Browsing by Author "Legg, Catherine"
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“All you can eat” ontology-building: Feeding Wikipedia to Cyc
(IEEE Computer Society, 2009)In order to achieve genuine web intelligence, building some kind of large general machine-readable conceptual scheme (i.e. ontology) seems inescapable. Yet the past 20 years have shown that manual ontology-building is not ... -
Argument-forms which turn invalid over infinite domains: Physicalism as supertask?
(Editions Rodopi BV, 2008)Argument-forms exist which are valid over finite but not infinite domains. Despite understanding of this by formal logicians, philosophers can be observed treating as valid arguments which are in fact invalid over infinite ... -
Bill Gates is not a parking meter: Philosophical quality control in automated ontology building
(The International Association for Computing and Philosophy, 2012)The somewhat old-fashioned concept of philosophical categories is revived and put to work in automated ontology building. We describe a project harvesting knowledge from Wikipedia’s category network in which the principled ... -
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Charles Peirce's limit concept of truth
(Wiley, 2014)This entry explores Charles Peirce's account of truth in terms of the end or ‘limit’ of inquiry. This account is distinct from – and arguably more objectivist than – views of truth found in other pragmatists such as James ...
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John Dewey’s Epistemological Naturalism and the Prospects for a Normative Scientific Epistemology
(The University of Waikato, 2017)In this thesis, I inquire into the prospects for a normative and scientific epistemology arising from the version of naturalism that dominates Dewey’s later work. I focus on questions such as: Are there peculiar features ... -
Teacher Otherness in Early Childhood Education: Rethinking uncertainty and difference through a Kristevan lens
(University of Waikato, 2017)…shall we be, intimately and subjectively, able to live with the others, to live as others, without ostracism but also without leveling? (Kristeva, 1991, p. 2, emphasis in the original) This thesis is a critical ... -
Semantic In-Network Complex Event Processing for an Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Network
(University of Waikato, 2015)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of spatially distributed sensor nodes that perform monitoring tasks in a region and the gateway nodes that provide the acquired sensor data to the end user. With advances in the WSN ... -
Peirce on Habit, Practice, and Theory: The Priority of Practice and the Autonomy of Theory
(University of Waikato, 2013)Charles Peirce’s thought on the relationship between theory and practice has two seemingly inconsistent thrusts. On one hand, Peirce draws theory and practice together. He understands theory as a particular form of practical ...
