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Philosophical Views about Digital Information and Relational Schemata
Full text linkThe nature and organization of digital information are examined from a philosophical point of view. A Platonic model is first suggested, based on both the Platonic allegory of the two worlds and the hypothesis of the informationised universe. Ancient classification schemata are presented in terms of the relationship types involved, concluding with an attempt to view the semantically rich web management system as an extended Platonic model
Information: Α physical reality or a humanly tool? From the model order to the appropriate number of clusters
Full text linkThis paper is a presentation of two important types of information regarding natural signals and groups of relative things. The measure of the first information type is the order of the system that produces the signal, while the second one is the appropriate number of distinct clusters for the most effective classification of a certain group into narrower and more representative subgroups. Firstly a review is given concerning the two approaches, and then a certain method is proposed for the identification of the correct number of clusters to be used in K-Means clustering process. The two information measures, model order and number of clusters, can be considered as two equivalent views of an inherent natural element, an objective order behind any physical system
Categorizing concept predications and participations in Platonic dialogues: An exhaustive analysis of the various types of participation of things and ideas in ideas throughout the Platonic work
Full text linkThe Platonic work, extended to a lot of dialogues, could be used among others as an analytical instruction of the nature of participation given through various types of predication relations. This article focuses on the identification of the implicit and explicit predications (seen as participations) dispersed in the Platonic work. Nine distinct categories have been found and each of then is comprised of certain structures, carrying distinguishable meanings. Ordinary predication, Pauline predication, identity, difference, otherness and definition are included, while the various senses of self-predication and self-participation are presented. Lastly, concept maps of mutual relations between selected ideas are exhibited in a software ontology environment
Integrated dialectic in Plato’s Parmenides: : a comparative analysis of Proclus’ and Ficino’s Commentaries on Parmenides
Full text linkPlato’s Parmenides was considered as the main ontological work of the ancient philosophy and used for this reason as the summit of the philosophical curriculum of the New Platonic Academy established by the Neoplatonists after Iamblichus. Proclus’ Commentary, based on Syrianus, serves as a key reference text for understanding of the sophisticated concepts of the dialogue. After the not fully survived commentaries of Proclus and Damascius, a great enterprise was undertaken by Georgios Pachymeres in Late Byzantium for a complete commentary and later in Renaissance by Marsilio Ficino, the founder of the revived Platonic Academy in Florence. In this article the focus is given in those passages of Parmenides where Ficino has given comments differentiated from the respective comments of Proclus. Lastly, some remarks are presented concerning the structure of dialectical schema of Parmenides, which can be considered as a great standard for an in-depth analysis of the various levels of being in ontological theories. 
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Concept predications and hierarchies in Aristotelian Organon: A philosophical ontology presented in terms of a software ontology
Full text linkBased on the two distinct Aristotelian fundamental predications, namely the essential predication being said of a subject and the accidental predication is in/ existing in a subject, I attempt to shed light on the several types of predication relations met in the Aristotelian Organon and to construct an overall conceptual map including the various relations mentioned in the Aristotelian text. This scheme includes [1] the implicit category tree of classified concepts in terms of genera and species, where a subject-member of a lower class conveys the feature-member of an upper class, as the lower class is a subset of the upper class, [2] ideas predicated of ideas, where the predicate-idea is contained as a feature in the subject-idea. The ideal software environment for the representation of hierarchical trees and custom-defined relationships is the Protégé OWL (Ontology Web Language) equipped with powerful visual tools for the display and extraction of the entire or partial diagrams.
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