in order to arrive at a better understanding of resurrecting individuals, one should consider theories of soul and, more specifically, that saying the sameness between soul and temperament. advocates of this theory assert that soul is the efficient cause for the appearance of biotic effects. they also maintain that this efficient cause (i.e. soul) is an accident called temperament and, hence, s...

Categories are not invariant. This paper attempts to explore the dynamic nature of semantic category, in particular, that of fashion language, based on the cognitive theory of Dawkins’ memetics, a new theory of cultural evolution. Semantic attributes of linguistic memes decrease or proliferate in replication and spreading, which involves a dynamic development of semantic category. More specific...

In this document we review some key observations about the use of naive user tagging in organizing electronic resources, and the possible advantages they display over rigid classification. We report on aggregated views of communal tags and review arguments concerning the relationship between folksonomy (the emergent process of communal classification) and formal ontology, rejecting the strong v...