Word intuition is speakers’ intuitive knowledge on wordhood. Collective word intuition is the word intuition of the whole language community. Given this definition, the optimal word segmentation result in Chinese NLP should reflect collective word intuition. It is also believed that an ideal definition of Chinese word should accord with the collective word intuition of Chinese speakers. To test...

AIM The aim of the study reported here was to evaluate the role of intuition, to examine nurses' understanding of intuition and their perceptions of their use of intuition, and to assess the impact of intuition on nursing practice. BACKGROUND When we read the dictionary definition of intuition, we have a sense of the meaning but there is also a sense of something still not quite defined. Yet ...

It may seem visually intuitive that certain sets of tiles can be used to cover the entire plane without gaps or overlaps. However, it is often much more challenging to prove such statements rigorously. The Extension Theorem justifies the visual intuition. It allows us to prove the existence of a tiling by covering a circle of arbitrarily large finite radius. We clarify the proof of the Extensio...

Externalist theories in natural language semantics have become the orthodoxy since Kripke is widely thought to have refuted descriptive theories involving internal cognitive representation of meaning. This shift may be seen in developments in philosophy of language of the 1970s – the direct reference “revolution against Frege” (Wettstein 2004, 66). Almog (2005, 493) writes of the “uprising agai...

Intuition is a decision-making method that is used unconsciously by experienced practitioners but is inaccessible to the novice. It is rapid, subtle, contextual, and does not follow simple, cause-and-effect logic. Evidence-based medicine offers exciting opportunities_for improving patient outcomes, but the 'evidence-burdened' approach of the inexperienced, protocol-driven clinician is well docu...

This article examines the notions of “intuitive” and “counterintuitive” beliefs and concepts in cognitive science of religion. “Intuitive” states are contrasted with those that are products of explicit, conscious reasoning. In many cases the intuitions are grounded in the implicit rules of mental models, frames, or schemas. I argue that the pathway from intuitive to high theological concepts an...

The model of recursive functions in 1934-1936 was a deductive formal system. In 1936, Turing and in 1944, Post introduced more intuitive models of Turing machines and generational systems. When they both died prematurely in 1954, their informal approach was replaced again by the very formal Kleene T-predicate for another decade. By 1965, researchers could no longer read the papers. A second wav...

148 ABSTRACT The importance of unconscious intelligence and intuition is increasingly acknowledged by the scientific community.This essay examines and assesses the varied views on the topic presented in three books that bridge the scientific world and reading public: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (2005), Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer (2008), and How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman (2007).The ana...

One of the most uninformative statements one could possibly make about mathematics is that the axiomatic method expresses the real nature of mathematics, i.e., that mathematics consists in the deduction of conclusions from given axioms. For the same could be said about several other subjects, for example, about theology. Think of the first part of Spinoza’s Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata ...

For positive integers n and q and a monotone graph property A, we consider the two player, perfect information game WC(n, q,A), which is defined as follows. The game proceeds in rounds. In each round, the first player, called Waiter, offers the second player, called Client, q + 1 edges of the complete graph Kn which have not been offered previously. Client then chooses one of these edges which ...