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Ruth L. C. Simms
Bio: Ruth L. C. Simms is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Universal language & Trama. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 4 publications receiving 117 citations.
Topics: Universal language, Trama, Character (symbol)
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The 14th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica does not include the article on John Wilkins as mentioned in this paper and this omission can be considered justified if we remember how trivial this article was.
Abstract: I have noticed that the 14th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica does not include the article on John Wilkins. This omission can be considered justified if we remember how trivial this article was (20 lines of purely biographical data: Wilkins was born in 1614, Wilkins died in 1672, Wilkins was chaplain of Charles Louis, Elector Palatine; Wilkins was principal of one of Oxford's colleges, Wilkins was the first secretary of the Royal Society of London, etc.); it is an error if we consider the speculative works of Wilkins. He was interested in several different topics: theology, cryptography, music, the building of transparent beehives, the orbit of an invisible planet, the possibility of a trip to the moon, the possibility and principles of an universal language. To this latter problem he dedicated the book 'An Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language' (600 pages in large quarto, 1668). There are no copies of this book in our National Library, I have consulted, to write the present article, 'The Life and Times of John Wilkins' (1910), by P. A. Wright Henderson; the 'Worterbuch der Philosophie' (1935), by Fritz Mauthner; 'Delphos' (1935), by E. Sylvia Pankhurst; 'Dangerous Thoughts' (1939), by Lancelot Hogben.
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TL;DR: Using statistical learning methods to learn categories that objectively capture the co-occurrence statistics of objects in a large collection of natural scenes, this work finds that evoked activity across much of anterior visual cortex is explained by the learned categories.
147 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how technologies and users relate to each other in a national virtual community and argue that a mutual shaping perspective is best suited to capture the complexity, unpredictability, and recursivity of the interactions among technological features and users' discourses and practices.
Abstract: In this essay I analyze how technologies and users relate to each other in a national virtual community. I argue that a mutual shaping perspective is best suited to capture the complexity, unpredictability, and recursivity of the interactions among technological features and users' discourses and practices. Drawing from recent developments in the study of computer-mediated communication, mutidisciplinary technology scholarship, and social psychology of nationhood, I show the mutual shaping of hardware capabilities, national identities, collective remembering, software configurations, and coordination practices that took place during my investigation of the Argentine Mailing List.
140 citations
TL;DR: Ichnodisparity has been recently introduced as a concept to assess the variability of morphologic plans in biogenic structures, revealing major innovations in body plan, locomotory system and/or behavioral program.
137 citations
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that modern classification theory and practice are tied to users' activities and domains of knowledge and that trustworthy classification systems are in close dialogue with users to handle bias responsible and establish trust.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish pluralism as the basis for bibliographic classification theory and practice and examine the possibility of establishing trustworthy classifications.Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines several key notions in classification and extends previous frameworks by combining an explanation‐based approach to classification with the concepts of cognitive authority and trust.Findings – The paper presents an understanding of classification that allows designers and editors to establish trust through the principle of transparency. It demonstrates that modern classification theory and practice are tied to users' activities and domains of knowledge and that trustworthy classification systems are in close dialogue with users to handle bias responsible and establish trust.Originality/value – The paper establishes a foundation for exploring trust and authority for classification systems.
65 citations
TL;DR: This paper argued that animism, totemism, and analogism are three forms of animism: communal, segmentary, and hierarchical, all of which are versions of an anthropomorphism well known as our own default scheme of things.
Abstract: This article is an alternative reading of Philippe Descola’s ontological scheme, arguing that animism, totemism, and analogism are but three forms of animism, namely communal, segmentary, and hierarchical. Often found in various degrees of salience in the same society, all moreover are versions of an anthropomorphism well known as our own default scheme of things. Ethnographic examples are provided.
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