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Marcus on Belief and Belief in the Impossible
Get PDFI review but don’t endorse Marcus’ arguments that impossible beliefs are impossible. I defend her claim that belief’s objects are, in some important sense, not the bearers of truth and falsity, discuss her dispositionalism about belief, and argue it’s a good fit with the idea that belief’s objects are Russellian states of affairs.
Reviso, pero no suscribo, los argumentos de Marcus a favor de que las creencias imposibles son imposibles.
Defiendo su tesis de que los objetos de las creencias no son, en algún sentido importante, los soportes
de la verdad y la falsedad; discuto su disposicionalismo acerca de las creencias y argumento que encaja bien
con la idea de que los objetos de las creencias son estados de cosas russellianos
Impossible
No full text"A funny story about a seemingly impossible child and his desperate parents, who enlist the help of a specialist with unexpected results ... Toribio is two years old and his parents love him very much, but some days, taking care of him feels like an impossible task. He won't sleep, makes a fuss when eating, splashes his bath water everywhere, and refuses to use his potty. At the end of the day, Toribio's parents are exhausted. So when they see an ad for a specialist who can solve any type of problem, his desperate parents make an appointment right away. Mrs. Meridien's methods deliver overnight results, but her solution isn't quite what they had in mind ... Impossible is a funny story with a surprise ending that will delight young children and exhausted parents alike."-
Automatic imitation of biomechanically possible and impossible actions: effects of priming movements versus goals
No full textRecent behavioral, neuroimaging, and neurophysiological research suggests a common representational code mediating the observation and execution of actions; yet, the nature of this representational code is not well understood. The authors address this question by investigating (a) whether this observation execution matching system (or mirror system) codes both the constituent movements of an action as well as its goal and (b) how such sensitivity is influenced by top-down effects of instructions. The authors tested the automatic imitation of observed finger actions while manipulating whether the movements were biomechanically possible or impossible, but holding the goal constant. When no mention was made of this difference (Experiment 1), comparable automatic imitation was elicited from possible and impossible actions, suggesting that the actions had been coded at the level of the goal. When attention was drawn to this difference (Experiment 2), however, only possible movements elicited automatic imitation. This sensitivity was specific to imitation, not affecting spatial stimulus–response compatibility (Experiment 3). These results suggest that automatic imitation is modulated by top-down influences, coding actions in terms of both movements and goals depending on the focus of attention
Associating object names with descriptions of shape that distinguish possible from impossible objects.
Get PDFFive experiments examine the proposal that object names are closely linked torepresentations of global, 3D shape by comparing memory for simple line drawings of structurally possible and impossible novel objects.Objects were rendered impossible through local edge violations to global coherence (cf. Schacter, Cooper, & Delaney, 1990) and supplementary observations confirmed that the sets of possible and impossible objects were matched for their distinctiveness. Employing a test of explicit recognition memory, Experiment 1 confirmed that the possible and impossible objects were equally memorable. Experiments 2–4 demonstrated that adults learn names (single-syllable non-words presented as count nouns, e.g., “This is a dax”) for possible objectsmore easily than for impossible objects, and an item-based analysis showed that this effect was unrelated to either the memorability or the distinctiveness of the individual objects. Experiment 3 indicated that the effects of object possibility on name learning were long term (spanning at least 2months), implying that the cognitive processes being revealed can support the learning of object names in everyday life. Experiment 5 demonstrated that hearing someone else name an object at presentation improves recognition memory for possible objects, but not for impossible objects. Taken together, the results indicate that object names are closely linked to the descriptions of global, 3D shape that can be derived for structurally possible objects but not for structurally impossible objects. In addition, the results challenge the view that object decision and explicit recognition necessarily draw on separate memory systems,with only the former being supported by these descriptions of global object shape. It seems that recognition also can be supported by these descriptions, provided the original encoding conditions encourage their derivation. Hearing an object named at encoding appears to be just such a condition. These observations are discussed in relation to the effects of naming in other visual tasks, and to the role of visual attention in object identification
Thee Flypped Wigs and The Impossible Five concert flier, Record Convergence, Springfield, Virginia, February 4, 1996
No full textFlier promoting a concert by Thee Flypped Wigs and The Impossible Five at Record Convergence, a record store in Springfield, Virginia. Members of The Impossible Five were formerly in the bands Red Out and Electro Ingenico. They would soon release recordings on Lovitt Records and Gern Blandsten Records. The concert occurred on February 4, 1996
Impossible fractals
No full textImpossible objects are a type of optical illusion involving ambiguous visual descriptions of figures that cannot physically exist. It is shown by way of example that such objects can be further developed using standard fractal techniques to create new, more complex designs that retain the perceptual illusion, sometimes allowing additional illusions to emerge from the process. The balanced Pythagorean tree is used to efficiently render impossible fractals that display the perceptual effect across decreasing levels of scale
Education - an impossible practice?
