Towards a formal theory of intentions

1991 ◽  
pp. 472-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Munindar P. Singh ◽  
Nicholas M. Asher
Keyword(s):  
Formal Theory

Review of Status Passage: A Formal Theory.

1972 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 358-359
Author(s):  
KURT W. BACK
Keyword(s):  
Formal Theory ◽  
Status Passage

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Stegenga
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Inductive Inference ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Master Argument ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
Concepts Of Disease ◽  
Based Medicine

This chapter introduces the book, describes the key arguments of each chapter, and summarizes the master argument for medical nihilism. It offers a brief survey of prominent articulations of medical nihilism throughout history, and describes the contemporary evidence-based medicine movement, to set the stage for the skeptical arguments. The main arguments are based on an analysis of the concepts of disease and effectiveness, the malleability of methods in medical research, and widespread empirical findings which suggest that many medical interventions are barely effective. The chapter-level arguments are unified by our best formal theory of inductive inference in what is called the master argument for medical nihilism. The book closes by considering what medical nihilism entails for medical practice, research, and regulation.

scholarly journals Language Family Engineering with Product Lines of Multi-level Models

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan de Lara ◽  
Esther Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Arbitrary Number ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Language Family ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Modelling Languages ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractModelling is an essential activity in software engineering. It typically involves two meta-levels: one includes meta-models that describe modelling languages, and the other contains models built by instantiating those meta-models. Multi-level modelling generalizes this approach by allowing models to span an arbitrary number of meta-levels. A scenario that profits from multi-level modelling is the definition of language families that can be specialized (e.g., for different domains) by successive refinements at subsequent meta-levels, hence promoting language reuse. This enables an open set of variability options given by all possible specializations of the language family. However, multi-level modelling lacks the ability to express closed variability regarding the availability of language primitives or the possibility to opt between alternative primitive realizations. This limits the reuse opportunities of a language family. To improve this situation, we propose a novel combination of product lines with multi-level modelling to cover both open and closed variability. Our proposal is backed by a formal theory that guarantees correctness, enables top-down and bottom-up language variability design, and is implemented atop the MetaDepth multi-level modelling tool.

The Less Said The Better: Dewey, Neurath, and Mid-Century Theories of Truth

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Capps
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
Theories Of Truth ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract John Dewey’s theory of truth is widely viewed as proposing to substitute “warranted assertibility” for “truth,” a proposal that has faced serious objections since the late 1930s. By examining Dewey’s theory in its historical context – and, in particular, by drawing parallels with Otto Neurath’s concurrent attempts to develop a non-correspondence, non-formal theory of truth – I aim to shed light on Dewey’s underlying objectives. Dewey and Neurath were well-known to each other and, as their writing and correspondence make clear, they took similar paths over the mid-century philosophical terrain. I conclude that Dewey’s account of truth is more principled, and more relevant to historical debates, than it first appears.

scholarly journals TVA in the wild: Applying the theory of visual attention to game-like and less controlled experiments

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-46
Author(s):  
Alexander Krüger ◽  
Jan Tünnermann ◽  
Lukas Stratmann ◽  
Lucas Briese ◽  
Falko Dressler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Attention ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Driving Simulator ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
Partial Report ◽  
Visual Encoding ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Attentional Weight ◽  
Sufficient Precision

Abstract As a formal theory, Bundesen’s theory of visual attention (TVA) enables the estimation of several theoretically meaningful parameters involved in attentional selection and visual encoding. As of yet, TVA has almost exclusively been used in restricted empirical scenarios such as whole and partial report and with strictly controlled stimulus material. We present a series of experiments in which we test whether the advantages of TVA can be exploited in more realistic scenarios with varying degree of stimulus control. This includes brief experimental sessions conducted on different mobile devices, computer games, and a driving simulator. Overall, six experiments demonstrate that the TVA parameters for processing capacity and attentional weight can be measured with sufficient precision in less controlled scenarios and that the results do not deviate strongly from typical laboratory results, although some systematic differences were found.

A formal theory of the measurement system

Measurement ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 644-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Battista Rossi ◽  
Francesco Crenna
Keyword(s):  
Measurement System ◽  
Formal Theory

Anomalous electron absorption effects in metal foils: theory and comparison with experiment

1962 ◽  
Vol 269 (1336) ◽  
pp. 80-103 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fourier Coefficients ◽  
Stacking Faults ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
Dynamical Theory ◽  
Anomalous Absorption ◽  
Physical Explanation ◽  
Absorption Effect ◽  
Metal Foils ◽  
Comparison With Experiment ◽  
Transmission Electron

The two-beam dynamical theory of electron diffraction in absorbing crystals has been applied to explain features of bend and thickness extinction contours and of images of stacking faults observed on transmission electron micrographs of metal foils. Inelastic scattering processes affect the intensities of the elastically scattered waves and give rise to 4 anomalous ’ transmission (Borrmann) effects. The formal theory takes account of these effects phenomenologically by the use of a complex lattice potential but ignores the contribution of the inelastically scattered electrons to the image. In the theory absorption is described by certain parameters ξ' 0 and ξ' g with dimensions of length. These parameters are determined by Fourier coefficients of the imaginary part of the potential in the same manner as the extinction distance ξ g is determined by the Fourier coefficient of the real part. A simple physical explanation of the ‘anomalous’ absorption effect is developed in terms of the two crystal wave fields. This explanation is particularly helpful in understanding details of bend and thickness contours and of images of stacking faults. The theory is at present phenomenological because the detailed mechanism of the absorption process is not understood. Nevertheless, comparison of the theory with observations enables the absorption parameters to be roughly estimated.

Computing with Self-Excitatory Cliques: A Model and an Application to Hyperacuity-Scale Computation in Visual Cortex

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Miller ◽  
Steven W. Zucker
Keyword(s):  
Visual Processing ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Cortical Cell ◽  
Pyramidal Cells ◽  
Direct Calculation ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
Cortical Cells ◽  
Cell Counts ◽  
Spatiotemporal Response

We present a model of visual computation based on tightly inter-connected cliques of pyramidal cells. It leads to a formal theory of cell assemblies, a specific relationship between correlated firing patterns and abstract functionality, and a direct calculation relating estimates of cortical cell counts to orientation hyperacuity. Our network architecture is unique in that (1) it supports a mode of computation that is both reliable and efficent; (2) the current-spike relations are modeled as an analog dynamical system in which the requisite computations can take place on the time scale required for an early stage of visual processing; and (3) the dynamics are triggered by the spatiotemporal response of cortical cells. This final point could explain why moving stimuli improve vernier sensitivity.

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