these two girls' productions, particularly the various types of distortion of the naturalistic appearance of objects, are also employed by the most original and successful artists, for instance, Paul Klee and Picasso. She says we do not know whether these artists achieved this mode of expression through subjective experimentation, or by being influenced by seeing the art of mentally disturbed p...

We introduce a novel probabilistic Boolean logic (pbl) in which the probabilistic disjunction, conjunction and negation operators, provide the “output” expected of their deterministic counterparts, with a probability p. By design, this output can be incorrect with a probability (1− p). In order to distinguish our approach to injecting probabilities into Boolean logic from past approaches, we in...

Fairness is a social rather than a psychometric concept. Its definition depends on what one considers to be fair. Fairness has no single meaning and, therefore, no single definition, whether statistical, psychometric, or social. The Standards notes four possible meanings of “fairness.” The first meaning views fairness as requiring equal group outcomes (e.g., equal passing rates for subgroups of...

transcendental is such a significant term in kant's thoughts that he calls his philosophy transcendental idealism. however, this term isn't used with the same meaning in his philosophy. since the term is associated with the same meaning in the works about kant, it seems necessary to clarify its meaning in order to prevent any misunderstanding. the subject of this paper is to clarify t...

The presentation will mainly cover (1) What is HowNet? HowNet is an on-line common-sense knowledgebase unveiling inter-conceptual relationships and interattribute relationships of concepts as connoting in lexicons of the Chinese and their English equivalents. (2) How it functions in the computation of meaning and as a NLP platform? The presentation will show 9 HowNet-based application tools. Al...

At the heart of intuitionistic type theory lies an intuitive semantics called the “meaning explanations”; crucially, when meaning explanations are taken as definitive for type theory, the core notion is no longer “proof” but “verification”. We’ll explore how type theories of this sort arise naturally as enrichments of logical theories with further judgements, and contrast this with modern proof...

Dyspareunia, ie coital pain, is a sexual dysfunction with a multifactorial and multisystemic etiology. Predisposing, precipitating and maintaining factors, biological (muscular, endocrine, immunitary, neurologic, vascular, iatrogenic) and psychosexual, may variably interact in the individual woman. The natural history of dyspareunia is basic to understand the current controversy on its “real” n...