We introduce Hegel and Fichte’s dialectic as a search meta-heuristic for constraint satisfaction and optimization. Dialectic is an appealing mental concept for local search as it tightly integrates and yet clearly marks off of one another the two most important aspects of local search algorithms, search space exploration and exploitation. We believe that this makes dialectic search easy to use ...

g n, arguing that it is organized as a dialectic of opposite cognitive modes, dialectic of gesture imagery and language. This dialectic is the key to the evocatio organization, and ultimate execution of meaningful actions shaped to take linguisti in discourse – imagery, as embodied in the gestures that accompany speech, and the categorical-sequential thinking of speech itself. Both modes are es...

A classic psycholinguistic problem is parole; in its modern formulation, performance . This paper looks at aspects of parole or performance from a new direction, arguing that it is organized as a dialectic of unlike cognitive modes, a dialectic of gesture imagery and language. This dialectic is the key to the evocation, organization, and ultimate execution of meaningful actions shaped to take l...

attend. Gilad Zlotkin (Hebrew University), Sandra Carberry (University of Delaware), Gerhard Brewka (University of Vienna, Austria), Jon Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Anne Gardner, L. Thorne McCarty (Rutgers University), and Kevin Ashley (Pitt) also contributed their intellectual weight to the proceedings. At issue were the following ideas: (1) dialectic has something to do wit...

abstract: discourse of emancipation as important part of discussion on social change, has special place in contemporary political thought. conjunction of 'emancipation' with philosophy of history in two recent century that its great section is relative to hegelian tradition, has made it dependent on fundamental elements of this tradition. 'dialectic' with different philosoph...