No full textThis article explores theoretically the argument that education is an impossible practice as it cannot mandate the future. The significance of this is that educational practice needs to be developed through the values of fallibility, conditionality and responsibility
Impossible Songs
No full textThis poetry booklet contains 21 annunciations, reworking the theme through ideas such as David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Jim Morrison, the paintings of Waterhouse and Edward Hopper,
conspiracy theories and the work of Barry Lopez
Managing the Impossible Trinity: The Case of Malaysia
Get PDFThis paper discusses how Malaysia manages the impossible trinity, the conjecture that a country cannot simultaneously maintain an open capital account, an exchange rate stability and monetary policy independence. Only two out of these three goals can be mutually consistent and policy makers have to decide which third goal to give up. The paper shows how Malaysia adopts an intermediate regime -- a regime that enables policy makers to manage all the three goals simultaneously. The impact of the global financial crisis on the Malaysian economy and the policy options for Malaysia to deal with the recent huge capital outflows are discussed in this paper. The willingness by Bank Negara Malaysia to allow a certain extent of exchange rate adjustments in the face of current global crisis reflects that Malaysia is not exempted from the impossible trinityImpossible Trinity, Malaysia, Global Financial Crisis
Impossible Persons
No full textA groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core.Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Notation -- 1 In a Nutshell -- 1.1 Three Theses -- 1.2 Methods -- 2 The Path to Partition -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 A Problematic Problem -- 2.3 A Problem with Promise -- 2.4 Alternatives -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 The Partition Problem -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Full Problem -- 3.3 Empirical Domain -- 3.4 Partitions Illustrated -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 The Partition Problem Solved -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Elements of the Solution -- 4.3 Solution of the Partition Problem -- 4.4 o -- 4.5 The Partition Element Problem -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 5 Morphological Composition -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Clusivity -- 5.3 Second and General First Person -- 5.4 Limits and Constraints -- 5.5 Conclusion -- 6 Number and the Functional Sequence -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Lattice Diagrams -- 6.3 Partitions with Number -- 6.4 Two Semantic Asides -- 6.5 Interfaces -- 6.6 Conclusion -- 7 Spaces, Objects, Paths -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Empirical Case -- 7.3 Theoretical Underpinnings -- 7.4 Conclusion -- 8 Oldfangled and -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Interlinguistic Adequacy -- 8.3 Intralinguistic Adequacy -- 8.4 The Challenge of Mixed Partitions -- 8.5 Conclusion -- 9 The Form of the Phi Kernel -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Operations -- 9.3 Order -- 9.4 Combinatorics -- 9.5 Valence -- 9.6 Cognition and Evolution -- 9.7 Conclusion -- 10 Conclusion -- A Empirical Appendices -- A.1 Preponderant Syncretism in Georgian -- A.2 Nonstandard Tripartitions? -- B Formal Appendices -- B.1 Zero Bottoming -- B.2 ˇ-Internal Composition -- B.3 Larger Ontologies -- B.4 Privative Features -- B.5 Number: Formal Details -- Notes -- References -- IndexA groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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