...

It is commonly assumed that how individuals identify on the political spectrum-whether liberal, conservative, or moderate-has a universal meaning when it comes to policy stances and voting behavior. But, does political identity mean the same thing from place to place? Using data collected from across the U.S. we find that even when people share the same political identity, those in "bluer" loca...

Historical fabrics are known as a national heritage and treasure which are full of spiritual and human concepts. However, we are witnessing that many of these historic districts are being forgotten, abandoned and destructed as the emotional relationship between human and its residing place is fading out. Sense of place is a concept which focuses on the emotional and internal relation between pe...