— Knowledge sharing among individuals has changed deeply with the advent of social networks in the environment of Web 2.0. Every user has the possibility of publishing what he or she deems of interest for their audience, regardless of the origin or authorship of the piece of knowledge. It is generally accepted that as the user is sharing a link to a document or video, for example, without getti...

The debate on structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics has brought into focus a question about the status of meta-mathematics. It has been raised by Stewart Shapiro in (Shapiro, 2005), where he compares the ongoing discussion on structuralism in category theory to the Frege-Hilbert controversy on axiomatic systems. Shapiro outlines an answer according to which meta-mathematics is understo...

Virtually all comparativists, indeed virtually all social scientists, regardless of theoretical or methodological persuasion, agree that “institutions matter.” But how and why do they matter? And how should they be studied? Behind the deceptive consensus, there is considerable conflict among structuralists, rationalists, and culturalists in Comparative Politics regarding the theoretical and emp...

Throughout the history of psychology, the study of perception has been marked by a conflict between analytic and holistic views. According to the analytic view, object recognition involves analysis of the visual input of stimulus features. A stimulus is recognized to the extent that it contains the appropriate features and these features are registered by the visual system. Early examples of th...

This paper considers the nature and role of axioms from the point of view of the current debates about the status of category theory and, in particular, in relation to the “algebraic” approach tomathematical structuralism.My aim is to show that category theory has as much to say about an algebraic consideration of meta-mathematical analyses of logical structure as it does about mathematical ana...

1. From Structuralist Semantics to Cognitive Linguistics When Roman Jakobson pulled metaphor and metonymy to the center of the stage in linguistics and poetics, structuralists were trying to account for meaning by means of a componential model of clearly defined semantic elements (Jakobson, "Closing Statement"). Inspired by the success of Vladimir Propp's structuralist narratology, which attemp...

Contemporary theory has been framed by structuralist, poststructuralist and postmodernist discussions about social, cultural linguistic formation of meaning. Structuralists argue that meaning is an external feature. It depends on the framework, for it defined in through language. For poststructuralists, can be subjectively defined; thus there no to considered. Poststructuralism offers idea plur...

in the classification and structural analysis of shahnameh, the authors of the article consider the conflict between good and evil (from now on c.g.e.) as the main motif of this great epic. this motif has spread all over the epic. the number of the stories being influenced by the myth of c.g.e. is at least twice as many as every other motif in the epic. considering the antiquity of the myth and...

anthony giddens, a prominent social theoretician of contemporary sociology, has done extensive theoretical efforts in the last three decades. central to his debates is the theory of structuration, which was first introduced in his book constitution of society (1984). the theory, aimed at giving an end to dominance of hermeneutic theories on the one hand and structuralism and functionalism on th...

Abstract The study of language has been historically proposed as a model for human sciences. For the structuralists, it is because languages, like society, and cultural habits, are man-made rule-based systems. Darwinists, cultures societies living species, can be studied with biological methodology. Sociology, biology linguistics considered analogous in different ways. To support work theoretic...