the present article explains the notion of symbol and metaphor in ricoeur's philosophy and tries to consider the relation between them in his whole philosophical perspective to answer the following questions: whether this two notions are the same or each one belongs to completely different realms? what kind of relation is there between tham? whether there is any conceptual or functional re...

this article has tried to look at the prototype of serpent, in the art of ancient iran and neighboring civilization (mesopotamia, egypt, india & greece), since the beginning of these cultures to the first millennium b.c, by researching their myths and beliefs, and also looking at the motifs of their artifacts, by mean of shine a flash on relationship between these cultures, and perusing the inv...

Symbol Grounding has originated in the domain of cognitive connectionism as an approach to a model of language acquisition.It has, however, transcended this restricted domain and its most prominent proponents now regard it as a technique which is of general importance to the connectionist-symbolic debate, especially for their integration into a common framework. This paper revisits the claims m...

The article presents a general picture of the development architecture Ancient World in 3nd - 1st millennium BC. identified three main style-making cultures Mediterranean (Egypt, Mesopotamia with Levant, Aegean world Antalya) which were formed 3 thousand and changing trends their architecture, birth facade composition its change from plane to spatial, which, according author, reveals historical...

Ordet »symbol« har rod i det græske symballein, hvor sym betyder »sammen« og ballein »kaste« eller »føje« altså »sammenføje«. 1 Herudfra kan ordet tillægges en videre betydning, som skal tages op denne artikel: At føje adskilte sammen, så fuldt ud virkelige bliver nærværende et udtryk. livsverdenen vil der ofte mangle intenst ægte virkelighedsnærvær. Tingene, menneskene, andre levende væsener; ...

In this paper we introduce a new approach in the decoding of variable length codes. Based on the tree structure of these codes a trellis representation is derived which allows the application of the BCJR algorithm. This algorithm provides us with the a posteriori probabilities of the transmitted source symbols. Therefore we do not only use soft information from an outer decoding stage but also ...

political participation is an important factor for political survival of the society and government. this concept is a symbol showing people’s presence at actions of government, and it is a substantial index for people’s satisfaction in democratic countries. election can be the most important symbol of political participation. this is why people’s presence in election is carefully investigated ...