The aim of this paper is to apply tools cognitive poetics for exploring religious hymns in the mentality contemporary Polish, Ukrainian and English speakers. texts under study are from Triduum which a very special time within Roman Catholic Passiontide. Latin originals as well translations used show how conceptual imagery transforms perceptive process, located between ancient text today’s views...

Due to the technological advances in recent years, paper scientific documents are used less and less. Thus, the trend in the scientific community to use digital documents has increased considerably. Among these documents, there are scientific documents and more specifically mathematics documents. In this context, we present our own dataset of handwritten mathematical symbols composed of 10,379 ...

In this paper I sketch a rough taxonomy of self-organization which may be of relevance in the study of cognitive and biological systems. I frame the problem both in terms of the language Heinz von Foerster used to formulate much of second-order cybernetics as well as the language of current theories of self-organization and complexity. In particular, I defend the position that, on the one hand,...

Barsalou’s elision of the personal and sub-personal levels tends to conceal the fact that he is, at best, providing the “specs” but not yet a model for his hypothesized perceptual symbols. John Maynard Keynes was once asked if he thought in words or pictures. “I think in thoughts,” the great man is reported to have replied. Fair enough, but now what? What kind of things are thoughts, and how do...

What is symbolic logic? The very use of the adjective implies that there are other kinds of logic. This (purported) distinction is largely based on the languages used: artificial notations vs. ‘ordinary’ language. Now, is there a principled, clear-cut division between symbolic and non-symbolic logic? Obviously, it all depends on one’s definition of symbol. I propose to examine the consequences ...

We give a method based on an idea of O. Veblen which gives explicit formulas for the covariant derivatives of natural objects in terms of the Christooel symbols of a symmetric Ehresmann "-connection.